Denny Crane

The season premiere of "Boston Legal" was a big disappointment. They sued a tobacco company again, and won again. I'm sick of watching stories about people who can't control themselves, and want to blame others for their problems. This show is overblown comic fiction, of course, but it was loaded with quasi-serious crap about how evil it is to fool people. Only an oblivious idiot doesn't suspect that tobacco presents a health danger, and all one has to do is show some guts, and stop smoking, or accept the risk.

Denny's protestation of having Alzheimers of the penis was cruder than usual, but Ally Walker has aged gloriously, and I'd welcome seeing her again. . . if I decide to watch this year. The scripts are going to have to be better than the derivative stuff they presented last night, though.