Johnson's corporate credit card had also been cancelled without her knowledge. That, and my dad read a piece in the Miami Herald that said the producers had hired a new team of writers for the show. The humor of the situation has obviously long since overshadowed any small disappointment she might have felt at the time. While the Catlins have gone away for good, the relationship that developed between Johnson and Burroway remains strong. Aspiration makes us write.
Communication makes it better.
The conversation turns back to Gladiator, and Johnson points out that her theory of connectivity works nicely even on the random sample. The conflict for the gladiator Maximus, she points out, is simply to get home. Despite the lightheartedness of the conversation, Johnson's attention turns, again and again, to the notion of connection, which runs deep in the story on the screen. The parallels with her own life are inevitable. The two strands conflict and connection are interwoven.