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| pedersencr |
 Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 7:50 am |
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SPOILER FOR JOAN OF ARCADIA, SORRY.
Just finished watching the Joan of Arcadia finale for the second time and thought it dwarfed every previous episode. I found it to be enormously powerful, with so many insights into all the characters grappling in authentic real-world ways with the emotional and spiritual aspects of their lives. From the opening appearance of the two clowns it was clear this was going to be a different sort of episode. And it was.
In particular, it wrenched my heart to see even the most loving and best-intentioned of family and friends be completely unable to give Joan the support she desperately needed, using the exact words and consolations that any of us would offer in similar situations.
"What if God were one of us?" the opening theme asks; this episode answers: "Clearly, He would still be different than any of us."
That episode definitely goes on my short list of unforgettable endings, right up there alongside the two-part ending to Touched by an Angel. I could go on and on about both endings (and the music, and the writing, and Mary Steenburgen, and Eleanor Roosevelt in the opening montage, and so on and on) but I guess it just boils down to my being a pushover for well-done inspirational and sentimental stories.
I wonder where Joan of Arcadia can go from here.
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 8:20 am |
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Okely Dokely Melly Mel,
Read My Subject Line!
Thanks 4 the heads up on kate, billy! |
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| Melody |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 8:33 am |
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Ehle,
Your subject line reads:
Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 8:20 am Post subject: It's My Turn - I guess
And I just figured out why you can't see them. You're using board style "thirdeye", which was the default in your Profile. If you go to Profile and then Board Style, you can switch to "subSilver," which to me is more pleasing to the eye with blue & gray, rather than red & yellow of the "thirdeye" style. Anyway, in "subSilver" you can see the subject headings, but you can't in "thirdeye." Veddy strange.
I figured it out by logging out last night and then trying to read posts this morning, without logging in, in the thirdeye style. Guess what -- no subject headings! |
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| ehle64 |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 8:42 am |
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There it is! 
I sorta miss that orangey thingy though  |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 8:52 am |
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| testing the subject line[color=darkred][/color] |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 8:53 am |
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| Well, thanks, everyone. I got the subject line to work. Now about that size and color thingy...??? LET ME KNOW! |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 9:03 am |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 9:17 am |
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| I need to know how to use the size and color stuff. Yes, I know there's a page for this, but indulge me, please. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 9:17 am |
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Like Ehle I miss the other colour too.
I'm going back. |
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| Nancy |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 11:57 am |
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| OK, now I can see the subject lines, though I liked the thirdeye version colors better too. Couldn't resist trying the "nosebleed" selection, though I caouldn't tell that it was any different than "thirdeye." Couldn't see the subject lines in nosebleed, either. |
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| pedersencr |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 3:17 pm |
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billyweeds,
Many thanks for the heads up on the Kate Arthur "Idol" article in Sunday NYT. I too have had a long term interest in Ameircan Idol.
Just read the article online, and I have to say that it seems like a very polite (maybe politic?), mild-mannered, skating-over-the-surface sort of treatment of the subject.
The major facts, to me, of bad singing and truly screwy voting results were certainly mentioned, but hardly with a prominence reflecting how hard they punch one in the eye when viewing the show. It is the bad singing that early on caused me to stop watching the early episodes of each season, and the screwed up voting that now has made me lose interest in the final episodes.
If Kate really has that mild-mannered a personality, then she must shake her head in amazement at the directness of some of the writing in the fora.
On the other hand, it must be the straightforwardly expressed insights that cause me to like the fora.
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| lissa |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 4:45 pm |
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billy
You have mail, regarding a mini-coding lesson for the board... |
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| daffy |
| Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 10:39 pm |
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I just found out: tonight's Saturday Night Live is "The Best Of Christiopher Walken".
Outstanding! |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 3:07 am |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 4:59 am |
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| Has she, or has she not, been invited to join us? |
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