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Current Talk '02 II / Re: Adam's Look
« on: August 07, 2002, 10:25:14 PM »Quote
And yet we never see a single scar on Eve... so either Dr. Lang was a really sloppy surgeon,
That's certainly possible. But I seem to recall that Lang told Barnabas that he was going to take care of the scars after his creation came to life. An odd choice, no? While it was still inanimate, it would feel no pain - yet after coming to life, one might assume that removing the scars may have been fairly painful.
I wonder if Lang turned to "bizarre medicine" because too many of his patients began to sue him because of, shall we say, less than compassionate medical decisions like that one?
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or sometime between hematology and psych Julia managed to squeeze in a plastic surgery residency.
Well, Julia was certainly a medical Renaissance woman, so that's definitely plausible. But I'm pretty sure that they mention somewhere along the way that Eve didn't have scars because Lang had actually laid out in his journals how to prevent them. That simply just begs the question, "Then why the HELL didn't he construct Adam THAT way?!" But, of course, we all know the answer to that - because Curtis and Co. thought a scarred artificial man was much more scary than a handsome one. And apparently the thought of having a scarred woman was completely unthinkable because the women of Daytime TV must ALWAYS appear glamourous - even in life threatening situations - and I'm sure that goes for artificial-life situations as well. (I'll never forget the All My Children episode in which the Pine Valley Inn burnt to ashes with practically the entire town inside - yet, despite the smoke, the soot, and the mad rush of extras trying to escape, Erica Kane emerged from the fracas completely unscathed, without so much as a hair out of place - or even the slightest speck of soot on her skin or on her startlingly white gown. You see, Soap Opera Reality is a far different animal than it is for the rest of us! (But even so, the daytime press had a field day making fun of that AMC episode. ))