From: greenwal@bnr.ca (David Greenwald)
Subject: DOOL : first comments
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Norcross, GA
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:15:12 GMT

Hi gang,
     This is my first post, so I hope it goes out.  I don't have a lot of 
time right now so just a few quick comments.

     Bo is an annoying cop.  He "has a bad feeling" about the Lisanne case.
Give me a break.  If the cops spent as much time on every "accident" as he
is on this one, they wouldn't have any time to do real police work.

     What is the deal with Billie?  Does she hit on every guy she meets, or
just Bradys and ex-Bradys?  Did you see the way she looked at John?  Yeah,
I know the way you guys are-you're thinking, "How else is there to look at
Drake?"

     Let me just add my agreement with everybody about Bo as godfather.
Yeah right.  It should have been Marcus, contract player or not.  However,
in this case, I think CarpetMuncher, the-best-friend-to-everyone-in-the-
whole-world-and-everybody's-favorite-person-and-doctor-no-matter-what-is-
wrong-with-you-because-I-have-a-degree-in-everything, should have been the
godmother.  After all, she is Jenn's best friend since they were in boarding
school. (Even though they didn't ever speak to each other for several years
untill she came on the show).

     Finally, the stuff with Marlena in the pit was good.  I thought Diedre
Hall did a good job of acting those scenes Wednesday.  I also thought the
writers finally did something right.  They showed Marlena to be a strong
determined, intelligent woman who would not sit around waiting for something
to happen.  She got up off her butt and tried to escape.  I thought her plan
was a good one, and it would have worked if Stella wasn't so disgusting
that Roger doesn't want her back.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big
Marlena fan, I just thought she was good Wednesday.  
     However, and I'll probably get shit for this since a lot of you like
Stella, I think she went too far when she broke the wine glasses.  I know
she was pissed and she wanted to hurt Marlena, but destroying those glasses
is just too much.  That was a disgrace to the fans of classsic DOOL.  Those
glasses were an important symbol of Marlena and Roman's (both Romans) love.
To destroy them is a slap in the fans face.  I know the writers wrote her 
doing it, but it still makes me like the character of Stella less.
     If this is supposed to be a foreshadowing of Marlena and Roman breaking
up, they could have kept the glasses for when John gets back with Marlena
(dare we dream).  They meant a lot to him also and I remember some very
touching scenes with the glasses that involved Drake as Roman.

     Whew, sorry about the ranting.  I guess once I get started, I can't stop.
I didn't mean to write this much.  Oh well, not bad for a first post, huh?

Hoping for a return to the better DAYS,
David

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