From: sdoshi@olaf.wellesley.edu (Sucheta Doshi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: GH: Thursday Update 9/17/92
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:45:36 GMT
Organization: Wellesley College

In article <1992Sep29.170932.26555@cis.ohio-state.edu> cantor@triton.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor) writes:
>>>	Defending my favorite character....(where did that other guy who
>>>					      likes Emma Samms go?)
>>
>>   well i'm not a guy but i like emma samms too... as a matter of
>>   fact when i was pregnant some 9 years ago i became infatuated
>>   with the name holly and i named my daughter holly when she was
>>   born.  by the way when holly came back on the show this time 
>>   *my* holly was thrilled that GH's holly was so cute :-)

No comment on that other than when I get married, MY daughter will be named
ANNA.

>>sue

>	It's amazing to me that such a popular character (and whether any of
>the rest of you admit or not, she is popular because the ratings shot way up
>when she came back, and Finola Hughes had already left by then) has so many
>detractors.
>

This is totally untrue and you know it Mr. Holly-lover.   GH was third during
the last few weeks of December while Finola was still on the show and continued
to be third while the character of Anna was still on the show.  The only
reason it remained third when Anna left and Holly came back on is because
viewers still believed that Robert would find Anna and that Finola would come
back after a six-week leave of absence.  The day after the Robert and Anna
funeral episode, ratings fell incredibly.  GH hovers between sixth and seventh
place now and has ever since the Robert/Anna story ended.  Holly did not make
the ratings leap up and nor has her presence kept GH third..rather it has 
brought the ratings down.

>	Whether you like it or not, Anna's character was introduced well after
>Holly, so in my mind, she'll always be the outsider in Robert's life, history
>notwithstanding.                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	
NEVER IN A BILLION YEARS!!!!  Anna is and always will be Robert's true love, 
even the head honchos at GH have admitted that.  Holly is the outsider even if
she was introduced first..the storyline pogression changed that.  Now it's
Anna who came first.  Besides, did you ever stop to consider that the reason
why Holly skipped out on Robert and pretended to be dead was because he was 
always trying to protect Anna on way or the other.  That in itself proves who
came first in Robert's heart.  So there.
  
>	I may be a minority on the net, but I think it's the other way around
>in the general population.
>
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>	|	Shine on.........				|
>	|			Scott <Crazy Diamond> Cantor	|
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I think not.  Have you seen any of the letters printed in various soap 
magazines over the summer and last spring when Holly first came back.
A majority of GH fans feel that Holly is "selfish, self-absorbed and did 
Robert a favor by playing dead."  So a few may say they like Holly, big
deal, most do not as the ratings show.

-Sucheta
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