"...and Stonetree had to admit he sounded sincere."brightknightieJuly 20 2011, 18:28:51 UTC
As told here, Nick's start under Stonetree's command through the eyes of the assembled human characters -- especially minor and original characters -- gave me the same kind of feeling that I enjoy from looking at episode stills. There's a leisurely opportunity to see things in detail that usually flash by as impressions. It solidifies the fictional world around its edges and slowly widens the places observations perch
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Re: "...and Stonetree had to admit he sounded sincere."greerwatsonJuly 20 2011, 23:30:53 UTC
"the c.1990 historical/canonical moment"As I was writing, I realized how long ago all this was. It seems as though it happened only yesterday....
Of course, it helps to be able to draw on my own memories of typewriters. I got in the platen turning; but you also have to hear the clickety of keys (all round the squad room!) and the periodic ting of the carriage return as someone reaches the end of a line. "Of course this story pays particular attention to the places where the fictional world's seam with the real world is particularly strained"As soon as you actually think about it you realize how little thinking the writers did. I mean, who on earth takes a pipe bomb to a robbery? A gun of any kind, a knife-sure, these one expects. A baseball bat, a barbecue fork, a box cutter....
Pipe bombs have to be made in advance, and they have only one purpose: to blow something up. That's hardly consistent with robbery.
It didn't take much thought to come up with the possibility that the store owner might have run foul of a protection
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Re: "...and Stonetree had to admit he sounded sincere."ext_114567July 21 2011, 06:39:04 UTC
Wasn't Schanke's previous partner the guy who had left the police and gotten into the far more lucrative private detective business in the States? I forget the name of the episode, but Don considered quitting the Force and joining him in his business, before he figured out that the guy was involved in some sort of corrupt business practices.
Re: "...and Stonetree had to admit he sounded sincere."greerwatsonJuly 22 2011, 21:10:49 UTC
You're thinking of "The Code". We meet a couple of Schanke's former partners during the course of the series (and they do seem to come to sticky ends, one way or another).
According to Judith Freudenthal's Episode Guide-which I consulted, rather than rewatching a tape-Patrick Delehanty "taught Schanke all he knows before moving to Montreal. Then, sometime later, quit the force and moved to Scottsdale, Arizona where he became a wealthy Private Investigator." When he drops by the precinct in "The Code", Schanke introduces him to Nick.
Somehow, if Delehanty had been Schanke's partner while Nick was working at the 27th, I don't think it would have been necessary to introduce them! That suggests that he was a previous partner. Schanke has, after all, been on the force for quite a number of years.
Re: "...and Stonetree had to admit he sounded sincere."brightknightieJuly 23 2011, 21:47:47 UTC
>"In the first scenes of "Dark Knight", do we have any indication that Schanke has a partner?
No, we don't. I think you're right; there's a very good opportunity there to imagine that Schanke's previous partner has just transferred, retired, won the lottery, or otherwise moved on -- probably didn't die; that would have been mentioned at some point, surely -- and that while Stonetree is then driven to match Knight and Schanke by the immediate imperative of solving the "vampire" case, he might nevertheless have moved toward matching Nick with the first detective to lose a partner, regardless.
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Of course, it helps to be able to draw on my own memories of typewriters. I got in the platen turning; but you also have to hear the clickety of keys (all round the squad room!) and the periodic ting of the carriage return as someone reaches the end of a line.
"Of course this story pays particular attention to the places where the fictional world's seam with the real world is particularly strained"As soon as you actually think about it you realize how little thinking the writers did. I mean, who on earth takes a pipe bomb to a robbery? A gun of any kind, a knife-sure, these one expects. A baseball bat, a barbecue fork, a box cutter....
Pipe bombs have to be made in advance, and they have only one purpose: to blow something up. That's hardly consistent with robbery.
It didn't take much thought to come up with the possibility that the store owner might have run foul of a protection ( ... )
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According to Judith Freudenthal's Episode Guide-which I consulted, rather than rewatching a tape-Patrick Delehanty "taught Schanke all he knows before moving to Montreal. Then, sometime later, quit the force and moved to Scottsdale, Arizona where he became a wealthy Private Investigator." When he drops by the precinct in "The Code", Schanke introduces him to Nick.
Somehow, if Delehanty had been Schanke's partner while Nick was working at the 27th, I don't think it would have been necessary to introduce them! That suggests that he was a previous partner. Schanke has, after all, been on the force for quite a number of years.
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No, we don't. I think you're right; there's a very good opportunity there to imagine that Schanke's previous partner has just transferred, retired, won the lottery, or otherwise moved on -- probably didn't die; that would have been mentioned at some point, surely -- and that while Stonetree is then driven to match Knight and Schanke by the immediate imperative of solving the "vampire" case, he might nevertheless have moved toward matching Nick with the first detective to lose a partner, regardless.
Thank you again for writing!
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