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So I finally got around to watching an episode of Murder, She Wrote. I may be delusional, but I have a vague memory of several months ago reading somewhere that there was not-quite Ellery Queen in an episode, which is completely plausible as the same people made both shows, and I remembered the maybe not memory today and started looking for the actual episode. I was unsuccessful, obviously, but my attention was caught by an episode about a college student and composer who is the prime suspect after a professor he accused of plagiarism is murdered. Guest starring Shaun Cassidy. After all the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys I've been watching (yes, we know he sings, now please make it stop), I was pretty sure who he played.
Wrong. He in fact plays a law student who solves the murder. I.e. the detective. Headcanon 'splosion. In multiple ways.
For starters, I really liked his character. He's planning to go into corporate law, and his girlfriend and the suspect nag him about it, telling him he should go the way of the public defender instead. He doesn't want to, but then the public defender assigned to his friend is an ass who's given up and is convinced the only way to go is insanity. By the end there've been a few moments where Shaun Cassidy's character clearly isn't impressed at all, and so now my headcanon about that is that he changes his mind about the whole public defender thing afterwards and goes on a crusade for truth and justice a la Phoenix Wright. In short, I'm really disappointed that he's a one-off detective, I need more of him. (Also, UNEXPECTED GLASSES WOAH.)
And then there's the Hardy Boys headcanon. I am now half-convinced that something happens that seriouses Joe up and convinces him to study law. Like, someone the brothers know, maybe even Frank, is accused of murder, and everyone keeps telling Joe it's hopeless, the evidence is stacked against the suspect. An asshole attorney is the loudest of them all, and in the end Joe finds the evidence he needs but the experience stays with him. Or, for a tragic bent, Joe doesn't find the evidence, at least not in time. Eeee, I've got a plot forming in my head :)))
Meanwhile in real life, Alien's got an English assignment to write a story based on the lyrics of a song. He's decided to use the first names of all his teachers as character names, and the song he's chosen is Road to Nowhere. Given that his English teacher is not exactly known for his humor, particularly of the self-deprecating kind, Alien's going down. I don't think even I ever went that far. Though to be fair he did once get his science teacher to accidentally make innuendo about his math teacher, so he might escape with his grade unscathed. I'll have to make him show me the teacher comments.
Wrong. He in fact plays a law student who solves the murder. I.e. the detective. Headcanon 'splosion. In multiple ways.
For starters, I really liked his character. He's planning to go into corporate law, and his girlfriend and the suspect nag him about it, telling him he should go the way of the public defender instead. He doesn't want to, but then the public defender assigned to his friend is an ass who's given up and is convinced the only way to go is insanity. By the end there've been a few moments where Shaun Cassidy's character clearly isn't impressed at all, and so now my headcanon about that is that he changes his mind about the whole public defender thing afterwards and goes on a crusade for truth and justice a la Phoenix Wright. In short, I'm really disappointed that he's a one-off detective, I need more of him. (Also, UNEXPECTED GLASSES WOAH.)
And then there's the Hardy Boys headcanon. I am now half-convinced that something happens that seriouses Joe up and convinces him to study law. Like, someone the brothers know, maybe even Frank, is accused of murder, and everyone keeps telling Joe it's hopeless, the evidence is stacked against the suspect. An asshole attorney is the loudest of them all, and in the end Joe finds the evidence he needs but the experience stays with him. Or, for a tragic bent, Joe doesn't find the evidence, at least not in time. Eeee, I've got a plot forming in my head :)))
Meanwhile in real life, Alien's got an English assignment to write a story based on the lyrics of a song. He's decided to use the first names of all his teachers as character names, and the song he's chosen is Road to Nowhere. Given that his English teacher is not exactly known for his humor, particularly of the self-deprecating kind, Alien's going down. I don't think even I ever went that far. Though to be fair he did once get his science teacher to accidentally make innuendo about his math teacher, so he might escape with his grade unscathed. I'll have to make him show me the teacher comments.