From: rose@cecily.UUCP (Rose M. Delckum)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL:  Patsy Pease
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:20:58 GMT
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In article <1992Dec16.172109.7258@den.mmc.com>, Cindy Camp writes:

> 
> Yikes, I have to say it, I feel somewhat sorry for Patsy Pease.
> She has had a very difficult life thus far, and it is a true
> wonder that she has turned out as well as she is.  I think she
> is a very beautiful woman (mouth and all), and I guess I
> will miss her yet again.  
> 
> I find it hard to believe that TPTB would even suggest such
> a story for her after all she had been through, and it is
> even harder to believe that she would actually agree to it.

     I agree.  I know I've said it before, but here we go
again....
Look, I think we all feel terrible for what Patsy's been through.
She's gone through hell and she deserves a break.  We've all
heard about how the cast/crew/writers at DOOL are like a big
family, it would seem that coming back to work in such an
environment would be safe.  But if they care so much, why did the
producers come up with this storyline?  Why did the writers write
it?  And Why did Patsy agree to do it?  On one level, it hasn't
advanced Kim's character one iota.  In fact, in a way it's
destroyed it.  Now, instead of a woman who overcame her past as a
hooker/abused child to become a giving caring member of society,
we're to expect that the 'hooker' was another part of her
personality, while 'Kim' was totally innocent?  Then how is it
Kim remembers everything?  Why have there been no clues over the
years?  I never loved Kim, I always thought she was ok.  I
admired her in a way, even though she bugged me a lot.  But now,
the character is so messed up I can't stand her.  Whay did PAtsy
go along with this?  Like I've ranted before....MPD is a
terrible, horrible, terrifying disease.  I personally think it's
worse than AIDS, cause of the fact that its root origin is
extreme abuse deliberately inflicted on a child.  Yet TPTB
deliberately demeaned it, and used it as a plot device to shot
T&A.  They trivialized this horrible disease for no reason.  If
done properly, this story could've been decent.  But it was
terrible.  It was exploitave, it was shallow, and they even got
their medical facts wrong!  Sorry, off the old soapbox now.
> 
> Thinking about her life makes me realize how wonderful I
> had it as a child.  The things that she has gone through
> are just awful and unfathomable for someone like me who
> led a "normal" childhood.  
     This is true.  And keep in mind, she's not alone.  That sort
of thing, even worse, goes on every day for countless numbers of
children.  

> 
> Well, anyway, I wish her well, and will probably miss her.
> I liked her with Shane, I liked her with Phillip (although
> the MPD stuff was simply disgusting and very poorly done),
> and I guess I will miss her yet again, quivering lips and
> all!  :-)

      Yes, I wish her well, but I wish she'd wait till she's
ready to come back next time, and she is more sensible about what
she agrees to do. 
> Pick

     Rosita
> 
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