From: Joanna L. Castillo <pefv702@perv.pe.utexas.edu>
Subject: DOOL: Friday's Episode
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Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 13:44:40 GMT

[Just Vix]
 
Did you all notice that last Thursday Calliope and Jennifer referred to
Jennifer as a lady in waiting and on Friday, Drake told sIckly that Roman
had arrived and she said "Roman too" but to me it sounded like "Roman II"?
Beware!  The net has ears!
 
[Vix and Lix not Jinx]
 
Thanks to JoJo for posting this for Lix and I.  Lix is away doing her evil
Theresa Russell bit but asked me to post about Friday's episode.
 
We decided that it was a three tissue (out of four) episode.  That's right
folks.  *I* cried.  I didn't cry as much as I did when Hope died which is
somewhat surprising because I had only watched Hope for those last three
months (and two EVIL incarnations on MacGyver).  Her death scene on Days
was such a joke and yet she really carried it off.  Lix and I also think
Steve's death stuff was more touching.  I still get a lump in my throat
when I think of his dream of Stephanie's first date.  When he asks about
the boy, she asks him why he cares since he won't be there.  Sob.
 
However, this stuff was definitely -- dare I say it -- good.  There were
things I didn't like at all, but other parts more than made up for the
negatives with one glaring exception.  See below.  Once again, Drake had
to make a silly remark at the beginning about how selfless sIckly was.  This
on the day that she was getting the party she requested and the trip to
Italy.  Not that I resent this at all, but selfless??  sIckly??  Why do
the writers insist on going over the top??  If I cried, there was no need
for this kind of crap.  We all know I hate her.
 
The scene where she walked around the loft for the last time was touching,
but not for the reasons they thought.  Lix and I both had the same reaction
when sIckly said, "What a lovely room."  We thought of Bo and Hope, Steve
and Kayla, and Jack and Jennifer and *their* time in the loft.  Both of
us were hard pressed to remember any great Drake and Icky scenes there, but
that was OK.  It was nice to remember the others.
 
The party was very touching.  A few things could have been done better.
sIckly's little speech to Snarlena smacked of "I got him and you didn't"
and yes, folks.  You heard it here first.  That was the WRITERS fault.
Marlena has been a waste since last January, but before then, she and
Drake were great.  It was during this time that my hatred of sIckly became
permanent.  The writers should have worded that little speech much more
tactfully.  On the upside, it appears that Drake and Deidre will have
plenty of scenes together.  She is only good with him.  If she's not going
anywhere, then I want her to be good.
 
Julie was wonderful.  Why?  I don't know.  Susan does so many little things
that just make her terrific.  Lix and I both thought that she shamed 
Crystal.  CamelJoe (tm Bill) is not even in the same league as Susan and
to have them share center stage did nothing but make Crystal look like the
dud she is.  In addition, I have no desire to see Victor and Vivian end
up together after Friday.  Victor belongs to Julie.  Period.   Although,
we wouldn't mind a good juicy catty triangle.
 
Marty scored big with the old Rosemary Clooney song "For All We Know" in
addition to the tune Drake and sIckly danced to a couple of episodes back --
"The Glory of Love" by Bette Midler on the Beaches soundtrack.  It's nice
that he used a couple of old standards and they were perfect.
 
There has been some argument about Boinko and (mostly) Camel's airtime.  In
the final party scene when the music was playing, the camera started at
J&J (Matt is so terrific even without lines) and went to Deidre (and it even
looked like the cryogenic miracle was melting).  The camera then panned to
Boinko and WaxLips (no emotion from either of them -- they looked bored).  The
camera switched to Victor and Julie.  Susan was so wonderful that you just
ached for Victor. And then what happens??!!  The camera goes back to the
bored twosome.  Why??  Don't tell me they don't get more airtime than
anyone else.  They do.  Why didn't the camera go to Shawn and Caroline or
Mickey and Maggie or the Allamain branch for god's sake??!  But noooooooooo
we can't have that.  This kind of thing is why people are complaining about
CC.
 
The scene on the plane was nice.  Drake has been outstanding through most of
this and he should be.  He's played it before when Marlena "died".  We are
hoping that the writerrs remember this.  It would be nice for Marlena to
watch him suffer through this and realize that this was how he suffered when
she "died".  Just a little continuity.  And it makes a lot of sense if
you remember that one of the first and most touching scenes they had together
when she came back was when he told her what it was like for him after she
"died".  They both ended up sobbing.
 
And now for a MAJOR complaint, the show should have ended with the scene
on the plane.  It was COMPLETELY inappropriate to end with TwinKims.  There
was nothing right about it and it was a huge mistake.  Here we get possibly
one of the best episodes we seen in ages and in the name of shovelling
Kim down our throats, they all but ruined it.  Lix and I both agree that
that is it for us.  We don't care about TwinKims' idiotic storyline and
we are FF'ing through all of it.  Any interest, however minute, we might
have had is GONE.  End of discussion.  Patsy and Wayne can leave now and
we'd never miss them.  This was horrible.  
 
In case you all are wondering, Monday's episode is a complete dud.  
 
Well that's it from us.  All in all, we give Friday a -- gasp -- thumbs up
But you can still sign us...
 
Bannie and Stinky -- Four gloriously short episodes and counting -- Peel
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