Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 11:27:36 -0400 
From: Jennifer Allyson Turner <jt3j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: AMC unlurking

Hi all!

Since it seems to be the thing to do, I'm unlurking.  I've been posting
for a few weeks but I've never officially unlurked, so here goes.

My name is Jennifer Turner, and I'm a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon
University planning to major in professional writing.  I've been writing
for years and years, even longer than I've been watching soaps.  Besides
watching soaps (which is a hobby within itself), and writing, I also
love puzzles (any kind, from crossword to jigsaw), and I love to work
with kids.

I've only been actively watching soaps for about nine years (since I was
ten), but I remember some things from when I was even younger.  I was
born in 1973 and I remember when the CBS soaps came on in the morning
and the ABC soaps came on the afternoon (my mother watched them both). 
But when CBS soaps switched to the afternoons, my mother just kept to
her ABC soaps.  And I've been pretty loyal (with a few lapses) ever
since.

When I got to college, I became semi-interested in Y&R, but AMC will
always be my soap of choice.

Speaking of AMC, my favorite all-time character is Erica Kane.  I LOVE
Susan Lucci and think it's a shame that she can never seem to get enough
votes to win that Emmy (tho AMC would probably get less publicity if she
*did* win).

I love Erica even when she's at her most conniving (in fact, I think
that's when I like her best).  I love her scenes with Adam (not the
supportive, let's be friends scenes, but the all-out, anything goes
scenes).  She's at her best when she's at her worst.  I just wish the
writers hadn't been so quick with the divorce!

But I have to admit that some of her various love scenes have been good
(do y'all remember when Travis finally caught up with her after she left
Pine Valley with Bianca?  Whew!  That kiss really had my television
screen smoking.).  Her love scenes with Jack were always fun to watch,
and I think that she and Dimitri were fun in the beginning (remember
when she shaved his beard?).  

And I know that there are a lot of folks out there who don't like
Dimitri (in fact, I'm hard-pressed to find anyone who *does*), but I've
liked him from the very beginning.  I know that in the beginning he was
with Nat when everyone wanted her with Trevor, but since I was sure that
Porkchop and Doll were going to end up together, I felt sort of sorry
for him and started to like him.  (This might be as a result of his Dex
days on Dynasty.  I loved Dex.)  Not to mention the fact that he's
better-looking than every other man on AMC.  (Now if they brought Tad
back, that would be a different story.)  

My all-time least favorite character is Dixie.  I hate her!  I hate her!
 I hate her!  She is NOT innocent and has never been sweet.  She and
Will had a lot more in common than she's willing to admit.  And if
Hayley is like Adam, than that goes double for Dixie and Will.  She's
conniving, manipulative, and totally hypocritical, and if Tad comes
back, I hope he finds a new love interest (or maybe goes back to an old
one?  I don't like Edmund-O that much either.  I think Brooke and Jamie
deserve better.).

And, I have to admit that I like Hellcat.  No, your eyes are not
deceiving you, I actually like the old bat.  She adds excitement to an
otherwise dragging storyline.  It's fun to try and think of what she may
be up to next.  Her scenes with Angelique are sometimes a little
sickening (give the poor woman a break, Hellcat, after all, she is your
DAUGHTER), but I can deal with those if they're broken up by her
whispered conversations with unknown persons.  What IS she up to anyway?

That's pretty much all I had to say, tho I'm thinking up new things
every day.  Oh, and one more thing.  I like r.a.t.s. a lot and think
that the discussion of nighttime soaps should stay here.

I'm a big Homefront fan and that's the only nighttime show that I'm
interested in discussing, so r.a.t. would just be a big waste of time
for me.

Well, that's my whole $37.50.  I hope you all weren't too bored.  I know
this message was a little long.  But thanks for reading it.

-Jenn 

P.S.  Tomato soup is my favorite kind of soup.  :-)