From: willers@trombone.sps.mot.com (Robert Willers)
Subject: DOOL: Unlurking and sick
Reply-To: willers@trombone.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola, Inc., Semiconductor Products Sector
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:44:22 GMT

     Please welcome my wife (Mary) and me to the DOOL group.  Even
though we may not be around for long (see below), it has been fun
lurking for the last five months.
     OK, enough of the nice stuff.  Now, to war.
     We will stop watching on Susan Seaforth Hayes' last air date.  So
will my mother, my wife's mother and sister, and many of her sister's
in-laws.  This means DOOL will lose at least six long-time viewers who
range in age from twenty-six to fifty-five(?), representing 100% of the
known soap-viewers in my immediate family.
     What can we say that hasn't already been said by EVERYONE else?
Briefly:
* The writing has been pathetic for a few years now and is continuing
  a downward trend.
* The acting by the featured characters is miserable.  The good actors
  and actresses are screwed over or fired.
* The show's great traditions are neglected.
     Etc., etc., etc.  There is simply no reason to continue watching
(though I probably won't put DOOL in my kill file JUST yet).  It's
difficult to even get upset enough to write a FAX/letter, since it
is just SO bad right now.  We only keep watching now because it gives
us something to talk about at family gatherings.  Besides, as has been
said by others, you just HAVE to stare at the wreck on the highway.

     As for why we are sick...here is something we saw in our Sunday
newspaper's TV section [reprinted here from the Arizona Republic and
Tribune Media Services without permission]:
 ---Quote---
 [...]  Also at _Days_, Patsy Pease, who originated the role of
 Kimberly in 1984 and has played it ever since -- with several
 leaves of absence in recent years -- has been replaced by Ariana
 Chase (most recently Christine of _Guiding Light_).  Pease,
 meanwhile, has sold the story of her often-troubled life to NBC
 and will play herself in the TV film.
 ---End Quote---
     I don't even begin to know what to say about this.  I thought this
was a joke.  I'm surprised nobody else has heard about this (at least
not that I have seen any mention of in r.a.t.s).  Comments?

     Spoiler comments (while we're here...)
>Note - Wednesday is pre-empted by the inaguration.
     ...and another poster [sorry, don't remember who] was worried
about a day without Carly ("...is like a day WITH sunshine").  With
our luck, we will STILL get our daily dose of Crystal, since she
was probably invited to the inauguration and NBC will cover her like
a blanket (as if they don't already...).  Oh, the horror of it all.
>
>The coroner notices something strange about Lisanne's autopsy report.
     About damn time.

     If, once SSH leaves, there is a scene where Hope physically beats
the crap out of Carly, would some kind soul please post a VCR alert?
Other than that unlikely event, Kenny won't have us to kick around any
more.  We'll be off watching "Loving".
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| "We've all been in our underpants.  I'm in mine now." --DLetterman |
| Bob Willers                           willers@trombone.sps.mot.com |
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