Murray Head (muzza@omen.net.au)
Sun, 17 May 1998 10:37:47 +0800
Kevin "That's desthpicable" Nauta wrote:
>Tiddler pointless and bland? Well who wouldn't be when you don't get any good
>lines to say for the final three years of the show!
That seems like a bit of a circular argument - I could say that Kevin (no,
not you Mr Nauta) was the wittiest character on the show, he just never got
to say any funny lines to prove it. :)
> I don't think Tiddler's
>character ever survived the transition from the first two seasons and never
>really developed her potential as a rival to Lynda as a result of the paper
>going commercial. The bad hair didn't help, either.
Bad hair? Can't say I ever really noticed it personally.
> Tiddler functions best as
>a reflection of our own desires to see Spike and Lynda succeed in their
>relationship, as well as having somebody in the newsroom who was still young
>enough to appreciate paperwads and pet bunnies.
Tiddler's role in reflecting our desires was definitely a big part of her
character - firstly by trying to set them up in "Money, Love And Birdseed",
and later, in "The Big Finish?", trying to get Lynda to give us the "happy
ending.. traditional in these situations".
>This is supposed to be a
>children's newspaper, although from the subjects they pursue most of the time,
>you'd never know it. I like her character myself, and feel it was
>underutilized.
I agree that there was potential to use Tiddler a lot more than actually
happened in the last three series, although to be fair, the shorter series'
meant that a lot of the more minor characters went to the wayside...
Actually, that's probably not so much due to the more pragmatic idea of
shorter series' as the fact that the paper moved away from the school.
Tiddler showed up a few times, but Sophie and Laura were never seen again.
>Kevin, sticking up for the underdog as any good member of the Sophie Newton Fan
>Club would.
As the other fully paid-up member of the club, let me say "Aroooooo" for the
underdog :)
Murray
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