Heard it through the pipeline
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| Title: | Heard it through the pipeline |
| Creator: | not credited |
| Date(s): | June 1988 |
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| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
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Heard it through the pipeline is a Beauty and the Beast (TV) essay by an uncredited author.
It was printed in second issue of the newsletter Beauty and the Beast.
The essay is bit confusing in that the author makes the stylistic choice to identify as numerous fans.
The Essay
I'm glad to see someone has decided to show another side of love, which has been forgotten except in fairy tales, instead of a lot of sex.
Goes to show, that when you write, act, and produce from the heart instead of to a formula, the results can be breathtaking, I'd forgotten how good it felt to cry.
The world is full of love... It's just a matter of looking for it. Not just that in the love shared by two, but the love and beauty of life itself.
I have to admit, like many others, that I too have never joined a fanclub. I am 33 years old with a teenage daughter. I plan my social life around Friday nights and have fallen for a fantasy named Vincent. I have even started reading Shakespeare and Dickens.
The character of Vincent touches something in me that is bittersweet, like the ideas or ideals that everyone once had, but have been covered up by the more mundane characteristics of everyday existence. Vincent is so innocent, childlike, and yet at the same time he is virile and supportive. He is truly that white knight on that fabled charger that every woman expected romance and marriage to include. He is the light at the end of the tunnel of disillusionment.
If the show influences a few men to become "Renaissance men" or encourages more to read a sonnet, or a play, or to indulge in more "romantic" love, then let it continue forever.
Ordinarily, I am a normal, well-adjusted 38 year old wife and mother. No one seeing me in the grocery store or aerobics class would say "Oh yes, there goes a strange person. She's hooked on a tv show." This has never happened to me before.
Finally! there is a show that portrays highly evolved characters caring about each other in a nurturing, supportive way. What a treasure.
Although I love Vincent and Catherine and their romance, I have also come to look forward to stories about the tunnel world and its people. Granted it's an ideal world that our real world could never match. It does offer some hope that we could be better if we only try. The message is clear - Love is the answer. It's demonstrated every week and I love it.
A married, career woman of 40 is not supposed to have crushes on tv stars. I was relieved that this television program is touching hearts and souls of women all over and that I'm not abnormal.
Throw that "Life that can never be" line in the dumpster. What's really keeping them apart? Is there a question in someone's mind about Vincent's nature, animal or human? Let's set the record straight right now. I've never heard an animal quote Shakespeare; animals cannot develop human characteristics, no mater how brilliant their adoptive father is. Perhaps I'm a hopeless romantic or maybe I just believe in fairy tales. All know is that Beauty and the Beast has touched me in a way that no other show has. It has surpassed Camelot in my mind.
The writers and actors are doing an excellent job at expressing caring and empathy. The values and morals of the ^ show demonstrate hope and promise for a change in formats over the past decade for prime-time tv.
It took me quite a while to get hooked on this series - it was a full 600 seconds into the first episode before I realized this could well be the best thing I have ever seen on television.