Re: A Second Look: ATS S3D4

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 Arbitrar Of Quality <tsmtsm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jan 22, 5:28 pm, Michael Ikeda <mmik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > On Jan 20, 4:45 pm, "One Bit Shy" <O...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> "Arbitrar Of Quality" <tsm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >> messagenews:09f2d38b-6eaf-44f4-b3a4-e35f9f75efa9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >> legroups.com...
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> > >> > And then the ending, meant to be
> > >> > frustrating, inexplicably brings back the Groosalugg and
> > >> > tries to convince us that Cordelia has serious feelings for a
> > >> > character whose previous ****trayal can be described by
> > >> > stealing Scythe's phrase: "a caricature of a cartoon."
> >
> > It's not really trying to convince us that Cordelia has serious
> > feelings for Groo.  As becomes clear in the next episode, she
> > doesn't.  But she thinks she should and actually manages to will
> > herself into believing that she does.  At least for a while.
> 
> The idea that she would "fool herself" (the character who prides
> herself on telling it exactly like she thinks it is?) from the very
> beginning still requires her to have inexplicably seen something in
> him in Pylea that promotes a serious love story.
> 
> -AOQ

From a pure beefcake perspective, he didn't look that bad.

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