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- From: c8643631@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Mr Flibble)
- Subject: Re: I like Ace, dag-nabbit!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.134355.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:43:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.212603.2978@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>, as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
- > Again...I don't care. Romana and Leela had it all over this pouting,
- > sullen, thoroughly irritating little brat. Dysfunctional family or no,
- > screaming or no, she was just an abrasive character.
-
- I didn't find her abrasive and I'd be glad to know someone like Ace. She
- wouldn't be totally easy to get along with, but that's part of the fun, isn't
- it?
-
- >>5. "She became a major theme in the stories, rather than just a bystander"
- >>Well, I can applaud this. I am one of those strange people who puts season
- >>26 at the top of my list. I like the idea of someone other than the Doctor
- >>being an integral part of the stories - Ace's hangups, past, and talents
- >>were the centerpoint of some of the stories, and I applaud that leap by the
- >>writers/producers. Did it kill the show? I doubt it, the BBC wanted to
- >>kill it, and the character of Ace, Cartmel (script editor), McCoy's Doctor
- >>and JNT were of secondary importance in the end.
- >
- > This might have been nice if (a) she were charming enough for us to care
- > about her hangups, and (b) these hangups were resolved. As far as I can
- > tell, her major step forward was losing her fear of water. That's character
- > development?
- >
- I found her charming enough and I cared about her hangups. And the fact that
- not all her hangups were resolved, that's life.
-
- > And may I point out that a million points of logic will not help me like
- > Ace.
-
- You don't have to. But some of us do. I even like Adric.
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- Edward
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