Murray Head (muzza@omen.net.au)
Sat, 31 Jan 1998 14:47:04 +0800
Zoe wrote:
>> emily's letter about sarah taking over from kenny as lynda's best friend
>> reminded me of something which has bothered me ever since i first saw
>> "windfall". julie is on the phone to lynda complaining about her
>> boyfriend and pouring her heart out to lynda and lynda pretends she went
>> out with him and some reference is made to lynda and julie being (best?)
>> friends. this is inconsistent with earlier episodes where lynda and
>> julie really didn't like each other much at all. was this antagonism
>> actually resolved at any stage, or is this an inconsistancy?
Well, first things first - you're right about the line in "Windfall". Lynda
is trying to talk Julie into dumping her boyfriend prior to the date with
Colin - Lynda claims that the boyfriend asks everyone out behind Julie's
back, and has ever asked her (L.) out:
Julie: Why are you telling me this?
Lynda: Because I'm your friend...
(Later)
L: I want you to know what sort of guy he is... the kind of guy who asks out
yur best friend.
Now, Kevin replied:
>I doubt very much if you could ever call Julie and Lynda best friends,
>although Steven Moffat may have meant it in a general way here.
Well, this _is_ after Sarah has left, and I'm sure many of us have a few
people who they'd call their "best friend" (one who's there with you, and
maybe a few who live elsewhere). I take it Spike would be excluded from
this category.
> Remember that
>Lynda didn't trust Julie enough to tell her what was going on behind the
>scenes in THERE ARE CROCODILES.
Not that this is any great gauge, but she didn't tell Fraz either (maybe
I'll say a bit more about this in a few post's time).
At the time when Julie (and Fraz) find out about the magazine, Julie does say:
Julie: Couldn't you at least have told _me_
(and later)
You'd have told Kenny!
Which, while at least in part a reference to the editors position, I think
also says a bit about where Julie sees the relationship - if she and Lynda
weren't good friends (knowing Lynda as she did), Julie would never have
expected to be let into the sort of secrets Lynda told Kenny.
> Like most relationships of Lynda's, it is
>strictly love-hate on both sides, although the breeziness they share in PHOTO
>FINISH may indicate they are closer than we might give them credit for.
Absolutely. I think that even as far back as "Bad News", when Lynda offers
Julie a job, there was a sense of shared understanding which paved the way
for a friendship to build up.
Murray
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