From: mins@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (timothy.j.mizerak)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: DOOL: The fight?
Date: 5 Jan 93 20:49:05 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <19930105095020EFS6ET1@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> ecz5mxr@mvs.oac.ucla.edu writes:
>Was it me or was Monday's DOCL possibly the worst show in recent
>memory (and that's saying a lot!)


I was just getting ready to post as much!  Gosh, did it suck!!

About half-way through I realized that they just abandoned the party
scene from Thursday, New Year's Eve.  What's up with that?   They set
up this whole big party and a situation for Carly and Bo to confront
each other, and poof, nothing!!!   They didn't even finish what they
started with John and Marlena.   I think someone screwed up big time.
Maybe we lost a whole show in there.


>The Jack stuff (and you know I love Jack) was stupid.  And I can't
>even bring myself to discuss the Carnage and Jennifer scenes.


I kind of like Jennifer, and you know that in the right company
I can like Carly too, but I just cannot stand these two together!!
What a fake and sugary friendship.  Real "best friends" should 
have conversations that run deeper and have more of an edge.  They
are just too sweet to one another.   "Well Carly, you know you're
the best friend I could ever want to have, whatever you want to do
is what you should do."   "Thanks Jenn, you have always been SUCH
a good friend to me too!   And I think you are doing everything in
your life to perfection too."    Your best friend is the one that 
tells you when you're being an ass, when you're wrong, when you
need to look out for yourself.  [for KL fans, compare to the 
friendship between Paige and Kate.]


>But the absolute, positive, worst, was Austin and the Fright.

Yes!  This was the single worst storyline, and the worst set of
scenes that I think I have EVER seen on this show.   The 
writing was pathetic.  So, Carrie sabotages the car.  How did
she plan to get back to Salem eventually?  And how good an arm
does this kid have?  She only threw the <insert car part here,
I know nothing about cars, Susan had to tell me it wasn't the
spark plugs>  into some nearby bushes.  So why were they looking
right in front of the car?   Stupid!   And could someone who
does know something about cars say a few words about the 
plausibility of using a phone cord to repair a car engine?   Does
Austin think he is MacGyver now?   And they did absolutely no
build up to his getting back in time.  Just WHAMMO, he's there!



>I will say, for comic relief, his reaction to being asked to
>take a dive was riotous.  I wanted someone to smack him, he
>seemed to have gone into some brain-dead coma for a moment.
>His mere expression could define "stupid."  AND for whom was that


I couldn't have described this lil bit o acting any better!  I
literally sat moaning on the couch through these scenes.


>fight intended?  I can't imagine most daytime viewers really like
>boxing, so what does DOCL do?  It stages some realistic, or at least,
>gory fighting.  Did I really need to see a slow-mo shot of Austin


Hear hear!    As you say, I seriously doubt that the soap opera
fan/ boxing fan overlap is anything substantial.   I deplore the
sport myself.  If it were anyone but Austin I wouldn't have even
watched it.  But it was nice to see him get hurt.  >:-)


>taking that final punch, blood spewing from his mouth as he took the
>fall?  I don't think so.  (Also, they seem to be using that weird
>tape to film transfer process which drops frames, again.)


Yes, and this time it was throughout the entire show!   It looked
like crap!   


>I am perfectly willing to listen to an alternate view.  Did anyone
>out there like that fight?


A silence falls over the masses.....


>*Razzie
>  PHONE, FAX, CALL!  SAVE SSH!!!


yeah!   Oh, and I still have to send you that letter Maureen.  I almost
forgot.

Tim

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