The Pragmatician

Boston Legal is currently my favourite show.
Just last week it took the place of Scrubs, which is now number 2 in my own imaginary top ten.
In the last episode I saw (The Nutcrackers) one the main characters, a lawyer is defending a seemingly nice couple who, as it turns out are very much racists, holocaust deniers and by extension highly anti-semtic.
The sister of the defendant wants to take her kids away as she believes those poor souls are poisoned by their parents’ hatred of everyone and everything different.

The lawyers at Crane, Poole & Schmidt, the lawyer firm this show is all about, are portrayed as sublimely intelligent creative people and it can be suggested that they are mind readers.

Naturally they win almost every case that is brought to them.
Part of the fun of the show is listening to the closing arguments when a seemingly impossible case is lost in everyone’s mind but the lawyers from Crane, Poole & Schmidt
In this particular case Alan Shore won again.
He convinced the Judge that there was no cause to separate the children from their parents.

The writers made sure to include a few sentences that made it clear that Alan was strongly opposed to his clients’ views and greatly disliked them, yet he did his job to the best of his ability and won.

I understand that this show is fiction, and yet I was left with a rather sad feeling after this episode.
In a courtroom, in front of a Judge in the US, people can openly claim to hate the Jews and walk out with a big smile.

It shows that there still is tolerance for such views. There are no consequences whatsoever to admitting being a Jew hater.
I wish I had missed this episode...

I encourage you all to read the Havel Havalim entry of this week, it’s hilarious but please remember that this is fiction too!

Labels: boston legal

# posted by Pragmatician @ 7:45 AM