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Date Posted: 01:52:10 11/24/02 Sun
Author: Cece
Subject: RE: LoriD's post below
In reply to: - 's message, "season eight: Need to Know, November 5, 2002" on 01:02:15 11/23/02 Sat

For some reason I missed LoriD's (not to be confused with LoriP) post below until just now (at 2 am Pacific). Okay, I can't sleep so maybe my mind will be clearer than usual. I feel somewhat ashamed after reading what Lori had to say, because I have only dwelt on what I saw as the negative aspects of the show (the Bud story), and didn't mention how good the rest of the episode was.

The story itself, about the fate of the lost submariners, was so poignant and very meaningful to those who know of family and friends who were MIA. To never know what happened to them must be a terrible pain and a sense of loss and emptiness that remain forever. I believe that Lori is right when she says that the episode dealt with the story with sensitivity.

Also, seeing Harm, Mac, and Sturgis work together was wonderful. Bud's sidekick days were over long before he lost a leg, but I'd love to see Sturgis take over the role, not in the same way of course, but as a friend and equal to Harm.

Sturgis has the expertise as a submariner which counterbalances Harm's expertise in the air. Where Bud felt inadequate at times not being able to fly a jet, Sturgis need feel no inadequacy as his active experience in submarines is equally dangerous, and requires a high level of training and skill.

It also gives JAG a member of the Navy whose branch is not represented. There is AJ the seal, Mac the marine, Harm the pilot, and now Sturgis the submariner. I like the gap being filled by someone who is Harm's and Mac's peer both in the court and in rank.

I'm hoping that the Bud story will soon be over. This is where my good friend Lori and I part company. In my opinion, showing the sexual problems of an amputee nearly every week (last week it was the other guy getting a date with a hot looking woman), is becoming voyeuristic. Are we all so curious how an amputee manages to have sex? I don't think so. To quote another wonderful poster who said to me in an email, seeing Bud suffering nobly is just too much. I would have liked it more if he'd been angry, thrown things, gone off sex, behaved like a complete jerk so that we wouldn't feel sorry for him. And the sight of Bud coming to attention with one crutch last week was just so patronising. I hated that moment.

But on the bright side, Manetti fills out the need for some X chromosomes in the office, and I like her a whole lot better than the steretypical bitchy Singer, and the tediously saccharin Harriet. Manetti is smart and nice. She's cool. (But give her a romantic scene before H and M and I'm out...LOL).

Without Singer, Bud, and Harriet, the JAG office is beginning to look more professional, and I hope that doesn't translate into dull. The unnamed poster I mentioned above said something about DB considering Webb going undercover with Mac..who poses as a pregnant woman. What a great idea to hide CB's pregancy! Oooo and if Harm doesn't know about it, maybe there could be excitement coming up...and I don't mean HE..lol.

So here's to a great season. Thank you Lori for cheering me up. I should have read your post last night..lol.

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