"Ryan Robbins" <redbird007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"William George Ferguson" <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Today's lesson, it's what you do that's im****tant, not how others
perceive
>> you.
>
>The message was you have to have faith that what you do is having
positive
>effects on others, even when the effects aren't apparent.
That was Act Third Act God's sum up to Joan (and I did comment on it), but
the common theme running through Joan's, Helen's and Luke's problems was
that doing the right thing was the reward, even when other people did not
acknowledge what they did. Joan did not egg Price's car, but she
shouldn't dwell on the injustice of being blamed for it; Helen was doing
the right thing and shouldn't let Price's disparagement discourage her;
Luke should be discovering things for the joy in discovering things, not
to get a fancy award, and shouldn't be depressed when he didn't get it.
By the way, 'Third Act God' is Barbara Hall's term. She says that by
design, First Act Gods get the episode mission going, Second Act Gods tend
to be humerous or quirky, and Third Act Gods tend to be philosophical
and/or comforting. The title refers to the episode position not the
specific avatar, one avatar can fill more than one of the roles in a given
episode. In several episodes, Cute Boy God has been both First Act and
Third Act (but rarely Second Act), Little Girl God has frequently been
both Second Act and Third Act, although rarely, if ever, First Act.
--
"Who needs the big picture? Not me! Hints are fine."
-Joan Girardi
(after God showed her just a little of his omnipresent brain)
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