 Allison
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Since: 19/Feb/06
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It was nice to have the new sheriff get to be more of a real person. I'm talking not about the brother flashbacks, but her admission that she would love nothing more than to be rid of a corruption scandal investigation of her beloved predecessor. Of course, I would love nothing more than to be told some actual information about the nature of the scandal. All we know is that there was an "unusual" bank account. There have been references to public knowledge of the scandal, so there would be more information available to Johnny even as a nonpsychic, like what kind of unusual it was.
Let me get some other complaints out of the way. - The way they froze Johnny midswing indicated that he was getting a vision after the ball was on its way, so he wouldn't have screwed up the swing. It would also indicate that the vision didn't come from the golf ball, but I'm willing to give them that Johnny only *thought* it came from the ball itself.
- The dialogue in the end scene led me to believe that Johnny had driven to New York, but the coffee conversation was as if he would be driving back with Turner. What about his car?
- Who has their own phone number on the screen of their cellphone? No one, that's who.
- We don't need repeated obvious shots of Turner LEAVING HER CELL PHONE IN THE CAR. We got that the first time, so you didn't need to again show that HER CELL PHONE WAS IN HER CAR AS SHE STOOD SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM HER CAR. You especially didn't need to show us this because you then showed her looking at her cell phone, seeing that there was a missed call, checking her messages, listening to the message we had already heard Johnny leave, then drive off. Tighten the pace, people.
- Why would a person who worked at a cemetery automatically know how long someone could live in a coffin? Is that in the worker's handbook? Why would you ask him that?
Okay, that's out of my system now.
I liked that the guy at the cemetery was creepy for no apparent reason. Aside from my complaint above, he was a character that worked well–he was creepy enough to be a red herring and gave Johnny the advice about digging sideways, which was kind of a red herring on its own, since it didn't really help much. But red herrings done well are very good.
Along those lines, other parts of the mystery were well-done, too. The Dietz reference was just enough to get them in the general right direction, but it was misdirection too in pointing toward the wrong guy having the debt. The behavior of the guilty guy was a little too obviously guilty, but with the weirdness of his interaction with the wife, I thought the resolution might have to do with her, so that was a nice little bit of misdirection, as well. |
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