Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:18:07 -0400 
From: Jeffrey Todd Blankenship <jb93+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: DOOL Roger Lombard, etc
	<1992Jul28.155750.2832@chpc.utexas.edu>

peea224@chpc.utexas.edu (Joanna L. Castillo) writes:

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My point is that I don't care *at all* about what happens to the 
Lombards and I don't want to watch them.  Good ol' Roger is gonna be 
dead any day now...anyone who can't see that coming isn't up on Soap 
Fundamentals 101 and needs to take a refresher course.  I really am
sorry that your new found hero is to be so short-lived, Jeff.  I just
don't care about the family and I hate the fact that DOOL is wasting
so much time on them.
...
Yeah, but it's the Bradys and Hortons that I care about.  As for the
Scoffields, I only really care about Brian and Cassie -- and I only 
care about her because she was so unceremoniously forgotten by TPTB -- 
no other reason -- I hate inconsistecy.  If they said she'd been hit 
by a truck and died, I wouldn't care about her anymore, either!  I 
just hate not knowing.  I suppose that if the Lombards slowly worked 
their way into things, I might grow to care for them but they've been 
at the forefront from day 1 and I'm still unmoved by them.
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MY  point is name me five bradys or hortons that have done anything
worth mentioning in the past year.  i can't think of any horton (except
jenn) who deserve a major storyline -- julie won't get one so there is
no reason for me to exclude her.  what bradys should get some more time?
 bo isn't very good, roman hasn't done anything except chase carrie
around and try to salvage what he has with marlena.  the list goes on
and on.  sure, if kayla was around, if they brought back mike, etc. then
maybe i could see your point.  hell, if terry bradshaw were 25 again,
the steelers would have a quarterback.  but the fact is, we have to
chose between brister and o'donnell -- not my favorite choice, but i'm
stuck with it.  i haven't seen much from any brady or horton that is
worth saying, so & so doesn't deserve time that could go to...  

as for roger being killed off, regardless of whether or not roger is
killed off, who will be the suspects...bradys, larry, liz, jesse...
well, isn't that what you wanted, more brady air time.  trust me, stella
won't be around much longer either.  the only lombard that will last the
summer will be jesse.  'hero,' strong word, how about "refreshing change
of pace from the same old same old."

so you don't care about the lombards and you do like the bradys and
hortons.  i can understand this, i do to.  so you don't like the
lombards, i do.  i like the scoffields also.  --i don't like everyone of
these family members but who does? --  your point about the lombards
being at the forefront from day one can easily be explained.  how about
this, ~after the trial thing, they were supposed to leave the show. 
however, somebody came up with the idea of using them to set up other
stories.~  granted, roger hitting kim is a major story and roger has a
major role in the story.  the thing with john and issy is not a major
story but merely a set up for the much larger story, "who killed roger
lombard."  we can't have only the brady's wanting to kill roger can we? 
tisk, tisk, soap fundamentals.

somewhere along the line, the point of my original post has been lost. 
i like the lombards.

it has been a bad day, but my i feel better now.

jeff