From: jpenovic@wizard.Berkeley.EDU (Jan Penovich)
Subject: Re: GH: Thursday Update 9/17/92
Reply-To: jpenovic@1.com
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale FL
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 11:57:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.051610.4443@olaf.wellesley.edu>,
sdoshi@olaf.wellesley.edu (Sucheta Doshi) writes:
> In article <1992Sep28.230252.25022@cis.ohio-state.edu>
cantor@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor) writes:
> 
> EXCUSE ME??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Anna was NOT a total bitch when she first
> came on the show.  Put yourself in her shoes for a while instead of totally
> wrapping yourself up in your *beloved Holly*.  With the exception of the
> fake scar, Anna did what any other person might do under the circumstances.
> Her only real crime was setting Holly up to be jailed (I loved that bit!!)
> Otherwise, she was only trying to win back a man whom she loved and who
> was the father of her child.  

  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.


> She also had to explain to Robert that if he 
> hadn't been such an egotistical self-righteous ass back in the seventies and
> had actually stuck around long enough to listen to her explanation, he would
> have learned that she was forced into betraying her country in order 
> to save his miserable life.  Furthermore, Anna believed that when Robert
> heard the truth, he would feel differently and begin to love her again.  (I
> guess I will now start to get seriously flamed)

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

> 	
> 	As for Robert and Holly coming first..GH can always do a storyline
> twist that soaps are famous for.  Besides, Holly was dead when Anna and 
> Robert got married - therefore the marriage is legal.   The only reason
> Holly got resurrected was because Emma Samms decided to come back.

  Holly was not dead.  Thinking someone is dead is not the same as
  them being dead.  Until you see the body on  a soap, never assume
  someone is dead (even then, it's not always a sure thing).

> 	In fact, it is Holly's fault that Robin didn't get a chance to live
> a normal life with both her parents like other kids.  Holly was just too
> damn selfish to give up Robert for the sake of his six-year old child. And

  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)
  for the sake of their child.  Being married for the sake of the
  children is a BAD idea.

> At least Anna had the decency to give up Robert when she saw how much
he loved
> Holly; too bad Holly just couldn't reciprocate when it came time to 
> sign the divorce papers last April.  Rather, even when she KNEW how
much Robert
> loved Anna, she kept praying that he'd never find Anna.  This is being
> sweet and angellic????

  You're saying that it was ok for Anna to try to send Holly to jail, but not 
  all right for Holly to hang around in case Anna was found dead? If
  Anna had come back alive, chances are good Holly would have signed the
  papers. Lets face it, both woman were selfish.  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.

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