From: EFS6MEF@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU
Subject: Re: DOOL: Tuesday's Episode
Reply-To: ecz5mxr@mvs.oac.ucla.edu
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:06:20 PST

In article <1ecnscINN1o5@agate.berkeley.edu>, on 18 Nov 1992 06:29:32 GMT,
sally@remarque.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson) writes:

Ciao Sister Spud,
I just wanted to say, I agree!  I couldn't have said it better
myself.
**Razzie 
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>Well I really enjoyed today's episode at least the stuff with J&J and Jo,
>and most especially Marlena and my gal Stella.
>
>I can do without BillieGoat. I find it insulting her attempts at
>being high and thus showing who EVIL drug use is. The whole way
>it is presented, fueled by the woman's pathetic acting skills makes
>the whole thing a joke. I am quite sure that this whole storyline
>is supposed to serve as a lesson to young people on the sins of
>drug use and addiction. However, it comes out as a joke, and thus
>the lesson is lost. If they really wanted to show the affects of
>drug addiction they should try to be realistic and use better
>acters. The target audience of young people will find it a joke,
>and thus will not get the message. I wish that they would have
>done some real research on drug abuse, and come up with a storyline
>with more impact which shows the horrors of overindulgence. Most
>tv and movies do poor jobs with the subject.
>
>Well I guess that Billie and Butthead are slatted as a temporary
>couple. These two have got to be the pits. [So far in my poll
>each is doing quite well]. Does anyone care about either character
>or acter? I really can't feel sorry for Billie's situation. I
>don't care that her drug use and her flipant remarks are do to
>the pain of her father's death--and that he may be the one in
>Midnight Express. The actress brings nothing to the role, no
>reason to care about her, no depth to make me insightful to
>her pain. RKK just has no chemistry, not with Carly, nor any
>of the folks who play his family, nor with Alice who was always
>very close to the character. He may be a Reckell look-alike but
>he brings nothing. A romance between these two will be a bust.
>But maybe they will leave town together taking ShawnD with them.
>
>I wish we would have had a break from the Lizard, Nikki, Carly stuff.
>We have had this story around for quite some time. Now, Viv is
>going to ask Victor to sabatoge the tests. As if this ploy has
>not occurred enough alread in the show. Though THANK GOD we were
>subjected to TripKims.
>
>Okay...again I love seeing J&J. I wish they would have a joicier
>storyline and that Julie would be included. However, it is nice
>seeing folks clean clothes, iron, have to deal with domestic
>chores, and have everyday problems. Jo is getting invovled again
>and it is nice seeing Jack deal with his mother and allow her
>to be a mother and grandmother. I do like Jack's conflect of
>being somewhat jealous of Jenn being the primary breadwinner,
>yet trying to see to her happiness and her career. I know that
>if my husband made more than I and was more famous than I part
>of me would be quite jealous, and yet happy.
>
>The best part of the day had to be the scenes with Bromka and
>Hall. Yesterday we were dealt the rediculous and farcical scenes
>with Kim. Bromka out did Pease to such a degree that it isn't
>even funny. Today Stella started out as a great tormentor, psycho,
>villanness. You could see the pleasure in her eyes as she verbally
>tormented Marlena. Then when asked about Roman's condition, her
>facial expressions changed. He eyes displayed her concern and
>showed signs of feeling pain for Marlena. When she was psycho-
>anaylzing Marlena--this was the best. Her eyes and expressions
>said it all. Marlena was terrific too, finally breaking down,
>and like many people who are imprisoned and tortured, came to
>look at her tormentor as solice.  The Ice Maidan melted, we
>saw that she has fears, and problems too. Stella at first
>gleeful over her victory over Marlena, then changing to sorrow
>and understanding--all this yet again by the merest of expressions.
>I as a viewer felt sorry for her, sadistically also enjoying
>her torment Marlena, plus I felt much more. We are to feel sorry
>for TripKims, her condition is due to her molestation. Yet, Pease portrays her
>as a fool, a joke, opting to dance around in alluring clothing
>to show the characters illness. Bromka does it by acting, she does
>not have to succomb to tricks. I think we are losing the wrong
>character. I think that watching Stella try and overcome her illness
>and her dependency on Roger would be far more interesting than
>watching Pasty fall into another hokey accident, and try to be
>sexy. If I were Deidre I would feel bad about the loss of Bromka,
>for up until now the character of Marlena has been dull. With
>Bromka the character has come alive. They have great chemistry together,
>and it is great to she a different type of relationship, instead of
>DOCL pact romance couples.
>
>
>I think that Bromka should be up for a Daytime Emmy or at least
>a SOD Award next year. The woman sure deserves it.
>
>Spudnix--
>
>
>--
>Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa,       |||   Sally A. Wilson
>  si come il saggio in suo dittare pone    |||   Spudnix Peel
>  e cosi esser l'una sanza l'altro osa     |||   sally@mica.berkeley.edu
>  com'alma razional sanza ragione.  [_Vita_Nova_ XX, Dante]
>