From: mins@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (timothy.j.mizerak)
Subject: Re: DOOL: All this talk about UPDATES.....
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:47:00 GMT

In article <92253.103808NMBCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> Nelson Broat <NMBCU@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>>In article <1992Sep9.123703.6996@cbfsb.cb.att.com>, mins@cbnewsf.cb.att.com
>>(timothy.j.mizerak) writes:
>>|>
>>|>      1.  How about "capsule updates"?  These can be in addition to the
>>|>          regular updates, whether or not those ever actually make it
>>|>          out there.  Just a paragraph or two about the major happenings
>>|>          of the episode.
>
>This sounds okay, but in reality this is uneccessary as it happens anyway (i.e.
>the major happening of a particular episode gets discussed on the net anyway,
>so this would be somewhat redundant), IMHO.


True, but it would be much more identifiable for those that just want the
"quick scoop", rather than having to wade through all our babbling.  :)


>>|>      2.  How about updating by *storyline*, rather than by day???  It
>>|>          would be easier to read and I would think easier on the
>>|>          updater.  One person would have the Carly/Lawrence/Nicky
>>|>          How would we go about implementing this?
>
>This sounds better. It would be easier to find what you're looking for, but
>it would be difficult to implement. In otherwords, MJ (as she states below :)),
>would have no problem dealing with any storyline involving Jack & Jenn. And
>you Tim would just love to do the update for any story involving Kim, but
>where do you find someone who actually cares about Roman and Marlena? Jesse
>and Carrie and Austin? The girls of Bamburgers :), Spasticklyb and John?


Yeah, this could be a problem.  Maybe we could do a lottery like that book
by Shirley Jackson [I think that was her name.]  :)   But really, even though
the great majority dislikes those characters you have mentioned, I'm sure 
someone out there kind of likes them.  If there are Isabella, Carly and Kim
fans then why not a Carrie or Marlena fan???


>Also, since characters swap partners on soaps, how would you handle this
>change? (I.E. - If someone is doing Bo & Carly, who does Carly & Lawrence?
>Lawrence and Lizanne? Lizanne and the next man to come along once the writ-errs
>put Lawrence and Carly together, etc.)


I don't really see this as a problem.  Think about it, the writers aren't 
assigned days of the week.  They're given storylines to work on and sometimes
different writers will end up working together as their storylines collide.
So, we'll have overlap here, but things will be coming from different per-
spectives.


>I don't mean to put holes in your ideas, its great that you've stepped forward
>and have come up with some, its just that, well, I think there are some holes.


Yeah, there are, but so goes the "update issue" in general.


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