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Forgot to mention that Steve, the one lover who never appeared on the show, had been struck by lightning while working on an oil rig. So the curse started long before Maggie reached Cicely. :)

But apparantly Steve wasn't done in until sometime after high school, because Maggie didn't remember him until he identified himself. Guess we'll just have to call that curse slow but sure. Now aren't we glad that Maggie fell asleep that night in Juneau? Though if the authors ever do decide to get rid of Fleishman, they can have a lot of fun thinking up totally bizarre ways for the curse to strike. Possibly drowning in the middle of Death Valley. 8^)

Did you think those were really ghosts, or maybe, just maybe, it was a product of Maggie's fever-induced mind?

Possibly only Maggie's feverish state allowed her to see the ghosts.

It sorta seemed to me that that scene was created in Maggie's head as a way for her to deal with all of her insecurities. In this case "Steve" may be alive and well...but Maggie's delusion created a freak death for him due to her worring about it.

I can't see that the scene helped Maggie deal with her insecurities at all. All those guys did was dump on her, and she grinned painfully and bore it. She was still bottling up her emotions. I'd have thought better of her if she'd fired up and told them off. I think she was feeling guilty that she'd hinted in her letters that those five yahoos were not God's gift to womankind. Though maybe, after she thinks about their behavior a while, she'll figure out that she was well rid of them.

So don't add his name to the dead boy-friend list yet...not unless she checks and finds out it really happend next episode.

I hope she does check it out. But if not, we'll just have to put old Steve down as a "possible."

This is known as the curse of Maggie O'Connell-- every serious boyfriend she has ever had has died in some gruesome accident. The latest was Rick Pederson, who was played by Grant Goodeve in the first season (until his untimely demise). Until her house burned down, Maggie had small shrines to each boyfriend on her mantel.

Steve ---- struck by lightning while working on an oil rig (revealed during Maggie's hallucination)

I loved the opener too, and didn't think it was out of character for Ruth-Anne to smash the tape recorder. Soon as I saw the hammer in her hand, I thought about it myself. And, she is a sensible gal.

I thought it was another interesting NX character twist: level-headed Ruth-Ann(e?) shows the limits of her patience in an unusually destructive manner. My main complaint about the scene was that the twist was not sudden enough; I saw it coming as soon as she asked for the tape recorder, if not sooner, kind of spoiling the effect.

Overall I liked the Maggie birthday plot line and especially the ghost sequence. The Marilyn/driving theme was much less interesting. In the end Marilyn seemed to just be a prop for Chris' pontificating, which I am afraid is finally getting to be annoying.....(egads, more Chris-bashing!) I was wondering if he was ever going to come back to Earth and tell poor Marilyn (who had been slighted by Joel and even lost normally reliable Ruth-Ann's confidence) something useful. Apparently not. His description of the engine was disjoint and incomplete, considering Marilyn was apparently quite ignorant about it.

What is it with Falsey and Co. this week? Is it sleep deprivation week this week? After Joel's sleeping problems on Northern Exposure (10/05), Charlie develops sleeping problems on Going To Extremes (10/06). They both conked out and went into a deep sleep on both shows. Did they run out of storylines or something?

For those who gave up on Going To Extremes after the canoe making episode, you should know that the show is actually getting better ... or maybe I'm just tired :) Still, I find the show interesting, yet I am frustrated because I can not sometimes pick up what the "natives" are saying half the time.

I can't think of another TV show which has been able to show real love between two characters like Northern Exposure does. Look at the following exhibits:

Sure, we see a lot of people having sex in other shows but hardly ever do we get the emotion of love depicted as well as it is in Northern Exposure.