From: lf01+@andrew.cmu.edu (Liz Fox)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
Subject: DOOL -- Danielle vs. Ickenstein
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:15:10 GMT
Organization: Office of the Dean - CFA, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


[Onion Soup not Nana Split]
 
Doesn't that subject line look like a title for a bad Japanese monster
movie??
 
You know I have been reading with extreme interest some of the bashes
of Danielle.  There seems to be an opinion floating around that she
is conniving and that she is lying to Drake.  I have just one favor to
ask of you folks doing the bashing.  Compare her behavior to Ick.  On
second thought, I'll do it for you.
 
Let's see.  Let's start with the lying part because I know I'll be on a
humongous roll for the conniving part.  So you guys dislike Danielle because
she is not being honest with Drake.  Hmmmmmmm.  Just what do you call 
neglecting to tell the father of your child that he will be a father for
MONTHS?  What do you call telling him that you are resting and not 
"investigating" (man is that laughable) and then doing just the opposite, for
WEEKS?!  Somehow folks, I think you've forgotten what a liar the saintly
monster is.  If Danielle is a liar, the monster has been lying right along
with her while going on and on about loving him and his child.  Yeah, right.
 
Conniving?  The sum total of Danielle's conniving behavior will NEVER top
one pathetic conniving act that the monster pulled.  Of course, I am speaking
of Ick's current state -- becoming the mother of foam rubber.  Oh yes, this
'90s woman traps a man by getting herself pregnant.  Romantic??  No, try
nauseating.  No amount of lamaze classes or ultrasounds will make this
event touching in my mind.  She trapped him.  Pure and simple.  This viewer
will never forgive her for it.  Compared to this, Danielle's little plots
are venial sins.
 
Oh and you think Ick loves Drake and Danielle doesn't??  I don't know.  If
I loved a man as desperately as she says she does, the first thing I'd
do is take care of his child.  The monster makes Joan Crawford look like
Mother Theresa.  How did she abuse her child?  Let me count the ways:
 
1.  Not seeing an OB for months.
2.  Going to the Mexican jungles without consulting a physician.
3.  Driving in inclement weather after she had just gotten out of the hospital.
4.  Attempting to fix windshield wipers WHILE DRIVING?
5.  Scuba diving in her car.
6.  Continuing her work (hah!) while lying about staying in bed.
7.  Packing a gun and going to a mobster's house WITHOUT CALLING THE POLICE!
8.  Driving into a snowbank.
9.  Flopping around in a snowbank instead of staying in a warm car.
10. Insisting on walking while in premature labor, instead of staying in
    a warm car.
 
I could go on and on, but if these are the actions of a woman who loves
her man and her child, this world is in big trouble.  If you think she is
admirable, we have vastly different views of what admirable is.
 
In addition there have been a couple of really laughable things that she
has done recently.  I'll steal them from my sises Sally and Lix.
 
1.  I loved the monster's remark about Danielle not acting like the daughter
    of a servant.  That's the pot calling the kettle black.  When was the
    last time Staci Greason was believable as an Italian heiress??
 
2.  On that note, why oh why did she not even attempt a little Italian when
    calling that hotel in the Italian end of Switzerland?  Talk about being
    totally miscast in a role.
 
In addition, I have been a Drake fan since I started watching this show.
I have never seen him so flat and lifeless as he is with Staci Greason
(with the possible exception of the woman who played Olivia).  They have
NO CHEMISTRY.  Whether you like Deborah Moore or not, he shows more life
and excitement with her than I have seen in years from him.  With her he
gets all hot and bothered.  And frankly, I watch this show to see him get
all hot and bothered.
 
So before you Ick fans point fingers at Danielle and say that she is not
worthy of Drake's character, think again.  For every point you make, I
can make ten.  Ick has a long history of being a totally worthless and
unloveable character -- IMNSHO -- of course. :)
 
All this ranting from me means nothing, since I still stand by my prediction
that we will be treated to endless nauseating scenes revolving around
the blessed event.  And Days being ever the conservative show, will surely
top this garbage off with a joyous June wedding, but they will be losing
quite a few viewers because of it.
 
Bitter Onion
 
PS Will someone tell me what is going on with the credits?  A few weeks
   ago Daniel Pilon's name was misspelled several times.  This week Lynn
   (not Lynne) Herring's name was wrong.  What?  Deidre's salary was so
   much that they couldn't afford a proofreader for the credits??
 
PPS As I recall, in a fit of generosity, Victor gave Julie the land under
    Wings.