From: nbaym@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Nancy Baym)
Subject: Re: AMC: TANs and Other Stuff
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 02:10:05 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.165648.13255@umiami.ir.miami.edu> ahelmers@umiami.ir.miami.edu writes:
>Just caught up with billions of posts...these days I always feel like the guest
>at the party who comes REALLY late, and misses most of the good conversations!
>So anyway:
>

Hey Ma Helmers! Glad to see you posting!


>On AMC:
>
>I like the new Galen Henderson.  As for her abrupt hormone surge, on Friday's
>show she actually apologized for making a fool of herself.  As Darren
>commented, this new actress is so much more animated than the first one, no
>wonder it looks like a sudden change.  As an exercise, I've been imagining the
>previous Galen tossing off lines that the new one is doing--no comparison.

I don't have a firm opinion of the new Galen yet, but I know I like her more 
than the previous one. It's good to see someone drooling over Trevor since
Nat is such a stick-in-the-mud. 

>even Opal has strawberry blonde hair.  

I dunno, I might have to call her a redhead!


>Is the murder mystery really going to drag on till May?  Am I the only one
>getting just a tiny bit tired of it?  Frankly, Will *was* a slimeball, whoever
>whacked him did the rest of Pine Valley a favor, and I hope they move on to
>some other plots a little. 

Thus far I really like how they've handled the storyline, but I can easily
imagine it dragging on for infinity, easily past May. Did anyone besides me
say "hey Mimi, what about back pay?" when she signed back up all of the sudden
just like that? Does this make everything ok? Hey writers, way to drop a rare
and interesting storyline.

 As for JaNut being the killer, I think she probably
>is but it seems a little unlikely for her to be running around.  She supposedly
>has become obsessed with taking care of herself for the sake of the
>baby--sneaking around and using a crowbar seems a bit strenuous doesn't it? 
>Also, IMO we shouldn't be getting terribly tuned up for every single clue.  As
>Caz pointed out it will probably turn out to be a simple story AND remember
>that AMC has been known to plant seemingly significant items that get
>dropped/forgotten/ignored by the writers later.
>

Well, on the one hand I'm not sure AMC has decided who the killer is yet and
so most clues are bound to be useless or disregarded in future writing. They 
probably will just make something up at the end. But on the other hand, why
should that lessen the pleasure of playing with the clues they do drop? It
seems like a great storyline for generating speculation and I'm really enjoying
seeing everyone's thoughts on the murder mystery. I think they've done a nice
job of setting it up, in that basically everyone could have done it and it 
involves so many of the important characters. It's not often a storyline
has Adam and Erica and Palmer and Jackson and Trevor and Dixie and Hayley and
________________(fill the blank with character of your choice)!

>As for An-Li, that worm is turning big time!  I think that girl is going to
>turn out to be quite a scheming little bitch-type character.  She is plenty
>steamed up (in both ways) about Brian and his affair with Hayley.
>for doing the wild thing twice.  I really got the impression that they did it
>once then she was saying they were "really married" because they did it AGAIN.

She's been REALLY nasty this last week! I couldn't believe the way she 
attacked Hayley with Adam! What about the deep respect for her elders? Her
whiny nasal voice drives me crazy and I usually fast forward through her.


>Sort of like my case, I did it twice, had two kids and now I know what causes
>children so I won't make THAT mistake again!  

You crack me up!!!

>Whew, better go.  Maybe now that I'm caught up I can stay at the party awhile,
>so I don't miss all the good stuff!

CAN you? Can you get away with leaving again is a better question!

>
>Ann Helmers
>whose name usually gets said "Hellman"--just call me Ms. Mayonnaise.
>


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