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Title: Adam's Look
Post by: jennifer on August 07, 2002, 08:08:25 PM
don't you think someone should have told Adam to have those scars fixed before he met his mate!  :o
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no wonder poor Eve ran  from him It was such a shock she "went back" to old Peter B(maybe it was the hair! ;D

jennifer
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Raineypark on August 07, 2002, 09:05:37 PM
Telling Adam to have plastic surgery would have, in effect, spared all of us this entire wretched story line.  

If he didn't look like a chain link fence, why would he have needed the Bride from Hell?  Once the good professor had cleaned him up and taught him some (badly needed) manners,  he could have swept Carolyn off her feet, sailed into the sunset, and we wouldn't be hanging on by our teeth, waiting for the torture to end!!

But then they would have had to think up and write a story line actually worth watching.  ::)

Rainey
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Midnite on August 07, 2002, 09:58:04 PM
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don't you think someone should have told Adam to have those scars fixed before he met his mate!  :o

And yet we never see a single scar on Eve... so either Dr. Lang was a really sloppy surgeon, or sometime between hematology and psych Julia managed to squeeze in a plastic surgery residency.
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on August 07, 2002, 10:25:14 PM
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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? [wink2]

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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. [wink2] (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! :D (But even so, the daytime press had a field day making fun of that AMC episode. [lghy]))
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Dr. Eric Lang on August 07, 2002, 10:52:37 PM
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And yet we never see a single scar on Eve... so either Dr. Lang was a really sloppy surgeon, or sometime between hematology and psych Julia managed to squeeze in a plastic surgery residency.


I recall that when Lang's creation was almost completed, he announced that only one thing remained . . . THE FACE. This would seem to suggest that a head was in place but someone else's face would have to be grafted onto it, thus the scars.

On the other hand, Julia probably just used a solid corpse rather than stitching pieces of different ones together. She didn't have Jeff to go grave digging for her like Lang did, and Willie couldn't stomach more than one digging after Joe caught him in the cemetary that one time and scared the daylights out of him. >:(
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Dr. Eric Lang on August 07, 2002, 10:55:04 PM
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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.


Then how do you explain Sabrina Stuart?  :o
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Blue_Whale_Barfly on August 08, 2002, 03:49:20 AM
Julia explained yesterday that Eve was bandaged up to prevent the same type of scaring that Adam had.  Now, how the bandages help, I have no idea.
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: kuanyin on August 08, 2002, 03:57:16 AM
Yesterday, when Adam was insisting they take the bandages off, Dr. Hoffman said that they would prevent scarring. "You don't want her to be scarred as you are, do you?" For once, even ADAM shut up.  :o
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Craig_Slocum on August 08, 2002, 04:06:13 AM

Adam could make some plastic surgeon a rich man!
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Anubis on August 08, 2002, 07:29:21 AM
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Julia explained yesterday that Eve was bandaged up to prevent the same type of scaring that Adam had.  Now, how the bandages help, I have no idea.


I couldn't understand that either.  It may prevent burns, but the scars are obviously stitches so bandaging wouldn't prevent that.
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on August 08, 2002, 07:58:33 AM
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Then how do you explain Sabrina Stuart?  :o



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Ah, but even she was unglamorous in only a handful of episodes. Then it was off to Carolyn's miracle makeover. [wink2]
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: jennifer on August 08, 2002, 08:03:49 AM
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Julia explained yesterday that Eve was bandaged up to prevent the same type of scaring that Adam had.  Now, how the bandages help, I have no idea.


That's pretty funny even for DS! Julia really is a wonder Doc!But still say someone(after slapping him!)should have handed him a mirror,then told him to look up PRIDE
in the and then said after we fix you up maybe someone like Carolyn would look at you! Those scars are scary looking He looks patched together! I really think this is my least favorite storyline!
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isn't that Eve's reaction to him "she hates his looks"

jennifer
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Cassandra on August 08, 2002, 09:28:48 AM
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On the other hand, Julia probably just used a solid corpse rather than stitching pieces of different ones together.(

I tend to agree with this.  I remember Dr.Lang mentioning to Barnabas that it took years to get his creation going, while it only took Julia a few weeks to get everything together.
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: jennifer on August 08, 2002, 06:30:47 PM
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I tend to agree with this.  I remember Dr.Lang mentioning to Barnabas that it took years to get his creation going, while it only took Julia a few weeks to get everything together.

Well she is a woman we tend to be better with details and getting things done and after all "Eric" was busy with Leona LOL


jennifer
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: VAM on August 08, 2002, 07:48:05 PM
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no wonder poor Eve ran  from him It was such a shock she "went back" to old Peter B(maybe it was the hair! ;D

jennifer

What you call a desperate situation :o-Don't you agree?
Title: Re: Adam's Look
Post by: Julian on August 08, 2002, 08:07:57 PM
I wonder if it was Julia that went out and bought that nightgown/dress that Eve wears 24/7.

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 I remember when I first watched this and Professor Stokes was talking about THE MOST EVIL WOMAN of the 18th century - I was wondering what Eve would be up to. When she spent most of her time pining after Jeff/Peter I thought - THE DUMBEST WOMAN of the 18th century.