i remember finding that this incident had an extremely disturbing "rape" subtext to it(or at least some type of attempted sexual assault was strongly implied.)

back then a rape storyline would not have been possible but i think something like that is what the writers were trying to get across.

during this plot was the only time in the show's run that i disliked carolyn extremely.i thought she used incredibly poor judgment across the whole storyline.

if i may make one more observation on the subject i wonder if it was originally planned that elizabeth never left the house at all(that was implied in the earliest of episodes)but that that became too limitting in terms of her character and how other plots could unfold?

for intance she was conveniently made absent in a few episodes where the plot dictated that vicki be left alone on the house.[spoiler]one being the episode where david lures vicki to the closed-off section of the house and locks her in.the other time being where roger grabs her and places his hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming during the time she thought he was involved in bill malloy's death.[/spoiler]

during these episodes i was like "where's liz?" but it gets hastily explained that she was somewhere on the grounds with matthew or mrs.johnson.

of course she couldn't have had her awsome showdowns with [spoiler]laura if she couldn't storm into her cottage and she couldn't have comtemplated jumping from widows' hill during the jason mcquire plot if she couldn't leave the house either.[/spoiler]

i remember in some later episodes where liz was "in town" how strange it was to see her away from collinwood.

lydia,

i remember when i first started watching the show being confused about whether or not liz never left the house proper or just the estate.

they made a very big deal about how she hadn't left collinwood for eighteen years yet she could be made absent when the plot dictated that someone be alone in the house.

if you watch carefully it's explained that liz doesn't ever leave collinwood the estate.on numerous occasions she visits matthew morgan at his cottage and later on laura at this same location.there's talk of her visiting i believe a greenhouse or some of the other outbuildings on the property and she of course visits widow's hill on many occasions as well.

so one can assume the old house was not out of bounds.

the massive heft of vicki's fall finally caused the poor girl's neck to snap.

i'm getting to this topic a bit late however...

considering how things usually turned out in the romance department a valentine in collinsport might as well have read "happy valentine's day...i love you...and goodbye" because you can bet that one of the parties involved will soon be kidnapped,killed,cursed,hanged,burned,burried alive,sent back in time,tossed off widow's hill,packed off to wyndcliff,fall for every miniskirted s.y.t. besides you or some similar calamity.

these things just did not go well for our friends.

the museum of the moving image in astoria,n.y. is having an exhibit called the "fashion in film festival" that runs from march 15-25.

on saturday,march 24th there will be a one time only screening of the 1966 film "who are you,polly maggoo?" at 7:00pm.
most of you know this film stars our favorite lady doctor grayson hall.

for additional information call the museum at (718)784-0077.

i am so there!

even when i was watching the dameon edwards subplot i felt that it was just mid-storyline filler while most of the "majors" were doing the movie.

it didn't interest me in the least and i forgot it as soon as it was over.as i recall it didn't really effect the parallel-time storyline as a whole.

even now i'm drawing a complete blank on the details.