From: rose@cecily.UUCP (Rose M. Delckum)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL:Julie
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:16:00 GMT
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In article <Yf2ncgG00iV4E_PG1u@andrew.cmu.edu>, Marcus Wilhelm Banzhaf writes:

> Hi all,

Marcus!  Dude!  You're back!  Cool!
> 
>    Julie is starting to really annoy me.(jeff too)  This is probably
> mostly the fault of the writers. 

     I agree.  Of course, Julie's always bugged me since that affair with
Nick, and when she kept encouraging Eve and MM, but I've really truly
tried to give her a fair shake, and she just really annoys me.  Sorry.  I
know I'm a heathen.  

 Julie just has to go as Jack's boss. 
> This story is totally unbelievable.  First, Jack has to practically beg
> for a job at the Spectator.  There is no way I can believe that either
> Julie or Vern can do a better job as editor than Jack.  Why couldn't
> Julie have simply bought the spectator and allowed Jack to remain as
> editor.  J&J were really struggling back then moneywise and Julie is
> family to them.

     Exactly!  Julie has no newspaper experience.  Okay, so Jack didn't
either when he took over the Spectator.  But we saw Jack at the paper
during that time...we never see Julie being a reporter/editor/whatever.
Jack learning the newspaper biz was a storyline.  Julie not learning
it isn't.  So there's no good excuse for this.  Besides, the Hortons are
all supposedly family oriented...one would think Alice would've had a little
talk with Julie on the subject.  Now if Julie was a villainess, I could 
handle this, it would fit in with what she did to Nick :-).  But she's
not suppoed to be a bad guy.  This just makes no sense at all.

>  OK, so now even if Vern is editor Julie must have been
> able to find a better position for Jack than that of a starting
> reporter. 

     Actually, Wayne Heffley (Vern) is no longer with the show (I
believe) so Vern ain't the editor!

> Here's a guy who's been editor for many years and before that
> an accomplished politician.  There must have been some position in the
> paper which could have used these skills.

     Right.  He could do op-eds, whatever.  And why doesn't he apply
for a job at the Chronicle?  Isn't that the other paper in town?  It 
seems like it'd be a major coup for them to get the former editor of
their biggest competition on their staff.

>  Julie just struck me as being
> extremely cold during all of these scenes.  I expected her to react in a
> way much more like John did to Carrie a few weeks ago when he gave her
> money for school.  Especially considering how rich she is.  I realize
> she did offer Jack a higher starting salary than most new reporters (i
> think he refused this), but to not be able to find Jack a better job in
> the paper he ran for years is ridiculous.  

     Yes, she seemed very cold and insensitive.  I mean, she brought over
all this fancy decorating stuff knowing how poor they are.  That's the
sort of thing Anjelica would've done to Adrienne (classic Anjelica, Jane
Elliott).  Can't you just picture it?  She struck me as being very bitchy 
and uncaring here.  But, maybe I'm just prejudiced.
> 
> -marcus
> 

     Rosita la Pequita Chiquita Guavita Margarita
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