From: sally@remarque.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: DOOL: a bunch of rambling
Date: 24 Nov 1992 00:52:07 GMT
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Rose the Shrubbery Guava wrote in response to my post:


> plus many more.


     >I agree he does have an obligation to keep the past in mind.  He
>could've changed Bo gradually though.  Like have a scene where he mentions
>how much he hated giving up his bike, but he needed something safer to use
>to drive S-D around, something like that.  Also, I think we have to put
>some blame on the writers here.  The Bo played in Reckell in his last few
>months was completely different from the old Bo.  During this period,
>Reckell's Bo was also childish, immature, neglectful etc.  So some of this
>has to be put on the writers.

Well another problem I see with RKK that he has no chemistry with the
Bradys, or even with Alice. He just does not seem believable as Roman,
Kay, or Kim's brother, or Shawn and Caroline's son. The kid who plays
S-D is plain bad, but still he could act more realistic as his father.
What of all his past with Alice. RKK just does not seem to click with
anyone who supposedly such have some form of relationship with the Bo
character. Again the writers are not great, and hold some blame. But I
again fault Corday. He should make sure that things remain consistent,
characters and storylines. He just does not seem to care. You are right
though, Bo has not been Bo even with Reckell playing him. I think things
turned after Hopes death. The first thing Bo did was get drunk and sleep
with Emmy. Then all this BS about immediately setting up a relationship
with Carly. In doing so Bo changed. I tend to wonder if Kristian Alfonso
had returned that Reckell might of stayed on; I wonder too if this
change in character was part of his reasons for leaving. Again, I
see more Corday or the other producers as blame, they are the ones
who set up the major frame work for the writers, they tell the writers
what they want. I remember when Hope and Bo returned, back then they
were quoted as saying that Hope would die and Bo would find an intelligent
woman. So it was already planned, the outcome was FINAL. It has not
made it, and they STILL are trying to make us believe that it will work.
To fit this they changed Bo--I was never a Bo fan, but I did not mind
the character. Since Hope's death he has gotten worse and worse. RKK
does his little obnoxious stare, Uh....IT DOES NOT WORK.


     >This is whatI mean about TPTB's personal feelings interfering.  Teling
>Matt he can't ad-lib?  That is totally ridiculous!  All this happened after
>last years flap over his contract renewal, and it seems like they're doing
>everything in their power to make him want to quit.  Same for everyone
>except their favorites.  But what they should be paying attention to is
>ratings and fan mail.  There's a reason Days has been in the ratings dumps,
>and their little petty bickering is a large part of it.


Personally I think that Corday does not like Matt. Matt knows better
what the fans want, he is intelligent, and is very professional. There
is no room for this in King Kenny's world--he is in charge, he dictates
what he wants. Also, Matt is one of the shows favorites, yet Corday
still wants to sell Carly and Bo, so to maximize them, he gives Matt
the shaft, for if Matt had a real storyline he would really show RKK
up. I am beginning to wonder if TPTB might be changing their tone,
SB was their safety net, with it gone they will be in second to last
place--and isn't Loving in danger of cancellation? make that last place.


> killed Nick/Emilio, or what happened to Carly's baby, but a good mystery.
>Like the thing with Orpheus.  Or Emma's murder (boy, I still miss her.  I'd
>love to see her come back from the dead and go up against Carly!  Can we

Well I was going through a bunch of DOOL paper backs I have and I
ran across some interesting stuff concering Laura, Bill, and Mickey.
It is know that Mickey went wacko and tried to kill Bill. The whole
storyline was pretty interesting. It happened at Bill and Laura's--unfortuantely
I did not have the book before it so I missed what happened. Though
earlier on Mickey found out about Bill and Laura's affair, then he
ran off, suffering from amnesia. Somehow Laura and Bill--who I always
loved eachother married. During her marriage to Mickey Bill raped
Laura--as we all know Mike was the product of the rape. Anyway, the
paperback I read dealt with Mickey, upon his return finding out about
Mike, going crazy and trying to kill Bill in Bill's house. He then
went completely off the deep end. Laura, being a shrink, and Mickey's
ex went to see him, with Bill at the mental hospital, Bayview--I 
could not believe that its the same one as now. Bill had just been
shot in the arm, and did not want anyone to know for fear of Mickey's
safety. Anyway, Laura was pregnant and on their way back from Bayview
they were caught in a snow storm, and Laura was forced to give
birth in a cabin. Bill's arm was messed up, and the baby was
breach. Fortunately the owner came by, her name was Rose, she helped
out, and that is how Jennifer got her middle name. Anyway, All this
past family history could be tied to the present. 

    
>Yes, DOCL is losing a good actress with Bromka leaving.  And I truly find
>it incredible what a bad job Patsy is doing.  MPD is a really horrible
>thing, especially when you consider that it is uaually caused by extreme
>child abuse.  I find it truly sickening that DOOL should trivialize such a
>horrible disease.  They are using it as a chance to show more sex and
>violence, without showing any other side effects.  Like I said before, why
>are Kim's alternate personalities sluts?  Why not a little kid, a black
>lawyer, a garbage collector, a housewife, and old man, a war veteran, a
>nun, a teacher, any number of other things?  And I find it incredible that
>Patsy, who has been through so much personal horror herself, would be a
>party to trivializing such a horrible disease.

Well I would think that a child would be one of her personalities, for
the mere fact that her childhood was robbed of its innocence and happiness
by the molestation. Therefore, part of Kim would yearn to recapture it,
and thus a persona of a young girl would manifest itself. I would image
that one of the personas would be a "slutty" character since, victims
of rape feel they are to blame, and also, I can see how she would
want to dominate, overpower men, through sex, as she was overpowered.
But these personalities of hers are jokes, and as you say are trivializing
the issue.
 

     >Don't forget, Eve gets to run into Nick...and Carly isn't related to
>Stefano, and that Jack and Steve will be joined by Nick, who will of course
>marry Eve after they expose MM and Carly.  And of course, Drake is Roman,
>and Diana is in Africa doing a news story and will stumble across our
>intrepid heroes, and Kayla is over there with the Peace Corps....
>Would you like my pretty purple pills Spudnix?  I know how much you like
>them...isn't medication time such fun?  :-)


Oh...the purple ones....yeeepieeeeeee. I only get the big white elephant
sized stuff.
> 

     >They only make her wera it cause she threw the remote at Carly one
>time and broke the tv in the lounge.  *I* don't have to wear one cause
>*I've* been good!  (Don't anyone tell them I've been hoarding my pills
>under my mattress....)

Well I only regrete that it was the remote and not anything bigger, and
sharper. Yeah, Rose has been good, everytime Carly, Bo, Kim, and the
90210 gang come on she feigns excitement....I would rather die...I
would not lower myself, even if it means I have to wear this thing.
Hoarding pills eh? Geez, I might have to make a deal with nurse
Ratchet, I mean Corday.

Spudnix--

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Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa,	   |||	 Sally A. Wilson
  si come il saggio in suo dittare pone	   |||	 Spudnix Peel
  e cosi esser l'una sanza l'altro osa     |||	 sally@mica.berkeley.edu
  com'alma razional sanza ragione.  [_Vita_Nova_ XX, Dante]