Fathers Day, February 3, 1998

By Shirley

I didn't like this episode at all. It was just too too precious. I kept getting the feeling that there wasn't much of a storyline there, and TPTB were just plopping in scenes to fill the time. What was the storyline? Well, Cpl. Wetzel can't cope with his duties as a marine because of difficulties he is having with his personal life. Cpl. Wetzel is such an excellent and earnest young man with such good intentions that I felt like screaming. As soon as he declared that he married his wife to redeem her, he was marked down in my bad book. Please!

Admiral Chegwidden's nit-picking about budgets and expenses came out of the blue. What brought that on? Here's his right hand man, Harm, and he slaps him down, rather publicly, by assigning him a nothing case, and giving him minimal resources to work with. But then why assign another top senior JAG officer, Mac, on it? Doesn't make sense. I guess this was all supposed to be funny. I didn't find it so. I found it, and the subsequent motel scenes, stupid.

The Quantum Leap convention was a nice little touch, except that I never watched Quantum Leap, so the jokes elicited no response from me. I didn't realize until later that Donald P. Bellisario and HarrietJAG had cameos. Actually, it was too dark to see well.

Of course, the presence of Dalton Lowne (here slumming as a favour for his paramour Mac) was the final indignity.

Not even the presence of the baby mollified me. Yes, it's a very nice baby, but even he couldn't do anything for this episode.

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