From: spira@panix.com (Greg "Sarcasm Is A Way Of Life" Spira)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL: Greg's Spoilers for next week...
Date: 8 Oct 92 15:08:44 GMT
Organization: Fool's Paradise

In <1arc1rINN9eu@agate.berkeley.edu> sally@anableps.berkeley.edu (S. A. Wilson) writes:

>>And now, spoilers from a person who's quite cranky at this moment (
>>mostly because an attempt to put on pants yesterday ended in my back
>>telling me I can't walk for at least the next week or so)
>>
>Well I hope you recover much quicker than that...
>Get well soon...

Thanks, I'm trying.  However, recovery is as slow as I anticipated, so far.  

A few spoilers are left for those who are spoiler wary.  

>>Billie plans to buy ectasy and talk Carrie into taking into as part of
>>her plan to make Carrie into a "bad girl"  (Ed. Note - I wasn't watching
>>the show then, but didn't someone else try and get Carrie involved with
>>drugs years back?)  Billie is buying her drugs when she sees Bo approaching.

>And yes Greg, just a while back Jessie tried to get Scarrie to take
>some Ectasy....and I think someone else did too...

Actually, what I'm thinking of I think I know because when I was asking
about a young actor named Kirk Geiger a few months ago the answer I
got (from elsewhere; no one here seemed to remember him) was that he
once played a teen who tried to turn the old Carrie onto drugs.  So I
presume that was a plot (albeit a small one) way back when, so I have
to wonder why they are trying it again.

>And is it me or does it seem as though TPTB are testing the waters
>of Billie and Butthead?

Its not you.  If two characters start off hating each other, and one is
male and one is female, and both are the same race, they will have a
relationship.  Its the first law of bad soap plotting.

>Wow...geez a crack executive too...and a great environmentalist tooo...
>I mean why doesn't Corday just fire every cast member and just
>let Crystal do the whole friggin' show--except of course Butthead
>and Lizard with whom she has to do the wild thing, for even the
>great Carly can't do that on her own........My disgust with the
>character grows by each passing day, and I hated her pretty much
>from the beggining...

Then I guess I shouldn't give your phone number to the Church of
Carly, which keeps harrasing me to join in the worship of that new
earth goddess.  

>>Jack and Jennifer are heading home after visiting Mickey and Maggie at the
>>farm when they get stuck in a storm and Jennifer goes into labor.

>YES all of two minutes will be devoted to this...interesting that they
>are mentioning the farm again...it has been quite some time since this
>has happened...and is that where Mickey and Maggie are living? I guess

Actually, the one thing that I think has clearly improved on the show
since Sherri Anderson started writing it again is that the show no longer
pretends that the past doesn't exist.  I've always thought that one of
the most important things a soap can do is to maintain ties to what was -
to mention old characters, places, events etc.  Even if I don't know what 
anything means, I like the idea that everything and one has a past.
That way the characters are characters and not plot devices.

>>I need something more substantial - a can of beans,    spira@panix.com  
>>of black-eyed peas, some Nescafe and ice, a falling  158-17 Riverside Dr
>>star, or a reading from Dr. Seuss  -  R.E.M.         Whitestone NY 11357  
>      >Third In A Series Of Trial Signatures - Pick Your Favorites 

>Ah...geez...rather like that one...but tell the truth Greg...did
>a one Timinator encourage that particular quote?  

Actually, no.  My taste for R.E.M. comes from some college friends who
were R.E.M fans from way, way back and got me into the little bit of
alternative music (Replacements, They Might Be Giants - I hesitate to
cal R.E.M. alternative at this point - just because the Grammy committee
has to be stupid doesn't mean I have to be) that I listen to.  Most of
my musical taste leans in other directions, but I've been collecting
R.E.M. albums for many years now.  In reality, though, I haven't even
yet heard the song from which I quoted the lyric - I just read the lyric,
and thought it was really cool.  I guess that's cheating a bit.

Greg 

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