Retcon Patrol 1-15: “Love Is Difficult” Part 3
Today we continue our search for inconsistent or comment-worthy moments in the Brothers & Sisters first season with a look at the third part of Episode 15. Read Part 1 and Part 2 if you need to catch up, then dive right in here with Part 3.
16:09
This looks like the place Nora and David went on their date, minus the little lights on the trees.
16:24
Sarah says to her mother, “One of the reasons I left North Light so abruptly … ” Wait a minute. The place Sarah worked was called North Light? Is this any relation to the North Light Coffee place they always go? I think it was an advertising agency she was working at, and not a coffee shop, but it’s weird and/or sloppy that they have the same name. Inside joke for the writing staff maybe?
16:30
So glad they didn’t forget Noah. So wish they would bring him back.
17:43
Nora’s a big advocate for telling Joe everything. I, on the other hand, think it’s impressive that Sarah managed to keep a secret for so long. Let’s just recognize that for a minute.
18:50
It’s twins for Tommy and Julia! And a really annoying plot twist is … um, conceived. A baby and a spare. One to live, and one to die in a heart-tugging near-season-ending tragedy. Li’l William, boy, you never had a chance.
19:19
Kitty says to Robert, who’s just stopped by for a little more of that canoodling, “Justin and Nora are out.” Okay, it’s Nora to him, but wouldn’t she say “Mom”? Would you call your parent by her first name in this context? Seems odd.
19:43
Despite the closed-captioning’s attempts to correct her grammar, what Kitty clearly says here is “Why isn’t the person who did this still has a job?” Why isn’t the communications director who can’t form a grammatical sentence still has a job either?
20:06
Kitty is concerned that people believe her clothes are too expensive. I’d say, maybe, too slutty. But the “Maybe I’m just too damn thin!” is a nice inside joke. Presumably proof that Calista Flockhart has a sense of humor.
20:11
Would Kitty really want Noreen the Polling Witch fired over this? I mean, I know Noreen’s being a little bit Mean Girl at Malibu High, but firing seems extreme. (And wouldn’t that make a good story for the tabloids.)
20:23
Robert’s lucky it’s just Nora and Justin outside the door eavesdropping on their fight, and not the National Enquirer.
21:06
Now, see, even Justin, not exactly a seasoned political operative, knows not to get sucked into Kitty’s polling questions. He could give Robert’s staff lessons.
21:10
Okay, which nickname for William do we like best: Kevin’s “The Unknowable King” or Tommy’s “Elusive Bastard.” You know, that’s a pretty big tombstone. I bet they could fit both.
21:18
I like how they take this long to show the front of the tombstone, like it’s a big reveal, and we might have thought Tommy was talking to some other Dad. In other news, William’s middle name was Osgood. And he was born in 1935. And the print on that info is so big that maybe they can’t fit both nicknames. Well, maybe small type, one above WALKER and one below the years.
21:20
Did Tommy bring those flowers lying there? Or has someone else been visiting the elusive bastard? Either way, they really should be in some water.
21:51
Tommy tells William that the twins are a boy and a girl. Guess that announcement must have been made after we left the scene. Or he’s basing it on the fact that he only saw one boy-part in the ultrasound.
22:11
Tommy wants to emulate his father’s “good bits” and spare his twins the other side. That sure didn’t last long. (Though I’m sure, if Little William had lived, Tommy would never have promoted Lizzie over his head.)
22:47
In flashback-land, William’s telling Tommy he had plans for him. Sure would have been nice if he’d provided some details, if not right here right now, in a letter to be opened in the event of his untimely death.
23:27
This would have been a good time for Tommy to blackmail his father into demoting Sarah and promoting him. Lacks vision, that boy.
23:55
Kitty says Justin spends his whole life being forgiven and making girls forget. Like Rebecca forgot that they used to be siblings.
25:09
When Nora wonders, on occasion, why her children have stopped hanging out at home, she might consider not showing them artwork and reading them stories and asking for their opinion. Guaranteed to make grown children flee.
26:23
Title name-dropping alert! Chad recites from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet: “Love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”
27:34
Nice shot of the clock in Kevin’s place showing 4:52. Presumably a.m.
28:10
Poor Kevin. He hardly gets any time to enjoy being Chad’s choice before Michelle goes and introduces doubt. She turns out to be wrong about Chad finding some girl and dumping Kevin, though. Kevin, as is his way, screws things up all by himself.
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