From: larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.bh90210
Subject: Re: How do we redeem Shannon?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:31:21 GMT
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Ginamaria Klein (gklein@acsu.buffalo.edu) wrote:
> larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) writes:

> > For whatever reasons, the power brokers at 90210 decided at some point
> > this year to make us love to hate Brenda Walsh.  So we do.  The
> > geniuses of yellow journalism know that most viewers don't distinguish
> > between the characters on a TV show and the actors that portray them -
> > hence a perfect opportunity to smear Shannen Doherty.  So they
> > capitalized.  That's America.

>  thats damn well not the america i live in

Oh really?  Well then your must live in that BH90210 fantasy America
where people actually care about each other, don't judge people based
on hearsay and innuendo, and try to have a standard of behavior that
might actually conform that awful Judeo-Christian (ooh - I shudder to
even type the word) code of ethics.  But we all know that's not
realistic.


>  how the hell have the `power brokers' decided to make us hate brenda
>  walsh? ive heard a ton of stuff on this group about her being such a
>  bitch, but compared with who?

I don't think it's necessarily with respect to the other people on the
show.  They have her treating her friends and relatives disrespectfully,
cheating on her boyfriend, smoking, and dressing and wearing makeup like
a bimbo.


>               kelly who in a self centered ego boost somehow goes from
>  school slut to girl who cant get laid except by her best friends
>  boyfriend?

This is a little off the topic, but my impression of Kelly is that she
compromised herself a small number of times (maybe only once) to gain
social status, and she realized that what she was doing was wrong, and
she stopped doing it.

It's also my impression that it is because she is the school slut that
she is only approached by the kind of guys that are interested in sluts,
and she doesn't want anything to do with them.  The respectable guys
are apprehensive because of her reputation, and also intimidated by
her status as beauty queen.


>              donna is sweet, but damn well annoying most of the
>  time--- the girl seems to be growing up though--- perhaps shes
>  realizing what a bunch of dorks she is hanging with?

I think Steve is the only dork.



>im sorry, but what did brenda ever do to derserve not only a prick of a
>boyfriend like im-so-hot-and-moody-and-the-girls-all-love-me-dylan and
>a best friend like kelly

I think Brenda and Dylan met and fell in love.  Brenda took a lot of
heat for having him as a boyfriend, but she thought it was worth it.

Kelly never did anything to hurt Brenda, but she did compromise her
integrity some, but then again she tried to be a good friend to Brenda,
and she apologized for what she did do.  I would trust Kelly as much as
I would trust anyone.


>                                         ok, sure, pull up that fling
>in france and say look, she is just as bad.

Well there's an aphorism that says "two wrongs don't make a right,"
but I think that one came before Affirmative Action.  Maybe now
two wrongs do make a right - I'm not sure.


>                                   what brenda did in france is far
>from good, but hell, its alot better than what dylan did.

Dylan, now that's a different story.


Larry