From: nwf0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (NICOLE WHITNEY FOX)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: MELROSE PLACE NOTES (11/11)
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:54:12 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <40595@unix.SRI.COM>, cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:
>In article <17423@mindlink.bc.ca> Gordon_Wong@mindlink.bc.ca (Gordon Wong) writ
es:
>>Comments regarding Melrose Place (11/11/92):
>>
>>[1] New character: Jo Reynolds (Daphne Zuniga) So what did viewers think of
>>    the new character? At the beginning, she had a chip on her shoulder, and
>>    I didn't like her. She loosened up by show's end. But she seems like a
>>    character who could handle herself.
>
>I don't like her.  In real life, I think a personality like she displayed
>when looking at the apartment would have gotten everybody saying "No, thanks"
>to her pretty irrevocably pretty fast.  I didn't think think her mellowing
>out or the revelation of her troubles in New York were very realistic.
>
>Is the Sandy character out of the show for good?  I thought she was at
>least more interesting than the married couple or Rhonda and Matt (?).
>
>>[3] The unbelieveable parts:
>>
>>    [a] When did Jake start having this problem with the water (when both
>>        his and the apartment above are using the hot water, the one belows
>>        gets the cold water)? If this was true, then why didn't Jake get upset
>>        when there were TWO tenants in the apartment before (Sandy and
>>        Rhonda).
>
>Just another convenient TV device, thought up for this episode.
>
>>[4] Questions:
>>
>>    [a] When the wife was abused by her husband, shouldn't they have called
>>        the police, rather than getting patched up at Michael's apartment.
>
>That should have come up.  We can pretend that they talked about it after
>that cut-away scene where his wife cried that she still loved him, and that
>they decided to give him a chance to turn himself in (to the hospital, anyway -
-
>are they then required to tell the police?).
>
>Personally, I find these social-crisis-of-the-week shows a bore.  Let's see,
>abortion (handled extremely gingerly), race issues, miscarriage, stalking,
>gay bashing/discrimination.  I guess they have a Big Social Issue about every
>other show.
>
>>    [b] The advertised apartment for rent was for another apartment. Did
>>        someone else move out? Or are there some tenants that live there but
>>        who the viewers never get to see.
>
>>    [c] Doesn't this seem like a common theme: Michael does something to
>>        upset Jane, or Michael doesn't agree with something Jane suggested,
>>        then by show's end, Michael sees the light.
>
>I find them tiresome and unrealistic.
>
>>    [d] Billy waits up for Alison too much ... me thinks ... he's just like
>>        a parent waiting for the kid to come home.
>
>Or a protective big brother.
>
>I like Billy and Allison the best of all the characters.  They are almost
>realistic.  Everyone else is either a token or a cardboard cutout.
>
>Of course, Billy, though immature on the surface, is the one who deep down
>is Really There for Allison and I suppose if the show lasts they'll get
>together or at least flirt with the idea (pun intended).
>
I think that the real question is: what crisis are left for Melrose Place?
These people have way too many problems!