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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: St. Elsewhere, Nov 6 (SPOILER!)
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 11:50:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 11:50:58 1985
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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

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