Greetings all.
Once upon a time, there was a line of thought going here where some of
you offered your ideas on what the future would be of various PG
characters. It was a while ago, but that might be where yours truly got
himself noticed (and in some cases, banished to the doghouse) on the
mailing list by putting up the idea that Spike and Sarah, um, well, you
know.....never mind. Anyway, I've had occasion to give the matter some
thought again while working on my writings, and I'll throw a few ideas
at you on what my take on Season 6 would be like.
1. Whither the Junior Gazette? Lynda Day has big plans for reviving
the Gazette in the wake of the "Crocodile" fire, but my thought is this
is very premature. Bobby Campbell can't like the idea of the Junior
Gazette making a habit out of missing sales quotas, and with the paper
temporarily out of action, this might be an opening for him to either
kill the paper outright, or downsize it into a feature for the parent
paper and perhaps allow Kerr and Sullivan to reclaim what Lynda stole
out from underneath them.
2. New career opportunities? Bobby Campbell is also a guy who knows
what sells in the marketplace. What sells the Junior Gazette in his
mind more than anything else? Answer: Spike and Lynda. If Campbell
is a media magnate with his fingers in many pies--television,
maybe?--might he decide the real future in the Junior Gazette is the
love-hate relationship Spike and Lynda share and try to use that in a
capacity that would be more useful to him? Would Spike and/or Lynda
be willing to make the jump outside of the print media and become media
celebrities? Or might Lynda and Spike decide to go into a political
campaign on separate sides of an issue?
3. What would happen if Colin hadn't paid the insurance bill? Just a
thought....
4. Spike and Lynda. They are back together again, but how closely and
for how long? Has Lynda's brush with death cured her of her guilt over
David's death? Is Lynda ready to commit to Spike? And what is
Katherine Hill going to do about her failure to break them up?
Katherine will become more serious about causing trouble the more
serious the relationship becomes. Oh yes, at some point in the "sixth"
season, one of the two will propose to the other. Then the fun really
begins....
And finally 5. The rest of the cast. You can bet Frazz will figure
in as one who will try and break up Spike and Lynda, possibly in cahoots
with Katherine, though I think not. Colin would love a chance to get
into show business (Where you can actually see him as being almost
plausible.) and would love to wangle himself in as an agent for Spike
and Lynda. Julie doesn't figure highly in my view of the future.
Tiddler might, if Kerr ever decides to try and put the Junior back in
Junior Gazette. And then there's Sarah. Sarah's not around much and
ordinarily wouldn't figure in anything going on in a "sixth season"
Junior Gazette if it survived, but her continuing friendship with Spike
could always prove an irritant to the always suspicious Lynda Day. I
don't see Sarah and Lynda as close, though Sarah will try to repair the
breach.
Anyway, that's my thoughts for the evening. Or some of them, since I've
been kicking some stuff around with Murray, Natacha, and Karen in the
background that may come out in some form someday. Then you really will
see what a disturbed creature I am!
Kevin (Who decided not to write about Spike and Peri meeting up
anywhere. Sorry, Murray.)
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