# Joan of Arcadia 10/1, Or Vengenance is Mine **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2004, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-10-1-or-vengenance-is-mine/267054 "2004-10-01T16:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-10-1-or-vengenance-is-mine/267054/21 "2004-10-02T23:58:59Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Nice touch: Grace and Luke bond over their shared distaste for Kool and the Gang. > > From now on, we shall pay very little attention to the promos, since they really misled a lot of us with this one. > > I, too, was glad to see Joan pushing those bangs off her forehead! > > May I say one more time that I dig Goth God? > > And who is the lady playing the Old Woman God? She looks very familiar. The Old Woman God is Mrs. Landingham from West Wing. She was the president’s secretary. She’s a great actress. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-10-1-or-vengenance-is-mine/267054/22 "2004-10-03T05:10:24Z")
Did she also play Ruth-Anne on **Northern Exposure**? **Aes** : I mailed a tape this morning. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-10-1-or-vengenance-is-mine/267054/23 "2004-10-03T05:36:39Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Did she also play Ruth-Anne on **Northern Exposure**? > **Aes** : I mailed a tape this morning. No. That was Peg Phillips who passed away a few years ago: [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0680697/](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0680697/) ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-10-1-or-vengenance-is-mine/267054/24 "2004-10-03T16:20:48Z")
> [@lavenderlemon](#): > > I generally love the show overall but I thought tonight’s theme – inaction has moral consequences – was a bit heavy handed and a little cruel. I agree. It played out like an after school special. I hate the lawsuit plot thread. It’s way too contrived. It’s as if Joan’s crises of faith and mom’s search for faith isn’t enough to carry an eopisde; they have to drop the giant anvil of a lawsuit on the family (not to mention the cop stuff…but I almost never like the cop stuff). Add Adam to the long list of characters that bug me. What a stick-in-the-mud. Isn’t old lady god the Twin Peaks’ log lady? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-10-1-or-vengenance-is-mine/267054/25 "2004-10-04T02:17:32Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > Isn’t old lady god the Twin Peaks’ log lady? Mrs. Landingham/Old Lady God: [Kathryn Joosten](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429760/) The Log Lady (Margaret Lanternman): [Catherine E. Coulson](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183466/) I had to think about it though - at first I thought you might be right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joan-of-arcadia-10-1-or-vengenance-is-mine/267054.md?page=1)