From: rose@cecily.UUCP (Rose M. Delckum)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL: Update for THU 10/1/92
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 06:31:28 GMT
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In article <1992Oct2.190132.11322@chpc.utexas.edu>, Joanna L. Castillo writes:

> In article <921002094808.52c4@VAX.CSUN.EDU> Gail Said Johnson, VECTRGSJ@VAX.CSUN.EDU
> writes:
> >Back at the hospital Carly and Dr. Alvarez are discussing pregnancy,
> >birth and death.  Dr. Alvarez asks Carly if she had been charting her
> >ovulation; she has.  Dr. Alvarez says she'll take some tests to see if
> >there is a problem.  She wants to test Bo as well, but Carly wants to
> >wait until she know the results of her own tests.  Dr. Alvarez says they
> >could have the answer today.
> 
> Uh-oh...Joanna's on a rampage...beware...run for your lives!!!
> 
> Someone posted about this yesterday I think (sorry, I can't remember 
> who), but I must say it again.  What in the world is going on with 
> Carly and Bo????  They haven't been using birth control for several 
> months????  She's actually been actively trying to conceive (charting
> her ovulation)????


     Hey, I'll join you JoJo!  Anything to bash the Camel....


     Did they actually say this?!?  Not that I'm accusing Gail of
making things up or anything, but still....How immature can they
get?  They're not married, why are they trying to conceive?  And why
haven't they mentioned this before?  Where I come from, you usually 
wait till after the wedding to conceive the child...if it happens before, 
you get hitched ASAP and hope her father don't show up at the wedding
with a shotgun!  Have they talked at all about having a kid?  Or is
Carly lying?  Did she purposely not use birth control and not tell
Bo?  This is also immature and dumb!  She still hasn't come to grips
with losing her first child and having another before she does this
would be a mistake of epic proportions.  She should be in therapy.
And where would they put the kid?  I doubt there's room on that boat
for 4 people.  And what about the problems they've been having?  At
this point their relationship is shaky, plus Bo just became a cop, and 
cops and doctors have the highest divorce rates, I believe.  And when 
would they have the time to take care of a baby?  They don't even have time
for S-D!  And, once again, my big question...why are they doing this
*before* they get married?!?!?  This is just *so* *dumb*.

> This is yet another colossal blunder on the part of TPTB.  If, in fact, 
> Carly and Bo had been trying to conceive, it would have been shoved in 
> our faces  -- we would have been subjected to even more of those 
> wonderful steamy sex scenes.  It is so incredible that we are expected 
> to really believe that this has been going on.  This isn't at all like 
> the usual soap nonsense of bringing in long-lost-never-before-heard-of 
> siblings or anything that they couldn't have anticipated many years 
> ago.  This sort of thing can easily be anticipated and worked into the
> current plots.  If they want to do a story about Bo and Carly trying to 
> have a baby and being unsuccessful, then do that.  But don't throw this 
> "we've been trying for months now" thing in our faces.  It's totally 
> ridiculous.  Argggghhhhhh!!!!!  I guess they suddenly decided that the
> news about Carly's inability to have another child needed to come out
> before the wedding so they hand us this bunch of bunk.  Why???  I guess
> that's the real reason for putting off the wedding...not the "we have 
> to wait for Isabella to die" thing -- which, as several netters have 
> pointed out, is equally ridiculous.

      Right on Joanna!  All I can think of, since I don't recall the
'we're trying to have a baby' thing being brought up before, is that
Carly's lying and has been having unprotected sex and deliberately
trying to get pregnant for reasons of her own.  But this would mean she
isn't a perfect saint, and we can't have that now can we?   And why should
this be a reason for calling off the wedding?  Unless they want Bo to say
he won't marry a woman who's not able to breed with him, and thus legitimize
her running to Larry, who is sympathetic and with whom she has a child
for comfort.  Bleah!
> 
> Oh, well...I feel that I'm beginning to ramble.  I'm sure y'all can do
> well without that, eh?  :-)

     Me too.  Must be genetic :-)
> 
> Thanks for the update, Gail.  I bet you didn't anticipate that it would 
> spawn this sort of tirade, did you?  :-)

   Yeah.  Thanks for all the hard work Gail!
> 
> >			      /| gsaidjohnson@vax.csun.edu
> 
> Joanna.

     Rosita la Guavita
> 
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