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Eli Stone: Unwritten
Eli Stone: Unwritten
I have mixed feelings about last night’s Eli Stone episode. Was this the first Eli Stone episode where a song and dance number wasn’t part of the overall show -- did I blink and miss it? That being said, it’s still one of my favorite shows and even when it feels just a bit off, I won’t complain too much. In any event, a few important events happened, one of which was a total surprise. Just some quick thoughts:
-- I very much liked the interwoven tales of Jordan’s “insanity” trial and the lead paint case. They way they started out with Eli’s vision involving Jordan, then Nate volunteering at the clinic, Eli backing out of Jordan’s case, Eli and Maggie taking the lead paint case, and that being what goes before the supreme court was very solid storytelling.
-- I almost liked Taylor in this episode last night. It’s hard to not like someone who really is just trying to help her dad – especially when she digs up the information that the property of the firm belongs to Jordan!
-- Eli was as much on trial as Jordan.
-- Jordan’s and Eli’s talk after Jordan is found to be competent but ultimately voted of the firm’s board was very sweet. Especially the part about the fact that friends fight and it’s because they are friends that Eli would follow Jordan to a new firm.
-- Kudos to Eli for turning the public nuisance case over to a rival lawyer.
-- I did see one thing coming…and that was Maggie being the lawyer that supported the paint companies during Eli’s last vision.
-- Raise your hand if you were just a bit disappointed and surprised to see Eli’s and Nate’s dad’s journal goes up in flames. I would have liked to have seen more about the implications of that book.
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Oct 29, 2008 7:46 PM
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*raises hand*
I agree with you on almost liking Taylor for digging that up for her father.
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Oct 29, 2008 10:01 PM
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I did enjoy the show, although I had to wonder what would have brought Maggie to the side of big industry. Considering that in an earlier vision, she was Eli's wife & the mother of his child, it would seem the future can be changed.
Which begs the question--how did Eli's father know about Grace? Yes, he had a vision, but, as we all know, Eli's earlier vision of the firm without Jordan and the vision of Jordan & himself at the Supreme Court are not going to come true. So Grace was not necessarily going to happen.
Taylor was nicer in this episode, and it was good to see Debrah Farentino back as Jordan's wife. I knew she was too young to be Taylor's mother!
I too am sorry the book was burned. But it was the right thing to do.
And I'll bet Marci Klein was really guilty or at least implicated in the insider trading!
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Oct 30, 2008 8:51 AM
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This was a good episode though, like you, I also missed the music!
I did enjoy the show, although I had to wonder what would have brought Maggie to the side of big industry.
I'm guessing that Maggie stayed with the part of the firm that had Jordan's name removed and therefore had to represent the paint companies. I don't know. I may be thinking all wrong! (again)
I agree that not keeping the book was the right thing to do. It definitely was a bold move tossing it right into the flames.
Am looking forward to future episodes and any new twists they have in mind.
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Oct 30, 2008 5:40 PM
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I've really been enjoying this show! I don't take it apart the way I do with Supernatural - only room in my busy life for one genuine passion at a time! - but I love the soul behind it and the way it explores our humanity through Eli's visions.
I loved the way his father's diary was ultimately dealt with; given the temptation to know the future, set against the desire to be free to change it, I'd have chosen as Eli did.
We might still learn things from that diary, however, because we know one person who already read it ...
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Oct 30, 2008 8:44 PM
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Hi Lynn -- I am not sure I will ever really like Taylor, but it was nice to see her do everything she could for her dad.
Hi Imzadi -- I think the future can be changed. I suspect that anything that happens in the here and now effects what will happen in the future. So every time Eli does something different that changes the future.
Hi Dances with Ducks -- I too look forward to each episode. Eli Stone has a very unique premise and there are always so many ways for the story lines to play out.
Hi Mary -- I too like the way the ideas of Faith, humanity, right and wrong and so on play out on Eli Stone. It's a sweet show in many ways.
With regard to the journal -- in some ways I think Eli took the easy way out by burning the journal. But I guess sometimes the easy way is the right way if you have to remove a certain temptation that could lead to something worse. But Nate did read some, if not most of the journal, and I can't help but wonder if that will come into play in the future.
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Oct 31, 2008 10:10 AM
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