From: keb3@po.CWRU.Edu (Keith E. Bitely)
Subject: Re: GL: Mindy the super Cracker/Lock-picker
Reply-To: keb3@po.CWRU.Edu (Keith E. Bitely)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 23:57:39 GMT


Hi y'all.  I've been really busy, so if I'm kind of behind, bear with me.  
Just don't bare my behind.  :)

In a previous article, TANTS@DTPVX2.NCIFCRF.GOV ("Tants, Rebecca E.") says:
(in response to me)

>You're being much too nice to Alex.  Alex wants to OWN Nick.  To her, the
>fact that Kip and Mary raised Nick is irrelevent.  He's her son and should
>forget all about that.

I can agree with you there.  Although, I think there is an even deeper 
agenda with her that was brought out in yesterday's episode (Thursday 4/9).
Alex was walking around her living room (or some kind of room, it's such 
a big house---well, it looked like a living room--perhaps a den.)  And,
she started talking about her father who always used to tell her that she
wasn't business-like enough.  She then went on to say, "Well, I own the
company now, dad!"  Or, something like that.  Then, she was saying how she
and her progeny were going to run the company.  She wants Nick to take over
the company.  So, this is true, she does want to control Nick, and she
wants to out of her own pride of herself and her direct blood-line and out
of her contempt for Alan (I believe).  This contempt stems from sibling 
rivalry.  So, Alex doesn't want Alan's children (namely Alan-Michael) to get
control of Spaulding.  She's doing this out of spite for the most part.
This also helps to explain why she's always so down and unfair to Alan-Michael
at times.  It explains why she favors Vanessa over Alan-Michael.  I don't
like Alan-Michael a whole heck of a lot.  But, I feel sorry for him because
he is being forced to work his butt off because of Alexandra's own feelings
of inadequacy and spite.

>I'm adopted.  and people ask me a lot about my natural parents.  i don't
>know them and don't really care to.  My parents are the people who raised
>me, regardless of whose genetic imprint I received.  Now, if NICK and Mindy
>could get a grip on that, there wouldn't be half as much trouble here.  then
>again, it wouldn't be a soap...

I agree with you here.  What matters is the people who have taken care of
you and loved you (or Nick).  And, I also agree that Nick and Mindy should
get a grip on this fact.  Despite this, I also think that it is quite 
possible for Nick to continue to love Kip and Mary as much as he always has,
and, at the same time, open up and let Alex in.  I don't think love is a 
finite thing.  I think Nick could learn to love all of his parents, be they
biological or the one's that raised him.  Now, of course, I can understand
why maybe he might not like Alex as a person, and if he just doesn't like her,
then he doesn't like her.  BUT, the reason he doesn't like her is because
she is claiming to be his mother and pulling all of these antics, not because
he dislikes her as a person.  I can't help but think that if Nick knew he
was adopted, he might want to know Alex, and he might open up the 
possibilities (after some initial anger perhaps), and the storyline could
have worked out quite differently.  For, if Nick knew he had another mother,
after he heard what Eric did, he could hate Eric, but he'd have no reason
to hate Alexandra, because what happened wasn't her fault.

>please.  This is hard for nick because, if Alex and Eric are his parents
>that invalidates everything he believes about his parents.  I mean, i know
>i was adopted.  Nick doesn't.  there's a lie there.  He all but worships
>his parents, so he's not going to accept this easily.

You have a point there.  It's true, it would appear that everything were a 
lie.  And, it probably will be quite hard for him to handle.  But, as you 
say, it will come out eventually, and I think he will eventually get through
it, and still be able to love Kip and Mary like before, even though it may
be with a new perspective.  Because, the fact of the matter is, Kip and Mary
were obviously good parents, wonderful parents, in Nick's eyes.  The only
thing that they did "wrong" was not telling him he was adopted.  It certainly
doesn't change the way Kip and Mary raised and loved Nick.  And, I think 
eventually, Nick will be able to come to terms with that, albeit possibly
two years from now.  :)

>and it WILL come out eventually...and he'll be even madder at Mindy for
>keeping it from him (great way to break them up when the time comes...)

This is true.  I'm really wondering how this storyline will turn out.  Ack,
it's been going on forever.  But, that's not unusual in the land of soaps
I suppose.  I mean, look at how many times Hart has almost found out about the
farm, but it's been interrupted.  I can't WAIT to see how he reacts to THAT.

Keithy
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