A lot of them were crazy smug pricks, like the radio DJ and the astronaut.
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
But this guy... it was like: "magic is my thing... so I'm going to do magic every waking moment, use misdirection based crimes, use a magician's tool as a murder weapon, theme my gloating around magic, make deals with my mob contacts by doing magic, and even use stage magic to put my nemesis in a deathtrap (though thankfully the deathtrap itself wasn't magic based)."
The whole time, I was like "this guy is hilarious."
edited 3rd Jul '12 1:45:46 AM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
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Does anyone know if Wordof God ever confirmed what was written on the page Natalie ripped off in "Mr. Monks Favorite TV Show" ?
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Now that I think about it, Monk riffed on Columbo a bit. The bad guys act like bullies and taunt Monk's neuroses. And both dectectives use their weaknesses as advntages.
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A lot of them were crazy smug pricks, like the radio DJ and the astronaut.
Those 2 are nothing compared to the guy that played chess.
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That would require use of Common Sense/Logic and that would take away the humor.
Question for Monk fans: This is really one for the creators but I can't find them online so I'll ask it here. How much of Trudy's murder was planned from the beginning and how much of it developed over time? Did the creators always know who did it and why or did they just have a vague idea of what happened and filled in the gaps later?
Given that when you get right down to it the murderer was just another Villain of the Week with zero presence outside his episode(s), I doubt it was planned too much in advance. And if it was, it suffered from the HIMYM of being an early plan that got stretched out far past its intent by the series' success.
I've always been under the impression that the initially intended to develop into a big conspiracy, before the ubiquitous and unending success of the series put the kibosh on it getting a lot of plot significance.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Aug 24th 2018 at 10:53:47 AM
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
I know that we first heard about someone called the "Judge" at the end of Season Six. I'd just be curious to know if they always intended for it to be an actual judge or if it was just a nickname that they later decided to make literal. Also, Trudy's Christmas present had been mentioned in previous seasons so they had to know it was significant even if they hadn't decided on why yet.
Figured we needed a thread for this. Y'know, just in case there were some fans who still wanted to talk about it.
But really, I just had this thought and had to share it:
Is it just me, or did the murderer from "Mr. Monk And The Magician" think he was a supervillain or something? I kept thinking "Batman" every throughout the whole episode. I liked it, but it was a little tacky once or twice. It kind of showed me how gimmick villainy played straight in a different genre kind of courts incredulity unless handled perfectly.
edited 13th Jun '12 11:00:48 PM by KnownUnknown
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.