Oh Crap

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I've just seen an episode of The Chief that I adored. Rats. I wasn't supposed to start actually liking the show. I was supposed to burn through the episodes and get them off the PVR.

Anyway, it's the episode where Cade brings in the Italian judge to speak at a law enforcement conference. The ep's got all the usual flaws of the show (shoddy production values, a lousy musical score, heavy-handed moralizing) but the character stuff was lovely.

The friendship between Cade and the judge is nicely played by both actors, not to mention there's a h/c factor, always a good thing in my books. (Cade is shot while trying to protect his friend from an assassination attempt.) And there's some nicely mysterious stuff with Cade trying to figure out why he intimately knows the location of the conference when he can't remember having been there before. It also doesn't hurt that Martin is utterly gorgeous in this one, being all broody and guilt-stricken. (You Pros fans out there, does that remind you of anyone?)

All in all, a most satisfying ep.

Now I'm going to have to start taping the darn things again.

ETA: Almost forgot to mention that the Cade icon from the lovely agentxpndble.

Comments

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I never got to see all the Chief eps (I actually liked the series, but that's neither here nor there), but this one was by far the best of all I'd seen. I wish I could get this on DVD just for that ep alone, though having Martin around in Cade form does not bother me one whit.

Nicole once wrote a small vignette for the zine the Media Cannibals put out, Guilty Pleasures, that was a fascinating crossover with Bodie and Cade -- I hesitate to call it crossover, because there's no interaction, but it's kind of more of a mental crossover. I really loved that little story, and reread it recently when I came across the zine. Made me want more of Cade... is the series on disc yet?

[agentxpndble.livejournal.com]

Mhuahahaha!

If you get a complete set (of good quality) I'd pay money for it - My copies are about half good, half crap and I *LOVE* this show... I'd offer to copy mine for you but... We've been down that road. :-(

P.S. If you make me screen cap the series, so help me...

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

I love LOVE LOVE The Chief :)
The episode you mention in particular. I'd kill (not really) for a clear DVD copy of those eps.

I think I read somewhere that Martin did conceive the Chief as an older Doyle, and that episode seems to confirm it. An older Doyle that has learnt to to tame is wilder instincts, but they are still there.
As far as production values go, I honestly don't think the series is so poor. It has a typical Brit feel to it, it's all shot on location, which adds a gritty realism to it (and i helps me the fact that it0s been shot where I (and Martin, too)live, Norfolk and Norwich, so those locations are very much real to me.
The climate conditions seen in the series are exactly what they are, gloomy ;) there's a certain starkness that's 'real', to me, in the colors of the places, because it is real and not studio reproduced.
I't s not glossy or polished, but somehow that makes it a positive quality for me.
/blabbering about The Chief :D
(besides, it was as far as I know, the only locally produced TV series by Anglia television, which of course does mean that there was very little money involved)
Someone should make a The Chief songvid. Possibly a Doyle and Older Doyle/Cade songvid....*bats eyelashes*

[shaw012145.livejournal.com]

This episode has a Judge feel about it, now. It would be nice to see it bought out on DVD along with A&E, and Achilles Heel. For those who don't know this - there is a shower scene and him drying himself afterwards which is very ooh laa laa (from what I have been told).

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you should have been warned about the judge episode! Yeah, that's the one that made me fall for the show. Lovely, in all the ways you mentioned, and I fall for the scenery as well.