"William George Ferguson" <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 18:31:09 -0700, "George Avalos" <gavalos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>"Spring Cleaning"
>>4-8-05 JofA
>>
>>5 stars (professional maids)
>>
>>0-1 stars (professional teenagers)
>>
>>-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).
>
That is a good analysis. I always thought that Adam treated Bonnie like
crap, but you show it was actually worse than I originally thought.
In light of this, I would really like to see how Bonnie is doing now. I
don't want to be a regular or even recurring character, but a little
glimpse
into her post-Adam would be very interesting.
Sharpe Fan
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