[wtH] Texas Ranger Walker

Sad and totally true - I actually found myself morbidly fascinated by the monotonous dialogue on Texas Ranger Walker at 2330hrs on Friday night.

Opening scene - Some scruffy kid is bullied in school, everyone's calling him a freak. Scruffy kid goes to top of school building and wants to jump down. Chuck Norris tries to calm the kid down but the kid jumps. Camera gives us a rooftop view of the kid's body on the ground; and then alternate camera gives us view of Chuck Norris' tortured face looking down from the rooftop. He tried to look tormented, I can give him that much credit for the effort.

Next scene - Same tormented face of Chuck Norris in a bar, opposite him is some middle aged blond.
MAB: You cannot blame yourself for this (or something along those lines)...
Chuck: But I cannot forget the kid's face (or something along those lines) ....
MAB: But you know, suicide is the 3rd cause of deaths amongst teenagers in this country. There's something with the school these days ...

Holy Cammoli!! That line totally caught me off guard!!

I mean how's Chuck gonna retort to such a statistic like that which was so badly planted into the whole dialogue? This just confirmed that the entire conversation was patchedly spun so the scriptwriter could inject some cheap social message badly sponsored by some poorly funded NGO.

So what can Chuck do? .... He whines some more and invites more terrible one-liners from MAB.
That is when I realize what I have done, turn off the TV, and come upstairs to blog this piece - which is equally sad. Last Friday was Good Friday but it was the crap day I left Japan back to reality, this Friday was no-more-NBA-this-week-wait-for-playoffs-next-week-see-Walker-instead Friday.

Ugh. Hope you've had better Fridays than me lately - NOT!!