Episode 56 Morals

In plain English, these are the morals from Episode 56:

Will Victor and Diane tie the knot?

Nobody believes Victor is really going to marry Diane. As the newsgroup astutely pointed out, the wedding is scheduled for a Saturday (October 4), and nothing on soaps ever happens on Saturdays. Certainly, sweeps do not happen on Saturdays, and Victor's not going to have a real wedding that's not in sweeps week. Also, of course, as soon as Veronica is on the scene, Victor is going to have to be married or else Nikki and Victor will instantly elope, as happened here. It is simply not conceivable that Victor, no matter how close to marriage with Diane, would not dump Diane instantly for Nikki the moment he knew Joshua was double-married and that the Nikki/Joshua marriage was therefore in any kind of legal doubt. Since it is, furthermore, beyond belief that Veronica will be kept in bandages until October, my conclusion is that Victor will not marry Diane, that there is no real suspense there, and that it was time to put that whole affair to a merciful death and let Diane get back with Jack.

I've also been feeling bad that Mary Williams never gets out any more, so I figured a wedding was a good chance to let her socialize.

Will Joshua not recognize Veronica on sight?

First, it seems to me that Joshua would recognize Veronica even if slightly reconstructed. But lately I've been staring at Veronica in her Creature from the White Lagoon horror outfit for weeks and then also listening to interleaved accounts of her decaying at the bottom of a lagoon, so this idea of having Nikki recognize her from her from her description veritably lept out at me from the screen without my having to think very hard about it. How indeed could she be hard to recognize?

Will Grace's naughty antics escalate?

I wasn't very satisfied with Nikki and Victor getting back together even though it's obviously what's brewing. I had Grace intervene to symbolically note the fact that Victor and Nikki don't belong together.

Also, partly, I thought the idea of `recreating' the `bed confusion' situation, I'd set up an interesting way for Nick to be tricked into accidentally having to explain what he did with Grace. You can imagine Nikki asking the question as Grace posed it and Nick getting really defensive and 'fessing up about his `goof' with Grace.

And, finally, I thought it'd be kinda fun if Grace was pregnant either by Victor or by Nick, but not sure which, because the DNA tests might be inconclusive.

That's all for Episode 56's morals. Don't miss Episode 57 and its morals!
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