From: Joanna L. Castillo <pefv702@perv.pe.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: DOOL: Update for THU 10/1/92
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 19:01:32 GMT

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)????  I nearly fell out of my chair earlier in the week 
when she made this pronouncement.  All other considerations aside (you
know...like waiting until after they're married and have somewhere to
live that will fit a family of four) these two people are just not 
ready to be having another child.  Bo doesn't trust Carly if she's 
anywhere near Larry (although he's supposedly not trusting of Larry).
They're both supposedly working at very time consuming jobs and don't
even have enough time to look after ShawnD -- when would they have 
time to look after an infant who would need so much more care?  The 
list goes on and on.

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.

Oh, well...I feel that I'm beginning to ramble.  I'm sure y'all can do
well without that, eh?  :-)

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

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Joanna.

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