Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 13:06:34 -0400 
From: Jeffrey Todd Blankenship <jb93+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: DOOL: Bo and Carly (was Re: DOOL: Tuesday 11th---YUCK)

a Foaming Guava writes:

>	And maybe they'd [ed. bo and carly] both get shot by the local druglord
> and die quickly in each other's arms.  Does this mean Carly's gonna work with
> the cops too?  Boy, she sure is talented.  What an awesome, multi-talented,
> deeply-caring 90's kinda woman...NOT!

my question is who will be running the trauma center while she is hitting the
streets.  marcus certainly can't handle the job.  why it is nearly all carly
can do to keep up with it -- as seen by her many hospital "sleep-overs" and all.
it must be hard to be in such demand!

> When are TPTB gonna learn that the whole 'rebel without a clue' thing went out
> with the 80's and Reagan and Rambo?  What the hell can Carly do against d      > druglords, huh?  Use a machine gun or napalm to kill them all?  Then others
> will just take their place.  I really hate it when this happens...they pull
> something out of thin air and expect us to care.  Now I realize this is a 
> soap opera, and I don't expect reality, hec, I love fantasy, that's one of
> the reasons I loved Nick, all his fantasies, but this is ridiculous.  There is
> no sense of reality whatsoever.

well i'm sure carly's "street smarts" will be enough for her to do battle against the "bad, ol'" drug pushers..  maybe tptb will expect us to forget that carly  
has led...well...a PRIVILEDGED life.  give me a break, does she think the
people she is going up against are going to give a ... she is Dr. Carrly Manningremember when she and bo both were beaten up by the guy trying to stop them from
going to see that kid she was told might have been hers.  maybe we can see more
of that fighting spirit that left her knocked out beside the car.

the thing that gets me about this "reality or lack-there-of" thing is that i
think tptb are trying to through some reality in there.  they seem to be trying
to show a major problem in cities.  now if there is a message they are trying
to convey, why not use some other characters that will bring some realism
to the story.  -- read "why isn't marcus the one doing this storyline"
(who am i kidding, the only message tptb are sending is "anything for carly")

> And also, does this mean CC gets 2 front-burner stories?  The new triangle and
> her 'Rambette against drugs' line?  Why are they giving Deidre her own show?
> Crystal is obviously the new wunderkind in the studio (and the casting couch..> sorry nasty remark) so why even bother with Deidre anymore?  Just give Crystal
> ML.

have you noticed carly is either in or mentioned in almost every scene.  whenever she anb bo are apart, bo always ends up talking about her.  larry has been
thinking (flashbacks) about her lately.  Lisanne is trying to find out about she
and larry.  and then of course, there are HER many, many scenes.  carly already
(crystal already) has her own soap.  however, since you mentioned it, maybe the
powers that be could give her ml also. -- one hour simply isn't enough for 
someone of her talent!

> [a lot of stuff about bo and carly that i TOTALLY agree with]

now that those two will be even more occupied with themselves and their work,
what about SD.  maybe they could turn austin into a Pied Piper of Hamelin type
who could lead the children of salem to another place where they will be n       noticed.  "The Pied Piper of Salem" what an idea! Do you think if i fax this
to NBC (are the rumors true, are they going to change the meaning of these letters to 'n'othing 'b'ut 'c'arly?) i will be invited to join the elite staff of 
"days" writers?  i could tie in a "bo and carly search for salem's children"
angle.

here's hoping uncle ken give me pen,
jeff
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