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   Peter T. Daniels to Joseph D. Korman   
   Re: another new series launches with a s   
   03 Oct 14 11:18:20   
   
   From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Friday, October 3, 2014 1:53:03 PM UTC-4, Joseph D. Korman wrote:   
   > On 10/1/2014 11:18 PM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
   > > On Saturday, September 27, 2014 3:12:19 PM UTC-4, Joseph D. Korman wrote:   
   > >> On 9/27/2014 2:42 PM, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
      
   > > This week's episode had another extended subway scene -- Abraham tracked   
   > > a suspect from the 18th St. to the 34th St. station on the 1. They didn't   
   > > look like IRT stations, they were improbably crowded, and there were   
   > > weird non-automatic station annoouncements.   
   >   
   > If I remember the scenes correctly, they used R-32 cars from the BMT and   
   > IND, now used for the most part on the C.  There were some on the J/Z   
   > for the summer, as the C got the air conditioned R-160A cars from the   
   > J/Z.  The summer swap ended this past weekend.   
      
   Yes. The gray benches didn't look right. I thought they might be from   
   the old IRT World's Fair cars.   
      
   > > Do the plaques on the pillars at 34th say "Penn Station"? These days   
   > > my 1-riding is pretty much limited to 116th to 59th.   
   > > Abraham was twice referred to as Henry's "roommate."   
   > > Speaking of characters named "Henry," on *Selfie* the girl is "Eliza   
   > > Dooley" and the boy is "Henry" -- I didn't catch a last name -- and   
   > > she asks him for a personality makeover. Shaw, it ain't. The pilot   
   > > was not promising at all.   
   >   
   > I caught the Dooley reference too, the actors are Karen Gillan as Eliza   
   > Dooley John Cho as Henry Higgs.   
      
   Oy. If it's still on when I get back from Germany in two weeks, I'll try   
   to look in the very fine print for the acknowledgment of the source.   
      
   > Gillian was Amy Pond, a companion in Dr. Who.   
   > Cho played Sulu in the remakes of Star Trek, as well and a few other TV   
   > shows, including Sleepy Hollow.   
      
   I stopped watching that when they moved it opposite something better,   
   by which time it was also getting pretty silly -- did they kill him   
   off there?   
      
   John Cho is mostly known for the Harold & Kumar series of buddy comedies.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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