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    I stopped watching when the ice-queen doctor made the med student climb
    a mountain to get her a rare flower; he spent all day getting there and
    getting back (can you say "doormat"?) and she was p!ssed off that the
    flower was wilted, or bent, or something, when he, exhausted and rather
    bent himself, presented it to her.
    
    Leslie

  I watched one show and didn't care for it very much. There were three story
lines, one in which a medical student knocked down a local farmer's fence and
shed with his car, one in which a young female medical student wanted to teach
her maid to read, and one in which a young medical student had an affair with
his teacher. 

  All the story lines were very preachy and predictable. The farmer story was
one of these things were the spoiled young white kid has to get hit over the
head with a plank to understand that poor non-white people are human too. True
he came around in the end and got his friends to rebuild the fence and other
damaged property but they still seemed condescending in their attitude toward
the locals. 

  The young woman couldn't understand why the poor maid, an older woman, was
too proud to admit she couldn't read. Someone suggested she start a school for
the kids and finally the woman finally showed up in class. Ok, nice story but
the way they told it was way too text book and way too formula. It seemed like
the female version of the 1st story. 

  The affair story was terrible. The young man had to decide between his young
girlfriend (another student) and the teacher. It was 50's morality the way they
portraid the older woman as the experience woman tramp with no feelings while
the younger woman was portraid as the clean wholesome kind of woman you take
home to mom. It was pathetic. 

  I suppose that if I was a spoiled rich kid who was curious as to what all
this "valuing differences" stuff was all about I'd find it interesting. I'd
follow along and imagine myself raising a finger during my college days to help
the poor unwashed masses before setting up my mega-million dollar clinic in
White Plains. 

  As it is, these are the kinds of people who make it difficult for me to
retain my lunch. That being the case, I'd rather not invite them into my home
one night a week. 

  George 

    I too stopped watching after half a dozen episodes, for a variety
    of reasons:  the characters were not interesting (and became
    annoying very fast, except for the two female students);
    I got tired of the chief administrator doing the Hemingway schtick;
    I got *really* tired of the "sexy" female dr. and her unprofessional
    relationship with the student (that flower episode was the worst!).
    I guess the only thing going for the show was the location (I think
    it was filmed in Jamaica, and having just returned from a week there,
    all I can say is that it's a fantastic place, which was another
    reason to stop watching, since all the students did was complain
    about being there!)
    
    Richard

    I stopped watch the show latter than most here The show started to get
    repetative and the people didn't deepen. I never learn anything
    new about the characters and the character never did anything. They
    bumbed into an island person in some way,we learn a little about the
    island person and the island then the main character goes on his way
    unchanged never to see the island person again.
      That was 75% of all the episodes.
                     Jeff Peters

I gave the series a couple of months before I stopped watching. I had the 
usual problem with the show, lack of character development and interest in
the characters. It seemed to be an honest attempt to duplicate the feeling
of Northern Exposure that just missed the mark. Still, it is an above
averege series that I might watch but I don't make a point of it.


Randy