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phil · 09-18-2011, 10:53 PM

Just one more thread on Colombo.

**beensetfree** · (This post was last modified: 09-19-2011 08:41 AM by beensetfree.)

(09-18-2011 10:53 PM)phil Wrote: Just one more thread on Colombo.

Oooh, Columbo. Genius. They just don't make them like that anymore. Peter Falk was really handsome even with a glass eye, he just had presence. Detective/mysteries were far more interesting before technology and generally less gory to watch when it was more focused on the gumshoe's prowess of intellect. Maybe I'll go start one about "Murder, She Wrote".
When do you think the show was at it's best? The last episode was such a disaster, I couldn't handle Colombo in a modern world. I vote vintage.

**Scorpio** · 09-19-2011, 07:57 AM

Just one more thing....... Tongue

Waldo L · 09-21-2011, 06:54 PM

I enjoyed the first few episodes of this show, and ostensibly I still really like it, but I got bored after the first 10 or so. If we know who the murderer is, why waste our time while someone else figures it out? I think if they didn't show us the murderer, then it would be so much better. I do know that the format required that the audience know who the murderer was, but there's my 2¢.

Undine · 09-24-2011, 08:09 PM

(09-21-2011 06:54 PM)Waldo L Wrote: I enjoyed the first few episodes of this show, and ostensibly I still really like it, but I got bored after the first 10 or so. If we know who the murderer is, why waste our time while someone else figures it out? I think if they didn't show us the murderer, then it would be so much better. I do know that the format required that the audience know who the murderer was, but there's my 2¢.

That's why when my brother and I would watch the reruns when we were little, we would purposely miss the beginning, so we didn't know who the murderer was.