From: Joanna L. Castillo <pefv702@utpe.pe.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: DOOL: Stuff
X-Xxdate: Wed, 6 Jan 93 20:40:50 GMT
Organization: UT Petroleum Engineering Dept.
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 20:01:03 GMT

Gail Said Johnson, VECTRGSJ@VAX.CSUN.EDU writes:
>timothy.j.mizerak writes:
>>cf@planck.physics.purdue.edu (Coleen Flanagan) writes:
>>>
>>>          Yep, Jen sure is getting on the annoying side again!!
>>
>>I'm with Rose as far as this goes.  I think Jenn has been totally
>>right lately, and Jack is being an ass.
>
>I'm with Rose *and* Tim.  I don't know how Jennifer puts up with Jack at all.

Uh-oh...I'm agreeing with Tim too.  Yowsa.  :)  A lot of people seem 
to be suggesting that Jenn should support Jack no matter what he does 
and I don't buy that.  If it was me and I was barely scraping by, I 
don't think I'd be too enthusiastic about my husband putting my house
down as collateral on a deal that he has no idea how he's going to 
finish financing.  As I understand it, he was willing to use the house
as a downpayment, right?  And he had to come up with 10 times as much
in order to buy the paper?  And he had no real ideas (at least he 
didn't verbalize them) on where he was gonna get the $750,000, right?
It doesn't sound too terribly promising to me.  I think I'd be a *lot* 
more worried about things than Jenn is being -- I personally think 
Jenn's been quite supportive..  I also think it's quite realistic to 
assume there aren't any banks that are gonna give Jack the money so 
where is he planning on getting it?  Maybe he can find 10 people with 
$75,000 apiece to invest?  That's a pretty big assumption particularly
if he's only got a little under 2 weeks to pull it off.

Of course...I'm talking about how I'd react to this situation in the 
"real" world which has nothing to do with DOOL, right?  :)

>If it weren't for the fact that I do the Thursday updates and J&J tend to turn 
>up every Thursday, I'd probably FF through most of their scenes these days.  
>I'm not sure which incarnation of Jack I'd prefer, but it's not this one.  He 
>just seems like a big buffoon to me.  This storyline is *almost* as stupid as 
>the scam storyline was, IMO.

I like this version of Jack better than the "liesure suit" version 
from this same time last year.  But, I still don't think he's ready
to face up to the "reality" of getting the Spectator back.  I sure
do wish the writers had just decided to have Baby Howie's grandpa 
die and leave the money to J&J in his will as some sort of atonement.
I'd be much happier with that resolution to the money problem.

>As for the Spectator being Jack's life, well, I guess it's become that, but 
>the whole idea of his being involved with a newspaper in the first place came 
>completely out of nowhere, I believe.

And, if it is his whole life, he should be willing to make some sort
of compromise (ie. taking Bill's money -- or maybe coming to some sort
of agreement with Victor to have an option to buy later...Victor struck
me as being in the mood to deal with Jack yesterday) in order to hang 
on to it.  As of this moment on the show, he doesn't have a clue on how 
to get more money if he doesn't have Bill's backing.  He doesn't know 
he's going to stumble onto Billie's drug money.  Sigh...

>                                       Of course, this seems to be true of 
>most professions on the show.  I still can't figure out when Kim came to be a 
>"therapist."  They seem to put her on a par with Marlena, who I believe we can 
>assume actually went through medical school.  Kim's credentials are just 
>slightly different.  :)

Heh.  :)

>>>           Coleen
>>Tim
>
>  [Gail] gsaidjohnson@vax.csun.edu

Joanna.

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