Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL: Bonus Info
From: Nelson Broat <NMBCU@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Tuesday, 5 Jan 1993 16:48:11 EST
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

In article <C0DBBq.LoE@panix.com>, spira@panix.com (Greg "Sarcasm Is A Way Of
Life" Spira) says:
>
>>I wrote:
>>
>>You're right its not funny to ridicule a persons personal tragedy, but we have
>>a unique situation here. We have a person with a problem who decides she
>>can't do her job anymore, so she states she has to leave. Her bosses concur
>>and so she leaves. Then when she feels shes ready to comeback and the bosses
>>concur, she comes back, only to whine how she absolutely refuses to stay if
>>she has to work with a certain actor because deep in her mind she's afraid of
>>him?
>
>>I would've thought he'd of been fired if he had actually did something wrong,
>>but he was just doing what his bosses asked him to do...act crazy. If the
>>story line was going to bring about bad memories then both the actress
>>(Pasty) and her boss (Corday) she have realized that possibility beforehand.

>Why?  This wasn't a rational, thought-out reaction on PP's part.  You seem
>to think that she should have been able to calmly predict the way in which
>her emotional problems would surface.  What happened with WK was unfortunate
>and unfair to him (though he was better off in the long run).  But I think
>that asking Ken Corday to have the knowledge of a psychotherapist and asking
>Patsy to plan out her emotional illness is asking too much.

If there were indeed still problems, then yes, she should have been ready for
how she *might* react. Especially when you consider that part of this MPD story
revolved in part around her abuse as a child. But in fact, I do not believe
that she was still suffering from any trauma. And that is why I ridicule her
so, I mean aside from her horrible acting. :) Last paragraphs explain why I
do not believe.

>>What about when she first met Shane? She played a hooker back then, and
>>we didn't hear about any whining...and she sure did stay with the show a
>>long time. Also, during that same long period of time Kims Uncle came back
>>for a visit so that they could have a storyline about Kims abuse as a child.
>>Where were the complaints of flashbacks back then???

>She had not remembered her abuse.  Its hard to have flashbacks when you've
>supressed the memory so deep.  That's why we have numerous cases in the
>courts of victims pressing charges against their abuses 30, 40 years
>after the fact.

From what I understand it was Pasty herself who wanted to do the story
involving Kims Uncle, because she herself was abused; she wanted to make
an important statement, she wanted to show what abuse victims go through.
Very brave if you ask me. However, ...

Thats my problem with her these past few years. Back then she didn't
complain of any trauma, but yet knew she was abused, told everyone she
was abused, and wanted to a storyline centering around abuse, and was
able to pull it off with incident; i.e. - she knew full well at the time
everything that had happened to her when she was younger, IMHO, but these
past few years decided to use it as a tool to get what she wanted.

But what she didn't count on was that she wasn't Uncle Dorky's best and
brightest, but rather was third in line behind Chapped Camel Lips and
the 3 million dollar expense account.

>Greg

Nelson