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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 263065" data-attributes="member: 23">Escape To Love / Max<img src="http://www.televisionofyore.com/uploads/9/3/0/3/9303799/season3-episode9-inside_1_orig.jpeg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Young men making life tricky for all the wrong reasons are the order of the day in these episodes. In Escape To Love, Jaime is forced to call off a date with Raymond - one of her many boyfriends - in order to pursue Sandor Kelso who has been abducted by none other than Andrew Laird. Max’s twink is Bobby who is minding Max with his aunt Valerie who happens to be a scientist with the O.S.I. Both young men are shown to frustrate and escalate key situations. Sandor is escaping across the German border with his father (yes - it’s another Iron Curtain episode) when Peter Richman and his troops appear with guns. While everyone else runs, Sandor freezes and makes Zoolander faces. His father Arlo calls him repeatedly, but Sandor stands still and continues pouting until his father is forced to return to him, getting shot and taken in the process. Meanwhile, Bobby takes Max out for a walk around their suburban neighbourhood(!) His aunt instructs him there’s to be no running or jumping, and we pretty much cut to Bobby and Max running along the street. When Max is dognapped, Bobby is easily duped, having a long conversation with the phony dog warden while Max is out of sight. It takes him several minutes to even notice Max is missing. Sandor is evidently suffering some kind of stress trauma from the situation, though I’m unclear if he also has some other kind of low level special need which seems to be implied at times. Bobby’s behaviour is more cut and dried. He’s a teenager who can’t resist having fun with a bionic dog. One does have to question the wisdom of Max living in a built-up neighbourhood with a woman and her young nephew without any kind of provision for his needs. It’s a far cry from the dog Rudy was afraid to let out of his cage out of fear he’d cause destruction. What happened to Max staying with Roger Grette the forest ranger so that he could roam and let off steam unseen? Max (the episode) is notable for being an episode in which Jaime hardly appears. In fact it feels very much like a backdoor pilot for a Bionic Dog series. We meet Max and his guardians. Max has an adventure in which he saves the day with the help of Val and Bobby. He chews through bonds, chain linked gates and even guns and barks out orders to follow him. Lassie may spring to mind for some, but with Max being a German Shepherd and apparently having different guardians every time we see him, the entire episode felt very much like The Littlest Hobo - a series that would be revived to great popularity two years after this episode. Proving that there may indeed have been a market for a Max spinoff. And while that’s a mildly interesting idea, I can’t say I’ll be losing sleep that Max never got his own series. continued...</blockquote>

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