John Hunt (jhunt@senet.com.au)
Mon, 26 Jan 1998 19:49:28 +1030
Hello to everyone on the list. I hope that you all had a good christmas and
new year. Also hope that everybody who has had holidays enjoyed them, not
too much mind you if you are going to be on holidays longer than me (I am
going back to school tomorrow! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah). I still have to catch up
on a lot of the mail that has been sent to the list while I have been away
(I didn't realise just how much mail gets sent to the list in just a few weeks)
Anyway back to the point. I was just thinking a while ago about how good it
is that when an actor leaves the show the isn't replaced by someone else
trying to play the same character but by a similar but not identical
character as was the case with Julie being replaced with Sam (and Sam being
replaced with Julie) and Danny being replaced with Kevin. I think that this
is good as the newsroom atmosphere and all the relationships stay the same.
For example Sam had a similar relationship with Lynda as Julie did. Anyway I
was thinking how dissapointing it was that when Kenny left, there was no one
to really be our all around nice guy. Mind you someone else joining the
newsteam with Kenny's patience, niceness and pleasent way of dealing with
Lynda would have been pretty unrealistic. Also it seems that Lee Ross left
very suddenly, as far as I can remember it never actually was said why he
had gone. I wish some reference about him going to live in Dublin with a new
girlfriend had been added in but I suppose some things are too good to be true.
When Kenny left Sarah began to become Lynda's bestfriend more than she had
before but I think Kenny's job was mainly taken over by Frazz. I know this
sounds funny but Frazz did seem to become less dumb in the later episodes.
As I watched the later episodes first, I didn't even realise that Frazz was
supposed to be dumb until I saw the first episodes. This probably was point
about Sulliven and Kerr's recruitment plan working. If you still are
unconvinced about Frazz just watch "Head and Heart". Frazz is giving Colin
sensible advice (although still remaining slightly bored he manages to
realise what a fool Colin is being) whereas before, in episodes such as
"Interface" he just goes along with anyting that Colin does. He even takes
the "let's be nice" stance (along with Spike) on the Mr Winters issue. And
thus he begins to fill the gap that Kenny left.
And so ladies and gentlemen in conclusion (sorry it is just that I haven't
had a debating fix for a while) I would like to say that as there were no
direct character substitutions when Kenny left, his place was filled by an
intelectually improved Frazz (with some help from Sarah)
Please tell me what you think about this
Emily Hunt
By the way Kevin, I like the satirical approach to "Day Dreams"
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