Don pretending to chicken out of talking to the chef because there are sharp knives in kitchens and he's left his gun in the car?
But stiffing the waiter because of a screw-up in the kitchen is really lame. Waiters live off of tips, if the service was fine you shouldn't shortchange the waiter for something outside of his/her control. In the US, waitstaff don't even make anything like minimum wage (they're exempt). They literally depend on those tips to make up their salary, they aren't "extra." So I was with Robin on that one, and Don should know better. He doesn't have to say anything to the chef if he doesn't want to have a confrontation, but he shouldn't penalize the waitstaff either.
shot of the two of them walking out into the sunlight.
Except that it should have been shortly after midnight. CSI does that all the time. They get a crime and it's night, then magically it's day even though only minutes have passed.
if his original confession was what condemned him, what was the moral difference between it, if it had been true, and his telling Don that he had sixty-something bodies on his hands?
I'm confused. If his confession had been legit there wouldn't be an issue. I don't think you can separate the moral and the legal questions. If you put someone on death row it had damn well better be for the crime you say it was. Not a crime "everyone knows" he committed, which is how he appears to have gotten there in the first place. No one wanted to check that closely because they all knew he was guilty. Jr. didn't kill anyone else after that (until the psychiatrist) but what if he had? Then Sr. would be in jail and executed for something he didn't commit and Jr. would be free to kill again and again. Being caught for the right thing matters. /soapbox.
I think it was Without a Trace who did the best version of the death penalty episode. They had evidence that exonerated the guy in prison and the scene ends with the team sitting around the phone waiting for it to ring to say he'd been pardoned. Or not. We never know how it turns out.
The West Wing had a pretty good episode, too, I think, though their point was about the death penalty in general.
And I still think Robin was being unfair to Don.
I'm kind of surprised Don's anti-death penalty though. I figured he'd be all for it. Then again, he has sometimes been the closet liberal.
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But stiffing the waiter because of a screw-up in the kitchen is really lame. Waiters live off of tips, if the service was fine you shouldn't shortchange the waiter for something outside of his/her control. In the US, waitstaff don't even make anything like minimum wage (they're exempt). They literally depend on those tips to make up their salary, they aren't "extra." So I was with Robin on that one, and Don should know better. He doesn't have to say anything to the chef if he doesn't want to have a confrontation, but he shouldn't penalize the waitstaff either.
shot of the two of them walking out into the sunlight.
Except that it should have been shortly after midnight. CSI does that all the time. They get a crime and it's night, then magically it's day even though only minutes have passed.
if his original confession was what condemned him, what was the moral difference between it, if it had been true, and his telling Don that he had sixty-something bodies on his hands?
I'm confused. If his confession had been legit there wouldn't be an issue. I don't think you can separate the moral and the legal questions. If you put someone on death row it had damn well better be for the crime you say it was. Not a crime "everyone knows" he committed, which is how he appears to have gotten there in the first place. No one wanted to check that closely because they all knew he was guilty. Jr. didn't kill anyone else after that (until the psychiatrist) but what if he had? Then Sr. would be in jail and executed for something he didn't commit and Jr. would be free to kill again and again. Being caught for the right thing matters. /soapbox.
I think it was Without a Trace who did the best version of the death penalty episode. They had evidence that exonerated the guy in prison and the scene ends with the team sitting around the phone waiting for it to ring to say he'd been pardoned. Or not. We never know how it turns out.
The West Wing had a pretty good episode, too, I think, though their point was about the death penalty in general.
And I still think Robin was being unfair to Don.
I'm kind of surprised Don's anti-death penalty though. I figured he'd be all for it. Then again, he has sometimes been the closet liberal.
Randomly: I like the way your tags are organized.