Boogie Chillen
January 31, 2002

Nice "guy" touches with JR today:
JR said that after a freaked-out Bianca ran out of the bedroom, Frankie was saying all sorts of weird things, but "I wasn't really listening." Then: "... that's when she did what EVERY girl does when there's something wrong -- she got on the phone."

Now that Colby is allowed to go look for things by herself, will she get lost in the West Wing? She IS overdue for a major, life- threatening situation and, when it happens, it will probably be connected to JR and his drug use.

I just remembered something about Wednesday's show. Erica mused to Jackson that maybe she was wrong to ever "have" Kendall in the first place, since Kendall is such a horrible person. Was I the only one who interpreted that as meaning Erica was saying maybe she should have had an abortion? I actually wrote to ABC when Kendall was first introduced (1993) because I was outraged over the age discrepancy/exceptional time-warp, because it was very STRONGLY stressed that abortion was illegal at the time Erica was pregnant, which meant Kendall was conceived BEFORE 1973. Erica gave birth to her at the age of 14, and Kendall was being portrayed as 18, which meant that Erica could only be about 32. However, based on when the show started and being generous enough to say that Erica was 18 in 1970, Erica would have to be about 41. This meant that Kendall HAD to be in her 20s, not 18. They DID later age her to be about 23-24. Of course, that means that now Kendall should be about 31-32. I was also thought it was ludicrous in the EXTREME to have Susan Lucci (47 at the time) play Erica as a 14-yr-old in flashbacks (and I STILL think they originally introduced the plot as her being *13*). I have since, of course, TOTALLY given up on the concept of age as far as Erica is concerned -- she will forever be 35, even if her children are in their 50s. I think the whole Kendall introduction age thing caused me to have soap opera age-continuum logic meltdown, and I feel much better now that I've been assimilated :-)

Robin "resistance is futile" Coutellier