Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 21:04:25 -0400 
From: Marcus Wilhelm Banzhaf <mb5g+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: DOOL: Roger is back!
	<1992Jul24.122652.1291@sadtler.com>

Warning!!  Possible Spoilers ahead if you didn't watch the preview at
the end of Friday's show.  

Jeff Blankenship writes:
>>the count is now up to two days and a highlight and no roger.<<

Well Jeff, we'll end the count at three days!!!!  According to the
previews, Monday's episode could be a Rog classic.  Thank god John is
back from the honeymoon.  Get him away from Izzy for a few minutes at
least.  Please!!  I need some John scenes without Izzy because I'm
really getting sick of him.  I need my faith restored that its Izzy
dragging him down and anyone else who gets within five feet of her.  

The John/Roger scene looks great.  Same goes for the Roger/Liz scene. 
I'm so glad the writers are going to give him a chance, with some of the
better characters.  

>>come on now, look at the man.  he is great.  i have begun my campaign
to >>champion vern. 

Jeff, I'm with you again.  Someone needs to stand up and defend this
man.  I enjoy almost all of his scenes with Jack and this is reason
enough to keep him around.  He did let me down a few months ago though
during the Hawkins story when Jack was on the run.  He really slammed on
Jack to Jennifer behind his back.  Can't remember exactly what he said
(Jack having an affair?)  but it really seemed like he was lying.  I
tend to blame this a little more on the writers though.  I also thought
that he played some terrific scenes when he told Tanner about having
been suspicious that his wife had an affair.  His pain really came
across well.  I admit, Vern will never be a headline character but DAYS
really needs supporting characters like him.

>>I agree that the John and Isabella story
>>needs some spice (all academic now...) but Danielle was not the answer.
>>Marina (was that her name?) should come back (maybe as a vampire
>>like Kimdid? :-) ).  She could try for John (and succeed driving Issy
to >>suicide -

I still would to have scene Danielle as a regular but Marina's return
could have been really interesting too.  I always thought she had great
potential but the writers seemed to really screw up the entire story. 
First, it really wasn't the time yet to try to split up Steve and Kayla.
 They went through way too much up to that point.  Also, the hole thing
with Steve getting a glass eye and losing the patch was stupid.  They
never gave Marina a chance to develop.  She was constantly trying to
break up Steve and Kayla.  I still wonder to this day why the hell she
had Izzy in that mental ward.  I'd love to have an explanation for this.
 After Marina died, there was no one left who knew why she was in there.
 Assuming she really had a problem, it would be great to see this come
up in the story that's going to get rid of her.  I'd love to see her
slowly go wacko over the next few months.  

Well Jeff and I are ready for a big week of Roger.  Fresh case of
Rolling Rock in the refrigerator and a big Roger episode tomorrow.  What
more could we ask for.  A Roger-Vern scene maybe.  Nah, that'd be asking
for too much.

For now that's it!

-marcus