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Renewed for Full Season (11/8/98)
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Okay, now that the "Homer gets a brain transplant" Pentium II commercial was revealed to be less than thrilling and the X-Files season premiere left us feeling slightly hollow (there's an unintentional veiled reference there if you think about it), we're anxious to get back to the slings and arrows of "Redmond Justice." For our money, there just isn't much else on the tube with the same level of high drama and low humor. With any luck, we'll be following the foibles and exploits of Microsoft and the Justice Department for a good long time-- and the way things are going, it looks like we're going to get our wish.
Thomas Penfield Jackson, the director of the show (who also has been charming viewers with his on-screen portrayal of an impatient and sometimes-crotchety federal judge), envisioned the whole trial taking only six to eight weeks-- more of an extended miniseries than a full-fledged television season. However, things have rapidly gotten out of hand, and this trial has taken on a life of its own. We're now three weeks into the new fall season, and only three of the scheduled twenty-four witnesses have testified on the stand, according to the Knight Ridder News Service. If the show keeps plodding along at this rate, we'll all still be enjoying "Redmond Justice" until well into April of 1999, although most legal observers are stating that a February end is more likely.
Granted, the interests of justice would likely best be served by a speedy trial; after all, many of the issues at hand directly affect Windows 98, and one of Judge Jackson's goals was to get this all over with before so many copies of Windows 98 shipped out the door that enforcing any kind of decision would become impracticible. But given the unlikelihood that justice's best interests will ever be served in this matter, we're hoping that entertainment's best interests will be served instead. After all, sometimes good TV is really hard to find.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/8/98 episode: November 8, 1998: Best Buy was expected to leap into the iMac fray this weekend, but its participation is half-assed at best. Meanwhile, Apple continues to use the "G3" name, despite the fact that the trademark belongs to another, and "Redmond Justice" is expected to run for a whole season, despite the judge's wishes...
Other scenes from that episode: 1132: Best Buy, Worst Attitude (11/8/98) Some things never change-- or, at least, they change too slowly to notice. Take Apple's presence in the retail market, for example. Just over a year ago, conditions were atrocious: show-floor Macs were off, crashed, crowded by Wintels, and actively ignored by salespeople... 1133: The Good Ones Are Taken (11/8/98) Microsoft's not the only high-tech company that has to deal with trademark ickiness, though their extended court battle for the right to wrest the "Internet Explorer" trademark away from a bankrupt ISP in Illinois will go down in history as one of the more expensive, ugly, and embarassing examples...
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