From: v101pyrw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Michelle L. Zafron)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: GL: Mindy the super Cracker/Lock-picker
Date: 11 Apr 92 20:43:00 GMT
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In article <1992Apr10.235739.9585@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, keb3@po.CWRU.Edu (Keith E. Bitely) writes... 
>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!"

I thought that whole scene (incredible BTW, the Emmy people should MAKE her
accept the Best Actress award. Hell, they shouldn't even bother nominating
any other actresses,) went to show just how hollow and miserable her life had 
been and what a big part her family had contributed to that.

>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.

I'd venture to say that Spaulding is all Alexandra really has to offer Nick.
Life and some disastrous decisions have turned her into an empty, desperate, 
bitter woman, and she KNOWS that.  And being a Spaulding, she probably can't
understand why Nick wouldn't be interested some day in the company.

>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.

The only time we see AM showing concern for his aunt is when he wants something.
Period.  End of story.  Every single time he shows up, or offers to help, or
visits, he's got a hidden agenda.  He wants the presidency; he wants her to 
throw a party for Eleni; he wants to keep Nick out of her will; he wants to move
in with her.  

Come to think of it, Alex doesn't have ANYBODY.  Lillian is supposedly her 
friend, but I haven't seen her being very supportive.  Fletcher dropped Alex 
like a hot potato (I can understand his frustration with her, but this woman
NEEDS somebody).  Henry's not around much anymore.  

Of course we can say that Alex's loneliness is her fault.  Why doesn't SHE try?
Well, everytime she trusts somebody she gets burned.  This isn't new.  Eric's 
original betrayal probably warped her for life.  Her working with Phillip to
oust Alan, cost her H.B.  Roger betrayed her trust in a big way (understatement
of the year).  She was friendly to Mimbo, and where did that get her.  Mimbo
slept with her husband, in her bed, and didn't have the grace or the decency to
at least be sorry for hurting Alexandra.

As for Alex wanting to invalidate the importance of Kip and Mary in Nick's life,
that's wrong.  But again, I can understand her lack of sympathy with them.  What
they did was just as wrong.  They took a baby away from his mother and 
invalidated the importance of her in Nick's life. 

Alexandra is going about all this the wrong way, but I can understand her 
behavior a heck of a lot more than I can understand Mindy or Roger's.  Kent (I
think) said that Mindy had Nick's best interests at heart (although this was
before Mimbo became Super Hacker).  Changing the DNA test results indicated that
she did not.  It was selfishness in the extreme that motivated it.  Alexandra
has had an emotionally hard life.  Her family was never loving or supportive.
Her father and Eric deprived her of her children.  I can see how she could 
become bitter and mean and self-destructive.  

Mindy always but always had the love and attention of her family.  What made
her take up with Roger?  Her father didn't think that adding a dress design
company headed by a woman with no experience in the field, to an oil corporation
would be a good idea.  She wanted to prove she wasn't Daddy's Little Girl.
She knew Roger was married.  And Alexandra had done precious little against her.
So she slept with him and rationalized her behavior against Alex's (ex post 
facto no less).  Now she's trying to keep the truth from him.  So he's Alex's
kid.  Big deal.  She has demonstrated that she doesn't have enough faith in
his love.  If Nick really and truly loves her, his biological mother being 
Mindy's enemy wouldn't matter a hill of beans.

>Keithy
--Michelle L. Zafron (v101pyrw@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu)
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