Sorry about that. Your much beloved (by himself, at any rate)
correspondent took a rather nasty fall on an icy church parking lot this
morning, and is home recouperating with a bad back and a sore head.
Which means I can plead diminished capacity if I write anything too
weird. I see the PGML is humming with activity, and thought I'd respond
to some of your thoughts....
Jonathan Ricks....loved your input! It should be noted that you're a
much bigger fan of the later incarnation of Colin Matthews than I am, and
where you don't like him in SOMETHING TERRIBLE, I do. That all comes
down to personal taste. I'm curious what you think of IN THE PICTURE--I
do like him in that, but others on the list don't. I can understand why
you don't like FRIENDLY FIRE and THERE ARE CROCODILES, but then again,
that's a taste thing. I also gather that I like Sarah's character a lot
more than you do.
Zoe Knights....YESTERDAY'S NEWS has a lot going for it when you look at
how Spike and Lynda interact, and it would have been better to
concentrate on those two characters and leave the silly sidebars like the
daycare from hell and the three N.V. Gillespies out of it. I think it is
a bit interesting to compare Lynda's attitude towards journalistic
integrity in this story and her later speech to Winters in HEAD AND
HEART, though.
Natacha....MONEY, LOVE, AND BIRDSEED gets low marks from me because I
don't buy Billy Homer as Sherlock Holmes, and I don't think you run a
newsroom with pigeons in it and pretend it is normal. Lynda's attitude
towards the Gazette is too businesslike to allow this. While it is
underemphasized and rather quietly played, I liked the subplot with
Tiddler trying to fix up Spike & Lynda: that's definately in character,
and works. And then there are the famous dream sequences that are among
the best in PG! Even bad stories have their moments, and a bad PG
episode is often better than good stories other series put out.
Kevin, who knows how Charlie Brown feels after Lucy moves the football
away
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