On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:31:09 -0700, "George Avalos" <gavalos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>"Spring Cleaning"
>4-8-05 JofA
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>5 stars (professional maids)
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>0-1 stars (professional teenagers)
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>-George
OK, normally I don't vote in these, although reading and responding, but I
wanted to bring up an angle nobody else has commented on so far, so I
might as well vote while I'm at it. Say 4.0.
The big topic is the Joan/Adam breakup, but nobody has really commented on
Bonnie's role.
We've seen barriers and distancing forming all season between Joan and
Adam, even as they clung tighter to each other. That, probably more than
anything, made the relation****p vulnerable to outside pressure. Two eps
ago, Adam clearly had expectations about the overnight condert trip that
Joan ended up not being comfortable with. Last ep, Adam was supposed to
be on another overnight trip, which he ended up not going on. The
possibilities are two (as us ersatz-Steersmen would say), either there
never was an overnight college trip and Adam just wanted time away from
Joan, or there was an overnight college trip which Adam blew off now that
he knows 'nothing' will happen on it between him and Joan. Both
possibilities re-inforce the 'teenage *** hormones on the loose' with Adam
that was set up with the concert trip.
Enter Bonnie. She is about as dysfunctional as Adam was when we first saw
him, maybe moreso. Adam 'brings her into the light' in a similar fa****on
to Joan with him. After convincing her that her art is worthwhile to
others,not just to her, and getting her to enroll in Helen's art class
(with Helen re-inforcing Adam's validation), Adam had to feel a sense of
accomplishment there similar to what Joan must have felt after 'Jump'.
The difference is, when Adam started clinging to Joan, she pushed him
toward independence (which may have ultimately cost her their
relation****p, but was still the right thing to do), when Bonnie clung to
Adam, he took advantage of it (which was very much the wrong thing to do,
not just for Joan, but for Bonnie, and ultimately for Adam).
--
"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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