Comments on: She’s a Marshmellow http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/12/12/shes-a-marshmellow/ Hacker, Engineer, Dancer, Gentleman Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:00:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mike http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/12/12/shes-a-marshmellow/comment-page-1/#comment-253 Mike Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:26:16 +0000 http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/12/12/shes-a-marshmellow#comment-253 My familiarity with Nancy Drew is limited to Wikipedia and the mounds of references elsewhere in pop culture. So perhaps it's unfair to draw a comparison when I'm not fully educated. Nonetheless, it seems clear that *Drew* is based around tea party scandals more than any sort of real crimes that seriously impact the lives of the characters. The brilliance of *Mars* is how, in solving other peoples problems, she gradually assembles enough pieces of the puzzle to reconstruct the two crimes that destroyed her old life: her friend's murder and her own rape. Some of the week-to-week mysteries are better than others, but the finale is just amazing. My familiarity with Nancy Drew is limited to Wikipedia and the mounds of references elsewhere in pop culture. So perhaps it’s unfair to draw a comparison when I’m not fully educated.

Nonetheless, it seems clear that *Drew* is based around tea party scandals more than any sort of real crimes that seriously impact the lives of the characters. The brilliance of *Mars* is how, in solving other peoples problems, she gradually assembles enough pieces of the puzzle to reconstruct the two crimes that destroyed her old life: her friend’s murder and her own rape. Some of the week-to-week mysteries are better than others, but the finale is just amazing.

]]> By: Christine http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/12/12/shes-a-marshmellow/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Christine Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:35:55 +0000 http://dev.uwmike.com/articles/2005/12/12/shes-a-marshmellow#comment-252 Mike - you like this show so much, you obviously forgot to mention something in comparing it to Nancy Drew: the lack of awfulness. Mike – you like this show so much, you obviously forgot to mention something in comparing it to Nancy Drew: the lack of awfulness.

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