Kevin Nauta (prydonia@accn.org)
Thu, 07 May 1998 16:17:54 -0400
E.... C.... wrote:
> Hello all-
> I was watching The Last Word the other day, and it suddenly came upon me, that
> besides Kenny, whenever they get rid of a character (or pet, you know what
> I mean) they always kill them off. Dennis Cooper, that spoiled rich kid (can't
> remember the name) the drugee, the goldfish, Virginia Hume, all of those
> people in "The Rest of My Life" (not the least of which is Mary Bryant),
> Kenny's aunt (teehee), the list I think might stop there, but I'm not sure.
> I just thought it strange that a children's show could deal with death so
> many times over, without it having much of an impact on the day-to-day world
> of the paper (exception Spoiled Rich Kid). I'd be happy to hear any comments
> or whatnot!!!
> --Eavan
Attilla the Mailman responds:
What a wild overgeneralization....among the characters who were written out but NOT
killed off would be Sam, Sophie and Laura, Sullivan and Winters, Julie Craig,
Lynda's mother, Chrissie Stuart, etc. etc.
As for the deaths Eavan mentioned not affecting the paper, Mary Brien's death in
THE REST OF MY LIFE certainly affected Spike and arguably led him to return to
America when Lynda wouldn't commit to him. It is never explicitly stated that
Virginia Hume died--only that she was very ill. Tiddler never gets another chance
to have the lead story on the paper after the Hume piece, as far as we're able to
see.
Kevin
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