From: mins@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (timothy.j.mizerak)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL: Dani is not Romulus.  Uh-uh, no way.
Keywords: she's not she's not she's not she's not she's not she's not
Date: 15 Apr 92 18:22:40 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Apr15.040433.14029@chpc.utexas.edu> peea224@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu (Joanna L. Castillo) writes:
>Picture, if you will, Joanna grasping at straws...

No need to grasp, I think you've got a pretty good hold on the whole
thing.

>Dani's covering for someone and it has something to do with her mother
>being in the state she's in.  She's not Romulus.  She's not.  I don't

Of course!  Why else would we have been given that scene with her 
mother?  Not to mention that to make Dani Romulus would be far too
simple, even for these writers!

>know who she's covering for or why but that's what she's doing.  
>Yesterday I gave plenty of reasons for why she's not Romulus so I won't 
>repeat them.  I have one thing to add, though...if she's Romulus, why 
>was the locket in John's safety deposit box so important to her?  It 
>seems it's only real value is to John and the Alamains.  It seems to me 
>the only interest Romulus could have in it would be as a source of 
>money -- Dani did not seem to know how important it was to the Alamain 
>family (who would be the only people likely to give her tons of money 
>for it) so she's got some other interest in it.  Again, I don't know 
>what her interest in it would be.  And, finally, if she were Romulus,
>why didn't she just steal something from somebody else if she was so
>desparate for money?  Why?  She's not Romulus.

I say it's the mother!  I know I'm not the first to say it, but this
is what would work for me.  Maybe soon we'll find out about another
rash of jewel thefts long before the Romulus spree.  Yeah, that's it.
Back in post WWII Europe Dani's mother is left a widow by the war and
must turn to a life of crime to provide for her daughter <?>.  She
executes a series of thefts and then retires from the game to live 
a normal life.  But in 1980 the aging thief must return to her ways
due to.... due to....  whatever.  We'll fill that in later.  So for 
a few years she pulls off some more crimes.  Danielle finds out and
begs her to stop.  John has been assigned to the case and Danielle
decides to get close to him to cover for her mother [this part isn't
very original, I know.]  Danielle achieves this for a while but 
everything goes awry when John learns the secret and Danielle's
true motives for marrying him.  By now, however, Danielle has fallen
for John and begged his forgiveness.  John dumps Dani and sets out
to get Dani's mom, BUT is stopped and kidnapped by Dani's mom's brother,
who is none other then.........



STEFANO DIMERA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, Stefano uses John to suit his needs in his campaign against 
Roman Brady.  Danielle isn't told anything as Stefano no longer trusts
her with John.  Danielle is able to convince her mom to stop stealing,
but soon after she has a stroke after learning of Stefano's death
[one of them, anyway.] 

So, back in 1992 in Salem.  Dani returns after being cleared of the
Romulus charges by her mother's confession, and shortly after, her
sad death.  Dani tries to get John back but he is too devoted a 
father to the monster child, that has been born by now causing 
natural disasters throughout the world.  [you'd have to have seen
the Seventh Sign for that one. :-) ]  So, Dani is alone and rejected
and vulnerable.  Enter the dashing young writer for history teacher
and part-time writer for Billboard magazine, Ryan E. Morris, played
by none other then......

ME!!!!  

...... who sweeps Danielle off her feet and the two live an exciting
live of fun and mischief in Salem for many years to come...

>And...if TPTB really are ending the storyline at this point in this
>manner all I have to say is (excuse me but it's important) IT BITES!!

No, they're not ending the story that way.  I just *told* you how
it's going to end.  

Hey, it could happen.
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