From: rose@cecily.UUCP (Rose M. Delckum)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL: The fight?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:21:07 GMT
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In article <19930105095020EFS6ET1@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU>, EFS6ET1@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU writes:

> I may have to ask for that Bayview Pass again.

     What?  I was supposed to have a pass?  Oops.
> 
> Was it me or was Monday's DOCL possibly the worst show in recent
> memory (and that's saying a lot!)

      I dunno...it's been so consistently bad of late it's
hard to make an impartial judgement.
> 
> The Jack stuff (and you know I love Jack) was stupid.  And I can't
> even bring myself to discuss the Carnage and Jennifer scenes.

     I'm sorry to all you Jack fans, but with this new storyline, well, 
for once I'm fully behind Jennifer and truly think Jack is being a
jackass (no pun intended).  Is the stuff we're seeing now being
done by Jim Reilley? (sp?).  If so, I see total disaster, and even
more abysmal stories in our future (which I never dreamed would be
possible.  Soon even the Cruise of Ineption and the Jencon mess will
look like high art!)  And as for Carly and Jennifer...barf.
> 
> And Kim, the triple personality on trial for murder, as a
> therapist for Nikki?  Please...

     That alone should be enough to make a judge think twice
about awarding custody to Coitus and Limpdick.  Isn't there
a psychologist in the city who isn't suffering from a serious
mental illness and on tril for major crimes?  What about Marlena?
What about the mysterious Dr.Allison who supposedly was helping
Kimmy?  Reality check.  Of course, Camel has no problems letting
her son live with his dad the murderer/rapist/kidnapper, so I
guess having a mentally ill homicidal therapist can't do *too*
much more damage :-)

> 
> But the absolute, positive, worst, was Austin and the Fright.
> I will say, for comic relief, his reaction to being asked to
> take a dive was riotous.  I wanted someone to smack him, he
> seemed to have gone into some brain-dead coma for a moment.
> His mere expression could define "stupid."

     Yes, I've got to hand it to him--he did a marvelous job
on that one.  His face plainly said "Duh?".  I was quite 
impressed.  Maybe Muldoon has a smidge of talent after all!
(Or maybe he just forgot his next line! :-)  )

>  AND for whom was that
> fight intended?  I can't imagine most daytime viewers really like
> boxing, so what does DOCL do?  It stages some realistic, or at least,
> gory fighting.

     What?  You mean the average viewer of soaps doesn't
regularly watch WWF wrestling and bet on pro boxing matches
and identify strongly with Austin cause of the grief they're
getting from their bookies?  Wow.  And I thought I was normal.

>  Did I really need to see a slow-mo shot of Austin
> taking that final punch, blood spewing from his mouth as he took the
> fall?  I don't think so.

     I dunno.  I kinda liked it.  Watching him get beat to a bloody
pulp, watching the blood spurt from his nose and mouth.  Now if only
Billie had jumped in the ring to try and save him, and Carly had
jumped in to render medical assistance, and they'd both been beaten
into bloody pulps also...now *that* would've been good!

>  (Also, they seem to be using that weird
> tape to film transfer process which drops frames, again.)

     I know!  Talk about annoying as hell.  Is this process
seriously cheaper or what?  If not, why are they doing it?
> 
> I am perfectly willing to listen to an alternate view.  Did anyone
> out there like that fight?

     I would've preferred it if Austin had ended up as a cabbage.
> 
> *Razzie
>   PHONE, FAX, CALL!  SAVE SSH!!

Roserooni, who hasn't even seen "Rocky" cause she hates boxing movies
so much
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