From: escheele@us.oracle.com ("The Mad Poet")
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: DOOL: M&T wedding (was Re: DOOL: More moaning and groaning)
Date: 2 Sep 92 21:17:56 GMT


Regarding Molly & Tanner's upcoming quickie wedding and departure, I wrote:

>>And so inconsistent with Molly's current behavior.  Kissing on the couch
>>makes her uncomfortable, and yet, they'll be MARRIED soon?  Someone please
>>give me a large personal break!  Wait... I'm looking for consistency?  Gotta
>>stop doing that...

Dian replied:

>I think you have to realize that Molly is holding out for marriage.
>If Tanner would say, "will you marry me tomorrow so we can spend
>our wedding night tomorrow night?" she'd say, "Oh, Yes!  That's what
>I was waiting for: Commitment!"  Her uncomfort is not with sex per se,
>but with unmarried sex.  

I am sure that this is how the writ-errs will play it off, but I still
disagree.  I think it's the commitment factor that is keeping her from moving
in with Tanner.  She still needs her space, her time alone to deal with her
assault by Newirth and with Ginger's departure (I think she's still working
through this stuff, although you'd never know it, since M&T have only had one
scene in the last 2 weeks).  These two events have shattered her (naive)
ability to completely trust people, and she has to be able to trust Tanner
before she can commit to him.

If Tanner proposes, and they get married, and then Molly turns into a sex
machine (a la Abdulla of the Pool Table), I will be quite disappointed (Of
course, I'm expecting this to happen, and to happen in about 2 days real time,
while they share those two days with scenes of Camel).  What's new, huh? 
Disappointment goes hand-in-hand with watching the garbage they're shoveling at
us.

>That Tanner has:
>  o  no money,
>  o  a rotten place to live even after "two years of waiting,"
>  o  no career prospects (which he realizes puts them in two different
>     worlds, but which she chooses to ignore, saying "Where ever I
>     belong, you belong.  You are my world.")
>  o  not a clue about what makes her tick

>will have no effect on her decision.  

Agreed, especially on points 1, 2, and 3.  She doesn't care about money.  As
for your last point, they both have a lot to learn about each other.  They've
spent so much time dealing with the events going on around them that they
haven't been able to just be together and really get to know each other (as we
could see during their "first date" several weeks ago).  It's too bad we'll
never get to see them learn about each other and grow as a couple.  No, they're
being married off and thrown away, so we have more time for Abdulla,
Ickireallyshouldhavediedinacaraccidentthatwascompletlymyfaultbecauseideserve-
nosympathy, and Kim-2.  Thanks, Kenny... you asshole.


Hasta,
Core Onary, the Mad Poet
                                                                      
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