Quoting The Sisters

Posted on March 12, 2003 @ 10:20 in General

Last night I saw the second episode of a new tv series, John Doe. It's set in Seattle (which is nice, because I'm going there for a conference in May) and it's about a guy who's lost his memory, but happens to have a huge amount of information stored in his head (like the complete White Pages, exhaustive knowledge of chemistry and chemical compounds, expertise on quantum mechanics, and more) and he's sort of helping a police detective to solve crime mysteries. So far so good.

In this episode however, there's a typically rebellious teenage girl, who doesn't really look gothic, but somehow the script writers make a point of calling this troubled girl a goth. Near the end of the episode, when the crime is pretty much solved, John and the 'goth' girl sit on a bench and she sighs, "Won't somebody help me chase these shadows away?" John replies, "Take me through the darkness to the break of the day. Sisters of Mercy, Man After Midnight."

Heh... so now tv series try to build some cred by quoting The Sisters? And are they really quoting them? These lines come from the song Gimme, Gimme, Gimme by ABBA. The Sisters have indeed covered this song during live concerts, but as far as I know, it has never been officially released by them.

As for John Doe... either he doesn't quite know everything as he claims he does, or the script writers didn't think quoting ABBA was a very gothic thing to do for a not very gothic looking goth girl. Hmpf!

Well, let's see if The Sisters are going to play Gimme, Gimme, Gimme on their March 30 concert in Amsterdam. Yes! I'm going to their concert. I think it's the first time in a decade they play in the Netherlands, or at least in Amsterdam and I'm very excited about seeing them play live again.

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  1. "As for John Doe... either he doesn't quite know everything as he claims he does, or the script writers didn't think quoting ABBA was a very gothic thing to do for a not very gothic looking goth girl. Hmpf!"

    I was surprised as well, knowing this song as a bootleg only, but I have to say, if this was intended, then it's pretty cool, because it's a pretty obscure cover by the Sisters... Which would make for some really nitpicky knowledge by Doeboy... :)

    grtz,
    Scarum

    ps: I'm posting this just now, because only seconds ago, I, for the first time saw this episode and did a google search on the quote in question... Your site was the only one that popped up...

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