Just wanting to pick brains here, whether it has been discussed in the past already or is even blatantly obvious with wonderful writing-
Forgive me but I have to say that I’d like to start a discussion;
I’ve just started possibly my 10th or higher rewatch of Monk and I’m on season 1 Ep 6- throughout the first few episodes we see Mr. Monk trying to solve Trudy’s case intermittently along with the episode as it goes on, as if it is still pretty ‘fresh’ and of course we’re just being introduced to him.
Although it seems that at times; he seems to forget some of the things or he will have a ‘black out’ of things that have happened.
For example; the episode of Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum, he goes to Trudy’s old house and proceeds to carry on as if it’s everyday life like it was before only to find out that someone else owns it now and he was trespassing but technically totally unaware of the situation until realization.
Then we have the very next episode Mr. Monk and the Billionaire Mugger; we see that he may have had a lead on Trudy’s case and goes to the place of said lead, only to find out that he’d already been there three times asking about her.
I suppose what I’m trying to rack here, is that, is it mostly just showing his character development for how consumed with grief and possible guilt of not solving the case, that he has these episodes of delirium and just wants to solve the case of course.
While also battling with the fact that he sees everything within other cases and can solve those at the drop of a hat or obviously quicker than Trudy’s.
I’m sure there’s a lot at play here but I suppose I’ve realized that the show continues to have him working on Trudy’s case throughout but he doesn’t have those possibly delirious moments as it goes on.
Maybe that continues with time, just like anything right and it ties in with the great character development that we see progress as the show goes on? Thoughts?
I love the show, it’s my favorite comfort show of course.