Murray Head [Lab] (muzza@omen.net.au)
18 May 1998 19:14:00 0800
Kevin wrote:
> > On the down side, there is a really, REALLY lousy ending which I
> > passionately hate. Julie's character is very inconsistently
written--bright one minute, airhead the
> > next.
And Catherine added:
> From her character in Bad News, when she was really tough and managed to
> get Lynda to shut up and do something she did not want to, I thought
> "Yeah, here's the only character - apart from Spike - who can really
> control Lynda!" But then - and this culminated in her being prison riot
> pin-up girl in TAC - she became more of a man-eater as the show
> progressed.
Julie definitely changes a lot - even within shows. In TAC, we've got
her running off with footballers one minute, and taking a serious
objection to Lynda not involving her in the paper's troubles the next.
I think she's a lot more serious in series four (perhaps because of
the nature of her inclusion (as a replacement for Kenny)). In series
five she becomes a bit more of an amalgum of the original Julie and the
series four one.. and it doesn't work as well as it might have if her
return to the series had been on her own terms from the start... Mind
you, while agreeing that her nature changes to some extent, I don't
think the different sides to her characterare completely inconsistent by
any means, and I didn't have any problem with laughing at one side and
seeing her as a decent assistant editor as well. As for Lucy Benjamin,
I think she was great, and delivered lines from both sides of her
character flawlessly.
> This was kind of disappointing, because I think we'd come to
> expect more from Steven Moffat.
Actually, complaints about Julie (and indeed Lucy Benjamin) have flowed
about on the list before: Steven himself said, after reading some of
them "won't you guys ever stop picking on Lucy" or words to that effect
:)
> Well, I'm a little frazzled at the mo, so if my words are resembling
> something in a blender, please forgive me! I have a law assignment due on
> Friday, and that's sapped all my literary resources dry.
Nah!
I'm afraid I may be a little frazzled as well, statistics has a nasty
habit of stealing my soul away... :)
Murray
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