From: rose@cecily.UUCP (Rose M. Delckum)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL: TAN: Mrs. Bo Brady
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:33:11 GMT
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In article <1992Dec15.031852.7111@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>, Demetrius Owens writes:

> Okay, I promise (I think) I will drop this after this time.  Anyway, we now
> know that Carly and Bo are never, ever, ever going to get married, but I
> feel the need to clarify my point.  Firs of all, I know that
> Carly-defenders are an oppressed bunch and therefore a bit touchy, but I
> was not picking on Carly in particular.  I also mentioned Diana Colville.
> Okay, so I forgot about Jennifer, but that bugged me too.  But I also had
> no intention of insulting people who change their names.  It's just that
> this is 1992, and SOME WOMEN do keep their names, but on the soaps it's
> never even considered, even by women who are professionals.  I'd like to
> thank people for standing up for my "right to bitch".  While I'm at it,
> though, I've noticed that Days seems terrified of the controversy an
> interracial pairing would cause, even though there were possibilities with
> Marcus and Faith and then Marcus and Kayla.  Seems like traditionalism and
> a "don't rock the boat" mentality always win out.  Whew, I feel better now.
> Thanks for listening.
>                                 Renee

     Good point (about the interracial romance/traditionalism etc.)
And of course, lets not forget the ageism issue.  How many older
people on the show have been given decent stories?  Viv and Vic are
the only 'older' romance going.  Why don't we see Tom and Alice
doing stuff other than cooking dinner/giving advice?  Isn't Alice
still running her restaurant?  That's be a great way for her to
meet new people, get involved in something funny/dangerous.  And what
about Mickey and Maggie?  He ignored her for a year, she had an
affair, and now everything's copacetic?  Why didn't we get to see
them working out their problems?  And Shawn and Caroline...why don't
we see them being anything other than props?  This would be a great
time to bring back up Caroline and Vic's attraction to each other.
And they're dumping SSH...*I* could come up with a zillion decent
stories for her.  Okay, right off the top of my head....
1.  Julie plans revenge against Lawrence with the help of John
and Vic
2.  Julie and Magie open a small store so Maggie will have
something to do with her time.  They have all sorts of fun/humorous
stuff
3.  Julie gives in and asks Jack for advice on running the paper.
He acts as her mentor
4.  The Spectator gets involved in a slander suit (thus giving
Mickey something to do)
5.  Because of her time at the newspaper, Wings is losing business.
Julie tries to get Eve home to manage the place and finds out who
she's dating and gets involved with Eve and Nick and Steve and Hope
(okay!  Mega long shot!  I just couldn't pass it up!)
6.  Julie hires Alice to manage Wings with Calliope as her assistant!
7.  Julie finds a clue that Hope might be alive.  Not wanting to raise Bo's 
hopes (no pun intended), she and the Horton women trya nd solve the mystery.

And that's just off the top of my head!  Someone give me a job writing
soaps!

Well, gotta motor.  I have 3 hours to skim _Moby Dick_
Such fun.

Roserooni, who has raised avoiding studying to an art form and
hasn't slept in several days as you may have noticed!
> 
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