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brightknightie) wrote2021-05-08 11:36 am
brightknightie) wrote2021-05-08 11:36 am
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Tracy's bicycle
Did you remember that Tracy has a bicycle? It's against the white wall perpendicular to her front door in her brightly-lit apartment entryway, where some folks might put a coat rack, shoe rack, umbrella stand, small table to drop keys on, or the like.
(I had occasion to rewatch "Avenging Angel." That prop leaped out at me as if I'd never seen it before.)
Off the top of my head, I don't recall any stories ever mentioning Tracy as a bicyclist, neither as a sport, a hobby, nor just an occasional way of getting around. It could be something she used to do but doesn't anymore for some reason. Or it could be something she still does all the time off-screen.
This of course brings to mind Nick's never-used-on-screen motorcycle, and Vachon's rarely-used-on-screen motorcycle. Maybe the show couldn't afford the insurance for bicycle riding, either. But such a reference for the character could have been an excellent thing, to round her out more. We got precious few canonical indications of how she spent her time outside work, or whether she put anything aside when she became a homicide detective and gained that wrinkle in her reality.
(I had occasion to rewatch "Avenging Angel." That prop leaped out at me as if I'd never seen it before.)
Off the top of my head, I don't recall any stories ever mentioning Tracy as a bicyclist, neither as a sport, a hobby, nor just an occasional way of getting around. It could be something she used to do but doesn't anymore for some reason. Or it could be something she still does all the time off-screen.
This of course brings to mind Nick's never-used-on-screen motorcycle, and Vachon's rarely-used-on-screen motorcycle. Maybe the show couldn't afford the insurance for bicycle riding, either. But such a reference for the character could have been an excellent thing, to round her out more. We got precious few canonical indications of how she spent her time outside work, or whether she put anything aside when she became a homicide detective and gained that wrinkle in her reality.
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The fact that she doesn't use it on-screen may be related to working the nightshift. We hardly get to see what she does during the day when she's not working. Also as Greer pointed out, I think riding a bike in downtown Toronto was not as popular in the 90s as it is today where many bike lanes have appeared and rental bike stations have popped up in many places.
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I just think that it would have been nice if we knew a little more about what Tracy enjoys, other than The Jerry Show and satellite television, and bicycling could have been it. She could have mentioning bicycling in dialogue, either in reference to herself, or in knowing something about a case because she knows about bicycling, even...
Just a thought.