From: kjones@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Kent Jones - EECS)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL: Friday - Icky and Gnarly
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:13:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1992Sep2.211327.5358
Organization: Washington State University!

In article <TsVBr*n61@cecily.UUCP> rose@cecily.UUCP (Rose M. Delckum) writes:
>In article <0eccE7m00WBKI5nQhp@andrew.cmu.edu>, Liz Fox writes:
>
>> 
>> 
>> Well I was home on Friday and watched DOOL in real time (gasp!).  The
>> cutest thing was when John put the pencil behind Brady's ear - they were
>> adorable - as Vix would say "He's such a dad!"

	I thought this was good also. Looked like the kid really was
	uh - creating a mess in the diapers!
>
>I taped it!  I taped it!  (I wanted to see just how bad Patsy's acting was...
>I had no idea....words cannot express it..except maybe "the horror...the horror..
>*gasp*")
>> 
>> Now for the gruesome.  (Apologies in advance to Rick and whomever else
>> is the Icky lover). I actually though Crystal WAY out-acted Staci (which
>> ain't tough to do!) 
>     I'm sorry Big B.  (taking a deep breath)  I thought Ickabella outshone
>CC big time.  While Icky came across well as an extremely nervous patient, 
>Carly came across as someone who really didn't care about her patient (and
>who really didn't know what she was doing).  I'm sorry, really I am...but

	Is this the actors fault or the script writers? I find it funny that
	Carly is an instant expert on almost every field of medicine!
	Why didnt they have an ultrasound tech giving IzzyB the ultrasound?
	Most doctors don't do ultrasounds -- the techs do.
	I *personally* like Carly's acting. 

>that's the way I saw it.  Not that I liked either of the performances, but
>I thought Spaci did better than Crystal, who gave her usual shallow, one-
>dimensional performance.  Hey, at least they didn't do the tests in the new
>Wonder-Van!
>
>> 
>> (paraphrased and I KNOW the writ-errs are at fault for a lot of this but
>> BETTER actors could have pulled this off with an emotional response
>> other than laughter from the audience)
>
>  [good paraphrasing deleted for brevity]
>
>
>I thought Spaci came across well as someone who was very frightened
>and nervous.  I don't know about the rest of you, but doctors tend
>to intimidate me.  And whenever I go to the doctor for some unidentifiable
>something, I worry maybe it might be something big.  Like when I was in
>high school I started having severe back pains, it hurt to stand, to

	Hey! I had the same type of pains also! Once it was so bad all I
	could do was lie on my stomach on the floor!

>sit, to walk, to breathe.  My regular doctor said it was growing pains.
>Later that year I had to have a chest x-ray cause they thought I might
>have pneumonia, and we went to a doctor who was closer to home.  After
>looking at the x-rays and pronouncing my lungs clear, he told me he wanted
>to do some more x-rays cause he saw something on the previous series
>he wanted to check out.  I was petrified!  I mean, x-rays are expensive
>and he wanted front and back ones.  I figured it had to do with my back pains
>and was so scared it'd be some horrible disease.  Luckily it was just
>arthritis (yeah, 'just' arthritis...beats some of the stuff I imagined!)
>Anyhow, Icky didn't come across to me as stupid, just scared to death.
>She thought there could be something really wrong with her, and Carly
>kept looking constipated and not telling her anything, and she was
>working herself into a panic.  At least, that's how I saw it... 
>> Oh well just my 2 cents

	Again I think this is the script writers fault.. They could have
	thought up something better for Carly to say.
> 
>Mine too!
>> 
>> Big*waiting for J&J to be back on 'cause it's the only thing I can
>> stomach*Banana
>
>Rosita La Guavita, planning to tape SB tomorrow!
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