From: shiva%morpheus%Servers@MAGNOLIA.BANYAN.COM
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: SB
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:42:33 GMT
X-Unparsable-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 69 19:00:00 EST

Before I start my bi-weekly rant (:-)) I'd like to tell ALL the SB posters 
that I read and enjoy everything, whether or not I respond to it.  (I'd 
probably yak a lot more, but I have to post through a posting service, which 
means to reply to an article I have to a) save it, b) ftp it down to my local 
site, c) edit it, d) mail it to ucbvax.berkeley.edu, and e) wait for the reply
to get posted.  For my birthday, I'd like a real news feed, please.:-))

Also, did anybody else get one segment of the show broadcast twice?  I think 
it was meant to be the end, but they also showed it in the middle which was a 
little confusing.  It was the bit that started with BJ asking Reese to find 
Jodie because she had to talk to them, and Warren finding the doll in her 
drawer, and Ted and Angela going at it on the conference room floor.

Anyway:

Angela:  What's the deal???  They seem to be turning her into something of a 
villainess, perhaps to make her breakup with Warren a little more cut-and-
dried.  Yes, she is insecure - with good reason, as it happens, even if 
Warren can't admit it yet - but where did this lying, manipulative, *itch-
woman from hell come from??  Not only is she beating up Warren over BJ, she's
starting to threaten Ted, too.  (Not that Ted shows much sign of resistance!)

I will say, though, that in a way I like her better as a villainess.  It's
good to see her DOING something about her life, even if what she's doing and
how she's doing it isn't terribly nice.  (Besides, when the actress was on
Y&R, I thought she made quite a good "bad guy".)

Frank:  Excuse me while I haul out my baseball bat and beat him into a small, 
bloody pulp.  I didn't know the actor was leaving in August, but I must say
I'm glad that something is going to happen to this bozo.  I agree with
everyone who says the actor is putting on a phenomenal performance - I have
to keep reminding myself that that's what he's doing so I don't throw things
at the TV!

Rick, I can appreciate your feelings about your own children, especially
hoping you'd be able to put your own feelings aside if they wanted to
maintain the "good part" of the relationship with their abuser.  I think, 
though, that realistically it would take YEARS of healing before this kind
of thing could even be explored.  (And besides, we know now that Frank is
total, irredeemable scum, who will hopefully be found with his head pounded
in.  I hope BJ kills him; but I don't think that'd be too realistic!!)

Reese:  I know his feelings are hurt.  I know he has twenty years of 
insecurities running around in his head, some of them with good reason.  BUT
DOES ANYBODY BESIDES ME WANT TO GRAB HIM, SHAKE HIM, AND SCREAM "THEY'RE IN
TROUBLE, YOU IDIOT!!!"?  I hope they let Reese do some rescuing; it'd help
bring the three of them back together, which is where they'll need to be to 
get through all the nasty secrets that will be coming out.

My, but I'm long-winded. :-)
-liz

P.S.  Does anybody besides me think that maybe this is L.A. Law's last season;
and that maybe we'll get our Cruz back come April or so??