To me, that wasn't the saddest part of the episode. The saddest part was when Jerrica and Kimber talk to their father and promise that they'll clean, they'll cook, they'll do anything--just please don't send Aja and Shana away. Literally. crying. my. eyes. out.
This makes me think of my sister. I didn't get to say goodbye. She had a epileptic seizure and was gone before the ambulance could leave the house. Me and her bf tried to bring her back while waiting but to no luck. Official cause of death was a sudden death from epilepsy
I've said it beore and now, it has been always TEARING to feel this very scene in the whole JatH scenario (a young Jerrica giving her mother the "frozen" shoulder and then Jacqui feeling "something was rotten in Denmark...", but couldn't do anything about it...). Now in the 2010's we know a good measure of fun and seriousness sells stories (ask the ~ 20 M viewers/week of NCIS in the States), but that was revolutionary by 1988 American-scripted cartoon standards. Thanks for the reminder...
...I can relate to Jerrica in this one...I wish I were nicer to my mom before she passed too....😞 I bet I was the worst kid out of the bunch back then...
We all make mistakes, but we shouldn't continually beat ourselves up b/c of them. While it's true that you can't change what already happened, the best thing you can do for yourself is to do the hardest thing -- forgiving yourself & letting go
I remember reading that the dude that wrote this didn't like the show at all. He only wrote it because he was under contract to write six episodes for Hasbro/Sunbow cartoons. He couldn't do Transformers or GI Joe, so he wrote this instead.
He (Michael Charles Hill) actually wrote several episodes for both "GI Joe" and "Transformers" - one of the "GI Joe" episodes written by him was "Cold Slither" which was kind of like "Joe" meeting "Jem" (it is the one with Dreadnoks posing as rock band that hypnotizes people with subliminal messages). He also wrote two "Joe" episodes for DIC. But I think it is highly probable he wasn't "Jem" fan at all - just likeDonald F. Glut isn't fan of "Transformers" for which he made a lot of episodes.
That, & there's another lesson, too. Even though we're all capable of making mistakes, we shouldn't go living our lives continually beating ourselves up from them b/c we can't change what already happened. The best thing that we can do for ourselves is to do the most difficult thing of all -- forgiving ourselves & letting go of the past. It's just like what Rafiki told Simba in "The Lion King": "The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it."
I thought Jerrica's mother was alive? In the very first episode "Only the Beginning", when Jerrica and her friends are trying to fix up Starlight House and she gets soaked with water, there's a woman who helps Jerrica dry her hair and suggests getting money from Starlight Records. Is that not Jerrica's mother?
Du hast deine Kinder bei uns gut abgesetzt Sag wenn nicht stimmt sage ich nicht aber es ist Ich lebe auch nur so und kriege meine Wünsche nicht Nur ihr lebt
