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From: mike@hpfcla.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 00:24:00 EDT
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Here's what someone said of "The Equalizer":

> Have seen one episode of this, and it probably wins for most violent new
> show of the season.  Basically grim show with the first fifteen minutes
> setting up a situation where some incredibly innocent person is placed in a
> terrible situation by someone so reprehensible that the audience would like
> to see the villain placed under a steam roller.  Well, no steam rollers to
> be had on this show, but we've got an ex-CIA agent who is slightly neater
> than a steam roller, and has about the same effect.  He also has a slightly
> looney younger friend who he gives enough weaphons to to break into the
> White House, and lets him loose at the bad guys.  Apparently work theraphy
> or something...

Are you  kidding?  This is the  best  detective  show to come  along  in
years.  It's  serious as  opposed to sappy, it deals with  violent  (but
believable)  crimes as opposed to banal social  work, and Robert  McCall
(The Equalizer) is the hardest,  toughest  crime-fighter to appear since
Steve McGarret.  The theme is simple:  Criminals  deserve no mercy; give
them a taste of their own disrespect for individual rights; answer force
with force.  I think its  refreshing to see justice  prevail in the face
of an ineffectual  police force, and an impotent  criminal  court system
which has obviously  resulted from the morass of contradictory laws that
usually end up protecting (and freeing) known criminals.

Michael Bishop 
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