3.06: "The Body in Question"
Summary: A frozen body discovered in the local river could cause a world-wide historical revolution: was Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo or was he ice fishing near Cicely and fathering a tribe of French-speaking Native Americans?
Moosechick's episode guide page.
Moosechick's episode guide page.
"The soul is the sacred payload of us all," and the body doesn't matter. Maurice and Holling should probably never talk about metaphysics. It would end badly.
Holling: [Great-Uncle Whoever's] death is still celebrated in some parts of France.
Shelly: You mean like Lincoln's birthday?
Holling: I mean like the death of Satan.
1.) Why is Lincoln's birthday the first thing Shelly, a Canadian, thinks of in this situation? 2.) Hee.
Ruth-Anne: Ed, I think you can do anything you put your mind to.
Ed: Why?
Ruth-Anne: Why not?
MY HEART GROWS THREE SIZES EVERY TIME I WATCH THIS. (It's going to come busting out of my chest any day now!)
Also, yay Ed for not going back to pay-to-read consultants! I like how his C-plot fits in with the debate in the church, especially, because in the same way different readings of facts will produce different interpretations of the "truth," his script is about his subjective experience of life, which, though the consultant says it "sounds familiar," of necessity must be unique in some manner. (As Grandma Woody said two episodes ago, if he writes about what he actually sees in front of him, his story will be different from anyone else's.)
(Alternately, Ed just isn't a very good writer. But I refuse to believe that!)
Mwahaha, sure, Marilyn knows absolutely nothing about where the body went, nope, nothing at all...
"I am NOT making a habit of this." And yet she says she'll come back in an hour, and in the last episode she was playing nursemaid as well, and in the next two episodes she looks in on him when Elaine comes to visit and when he gets broken up about a dead bird, so really, in this case I think actions speak louder than words...
OMG THE ENDING. These people knew how to write an ending. (Or how to quote for an ending. WHATEVER, I STILL GET CHILLS DOWN MY BACK.)
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Add to the list of things Shelly is bad at: being from Canada.
(Alternately, Ed just isn't a very good writer. But I refuse to believe that!)
It sounds like he... is finding his feet. The boy's got potential!
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Awwww. Perhaps she should take lessons from Fraser. (Can you IMAGINE them interacting?)
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(Heh, I'm also imagining Maggie's reaction to him. I think it would take the form of flirting so aggressively she scared him right back to Chicago.)
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I think it would take the form of flirting so aggressively she scared him right back to Chicago.
And taking every opportunity to remind Joel that Joel isn't polite, well-mannered, and gentlemanly!
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Yes, yes, she would! (Although the strange thing is, he's totally polite and well-mannered when they get out of Cicely! It's like the Alaskan air turns him into a cranky, self-centered jerk!)
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Whaaaaaaat?
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