From: cf@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Coleen Flanagan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: DOOL
Summary: Comments:  This and that and Patsy Pease
Keywords: Give Jack and Storyline!!!
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:02:58 GMT
Followup-To: The Horton's and Brady's aren't cutting it!!
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department


In article <1992Jul28.182207.23797@hubcap.clemson.edu> kudra@hubcap.clemson.edu (sallie j kudra) writes:

>Anyone who thinks Patsy Pease can't act apparently didn't catch her in the
>hospital scenes where she first comes out of the coma.  Most actors/actresses
>look like they just woke up from a long nap.  Patsy looked as if she really
>had just come out of a coma!  Kim haters take that! (Better Tim?  Patsy is
>wonderful, but the TPTB have a serious screw loose letting the likes of Mary
>Beth slip away (with a hand in her back)).  


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>* Sallie Kudra, Information Systems Development, Clemson Univ., Clemson, SC   *



              Batten down the hatches.....full speed ahead.....
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         I've been reading the many comments about Patsy Pease lately
         trying to keep an open mind about her thrice returning to
         DAYS.  I was composed and maintained a fairly decent attitude
         considering she hasn't been an asset to this show in a long
         time.  It was Corday's idea to, once again, recycle the Shane
         \Kim re-union ad nauseum which Charles S. has now squelched.  
         I can't blame Pease because Corday decided hiring Patsy made
         more business sense than keeping Mary Beth, but M.B.Evans was
         shown the door against her wishes.  She said that maybe her
         leaving would be best in the long run, after all these years
         but, it would have been nice if it had been her decision. Ken
         specifically said HE decided the character of Kayla needed to
         be given a rest.  [Think Ken will take his own advice and go?]
         IMO there was a lot more story for Kayla than there is for Kim.

         Corday also said that he is excited about the character of
         Austin because he has chemistry with everyone he's had a 
         scene with.  [What?  With who?  Ken is definitely losing it].

         Corday says that the main staples of the show are the Horton's,
         Brady's and the Alamaine's.  [What happened to the Johnson's
         Ken?  Remember them??  You use to include them in your pep
         talks.  Could it be Steve and Adrienne are no more, that Jo
         is rarely seen, and poor Jack mopes around Salem until someone 
         brings up those tiresome words "Jack, you miss Jennifer, don't
         you." ["AHHHHHHHHHH"!  I wish Jack would say "If I was given a
         story besides pining for my wife I probably could think of
         something else".  Where's Cindy when he needs her.] 

         A good point was made about the clock running out for the Brady's
         and Horton's.  Face it, those families are B-o-rrrring!  Any
         good storyline for them has already been written years ago. The
         non-Brady's and non-Horton's were and are the more interesting
         characters.  As long as Ken Corday continues to lead this show
         down the path it's going now it's doomed.  NBC has become the
         4th Network.  Looking at DAYS I can see why.

         To get back the original poster above and the sole reason I
         decided to give my .02$, [ok .35$] since nothing on DAYS seems
         worth my effort to comment on, was Patsy Pease's ability to act.
         Do you mean OVERact??  Unfortunately I tuned in last Friday as
         Kim was obviously struggling to pull herself out of her coma.
         She did ok waking up, looking no worse for wear considering a
         stunt double took that nasty tumble, [ :-)) ] but by the time 
         Shane came into her hospital room Patsy completely magnified
         the situation.  Her mouth took on a life of it's own.  Granted
         a person's body isn't going to be in the best control of his/her 
         motor functions but Patsy acted like she was in the heavy stages
         of labor.  When the camera panned to Charles a couple of times
         the look on his face was priceless.  Somewhere inbetween "She
         must think this is an Emmy performance"  or  "After today I am
         positive I won't be re-signing to this show".  Sturges and Hall
         performances are almost mechanical and then you have Patsy who
         goes to the opposite extreme.
         
         I find if you ffward DAYS to where you only watch a little bit
         of everyone's scenes you can enjoy it like a sitcom.  Both are
         similar.  Little realism, lots of laughs, and if you occasionally
         miss episodes it doesn't matter.  Tune in tomorrow - nothing
         has changed.


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