From: starkid@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Lance Sanders)
Subject: AMC: Godzilla Lite Update 930108
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 22:18:08 GMT
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        ***  Godzilla Lite Update --- Friday, January 8, 1993  ***
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                        Kneepads and Magic Buttons
                                   Day
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                                Storylines
                     (ranked by relative superiority)
                     --------------------------------


[A]     Dixie talks Jack out of blowing Dodge.

[B]     Mrs. O. deep-sixes Ta/ed's plans for DNA testing.

[C]     TurboLawyer's MysteryHo (tm) shows up unannounced in his PV
        hotel room.

[D]     Ta/ed spots Ruth.

[E]     Dix visits Mrs. O.

[F]     Pops gives Tink the 3rd degree about Jr.'s phone call to Dixie.

[G]     Hayley puts in some "quality time" at the detective agency.



Capsule Evaluation: This episode sucked. Everyone was pretty much just 
                    going through their paces (except McClain and Barb Rush);
                    these depths haven't been plumbed in a long time.
                    Hamburger Helper meets Hamburger Helper Extender.
                    I don't buy the writers' logic that storylines have to be
                    drawn out so viewers can tune in intermittently and still
                    manage to keep up. Why penalize the faithful??



        Music Videos
        of the Week:   "Steam" --- Peter Gabriel
        -----------     "Gimme steam!" "Dream the Dreamer's Dream."

                       "Get Up (Move Boy Move)" --- AB Logic
                        Intriguing lead singer. Yowsa.

                       "Don't Walk Away" --- Jade
                        Quasi-Jailbait Diva-wannabes with a very funky riff.

                       "Give It Up (Turn It Loose)" --- En Vogue
                        As usual, delicious harmonies. B&W video set in a
                        1960's Harlem beauty shop...and it works. EV will
                        go down as the strongest "girlgroup" in the past
                        40 years (Supremes 2nd, IMO).




Storyline [A]:
-------------

   Dixie drops by Jack's office, kneepads on, to beg him to stay in PV and 
remain on her custody case. She brings out every reason in the book 
(they're friends, she needs his strength, Tad always said he was the best, 
Junior needs him...[fill-in-the-blank]). Jack informs her that Palmer 
fired him, and her new lawyers can "do the do", but Dix is relentless ("Tad 
never lied to me - you ARE the best"), and Jack ("...'ya know, you've been 
mentioning Tad a lot lately...") finally gives in and puts "Escape To Rio" 
on hold. 

   Brian drops by to alert Jack to Dixie's weird behavior ("she's really 
switching channels, man; she's going down - she's going under"). Jack 
encourages him to "stand by her; have faith - the Good Guys always win". 
   Turbo transports to his hotel room, and finds his MysteryHo perched 
seductively on the sofa, showing lots of leg.




Storyline [F]:
-------------

   Adam follows Tink to Jr.'s airport school tour, and grills her about her 
loyalties and her part in Junior's rapidly growing telecommunications 
skills. Brian tries to play X blocks the square, but Tink goes off on him 
for butting in. We've seen all this before, folks. I'm bored.

   Chez Chandler, Stuart gives Pops the go-ahead to plan his wedding to 
Glo, but NOT to include Gloria's parents on the invite list. Adam uses this 
surprising info to buy a vowel in regards to deep-sixing the marriage. He 
calls the hospital to check Glo's response to inquiries about her mother 
("Click!"), then calls up Pekin, IL to have a chat with Mama Marsh & Co.




Storyline [G]:
-------------

   Hayley bops to The Office, and tries to get into some busy work, which 
involves transferring one file to the next drawer. Bucky tries to cheer her 
up over the whole custody thing, and she gets teary-eyed over Brian 
standing up for her "just like in the old days". Mr. 38-years-old and Miss 
18-years-old hug. Tightly.
   Next, Chuckles, in an attempt to get her to vent her frustrations, 
offers her a glass to throw against the wall, and she accepts, followed by 
a bunch of pencils and a try w/the phone. She informs the Buckeroo that she 
didn't tell Bri the real deal at the airport (how she really feels about 
the custody case and him), because: "It's a lot easier to have Brian hate 
my guts, than to have Brian as my friend." 
 
                         [Spock accent: ON]
                            [Eyebrow: UP]

                         "Fascinating logic."

                            [Brow :DOWN]
                          [Spockacc.: OFF]



Storyline [E]:
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   Dix shows up for work, and GloBoNurse gives her the 4-1-1 on Mrs. Orsini 
and Ta/ed, afterwhich she immediately experiences a sharp mystery pain.
Dixie tells Glo to marry Stu; "all a good marriage needs is kindness and 
respect". [Not to mention unfailing loyalty, romance, money, some mutual 
interests...(fill-in-the-blank)...]
   Bri shows up to tell her about the airport confrontation w/Pops, but she 
sends him abruptly on his way, and bops in on Nola.
 


Storyline [B]:
-------------

   Hospital room. A sleeping Nola. Ta/ed and Lionel agree that DNA testing 
should be done (T: "see if they can do it without needles")to see if he's 
really realted to O, but she awakens and raises so much cain that her heart 
monitor goes beserk. Stress City. Her physician is called in and calm 
restored, Ta/ed promises to deep-six the inquiry. Suddenly, Joe is paged 
over the PA system ("Dr. Martin, Dr. Joseph Martin..."), and Ta/ed goes, 
"Duh!".  Such a coincidence (Ted's name when he landed in the Orsini 
vinyards: "Martin Joseph"). :) 

   Ta/ed also tells Moms about a recurring memory of a woman he might have 
been in love with ("...all those years, all that time...half the time I 
wake up and can't tell if I was dreaming or remembering something..."). 
Nola: "That could be what you're searching for...I hope to God you find the 
special woman in your past." He goes for a walk, right before Dix bops in 
as patient-advocate-on-the-job. 
   
   Ta/ed spots Ruth in the hospital lounge, and goes Weird Look City.

   PseudoCliffhanger.

 


Summary of Moderately Funny Lines
---------------------------------

Adam confronting Jethro X at the airport:
"What are you doing here? Let me guess...you're here to teach my son how
 to smuggle bombs through security..."

"Go play on the runway."

Hayley to Brian (post-argument) still chez airport:
"There's a flight leaving for Bogata in a few minutes; be on it."

Hayley to Adam ("I need to talk to you."):
"You don't always get what you want."

Ta/ed to Nola after her stress-induced heart arrythmias:
(looking at her monitors)
"Mother, are you aware they've turned you into a video game?"

(after promising to drop plans for DNA testing)
"I am now, and will always be Ted Orsini, son of Nola and Joseph; my
 hobbies are bungee jumping and electrolysis..."
 
(Nola: "I have some questions that have been troubling me 
        all these years, too.")
"Like, where's the 'lymon'?"





GEnie's Peek At The Soaps
-------------------------
***Soap Opera News 1/8/93***

GE> Adam invites Gloria's mother to Pine Valley in an effort to
GE> stop Gloria and Stuart's wedding plans. 

GE> Tad gets a brief recall of Dixie but can't place her in his life.

GE> Jackson's mystery woman asks him for help
GE> and surprises him with a passionate kiss. 

GE> Natalie suggests to Trevor that it might be
GE> time for a career change for him.



Rankings
========

[(c) All My Features, Inc. 1993]

 1 "The Young and the Restless"
 2 "All My Children"
 3 "As the World Turns"
 4 "The Bold and the Beautiful"
 5 "General Hospital"
 6 "Guiding Light"
 7 "One Life to Live"
 8 "Days of Our Lives"
 9 "Another World"
 10 "Santa Barbara"
 11 "Loving"

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