The Runaways has an abused foster family youngest child needed medicine and the oldest tries to steal the medicine! Keller and Stone try the solve the robbery homicide, and the story is 70's formulated. There is a caring liberal judge, a broken foster system an incident with a hostage. Not bad but formulated. The usual plot devices. Watchable but forgettable. 6 stars.
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What Were The Writers And Producers Thinking?
dand10101 September 2021
Viewers Take Notice...........,,
*WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS SERIES?
This episode was all over the place - discombobulated and very frustrating to say the least. An issue-oriented episode apparently. Larry Wilcox (from C. H. I. Ps) plays a frustratingly stupid 19-20 something year-old.
I'm not sure what happened to "the streets of San Francisco" since the first half of the first season. The scripts have become anemic. It almost feels like, instead of excellence, the producers and writers were trying to find a provocative topic and build a script around it - try to keep those advertising dollars rolling in.
As I was watching this episode it felt like the editing added confusion- not clarity - and the topic blew up along with the excellence of everything. No wonder Michael Douglas asked to be released from his contract and walked after only 2 episodes of the 5th season. He might have started contemplating his departure around this time period.
*A WARNING TO PARENTS WITH YOUNG KIDS: Definitely have a plan for your kids in case something happens where they are left as young orphans. Do you want the state or the foster parent programs to end up raising your child/children? Have a will, for goodness sakes, where your plan for your kids is carried out. Sometimes parents make the mistake of feeling they only need a will if they have money/land/real estate/possessions.
* THE CHRISTIAN ATTACK MACHINE THAT IS HOLLYWOOD: The abusive uncle who comes to take the young girl says to Lieutenant stone (with kind of a southern hick accent), "it's time that girl had a good Christian upbringing." Part of what upsets the Christian community is this sort of tagging by Hollywood. This is at least the second or third time the Streets of San Francisco has tagged the Christian community. Just a couple of episodes back a "Christian" psychopath was killing priests in the name of God. Now a "Christian" uncle who has been abusive to a little girl wants to raise the girl as a Christian. No doubt there are some Christian weirdos in the world such as these. The problem is that it seems like Hollywood really enjoys demeaning the Christian lifestyle (and literally hundreds of millions of Christians) for the sake of creating a provocative story.
Mostly, there are Christians who do nice things, have good motives and try to live happy and fulfilling lives. They give/volunteer their time and talents (money too) to make the communities they live in - better places.
*WHAT DID YOU THINK? Final Reflective Thoughts..... The episode had some good moments. But as stated before, the story itself was all over the place. In my opinion this was one of the weakest episodes of the first two seasons.
Grade: D+
*WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS SERIES?
This episode was all over the place - discombobulated and very frustrating to say the least. An issue-oriented episode apparently. Larry Wilcox (from C. H. I. Ps) plays a frustratingly stupid 19-20 something year-old.
I'm not sure what happened to "the streets of San Francisco" since the first half of the first season. The scripts have become anemic. It almost feels like, instead of excellence, the producers and writers were trying to find a provocative topic and build a script around it - try to keep those advertising dollars rolling in.
As I was watching this episode it felt like the editing added confusion- not clarity - and the topic blew up along with the excellence of everything. No wonder Michael Douglas asked to be released from his contract and walked after only 2 episodes of the 5th season. He might have started contemplating his departure around this time period.
*A WARNING TO PARENTS WITH YOUNG KIDS: Definitely have a plan for your kids in case something happens where they are left as young orphans. Do you want the state or the foster parent programs to end up raising your child/children? Have a will, for goodness sakes, where your plan for your kids is carried out. Sometimes parents make the mistake of feeling they only need a will if they have money/land/real estate/possessions.
* THE CHRISTIAN ATTACK MACHINE THAT IS HOLLYWOOD: The abusive uncle who comes to take the young girl says to Lieutenant stone (with kind of a southern hick accent), "it's time that girl had a good Christian upbringing." Part of what upsets the Christian community is this sort of tagging by Hollywood. This is at least the second or third time the Streets of San Francisco has tagged the Christian community. Just a couple of episodes back a "Christian" psychopath was killing priests in the name of God. Now a "Christian" uncle who has been abusive to a little girl wants to raise the girl as a Christian. No doubt there are some Christian weirdos in the world such as these. The problem is that it seems like Hollywood really enjoys demeaning the Christian lifestyle (and literally hundreds of millions of Christians) for the sake of creating a provocative story.
Mostly, there are Christians who do nice things, have good motives and try to live happy and fulfilling lives. They give/volunteer their time and talents (money too) to make the communities they live in - better places.
*WHAT DID YOU THINK? Final Reflective Thoughts..... The episode had some good moments. But as stated before, the story itself was all over the place. In my opinion this was one of the weakest episodes of the first two seasons.
Grade: D+
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