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I'm sure now they could have done all kinds of things with a computer. But they were working on a small budget with 1985 technology.
Yeah. Like the book and the movie, a girl wants to fit in somewhere so she puts up with being bossed around by a neighbor/classmate.
She then decides that the person doesn't know everything after all. She is much happier hanging out with people who do not try and manipulate others for their own purposes.
I could totally relate to this book in elementary school.
agree. Dan had previously thought he was better than Forrest bc he was not born with disabilities. But becoming physically disabled gave Dan a new perspective. He realized this is how Forrest is treated by others too...and he still was polite to others including him.
I've always had tbi and epilepsy my whole life so I suppose I am like forest in the sense that I did not use it as an excuse to get wasted. Whereas somebody who has a disability later on in life is going to grow up with privilege and not realize ableism until that privilege is taken from them.
Barely making ends meet in a flophouse motel was not 'being successful' this is all Dan can financially afford. And in early 1970's NYC (where they are) there is no ADA requiring physical accessibility either
they either should have cancelled it after mike left or moved another staff member up to deputy mayor.
agree re the Mike seasons being much better.
DC is expensive--even in 1985.
I bet Mr. Caruther's grandchildren (he is much older in 1955 and not a young man) work for Goldie in 1985. They have to call him Mayor Wilson.
agree. plus Goldie is allowed to keep his job.
the other thing was it was California vs the deep south. Okay it was a small town in California. But this being California is probably why the owner of the diner reacted as he did to the young Goldie.
just bc you and your school had it doesn't mean everybody did.
the casio marty has is in the scene where he is in the 50's--vs the scene which opens the movie. that scene comes after marty cannot figure time out with all the clocks.
it made perfect sense to me bc I have dyscalculia--dyslexia with numbers. I have problems reading analog clocks/watches. Marty might have that too. And back then digital clocks were less common than they are today. My parents refused to get me a digital watch until high school in the 1990's bc they thought people would look at me differently.
even if she's good at math, she could be severely dyslexic.
They still did welfare intake before 1996. And the social worker probably would have needed to report even then if precious was in an unsafe family situation.
Just bc you have the option of abortion doesn't mean she knows how to obtain it. Again, if she's severely dyslexic, she may not know how to arrange for the trip etc. This was also pre-internet so people had to do more research.
What if she had looked re a job and they required a certain level of academic skill in order to get the wages she wanted/needed.
fine with me
I'd be unhappy married to Jesse too.
college newspapers still have a faculty advisor though. So Richland gets corrected/clarified by that advisor and he concedes to Andrea he's had a thing for her.
yes, it would have been good to end it at that last episode.
agree with you. They should have just cancelled the series if Fox was leaving.
or she could have been paired with Josh Richland--who knew about her work at West Beverly. They're basically the same anyways. It would be very convincing the two of them would hook up.
Elizabeth Mobley's husband does tell her that separate bathrooms are not economically sound. He would rather spend the money on something else. But he doesn't protest too much because he wants his wife to 'feel good'. So there is some pushback.
the bigger plot hole--which still sticks out now is when she is swimming 'outdoors' there is no marine life within the body of water. Yes, special effects were not what they are today (which just could have been added in with a computer now) but that sticks out far more