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.......... Tirade ....... :-)
> chute on her back all through the marriage, checked the wind velocity and
> altitude and cried Geronmino. <g>
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> Won't catch me shedding tears for that woman. What makes Straker appealing
> to me as a woman is that he was MORE than a pretty face. I'll even say
here
> and now, that's one of the reason I found and find Mr. Ed Bishop
appealing.
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> (gets off soap box)
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> Amelia
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Some marriages work, like the ones you pointed out, some don't. For
every success story you stated, I could quote you a failure, and those
people were good people too.....They just didn't work out. I won't judge
them harshly for that.
I prefer to think, (and it makes the episode, and the whole Straker's
woes concept of the show work much better, anyway) that the whole situation
was one of two very well matched people, very much in love with each other,
just getting the hell beat out of them by fate. The Straker-Mary saga is a
great tragic love story if you allow yourself to view it that way, and it
lent some of the best drama to the series. It gave Straker great depth of
character.
It is so much more tragic to see it as it was probably intended to by
the producers - as two wonderful people getting torn apart by the demands of
a serious threat to the world.
It so trivializes the whole show to twist it into some errant comical
aberation for a real heroic character like Ed Straker to hook up with this
ditzey, whiny cartoon so many people on this list try to make Mary out to
be.
One other advantage you have over Mary - We all SEE what Ed's life was
really all about, and we know first hand how important it was, so it's easy
for US to skip over her point of view and beat her for it.
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> What makes Straker appealing
> to me as a woman is that he was MORE than a pretty face. I'll even say
here
> and now, that's one of the reason I found and find Mr. Ed Bishop
appealing.
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You know he was more than a pretty face because you saw the program and knew
his real life. Mary didn't.
Ed is very appealing, even to male viewers, because we see the
complicated responsibilities of his life. We wouldn't find that to be so if
we weren't privy to that inside information. Mary wasn't privy to it. Thus
she couldn't give him that "benefit of the doubt".
Dave H.
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