Re: 2nd Season Joan of Arcadia - Common Thread - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 21:35:47 -0700, William George Ferguson
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>On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 03:25:20 +0000 (UTC), mchary@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Michael Alan
>Chary) wrote:
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>>In article <d3ptfl$3va$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Patty Winter <patty1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>In article <d3ppmb$93c$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, IAPW  <lkfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>>>>Well, isn't that special.  Could it have been......SATAN?!!
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>>>Evidently. I thought they were clever when they played a brief clip
>>>of "Gimme Shelter" the first time. The second time was heavy handed.
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>>No. "Sympathy for the Devil."
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>>>I am a bit confused about a few things...(spoilers ahead, in case
>>>it isn't already evident)...
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>>>Are we to infer that God is giving the devil instructions? "He told
>>>me to go for a walk today" and "You must be Joan" (as though he'd
>>>found out from a third party and didn't already know it himself).
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>>Well, God can order anyone around.
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>What I took from the scene was that Ryan isn't literally the Devil, he's
>Joan's opposite number.  He talks to the Devil and he gets assignments to
>start negative ripples.

That's what I thought too.  That's why I said it seemed like they might be
ripping off Tru Calling.  The new guy maybe the equivalent of Tru's Jack.


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