From: stanton@athena.cs.uga.edu (Catherine Stanton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL -- It pains me to say ....
Date: 5 Sep 92 14:31:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Sep5.143121.29265
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <Bu3yJo.7nK@news.udel.edu> riddle@brahms.udel.edu (Tammy Riddle) writes:
>[Vix not Peachy]
> 
>Well, this really pains me...I can't believe I'm saying this...don't get
>any ideas that I've changed my ways...here goes...yesterday wasn't half
>bad on this show. 

Uh oh, give her another week and she'll be....an Isabella fan? Nah! Just
kidding.  :) Yes yesterday and thursday's show before that WERE remarkably
well done by DAYS standards.  I'm now glad that I slept through the weeks
before while recovering because I don't think I would have hung around long
enough (if the show was REALLY as bad as all the posters said) to see this
past week's shows.

>I hate to say anything good about Days these days because
>they are so far from how good they used to be, but even I will admit it
>wasn't horrible yesterday given, of course, that you FF'd through the
>horsey one's dementia.

Yes this storyline has NOTHING worthwhile about it.  I think it's just
there to give Patsy Pease some airtime because *wooo ooo jump for joy*
she's back.  (Please read the *'s enclosed statement in a flat sarcastic
tone.)  I LIKE Patsy Pease, don't get me wrong, I just don't like her as
Kim. 

>The creature wasn't too bad in her "I'm dying from cancer" scenes.  I don't 
>like her with the kid.  She doesn't have a motherly bone in her body. 

Wait, take it from someone who really DOESN'T have a motherly bone in her
body, Isabella does.  Matter of fact I watch those scenes and think to my-
self "I could NEVER be that patient with a little kid, or talk to em like
that either..."  *sigh* I'm never gonna be "the maternal type".  I'm more
like Lisanne (Well I don't look as decent in lingerie to be sure), I think
I'm just gonna grow old with my cat (who DOES look like Zeus :)

>Drake was great and his stuff was written very believably.

I still wish that John would be a bit more shocked, it gets to me that he
seems completely unwavered by all of this, I mean he DOES but he's just
not reacting the way I wish he would.  But then again, I suppose no one in
real life does either.

>Carpy wasn't bad although her telling Bo was a violation of Dr/patient
>confidentiality.  Do you think she'll lose her license??  Nah.

Good point, but at what point would she be able to tell mutual friends of
theirs? I mean her being a "friend" and doctor to Isabella makes the line
drawn there kinda vague.

>However, the best performance had nothing to do with sIckly's predicament.
>It was a line delivered by Lisanne to Zeus -- "Well our Miss Morality, how
>should I put this, got herself knocked up."  I laughed out loud.  I can't

AMEN to that! I LOVE Lisanne, she's the most likeable villainess (IMNSHO)
on that show.    I don't think we are supposed to hate Lisanne and like
Carly.  I happen actually to like them both.  (I'm more ambivalent about
Carly mind you, but I don't hate her.)

>Rick, Lis, Cat don't get the idea that I'm weakening here but I have to be
>fair.  This really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
Okay I won't breathe a word of it to anyone.

Also my own additions, I am beginning to take a strong liking to Victor's
character again.  I really enjoyed his going to the Alamain place yesterday
and reaming Lisanne and Larry if they try to take advantage of John and
Isabella.

RKK simply STARES too much.  He looks like he has a bad case of the early
morning stares ALL DAY LONG.  Someone get this man some Visine.

The Kim storyline might be a bit better if they didn't lay it on so thick
ya know?  And I was thinking, she is up all day, stays out all night as her
other personality, when does this woman sleep?

Also I thought it odd that she and whassisname were in bed asleep for at
least a little while while the rest of Salem was up and hopping.  I just
didn't expect to see larry, Lisanne and Vivian still done up in elegant
business attire around 11:30 at night.  Okay so that's ALL they wear
(excepting Lisanne who DOES run around half naked sometimes) but still,
it was *supposed* to be late.

Okay I'm rambling so sorry.

Cat Stanton