From: bdsm@fermat.WPI.EDU (Billy Don McConnell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: QL:  Evil Leaper Episode
Date: 11 Nov 1992 22:06:37 GMT
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In article <1992Nov11.183533.9793@midway.uchicago.edu>, cyk2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
(cassandra yuk ip kam) writes:
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|> BTW, what is the relationship between Alia and Zoey?
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I think it would have been interesting, if Alia was as Evil as she was supposed
to be, to have Zoey be a sort of goody-two-shoes...you know, like Al is the
antithesis of Sam in the morals department.

But perhaps because Zoey was so much like Al, maybe we can judge Alia a little
less harshly.  Maybe she ISN'T evil...maybe her plans aren't that bad.  Heck, Sam
slept with the reporter in 'The Leap Home II' and killed a guy in another
episode, and drove himself crazy with guilt denying blacks their voting rights in
yet another episode.  Sam does 'bad' things for good reasons.  Maybe Zoey was
alluding to this (not likely) when she mentioned getting the 'cushy jobs like
homewrecking and adultery' and Alia's nightmares.  Maybe Alia had done some
hideous things in her past leaps and was crazy with guilt about 'em, even though
they were 'for the good' (which I doubt).  Just an alternative theory on the
motivations of the Evil Leaper.
 
|> THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for bringing up Trudy again!  It was a nice touch
|> and put more emphasis on the importance of Sam's purpose for being there and
|> the leap's importance to Al.

Personally, I think the Trudy thing was a few seconds too long...We KNOW that she
caught pneumonia and was institutionalized and Al 'never saw her again'.  What I
disliked was that Al was going on about it like it was the first time we heard it.
I enjoyed the reminiscence, mind you, but they could have talked _around_ what we
knew...with a 'Gee, I miss her!' instead of a 'And I never saw her again.'

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|> BTW #2:  what happened to Connie in the Evil Waiting Room?  Was there a counter-
|> part to Beeks and Gooshie?  And how do they make sure that she "forgets" what
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I tend to think that, unlike down at the Good PQL Waiting Room where they try NOT
to let on what's happening, folks at the Evil PQL Waiting Room probably 'fill the
leapee's in' on what's going on...but not always truthfully.  For instance, they
probably told Connie that Jimmy DID try to rape her (body), so that once Connie
returned, she would still want Jimmy put away (if Alia didn't already kill him). 
It seems that while Gooshie and Verbena might just tell leapee's 'Trust
us...we're doing the right thing...that's how this works', Evil Gooshie and
Verbena would be telling stories right and left.
 
Come to think of it, I have a question of my own:  We might deduce that Alia
_was_ Connie for perhaps a couple of days, because of the reports of recent
firey arguments, but at least she was Connie from right before Frank and Sam came 
home for the first time, so Alia was in control when she and Sam discussed the
reading of the newspaper article.  Why the heck was she so eager to help Jimmy 
read? How could this possibly help her cause?  It would seem to me that she could
easily accomplish her goal by just being a 'bad mother and wife'...making TV
dinners all the time, ignoring her son, arguing with Frank.  Ignoring or
even abusing Jimmy would go right along with that...how could Frank stay with 
Connie if she didn't care about Jimmy?  If she outright _accused_ Jimmy of being 
too much to deal with, then Jimmy would be more likely to really blame himself 
and end up in the institution, as Ziggy reported.  But I guess it begs the 
question of her real mission:  get Jimmy put away or get Frank and Connie 
separated?  Perhaps complaining about Jimmy would be too 'iffy', since Frank 
would then get a 'choice' of fates...stay with Jimmy or stay with Connie.

Just a thought or two.

Don Mc Connell