From: cf@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Coleen Flanagan)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: AW: Jake's latest video and etc.
Summary: Can you believe Jake's luck?
Date: 30 Jul 92 21:06:32 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Purdue University Physics Department

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In article <1992Jul30.124341.14115@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> qaly@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:

>FIRST OF ALL....I like Jake.  I didn't always like all the
>things that he did, for sure, but he really has tried to
>turn his life around.  Now I think he's a kick to watch. And,
>I really can't stand Jamie.  (That kind of bums me out since
>I used to like the "old" Jamie. you kow, the one who wrote
>"A View of the Bay", was married to Cecile, had troubles re-
>solving his feelings for Sandy, etc., and was REALLY NICE
>to look at - and he could act....and he wasn't a pompous
>dork, either...but I digress.)  I'm not saying that I think
>that the video thing Jake is trying to pull on Jamie is a
>bad idea, but let's think about this....  WHO hates Jamie?
>WHO would really like to see Jamie take a fall?  WHO would
>be able to easily make a video tape?  WHO would have the
>capablilty to do the editting that even Rachel was able to
>spot???  Gee, I don't know, is there ANYONE in Bay City
>who has all those qualities???  PUUULEASE!!
>
>I gues I just don't want to see Jake take another big fall 
>and go back to the top of everyone's sh*t list.
>
>Anybody know where Paulina has been lately?  Seems like we've
>seen a little less of Judi Evans in the last week.  And, just
>for the record, I do think that Judi Evans has improved in
>the role of Paulina.  I really really really liked Cali Timmons,
>and Judi had changed the character and helped take Paulina
>in new directions - and I think she's doing pretty well now.
>I like her much better than I did in her later days of
>being Adrienne on DOOL......  (Any guesses on how much weight
>Judi has lost since she is on AW???)
>
>I'll be back with more................
>
>-Linda

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       I totally agree with your post.  From not wanting Jake to
       be on everyone's hate list again to liking the first Jamie
       who could act, was nice to look at, was a writer/teacher,
       married to Cecille, etc. I often long for him to come back.
       Also, at that time, Rachel was fair and more genuine. Now 
       she seems pompous and snobby - just like this 1992 Jamie. 
       I can understand a mother defending her son to a certain
       degree but Jamie is ethically wrong in having any kind of a
       relationship with Kelsey since he is the head of the mentor
       program.  What if John Hudson was in Jamie's shoes. Jamie
       would have a fit and, being righteous, would report him to
       the hospital board. Family is important but when a member
       of her family is wrong Rachel should own up to it.  God
       knows she has no problem telling Jake and Matt their faults.
       So what if Jamie is a fine doctor.  One has nothing to do
       with the other. Why should Jamie get an award for doing his
       job?  John Hudson was also doing operations but he's been
       ignored.  

       Poor Jake.  He tried to mend fences with Jamie after he and
       Paulina got back together but Jamie flatly refused to call
       a truce.  Since then Jake has been verbally abused by Jamie
       at every turn, he gets arrested because Jamie butted into his
       life and thought he was raping Paulina, and then punches him
       out before Dean's concert.  I understand Jake's feeling of
       frustration because no matter what happens St. Jamie comes out
       smelling like a rose.  It seems to me that Jake was getting
       more of the popular vote from viewers considering Jamie has
       been such an arrogant jerk, so Jake has been made to look
       even worse.  Jake can't win for losing.  Because Jamie has
       an active sex life again he decides to become human and offer
       Jake the olive branch!  Pullleeez!  Once again, when the dust
       settles, Jake will look bad and Jamie will be the martyr. I
       can't bare to see Jake start all over again especially after
       it took Paulina and Jake so long to get together.  Being that
       Jake is the video expert in town it shouldn't take a genius 
       to figure out Jake was living up to his bad boy image.  Why
       does Jamie always win?

       I like Judi Evans as Paulina too.  She's come a long way since
       her stint on DAYS.  She's lost a ton of weight.  I never thought
       she could act sexy on DAYS but she's proven that with the right
       co-star anything can happen.  Wonder where Paulina has been
       lately?  I hope AW doesn't break up the great pairing of Jake
       and Paulina.


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       Coleen
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