Rerun tonight, Retcon Patrol tomorrow
Tonight, Brothers & Sisters re-run season gets underway with the fourth episode from Season Two, “States of the Union.”
To refresh your memory, that’s the one where Nora and her daughters go on a spa trip, Sarah can’t quite allow herself to have a fling, Kitty’s upset about a prenuptial agreement she saw in Robert’s mail, Justin starts abusing his pain meds, Scotty sees Saul at Milo’s party, and, oh yeah, Tommy takes up with Lena (but if you’re like me, you’ll fast-forward through that part). For more details, check the posts written on its first airing:
Speaking of things we’ve already seen, starting tomorrow I’m going to be on Retcon Patrol, viewing the Season One DVDs in light of the Season Two developments, and pointing out all the places where things were not what they seemed — or, as may well be the case, as they were outright declared to be.
My plan is to blog about each of those original episodes over the course of several days, mentioning each moment of interest according to the time it appears on the DVD — kind of an extremely low-tech pop-up video, if you use your imagination. View along with me, and share your own observations in the comments. With any luck, there’ll be enough nitpicking and second-guessing and overanalyzing to see us all the way through the long idle summer.
And since it’s clear that the Brothers & Sisters writing staff doesn’t have time to do this sort of retroactive fact-checking, we can think of it as our contribution to the plotline health of the show. Yeah, that’s it.
Brothers and Sisters, ABC, States of the Union
May 25th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Good luck. I spend two days ‘listening’ to B&S while I was doing my spring-cleaning. I used B&S as ‘background music’. It sure beats listening to the radio.
But there were moments, like where Holly identifies the b/w picture as Rebecca I just nearly exploded with anger, telling the tv that that b**** was liar!
The tv was not impressed, and continued to show me everything… It was painful to see Nora go through all that pain, unnecessairely now that we know that Holly is a liar and Becca is not a Walker….
But, knowing what I know now, makes the break-ups between Kevin/Scotty in 1.08 and 1.14 less painful. But I still felt like yelling to Kevin in 1.14 “Tell Scotty that you love him, you (curse) idiot!!!”
Oh, and is it my impression or does it seem that William and Holly don’t like eachother that much in 1.01?
Good luck, Terri. I will read your reviews and reply.
May 25th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
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