Don Quixote’s Thought for the Day: Credit where credit is due

We spend a lot of time on this blog critizing Hollywood for it’s one-sided view of things, even in fiction (see Bookworm’s post on Avatar for a recent example).  So I must give credit where credit is due.  CSI Miami this week started with a guy about to face the electric chair, when he’s given a short reprieve.  The CSIs have 24 hours to prove he did the crime.  Anybody who knows anything about Hollywood these days could have predicted what would happen next.

Sure enough other suspects emerge and it looks like the guy on death row will get off, an innocent man will be spared the horrors of that most horrible of of horribles, the death penalty.  But a funny thing happened on the way to the needle.  The man, a father convicted of killing his wife and daughter, turned out to be guilty.

In the final scene, as he is led off to die, he asks his only living child to forgive him.  His son’s response?  “You deserve it.”  Who ever heard of such heresy?  So give credit where credit is due.   Maybe there is hope for a little piece of Hollywood after all.