From: sdoshi@olaf.wellesley.edu (Sucheta Doshi)
Subject: GH: The Last Word (was Re: GH: Thursday Update 9/17/92)
Keywords: Holly v. Anna 
Organization: Wellesley College
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:30:07 GMT


O.K.  I know that Scott was hoping that his article would be the last one
on Holly, but since I started the whole discussion, I believe I should get
the last word on the subject.  Besides, I'm only defending my all time
favorite soap character and role model. (I'll try to keep this short).

In article <BvE3wM.9nB@encore.com> jpenovic@1.com writes:
>
>  EXCUSE ME!!!!!!  But wanting a man that doesn't want you is not
>  enough reason to do devious and underhanded things that could have
>  sent said man's current wife to the slammer.  If that's not a bitch,
>  I don't know what is.

	Look, I'm not saying that what Anna did fourteen years ago was 
right but that doesn't mean she wasn't justified.  And, um, excuse ME but
Robert DID love Anna, he just didn't know it until last year when they
got married again and he said, I quote, "I never stopped loving you..all
those years we were apart, not for one minute.  But I don't ever want us to
be apart again.  You and Robin are my life."
	Furthermore, even when he was leaving for Australia to be with
Holly back in 1985, at the airport during his goodbye scene with Anna..he
kissed her passionately on the lips.  Now if that doesn't show how much he 
loved Anna even while he was married to Holly, I don't know what does.

>  Didn't she betray the WSB?  Wasn't that a reoccurring theme over the
>  years?

	Yes, she betrayed the WSB..FOURTEEN YEARS AGO IN ORDER TO SAVE
ROBERT'S LIFE.  But it is NOT and I repeat NOT a recurring theme!!!!!!
Al  you viewers out there KNOW that Faison ruthlessly kidnapped Anna
back in January by knocking her out when she went to see the parents of the
kid who was beating up Robin at school.  Anna did NOT go willingly with Faison 
and I got SOOOO angry at the GH writers for the horrible way they started
trashing Anna's character while she was missing..but that's another story.
Anyway, my point is that the file Sean found on the Nanny Network rhymes that
listed Anna's double agent escapades was an old file of the things she had
done FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, not one that established her as a double agent now.
Faison was just up to his own little manipulative tricks again..that voice on
the tape recorder was most certainly fake and we all know that the letter that
was sent to Robin was forged.  All I can say is thank heaven Robert never
doubted Anna for a second!

>  So your saying that Holly should have stepped out of a marriage with
>  the man who she loved and who loved her so he could go into a
>  marriage with a woman he did not love (and was extremely pissed at)
	
See my first comments above..Robert DID love Anna then too.

>	 I also think Anna changed a lot over the years.
>  I like both characters (and actresses).  I think it's a shame that Holly 
>  didn't come back sooner.  I think there could have been some good 
>  story lines with Robert, Anna, and Holly.

	I agree here..Anna did change a lot over the years into a wonderful, 
strong, compassionate  and endearing character whom I modeled 
my clothing, hair style, and accent :-) after. *yes I have no life* 
 	However, the Holly, Robert, Anna storyline was done
 already back in 1985 and there is no point in rehashing 
it all over again.  So I'm with Jenn in that Holly should have
just gone on with her life and left Robert and Anna in peace by signing
the damn divorce. She should have stayed with Sleazy Simon back in San 
Sebastian.  Someday Anna and Robert will come back and it will be discovered
that the Duke who died on screen was not really Duke but a twin brother and
then the real Duke will come back and Robin can say : 
	
	Oh look, it's ALL MY PARENTS

-Sucheta
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