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Current Talk '05 I / Dr. Julia Hoffman: Tough Cookie or Doormat?
« on: June 30, 2005, 10:20:50 PM »
I thought that title might get your attention. But bear with me...
I've always been struck by how tough, singleminded, resolute, unshakable and determined Julia is when we're first introduced to her - particularly our first exposure to her in ep #265. However, how do those qualities gel with the Julia we will come to know who appears to be so wrapped around Barnabas' little finger that time and time again she will sublimate her own better judgement and continually acquiesce to his will. Were the the qualities we might have first attributed to Julia real? And if so, where then did they go whenever Barnabas was around? Did her love for him change her into seemingly an entirely different person? Or was the Julia as we might have initially perceived her merely a facade that the good doctor put up?
Discuss...
I've always been struck by how tough, singleminded, resolute, unshakable and determined Julia is when we're first introduced to her - particularly our first exposure to her in ep #265. However, how do those qualities gel with the Julia we will come to know who appears to be so wrapped around Barnabas' little finger that time and time again she will sublimate her own better judgement and continually acquiesce to his will. Were the the qualities we might have first attributed to Julia real? And if so, where then did they go whenever Barnabas was around? Did her love for him change her into seemingly an entirely different person? Or was the Julia as we might have initially perceived her merely a facade that the good doctor put up?
Discuss...