From: Joanna L. Castillo <pefv702@perv.pe.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: DOOL: Carly and Isabella
X-Xxdate: Thu, 3 Sep 92 22:21:35 GMT
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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 21:22:19 GMT

In article <185rhdINNsn@scout.ksu.ksu.edu> Beth Schwindt, bets@scout.ksu.ksu.edu writes:
>I got to thinking about this <start sarcasm> oh, so wonderful <sarcasm off>
>storyline and realized something that the writers are setting us up for.
>Remember the ethics scandal with Kayla?  Well, Carly is treating a
>(sort-of) family member.  That's a *BIG* no-no.  So, anyone want to take
>bets on the chance of rehashing that one and giving Chrystal (sp?)
>that much more airtime?

First, welcome to the mayhem, Beth!  Or have you been here before and
I just missed it? :-)  I liked your .sig (which I, as usual, cavalierly 
deleted!)...nice quote.

Second, what's the big idea?  Trying to make me cry again?  I'm really
curious about what's happened to this show -- in particular, I'm 
talking about how much emphasis is being placed on 8 of the characters 
(Carly, Bo, Isabella, John, Larry, Viv, Vic, and Kim).  When Sheri 
Anderson first showed up on the scene as head writer, she seemed to do 
a great job of getting a much more balanced show out...almost everyone 
got to be on 2 or 3 times a week and things really looked up.  Now 
we're back to where we were before Sheri showed up.

Apparent air time scale in this viewer's eyes (Sandee, we really need 
a scientific update!) -- the number value at the left is the number of
times I estimate a character has been on in the last *30* days -- it 
does not account at all for *actual* air time:

  28 Carly
  25 Larry/Bo
  22 Viv/Vic/Lisanne/Nicky
  20 John/Isabella/Kim/Shane
  18 Carrie/Jesse/Austin (this is probably higher and I'm in denial
     about it)
  12 Marlena/Roman/Roger/Stella/Phillip
   6 Caroline/Shawn/Alice
   4 Tanner/Molly/Julie/Abe/Taylor (Bo's partner)
   2 Marcus/Jack/Jenn/Calliope (or was Calliope only on once?)
   1 Tom/Lexie
   0 Jo/Vern/Mickey/Maggie

I probably forgot a couple of people and I left off people like Dave, 
Ivan, and the "extra" gambling ring folks.  I didn't bother with Brian 
and Ginger since they're gone.  When you start looking at actual air 
time, I'm sure the difference is even more staggering.  For example, 
even though I estimate that Caroline, Shawn, and Alice were on 6 days 
during the past 30, I'll bet their total air time is something like 3 
or 4 minutes on each of those days, at most -- while on any given 
Carly day, she probably gets more like 20 minutes (if not more) of air 
time.

I must add that *any* air time spent on Scarrie/Asstin/Jesster is 
wasted as far as I'm concerned.  I'd much rather see *any* of the 
other characters -- even Carly, Vickie...oops!...I mean Icky, and 
PsychoKim...well, maybe not RoBozoCop (tm Papaya or Spud -- I can't 
remember).

I don't get it!  Argggghhhhhh...whimper...whimper...

>Beth

Joanna.

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