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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Sept 8, 2019 15:50:39 GMT -5
I'm binge-watching Due South on YouTube and I remembered digging this show back in the 90s. It's both funny and action packed, Fraser is such a fish out of water in Chicago and Ray is so confused by him. Anyone else watch this show?
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Post by Tim on Sept 8, 2019 17:52:48 GMT -5
I heard about this show and saw some episodes.
I agree, it was a pretty funny fish-out-of-water thing.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Sept 9, 2019 13:00:42 GMT -5
I loved this show. Had a huge crush on Paul Gross as a teenager amongst other celebrities of course.
Dug his odd sort of personality and his deaf dog Diefenbaker especially when he'd taste something and Ray didn't like that which was all understandable being what Mountie's done and Fraser previously living in the snow.
He was such a gentleman. Always polite to people holding doors and whatnot.
I liked his relationship with Ray and then Stanley Kawaski.
Ray's green Buick 67 has always been a favorite television show car of mine other than 'Supernatural's' Impala seeing how I love old cars.
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Post by Tim on Sept 10, 2019 11:16:03 GMT -5
I mainly know Paul Gross from the 2007 movie he made, Passchendaele.
Quite a difference from Due South.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Sept 10, 2019 11:28:49 GMT -5
Melinda, I used to have a crush on him too and both Rays had cool cars. I loved how Fraser was such a proper and polite Mountie and both Rays were tough Chicago cops, but the partnerships worked. I actually wrote Due South fan fiction back in the Dark Ages pre Internet in notebooks but they’re long gone, I might try one if I get one of my stories finished and I finally graduate
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Post by Tim on Sept 10, 2019 16:23:42 GMT -5
I actually wrote Due South fan fiction back in the Dark Ages pre Internet in notebooks but they’re long gone,
Shame those stories are lost.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Sept 10, 2019 17:01:21 GMT -5
I actually wrote Due South fan fiction back in the Dark Ages pre Internet in notebooks but they’re long gone,
Shame those stories are lost.
Yeah, back in prehistoric times I wrote stories in notebooks and our family didn’t get Internet at home until 2000. I didn’t start posting them online until 2004 but the websites where I had my earliest stories are all gone, not even on the Wayback Machine. I don’t think I remember one of my Due South fics and try to spruce them up, they were written back in 94 or 95
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Sept 10, 2019 17:07:55 GMT -5
I suppose they weren't backed up anywhere when you posted the stories in 2004 then? Like a usb stick or external hard drive?
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Sept 10, 2019 17:18:43 GMT -5
I suppose they weren't backed up anywhere when you posted the stories in 2004 then? Like a usb stick or external hard drive? No, I didn’t have either and we didn’t have Microsoft Office or Google Docs either. I didn’t learn how to back up stuff I wrote until college, but maybe it’s for the best. The stories I do have from that era make me cringe, they were more like Harlequin Romances and had lots of smut. I’m embarrassed I used to write like that 😩
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Post by Tim on Sept 10, 2019 23:15:02 GMT -5
I know.
I'm embarrassed by some of my early stuff as well.
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Post by Melinda Halliwell on Sept 11, 2019 3:15:51 GMT -5
Do either of you have any favorite Due South episodes you enjoyed? Or one's you didn't?
Of the top of my head I can't remember myself but will post which ones's I did if I re-watch the show again or suddenly know then.
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Post by Tim on Sept 11, 2019 11:03:14 GMT -5
Have to do a rewatch someday.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Sept 13, 2019 6:57:11 GMT -5
My favorite episode from the 1st season was when Fraser and Ray we’re investigating a case of horse meat being sold as beef. A little boy is poisoned by tainted meat from a supermarket and CPS is going to take away him and his siblings since they think his immigrant mother can’t read English and doesn’t understand hygiene, Fraser and Ray catch a local meat supplier using wild horse meat as a substitute for beef and reunite the kids with their mom. It shows how ignorant and racist CPS is because they assume the kids are being neglected since they’re poor and the landlord won’t turn on the heat or hot water, the mom works two jobs and doesn’t speak English well. Fraser goes out of his way to help and I’m sure the mom was baffled but grateful that this Canadian guy helped her family, since the CPS people are white and are racist and condescending towards her and her kids.
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Post by Tim on Sept 13, 2019 11:25:57 GMT -5
And to think this was made long before the current idiot moved into the White House.
This show was ahead of its time.
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Post by ladyfiaran22 on Sept 13, 2019 14:11:09 GMT -5
And to think this was made long before the current idiot moved into the White House.
This show was ahead of its time.
That episode at least. CPS in the US is notorious for either over or underestimating child abuse, kids being removed because of cultural misunderstanding or the social workers not realizing the kid is actually being abused. Plus the CPS people in the episode are racist and think the mom is ignorant since she doesn’t speak much English and is a recent immigrant, none of this was her fault. The horse meat thing actually happened a few years ago in the UK when a meat supplier mixed horse meat with beef in processed meat products and sold it as beef, some people got sick. The same company also made so-called kosher and halal meat which contained pork in order to cut costs, a lot of Jews and Muslims accidentally ate pork and non kosher meat
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