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Polls Archive / Re: DS women of present time.
« on: November 25, 2005, 02:30:20 AM »They wrote that she loved Burke, and this was played out so that you believed that they were very much in love. Vicki didn't get all whiny when she believed that Burke died, in fact they hardly had her mourn him at all (a mistake). The writers made it seem that she completely forgot all about him.
Actually, that's not quite true. For one, Vicki didn't completely believe that Burke had died - not even after Liz told her that all 16 bodies had been recovered from the plane crash. And for another, even though she doesn't fully accept his death, Vicki continues to grieve for him into the 1795 flashback. Beginning with Ep #345, we see her initial grieving right after the plane crash. Vicki then goes off with David to Boston so that each may have some respite from the goings on in their lives, but when she returns in Ep #364, we see that her grieving process, or actually the avoidance thereof, continues when she refuses to fully accept Burke's death even after the 16 bodies have been discovered. And then after Vicki has travelled back to 1795, she looks upon her initial weeks there as a sort of dream - a dream which she's almost happy to be having because it's a diversion from her having to deal with Burke - and she comes right out and says as much to Jeremiah in today's Ep #370. By the time that Vicki meets up with Peter and begins to fall in love with him, for her it has already been almost four months since the plane crash. Even though we don't see her transition completely play out on screen, apparently by then Vicki has learned to accept Burke's death and she's ready to move on. (Not to mention she's in dire need of Peter's help, which is a deeply bonding experience in and of itself.)