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Would have been better told from Ginnie's perspective...

posted 10 years ago by Clothes-Off
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I don't think such a character would have really been so naive. When she and Gwen finally meet, I was reminded of the kind words exchanged by Melanie and Belle Watling in Gone With The Wind. I would have appreciated a longer conversation between the two of them. Based on this and From Here To Eternity, I think the writer was good at writing extremes of women, but not so much in between.

Anyway, things tended to pick up when she was on screen, and since she was the outsider i would have been more inclined to root for her than I was for Dave.

"Well, for once the rich white man is in control!" C. M. Burns

[–] mdonln 8 years ago

That's interesting! Until Ginny went to Gwen's classroom I was kind of indifferent towards her. She was a wreck but a fairly harmless one. I thought her boyfriend was the creep. However, at the moment she went to see Gwen I hated her.

The nerve! It was not her place to get in contact with Gwen especially at the school. Of course she showed up looking as tacky and as trashy as she usually does but she came across even more stupid and pathetic than ever before.

It drives me crazy that people think they have the right to negotiate for 'ownership' of another person. They behave as if that person had no say in who they wanted to be with and they'd end up with one or the other person. Naturally, it was poetic justice when Ginny was shot by her equally pathetic, possessive, and desperate boyfriend. That's who she should have been with all along; they were made for each other.

Woman, man! That's the way it should be Tarzan. [Tarzan and his mate]