From: kitty@access.digex.com (Ms. Kitty)
Subject: Re: SB: Troy (was Re: SB: Supernatural experience
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 14:07:17 GMT

In article <ku9cfjINN92q@skat.usc.edu> marks@skat.usc.edu (Louise Marks) writes:
>tea@cis.ksu.edu (Troy E. Anderson) writes:
>
>>The recent de-aging of the characters in an attempt to attract younger
>>viewers is bugging me, too.  For example:  Warren.  A responsible newspaper 
>>editor and world renouned photographer suddenly gets a rock band and 
>>begins singing again, 
>
>--you know they're gonna have to find SOME reason for Jack Wagner to
>  sing occasionally :-)

Isn't that part of his contract? :-)

>then begins teaching and wants to drink beer 
>>with his students to try to get along with them better?  
>
>--to me this doesn't seem out of character for Warren

Me either.  Warren seems like that sort of person.  After all, we just
had him return to the show this time from a death sentence in prison.
He spent a lot of his time before Angela getting drunk, so a beer or two
doesn't seem out of character.

>>in comparison to Angela and Warren (for instance) who are portrayed 
>>as hopelessly aged adults trying to recapture their youth.  (i.e. the scene 
>>at the Windsurfer on Wednesday when Warren and Angella 'hung out' with the
>>'kids' until they got the chance to 'get out of there' to somewhere more
>>'adult').  My point here is that I don't think that Warren and Angella in
>>reality would necessarily think the Windsurfer is beneath them, yet in order
>>to emphasize this recent age theme, they are being written to act as though
>>they do. 
>
>--I didn't see this as an age gap, but rather a cultural gap for
>  Angela, who's been running in high society for a long time.  I
>  think Warren was annoyed that Angela took such an interest in Troy.

Good point.  Angela did seem rather uncomfortable in that kind of a
place.  Warren would have blended in quite nicely, except for all those
kids calling him "professor" all the time.  Now *that* gets on my nerves.
Do any of us really call our teachers that?  Maybe we use the "doctor"
if they actually have a PhD or something, but certainly not "professor".
And how many of us refer to teachers that politely when they're out of
earshot.  I'd just call him "Lockridge".
 
>Many of these changes predate the change in writers, but I have the
>urge to CLASSIFY everything:
>
>Bad Mistakes:
>
>Kelly!!!
>CC & Santana
>Vilifying Cassie and then dumping her
>Trivializing Mason and Julia (I read somewhere that they were going to
>	become the "stable" couple of SB.  Julia & Mason stable? HAH!)
>Dumping Louise Sorrell (Augusta)
>Dumping Timothy Gibbs (Dash)

I'd have to say getting rid of Timothy Gibbs was a good move.  I didn't
see where else he could go, especially not paired off with Katrina.  But
you missed another bad move -- turning Katrina into a mindless bimbo.  I
agree she doesn't seem to have much of a place on the show anymore, but
she doesn't deserve to be made into what they've done with her.

We've also lost (apparently) all of the animosity between Mason and CC
that kept their relationship so interesting.

>Good Moves:
>
>Lily 
>Rafe the smarmy sweet talker
>Jody & Reese
>Keeping Warren & Angela together
>David gets a personality
>Gina gets a storyline

Agree on all.
 
>Hope for the future:
>
>Jody will get Cruz away from Kelly
>Suzanne will get a love interest worthy of her (the guy who walked in
>	on her in yesterday's preview is a GREAT actor.  I can't
>	remember his name, but he played Michael Grande on OLTL)
>Santana will be so pissed off by CC's concessions to Gina that she'll
>	leave him (but not the show)
>Sophia will have a wacky (but passionate) affair with Lionel

Agree on all except the last.  Sophia has already had numerous affairs
with Lionel.  I think if she has one more with him, they'd better keep
the two of them together.  If they don't want Sophia and Lionel to stay
together then she should get back with that Ken, who seems to have
disappeared.  I've never understood why CC is allowed to carry on while
he and Sophia are separated and she never is.  

I also hope Santana will have a miscarriage.  OK, that's not a nice
thing to wish for, but honestly, do we want CC to have another kid
wandering around out there.  It's a good thing he's so rich, he'd never
be able to afford to buy them all birthday presents. :-)

I'd like to see more of Rafael and Rosa.  I think they make an
interesting couple.

And finally, of course, I'd really like for Kelly to decide she can't be
without Quinn, and have her go off forever, or until she can be
reincarnated as Carrington Garland, to Spain.

-- 
Love to eat them mousies
Mousie's what I love to eat.
Bite they little heads off...
Nibble on they tiny feet.   -- B. Kliban