From: cf@planck.physics.purdue.edu (Coleen Flanagan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL:  Stuff
Summary: Stuff and More Stuff
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:55:53 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department


>Subject: DOOL:  Stuff
>Date: 31 Dec 92 18:55:34 GMT

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Boysies writes:
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>For starters, why can't Jenn be supportive of Jack???
>I just don't understand how she can be so one sided.
>Jack was more than just a little supportive when she
>decided to host the talk show.  The spectator has
>always been Jack's lifeline.  She should be trying to
>help him, not telling him it's an impossible dream.
>I found that very annoying.

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          Yep, Jen sure is getting on the annoying side again!!
          When she told Julie that Jack is just having another
          kneejerk reaction to things I wanted Julie to reply
          "I don't think so Darling, the Spectator IS his life".  
          Lord knows Jack's been there for Jen's anxiety attacks 
          about her career.  I liked Jack saying that love wasn't 
          enough.  How true!  When Jack left to talk to Bill 
          about loaning him money for the binder Jennifer did far 
          too much gloating for me.  Insinuating that without her 
          help Jack wouldn't get the paper back.  How annoying!
          About as annoying as watching Carly and Jennifer eat 
          ice cream, hug a lot, and proclaim AGAIN what good 
          friends they are.  [GAG ME!]


>Subject: DOOL: Scoops De Jour
>Date: 4 Jan 93 19:10:41 GMT
>Sender: spira@panix.com (Greg Spira)


>Jack hides the cash in a vase at his house.  Unfortunately, it's a 
>vase Jennifer doesn't particularly like, and she throws it out

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          Not again!  Jack is going to look like a fool by not
          taking that money and putting it where it would do the
          most good.  Why don't the writers just give him back
          the damn Spectator??  It's a waste of time to hand Jack
          another setback if the story doesn't go anywhere.  "Oh
          please, let this story go somewhere"!!!


>Phillip insists that Jennifer use some of the network's suggested
>questions during her interview with John and Marlena.  And she gives
>in, asking J & M  very personal questions, including whether they
>love each other.  The show now looks like a success, and Jennifer
>talks to Phillip about setting up a day care center.  But someone's
>been fired.  And the show leads to some very intense moments between
>John and Marlena on Monday, January 18th.

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           I wish they would let John and Marlena be friends without
           this undertone of sexual tension - at least from her.  IMO
           it would work better if they could remain acquaintances
           for a while, then companions, and finally let the sexual
           attraction begin.  It's still too soon for longing looks. 

>A classmate tells Nikki that he sure is lucky to have his real
>parents back in his life.  Nikki questions Lawrence and Carly about
>what he has been told.

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           I am so bored with watching Carly, Lawrence, and Nikki bond
           and I feel bad for Michael Sabatino.  His character of
           Lawrence never gets to leave his mansion and cause havoc
           for Salem.  He's made to wait for Carly to arrive so they
           can spend quality time with Nikki.  Their Christmas show
           was a yawn!  That trunk seemed like it had no bottom.  I
           have a big question:

                        "WAS THAT OUR NEW YEARS SHOW"??
           
           Why bother??  No one got to partake in the festivities
           much less the kiss on New Years.  Watching Bo and Carly
           inch towards each other while everyone else was ignored
           was unfair but DAYS literally left the viewers counting
           down to Midnight and never picked up the show from that 
           moment on Monday.  Did the audience miss a show?  I swear 
           this soap gets worse as each "Days" passes by.  If Corday
           can screw up Christmas and New Years I can't imagine what
           1993 has in store.  It's similar to a Stephen King Novel.
      

>Greg 


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           As far as Patsy Pease leaving the show again I'm sorry that
           her tramatic childhood has come back to haunt her.  I can't
           even imagine myself in her shoes dealing with flashbacks,
           blackouts, uncontrollable muscle contractions, resulting in
           no sleep, waking up perspiring from nightmares, and living
           day to day not knowing what to expect.  I also think she
           better than any psychiatrist, or DAYS producer, should know 
           if she should have come back to work.  When she left the 2nd
           time she knew her problems had magnified dramatically.  The
           fact she was in the hospital for a time solidified that fact.
           She said she was leaving to get well.  She wasn't gone that
           long before Corday called her up and personally asked her to
           come back.  Obviously she was wrong to come back after only
           a few short months.  Physical ailments take enough time for
           one to recuperate from but with Patsy she had even more to
           contend with - physically, mentally, and emotionally.  Pease
           was wrong to come back the third time.  In the recent issue
           of SOD she admits she was fired after being found by her
           husband in her dressing room suffering from more flashbacks,
           and not making any sense.  She now says "I'm going to do what 
           I set out to do - heal and let this be a recovery period.  I'll 
           be ready to work soon, if not at DAYS, then somewhere else."
           I wish her lots of luck but I think she's kidding herself.

           Christy Clarke isn't irritating to watch like Tracey was but
           her storyline continues to be FFward material.  As long as
           she's made to work with the same loser actors in a lame story
           her future looks bleak.


           Whew - I'm done!  By the way - "I'm Back"!!!!
            

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           Coleen
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