From: bmr@gonzo.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Bruce Reagan)
Subject: Re: Chris' hearing
Reply-To: reagan@fedsrus.b15.ingr.com
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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:35:40 GMT

In article <15DEC199215565430@juliet.caltech.edu>, waynebro@juliet.caltech.edu (Broughton, Wayne Jeremy) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec15.161929.18943@tessi.com>, george@tessi.com (George Mitchell) writes...
|> >rmt6r@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Roy Matthew Thigpen) writes:
|> >>WOW! WHat an episode.  Clearly, by far, the best of the season, and maybe
|> >>one of the best all time.
|> > 
|> >I looked as hard as I could for the smiley-face, but couldn't find it.
|> >Sorry, but last night's episode was a real let-down for me.  It was a
|> >demonstration of exactly why Mike Monroe does not fit into the Cicely
|> >that we know and want to love.
|> > 
|> I'm glad that I am not the only one out there who wasn't overjoyed with
|> last night's episode.  It certainly had its good parts (as all the episodes
|> do), but I found the main plot dragged a bit.  I guess I found Mike's 
|> line of defence too, well, silly, to be credible.  It certainly brought
|> up some interesting questions of identity (I particularly liked Joel's
|> contribution to the hearing and Chris' response to it, ie. on materialism
|> and dualism), but I just didn't think Mike presented it well: his speeches
|> seemed flat and unconvincing.  I had hoped he would show himself to be a
|> brilliant lawyer, but I don't think he did.  

	Exactly.  I kept waiting for him to make a point that the judge could
use to justify being lenient to Chris.  It never happened.  I'm not legally
trained (although I do watch Wapner a lot) but the entire judgement didn't seem
right.  Sure Chris is a great guy, a very interesting DJ and important to the
community but he is hardly essential.  The town could go on quite well, albeit a
lot more drab, without him.  I think the judge was portrayed as a no-nonsense
judge (I loved it when she told Mike he would abide by her decision in any case)
and I didn't see that there was sufficient reason for her to abandon her duty to
the law based on the defense presented.
	
|>  
|>   - Bernard.  He is a neat guy to have around and complements Chris well
|> (and seems more intelligent and more appropriate to be philosophizing!).

	What is the status on Bernard?  Has he moved to Alaska?  Does he have a
job?  I am assuming he simply took a vacation when he went to Africa to find
himself.  Did he ever go back to his original job?  Wasn't he an accountant or
something?  He seems to be in Cicely quite a bit lately.






|>   - Maggie attacking Joel for presumed sexism when he had just been decrying
|> Shelly's stereotyping;  I think he should have fired back and let Maggie 
|> know what he had really said.

	Is it just me or has Maggie really become annoying?  I really used to
like her but maybe I'm only now noticing how incredibly insecure and neurotic
she is.  I almost think she's more anal-retentive than Joel is.  If I lived in
Alaska by choice I think I'd be a little more relaxed.

	Still love the show though.  Especially Ruth Anne, Holling and Ed.

-- 
Bruce Reagan
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