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 From: ask_for_it@on_the_group.com 
  
 > "greenyammo"  wrote in message 
 > news:csxte.15850$Vo6.13634@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk... 
 >> Doesn't have to be mindless does it though does it? Is anybody out 
 >> there actually interested in Mickey and Rose's mum? Is that why we 
 >> tune in every week? Eastenders does this sort of thing on a far 
 >> superior level. 
  
 I care about Mickey and Rose's mum because of the way they influence (and 
 are influenced by) Rose's growth. 
  
 It's more of a conventional family than the "UNIT Family" of the 1970s but 
 performs the same function for viewers.  Only this time, to coin my mum's 
 phrase, "without all those boring soldiers". 
 -- 
 Frankymole 
  
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