Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: St. Elsewhere, Nov 6 (SPOILER!) Message-ID: <2960@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 11:50:58 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2960 Posted: Thu Nov 7 11:50:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 04:54:10 EST Distribution: net Organization: USAMC ALMSA, St. Louis, MO Lines: 42 This query reveals the ending of the specific episode of St. Elesewhere so please read no further if you don't want to know it before you see it in reruns next summer (if they bother to rerun it, unlike their behavior this past summer!): (Blank lines follow:) Would someone like to explain this "mad slasher" girl business? I had been assuming that what she had been snorting all along was cocaine. As far as I recall, that does not inspire such crazed violence. Maybe I'm wrong in that, but does anyone think it was supposed to be some other drug? (What is that one that caused violent psychosis -- PCP?) Also, the razor cuts don't appear to be deep enough to be fatal, so it is ironic that it is the plastic surgeon (with his excessive worship of and attention to the ephemeral and shallow concept of physical beauty) that got attacked in a manner designed to impair his appearance. What about the "holding the blade in the mouth" business? Was the girl supposed to inspire vampire images? And I missed the transition between his taking the girl home and then expressing (while she was in the bathroom), "I just want to get you out of my house." Just what happened to make him want to get rid of her? (Maybe my attention wandered and I missed an explanatory scene or bit of dialog. Or did they really give a good reason for his attitude change?) I didn't think that St. E always ended with some image of volence, but this episode and the one ending with the car crash come to mind. Have I just not noticed this as a consistent history, or is this a recent trend? (Sort of a cheap "cliffhanger" hook -- don't think much of it...) Will Martin UUCP/USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA