From: sasse@netcom.com (Ellen Sasse)
Subject: Re: AMC: Godzilla UltraLite Update (c) 920911
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 09:17:53 GMT
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starkid@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Lance Sanders) writes: 

> (c)
>       ***  Godzilla UltraLite Update --- Friday, September 11, 1992  ***
>            --------------------------------------------------------
>       "Hey. She got deep-sixed on the date, and now she's here for a 
>        shoulder and sympathy. Don't give it to her. You're not a doormat."
>          Stu goes back out and raises heck:
>       "Gloria, I like cheering you up --- but that's not my job." Wooooo!
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>
>          Glo bites, and vows to make Stuart "feel as good as he's made her
>       feel." She transports out for celebatory pizza. Adam: (singing)
(...)
>          Later, while snarfing pizza, Glo goes into "June Cleaver" mode,
>       announces "something changed for us tonight, Stuart", and lays her
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>       head submissively on his shoulder. [No anchovies for me, please...]
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                                 (no PIZZA for me, it's coming right up ;-)

Sigh. I wish they wouldn't make it look like all a guy has to do to get a
girl is be callous and selfish. Hal got me because he was sweet and nice
(as well as a wise-ass and funny). Actually, what always got to me was
people with an irreverant sense of humor, honest, and willing to talk
about anything.

Mind you, on a soap I don't want to see too much sweetness-and-light,
sparring is more interesting [ among my favorite soap moments were on GH
when Tracy and Lucy used to one-up each other. Fantastic! ] I just don't
like the implication that guys are only appreciated if they're mean!

>       'ol time w/Halo and tries to flee Dodge. Terrance intercepts, and
>       tries to get Dix to stay for the "birthday/end-of-summer/Brian and
>       Hayley getting back together" party. Whoops.
>           Dix: (picking face off floor) "Well...you don't want an old lady
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>                 in there..."
>           T:   "You? An old lady? You look young enough to be someone's
>                 date in there!"     [Brumpt-TING!]

HAH! I saw the show, and you make it even funnier! I love the "face off
floor" bit.

>          Dix flees to Hal's, where she's immediately hit on, but rejects 

        Did anybody notice, one of the writers is named Hal, I think
Hal Corley (?). And we have Hal's, the country-and-western bar, and
Harold the dog. "Coincidence or what"? You decide. (Being as I am with
a "Harold" I noticed this from the beginning. Now if it was me, It'd be
a heavy metal place ;-)

>       the advance. She retrieves her wedding rings and bids the bartender
>       "adios". Enter Brooke and Ed, who become the rings' proud new owners 
>       (Brooke: "Hey, we take checks 'ya know..."). :)    
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Heh.

But does anyone else find this ridiculously unrealistic even for a
soap? Yeah, the nearest neighborhood bartender is gonna have a soft spot
for you, watch out for you when you pick up guys because he "knows" you're
not "that kind of girl REALLY" and then takes care of your engagement and
wedding rings that you shoved on him because he "knows" you "don't mean it"?!
They don't pay bartenders THAT much!! (I must say that we used to go out
sometimes after work and the bartenders were always really nice, but there's
such a thing as unrealistic sacrifice! And personally, I don't think females
come in two kinds "that kind of girl" and "nice girls". (Woudn't it be
interesting to see the genetic studies on that if it *were* true. Ha)
C'mon, writers, this is the 90's not the 50's! (Although the difference
is getting frighteningly narrower. AMC - don't help!)

>  [B & E set a date for their wedding over a couple of beers: 1st week in Nov.]

Eek! Well, at least it won't be on MY birthday - it falls on a Wednesday
this year, and as we all know, NOTHING happens on soaps on Wednesdays!

>          Will Brian, in (another) weak moment, (gasp) knock-up The Tink???!

Ooh, I hope not. I kinda like the ambiguous situation where Haley bes humble
and realizes "what she's missing" [ not much, heh. kidding ], and Brian
realizes he misses Haley. Brian and Haley usually get on my nerves
because they are so heavyhanded, and Brian makes nasal noises when he
is stalling til he can read his next line in the [ non-Tel-E- ] Prompter,
and Haley "ya knows" all over the place while she's trying to read hers.
But I like the characters when they are not so unidimensional, loud and
selfish [ "And when's that?" Uh, I dunno. Sometimes? ] I think a baby is
the WRONG thing to stick Haley with, and I DEFINITELY don't want to see
Brian with Ditsie. She's too phony. But in addition to seeing Brian and
especially Haley more reflective and less egotistical, it is also my own
warped sense of romance that finds this trying to get back together
with the "love of your life" romantic. But NOT if they're gonna get
egocentric again. I guess this is the time to air my longstanding view
that Haley's character was always using Brian's as a doormat, and
Brian's was really treating Haley and An-Li like $%^&* for a while -
he was always yelling and seeming truly disgusted and just trying to escape.
As far as storylines go (just looking at what the characters are SUPPOSED
to be, not how it necessarily works out), I'd like to see Brian and Haley
get back together, but as far as actor's chemistry goes, I'd like to
see Matt Borlenghi's character paired up with someone who brings out his
sense of fun instead of phoniness or annoyance - I think he could be
really good if they put him with the right person - and Ripa with
someone she didn't want to boss around nor kiss up to but have fun with.
But I can't think of anyone off the top of my head. Ideas, anyone?
Or do people like them as they are now, Brian with Dits et al?

>          In The News:   MOSCOW (AP)   Bones believed to be those of
>          -----------    murdered Russian Czar Nicholas II and his family 
>                         will be exhumed and flown to Britain on Tues. for
>                         DNA testing. Genetic material from the bones will
>                         be compared with the czar's living relatives to
>                         conclusively identify the remains.

Maybe THAT'S where the writers got the idea for the storyline ;-) ;-) ;-)

> *As we mentioned earlier, Jean Le Clerc is leaving "All My Children" and 
> *taking his Jeremy character to the town of Corinth and "Loving."  The last 

Too bad, I will really miss him (but, at least those who couldn't stand
him, and I know you're out there ;-) - will get a break). I don't have
time to watch Loving though. In memoriam, Jeremy the ninja ;-) I thought that
was kinda fun.

> * With Dimitri on another business trip, Jackson spends more time with
>   Angelique. 

I really like the two of them together. I hope they don't get rid of
Angelique, she has become one of my favorite characters. Now if they just
avoid the writer's-trap of playing out yet another Rescue-Syndrome (tm)...

> Lance Sanders
> starkid@ddsw1.MCS.COM         Dixie a cradle-robber??? Check out Barbara
> GE Mail: L.Sanders6           Streisand and Andre "Zen Master" Agassi.
> Vox: (312) 667-5958           She's 50; he's 22. [Go for it, Andre. :)]
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Can they fit both their egos in the same room? ;-)

Actually, I got impressed with Agassi when I heard the rumor that he
got thrown off the courts at Wimbledon for not wearing the required 70%
white (is this accurate? I seem to remember hearing SOMETHING like that)