Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn From: bobn@bmcg.UUCP (Bob Nebert) Newsgroups: net.tv Subject: Re: St. Elsewhere, Nov 6 (SPOILER!) Message-ID: <1987@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 16:30:17 EST Article-I.D.: bmcg.1987 Posted: Mon Nov 11 16:30:17 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 20:43:56 EST References: <2960@brl-tgr.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, San Diego, CA. Lines: 25 > 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. > I didn't think it was the drugs (whatever they were) that led her to slash him. When the guy was toying with the idea in the store she said "Your new around here, huh"? Maybe she is nutso and he didn't know it? Don't forget the house is reputed to be haunted. Maybe the devil made her do it (sorry Flip). > What about the "holding the blade in the mouth" business? Was the girl > supposed to inspire vampire images? > Funny you should mention that. When the blade first started coming out of her mouth the ends were shinny like highlighted teeth. That was the first thing I thought of too. Bob Nebert ___ sdcsvax!bmcg!bobn