To: halcyon!spea
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Subject: Re: NE: Favorite bits of 5/6 NORTHERN EXPOSURE (Spoiler)
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In article <X2BP21w1...@halcyon.uucp> you write:
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...@brahms.udel.edu (Jon Conrad) writes:
>> The spoiler is going to come further up in this response than in Jeff's
>> original post, so you are hereby warned:
FIRST - Notice a (properly-done, anyway) "^L" will NOT work as a page-
break if it has been "quoted" (via the ">" or whatever... (Pet-peeve #1))
>> In article <1991May8.010445.1...@tc.fluke.COM> moria...@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Me
>> >Summary: Not one of my favorite episodes,
>> It WAS one of mine; in fact I like each episode better than the one
>> before. But I agree about one irritating point.
>> >... Chris' speech to Ed in the end, in response to the radio
>> >stealing; mainly that I was thinking "bullshit bullshit bullshit bullshit"
>> >as he yacked on about showing people that chaos was Just Around The Corner
>> >by stealing appliances and stereo goods.
>> YES! All during that scene I was thinking "Sheesh, they were this close
>> to perfection in this hour, and then they blew it with this stupid,
>> pseudo-philosophical, and offensive speech." Granted that he was
>> choosing his victims and his items carefully, still he was stealing what
>> belonged to other people and coming up with bogus justifications for it
>> (and Ed bought it!!).
>> But then, almost every episode has one subplot whose basic premise
>> annoys me (last week it was Maurice's thing with Elizabeth Huddle
>> cheating on her husband). Since there are usually 5 or 6 subplots, I
>> can let it go. Maybe someday I will even get past my dislike of the
>> Holling/Shelley scenario. (Why do so many tv series feature very young,
>> attractive women madly in love with very mature men? Hint: most
>> scriptwriters and series creators are middle-aged men.)
>> I still adore Northern Exposure.
>> >*And*, I liked the ending, as usual.
>> Yes. Quite wonderful. Also, this week another character joined the
>> ranks of those I'm ridiculously fond of. Joel, Ed, Marilyn, Chris, and
>> Maggie (roughly in that order) all joined the list. This week it was
>> Ruth-Anne. The only reason I wasn't having hysterical laughter on the
>> floor during her scene was that I didn't want to miss a single line or
>> inflection. "You ARE getting this for onanistic purposes, aren't you,
>> Dr. Fleischman? Autoeroticism? I have something better than that for
>> the purpose." Priceless!
>> Jon Alan Conrad
> Then you must have caught the names of the videos Maggie brought
>back didn't you. "Beefcake Bingo" . . . Plus Ruth Anne had a shirt
>that said . . . "I love Bingo!"
> I love this show!
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PET PEEVES #2-#77:
I don't mean to be rude about this, but...could you *please* NOT "quote"
the whole article you are going to respond to if all you're gonna do is
add a one-liner or two-liner about it?! (Yeah, I DID do it for this reply,
but only to show you the ratio factor... Those of us who are interested
in the Subject, but have to deal with 1200/2400 baud modems (I read this
stuff from home -- I don't have time at work...!) have to wait/wade through
lots of stuff (SLOW!), and a one-liner "Me-Too!" type response is *really*
aggravating!)
Thanks-
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