Retcon Patrol 1-10: “Light the Lights” Part 5
Today we conclude our search for inconsistent or comment-worthy moments in the Brothers & Sisters first season with a look at the fifth and final part of Episode 10. Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 if you need to catch up, then dive right in here with Part 5.
31:12
Kevin says in court that Justin came back damaged and he turned to drugs. What was his excuse for taking drugs before the war? Seems like he’s been a little lost boy for a while. Plus, the will you read there, Kevin, didn’t help much either.
32:19
I don’t know. I mean, good for Kevin for trying anything he can think of to help his brother. But I think Army guy made the better case.
32:23
And Sarah’s nickname for Paige is chicken.
32:36
Fickle Paige says Christmas is now her favorite holiday again. Watch out, honey, Grandma will throw a party.
33:34
This has been a pretty sappy episode for Kerris Dorsey, lots of movie-of-the-week questions and plaintiveness. But I enjoy her asking, when Sarah says she loves the girl more than anything in the world, if that includes Cooper.
34:06
Kitty talks about Warren having “this incredible integrity.” Okay, maybe she is ready to go into politics.
36:06
Holly makes her offer to sign over her portion of the land if they give her half her payoff in Ojai Stock. Wonder what would have happened if they’d just offered her the full amount to begin with?
37:17
Justin gives a nice grown-up speech, which doesn’t necessarily contradict Army guy’s point that the heightened responsibility of the military straightens him out.
38:19
But this Brigadier General thing? Sweeping in and granting the boy extra time? Is so bogus. Maybe he can go cure Paige’s diabetes, too.
38:36
The general gives Justin six months. And if we were being honest here, he would say, “I’m giving you six months. Six months to report. That should put your dramatic leave-taking right about at the season finale.”
39:23
Sarah McLachlan’s “Song for a Winter’s Night” kicks in to let us know we’re getting close to a touching warm family kinda ending … but first, Holly’s house!
39:55
Sarah tells Holly she’s got a deal, but goes on to say this is not what her father wanted. He didn’t want you to screw Holly out of her money either, girlie, and that didn’t stop you.
40:06
Sarah lists among her conditions that Holly’s daughter never learns the identity of her father. Um … you mean, unless you tell her? Holly’s “Be smart, Sarah,” falls on deaf ears there.
40:59
Aw, it’s the family hugging montage.
41:07
Paige lights the Christmas tree with some sort of remote. Is that common practice now? I mean, we have a scrawny little tree, and our lighting mostly involves sticking a plug in the wall. Short of Rockefeller Center and the White House, I thought that was how everybody did it.
And that’s five days of catch-up on Episode 10. Next up for Retcon Patrol: “Family Day.”
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Brothers and Sisters, ABC, Light the Lights
August 16th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Not one word about Holly’s ridiculous monlogue at the end? Sarah may not be perfect, but at least I understand and respect her. Holly? Not so much.
This is where I truly disliked Holly. Sure, I can understand her being angry about the attempted deception, but that still gave her no right to blackmail her way into the company. And worse, she did it for the most selfish reasons possible — to compensate for the void created by being the mistress always “kept on the outside looking in.”
Well, holy heck. That’s the *nature* of being a mistress. If Holly had acted like a person with any integrity, she would have ended it. But since she didn’t, she had to suck it up and take the good with the bad. She had no right to demand an actual piece of the family business just because she was upset that she had become a pathetic shell of a person. She only had herself to blame.
August 16th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
According to AOL-TV, Sarah’s next love interest will be another business associate and a younger man, either Eric Christian Olsen or Will McCormack:
http://tinyurl.com/6q9562
BAS is #9.
I’m not familiar with either actor. Meh.
August 16th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Sorry, forgot to say, “SPOILERS.”
August 18th, 2008 at 3:06 am
I’m on Sarah’s side all the way. I don’t blame her for trying to screw over Holly. Too bad they didn’t follow the plan through all the way (obviously Sarah didn’t take “How to Con and Get Away With It 101″ in her MBA course).
The way I see it, Sarah didn’t owe Holly a thing nor did she need to abide by her father’s aka Free Willy’s wishes after all he did to them.
Holly was so pathetic the way she felt the need to wheedle her way into the Walker’s lives like that. She should have just taken her share of the money and made a clean break. But I guess every series needs a villain.