From: cf@planck.physics.purdue.edu (Coleen Flanagan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL:  The "christening" (caution: Carly bashing)
Summary: May I second that?
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:12:25 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department

>I know this will turn out to be a rhetorical question, but WHY oh
>WHY does the entire show revolve around Carplips?
>Abigail's shower should have been about Jack, Jennifer, Abigail
>and the Hortons.  But is it???  No, of course not.  It's about
>Carly.  It seems like the only reason they even chose to have a
>shower was so literally everyone could worry about Carpy's
>whereabouts, not just Bo.
>And, excuse me, did I miss something?  (I do confess to ff through
>all Carpy scenes), but WHEN did Jack and Jennifer ask Bo and Carpy
>to be Abby's godparents???  I would not want a manic/depressive
>sex fiend and a ham-fisted, lame brain as my child's godparents.
>B&C are Brady's godparents and I don't think either one of them
>have even bothered to see the child since Icky died.  Some godparents.
>I think Julie would have made a nice choice as godmother.  And
>how about Marcus (who was Steve's homey and Jack's best man) as
>godfather?  No, we get Carpetstain and Boink.  Blech!
>Like sands through the hour glass, so are the Days of Carly's life
>(and fallopian tubes)
>**signed, a disgruntled Razzie  (but what else is new?)


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       I gave up thinking Jack and Jennifer would be given any worthwhile story.
       Like Matt said in St Louis -- "It would be nice if J&J had a story written
       for them instead of just episodes".  It's not like DAYS didn't show the birth
       of Abigail or deal with her christening but J&J's story lacks any real
       substance.  Corday knows he can't completely ignore J&J because he would
       be assured of viewer outcry plus the ratings could drop even further and
       God knows he can't afford that.  The writing for them simply gets their scenes 
       over with.  IMO Jack acts too uptight as if Matt's afraid if he makes Jack
       crack a joke or risk an adlib the writers will, once again, turn Jack into
       a clown.  Matt said the new dialogue writers don't understand Jack.  They have
       Jack calling Jen "sweetheart" and "honey".  Matt won't do it.  He's upsetting
       one supervising producer by calling Abigail "The Child".  I miss the old Happy
       Jack, the good stories written for him, and the physical comedy Jack and Jen
       did so well.  [sniff, SOB].   About Friday's show  - I didn't think the entire
       show was all about Carly but somehow the event happening at the church changed
       directions.   It veered from Abigail's christening to "Where is Carly and 
       nothing can transpire without her" show.  How does Corday manage to do that?
       It's so damn unfair to the viewers and the actors to put so much importance
       on that character.  Instead of Jennifer saying that they had to wait for her
       best friend (I'm so tired of that threadbare line) why couldn't she simply turn
       to Julie and ask her to stand in for Carly.  J&J's story could have forged
       ahead and not have depended on what Carly was doing.  As it will probably turn
       out Carly will not believe Lawrence about Nikki and finally arrive at the church
       only to hold Abigail while the camera pans in on her face as she remembers what
       Lawrence said to her merely a few minutes before.  The emphasis being the 
       shocking news Carly received and not on the baby she is holding. I also got 
       quite a chuckle out of Jack supposedly asking Bo to be Abby's Godfather.  These
       two are no friends in any sense of the word. Since Marcus has been on recently
       why couldn't he have been the one Jack choose.   Furthermore, Bo and Carly
       are already Brady's Godparents so why again were these two people picked to be
       Godparents for Abigail??  I just want everyone to have their own storyline on
       this show.   If a good story was written all characters and stories could
       interweave and Friday's could go back to being cliffhangers.  With enough
       interest generated back into the show the ratings could climb.  I'm certainly
       no network programmer and it makes good sense to me.

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       Coleen
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