From: pwjarman@cc.utah.edu (PARRY W. JARMAN)
Subject: Re: Midnight Sun Episode
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Date:  7 Oct 1992 15:56 MST  

In article <1992Oct7.154534.1@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>, bole@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Greg Bole) writes...
{In article <1992Oct7.182943.14527@news.acns.nwu.edu>, mhw@casbah.acns.nwu.edu 
{(Mike Murphy) writes:
{ 
{> and Bernard was there!  ALL RIGHT!!  :)  
{Yeah, how'd he get back?  Wasn't he off on another long trip?  No slides
{this time?  :^)

I thought Bernard was headed to the Bering Strait to go to the former USSR to 
use his accounting expertise...maybe he swung by on his way home.

{ 
{> Joel acting just nuts... felt like home.
{Was he hysterical or what?  

{"like an extremely voluptous, sweatpant clad, wood nymph"!!!

This was my FAVORITE line. The Howard Stern line was a kicker too.  The frantic 
energy level Rob Morrow came up with was amazing. The switch between the "angst
" ridden Fleischman and the sleep deprived Fleischman was truly a feat of 
acting skill.

{ 
{> Maggie going off against men who only look at the surface of a women 
{
{"all men are like this"...Maggie!  You know this isn't true...look at what
{Joel did for you when you where sick!
{
Hey wait a minute. Joel has just been drooling on her shoes like a testosterone 
charged 18 year old so I think the charges were valid, though the 
generalization was too broad.

{> not what's inside and interjecting her rampage with...
{> "maybe a hat... I know! some gloves..."  GOD that was funny.  
{Agreed...this was a really nice touch.

Ditto.
{ 
{> I guess what I really liked about this episode was that everyone was in it. 
{> there was a strong sense of community in this one, even though there were 
{> many individual subplots.
{What I really didn't like was there seems to be very little sense of
{continuity.  I really hope they start weaving more threads through multiple
{episodes, and cause the characters to change visibly, and talk about what
{happened

I've quit trying to figure the continuity thing out. Look at all the episodes 
as a series of vignettes relating isolated incidents in the character's lives 
and it is much easier to swallow.  The producers have a definite problem, 
however.  Should Joel's anxiety level come down, should Maggie become softer, 
less neurotic and give in to a "relationship", should Maurice admit his 
homophobia & become less biogoted, should Shelley decide to go to college--the 
chemical balance between the characters would all have to shift.  NX is as much 
about human character as it is about plotlines and stories.  The Powers That Be 
will have to figure out how to keep the characters from becoming static without 
loosing the "edge" that makes NX unique.  I too, would like the characters to 
progress--but how???

ie the oft discussed "Maggie/Joel" do they or don't they--If they do--should it 
be quick, dirty and shallow (giving in in a moment of weakness perhaps) purely 
physical; or should it be an event precipitated by a gradual development of 
real, reciprocal feelings, each for the other--"falling in love".... (some 
would say they are already in love, just not acknowledging that fact) Either
way, the O'Connell/Fleischman relationship will have to change, thus changing a 
vital component of the show.  

Like I said. The producers are in a precarious position. Could be an 
interesting year....

Personally, I liked this episode, but I liked last week's just as much. 

Heather Jarman (pwjarman@cc.utah.edu)
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"In your _dreams_, Fleischman" 



                                                                             Dustin Hoffman in _Tootsie_