I may genuinely have to go look up some clips just to see him in it! (I've never seen Hill Street Blues, although I remember my mom watching it and I can summon up the theme song from memory.)
He's super-sleazy! Seems to have been a short-arc character who ended up returning in the way that I have already seen this show reweave some of its one-offs. spatch saw patches of it as a kid, but it's completely new to me. I am enjoying all of the ways in which it differs from my expectations of a cop show from the '80's and am honestly surprised it barely has a fandom on AO3, since it took me three episodes tops to develop feelings. May have to take a break if I want to get through the full show—I only managed four seasons of M*A*S*H. Much of our conversation notwithstanding, I am in many ways not designed for TV.
The other thing I was astounded to find out he was in is Tron, the original movie, and I even remember his character from watching the movie when I was a kid; I just had no idea.
I've had actors snap into retrospect like that and it is so weird. In the specific case of Tron, I learned about it from a joke in the fan parody Babylon Park and then it took me almost another two decades to see the actual film.
And now that I've seen the finale, it's fascinating to me that the show doesn't try to rehash any part of that; in an era before DVDs and streaming, it gives viewers credit for knowing what happened to some of the characters' future versions two and a half seasons ago, and being able to slot that into their understanding of how the ending goes together with the other parts we see in the finale.
Yes! We know something of those eighteen years in between and we don't get all the infill and we don't need it. The show high-wire trusted its audience so much.
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He's super-sleazy! Seems to have been a short-arc character who ended up returning in the way that I have already seen this show reweave some of its one-offs.
The other thing I was astounded to find out he was in is Tron, the original movie, and I even remember his character from watching the movie when I was a kid; I just had no idea.
I've had actors snap into retrospect like that and it is so weird. In the specific case of Tron, I learned about it from a joke in the fan parody Babylon Park and then it took me almost another two decades to see the actual film.
And now that I've seen the finale, it's fascinating to me that the show doesn't try to rehash any part of that; in an era before DVDs and streaming, it gives viewers credit for knowing what happened to some of the characters' future versions two and a half seasons ago, and being able to slot that into their understanding of how the ending goes together with the other parts we see in the finale.
Yes! We know something of those eighteen years in between and we don't get all the infill and we don't need it. The show high-wire trusted its audience so much.