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I hope we see less of that in the coming months. I only watch Bold to laugh at and ridicule the bad writing. I don't need a second show for that, LOL. 😂

I'm up to Jan 10th 1992. Just watched an episode! The strange period after Sarah's return is officially over. The show is flowing nicely and even though I can barely stomach Megan's storyline... everything else is 10/10. Blair and Max just had their first passionate kiss. Just after Blair pretty much asked him if he has any money. She's the ultimate material girl, that's her defense mechanism. Oh and Cassie met Blair's mother - Addie... it was a very strange scene. I couldn't help but feel sympathy for Blair for taking care of her mother like that. Not everyone is so responsible towards their parents. These days I hear non stop stories about people who just leave their mother and fathers at the nursing homes and never see them again. I think this is cruel. Blair's empathy towards her mother is her saving grace. Everything else about her is... pretty disturbing. She steals, she lies and she likes married men. Hardcore social climber and an opportunist. My favorite kind. We had movement in the Max/Luna/Serenity storyline - they are trying to bait Asa into buying some cheap land thinking it's full of gold. Speaking of Asa - he put Cain up for a test and Mr. Ripley passed it - he managed to make 500 000 dollars out of 60 000 by lying and posing as other people on the phone. Aaaand we also had Leanne running to get an abortion only to be stopped at the last second by Jason, who is madly in love with her at this point. Dorian won't like this when she finds out. ❤️

All the episodes I have are already on YouTube with the exception of October-Dec 1991 which the person who is uploading that year is still uploading it. I uploaded the episode you asked for and that's ALL I can do. If I have time I may add in the missing 1991 episodes on YouTube, but I have to find the time, which I don't have right now. I'm sorry. I barely have free time to watch my soaps.

I appreciate your honesty. I am up and down when it comes to this show. Right now... I'm in a down period... plenty of episodes behind what is currently airing and it's just... hard to watch. Many reasons for it. I don't want to go into specifics. I can stomach some of cartoonish characters (we all know who they are) and dull dialogue (Brad Bell style of absurdity and repetitiveness), that's not my problem. My main issue is that the show is not consistent - they do great climaxes and then they kind of flatline every time. It's like they are just surviving on one great climax to another. What is between that... is bothering me. Anyways... I'll probably just keep watching till I can't anymore. That may be 1 more month or... 10 years, who knows. I'm their biggest fan when it's good. I think they have great individual components... but they should connect them into consistency. The magic can't be there just couple of episodes a month. (all of this is my subjective opinion, and I have a lot to catch up on, I think great stuff may becoming!)

We are so accustomed to the cold here... that my weather app is giving me serious warnings for heat at 27 degrees Celsius.

I've uploaded it on vimeo @Marco Dane Enjoy!

I have all of OLTL since 1986. Most of it is on YouTube already. I would say 99 percent is there. If you want that debut Blair episode I can upload it for you. My upload speed is very very VERY slow and I can't upload huge amount of data anywhere right now. My husband has promised to change our speed, but he doesn't do it, lol. I can upload an episode or two, but that's the max I can manage right now.

I don't know if it's on YouTube yet. I have it in my personal collection on a drive. I can post it for you on YouTube later today or tomorrow if you want. 😊

Blair and Max.mp4

My beloved Blair on New Year's Eve. A clip from a music video I'm slowly making about her. ❤️ Blair and Max.mp4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYJPnyGYlTQ

I've been keeping a secret from you guys for weeks now. I started watching this show (ONE LIFE TO LIVE) a month or two ago with Blair Daimler's first episode. I was encouraged by a soap friend, who is a mega OLTL fan. I had previously only tried out 1986, but somehow got bored 20-30 episodes in (mostly because I couldn't familiarize myself with the characters). This time I've not commented on the show for so long, because I was not even sure I would enjoy it. I didn't want to give empty opinion on something before I watch at least couple of months. Note - I think the period I started watching is couple of weeks after Michael Malone's first episode as a credited head writer. I have to check my hard drive to see what the episode was and add the date later. It was in early to Mid October. So here are my thoughts so far. I've managed to get through October, November, December 1991 and just started 1992 days ago. The show is so well written in terms of dialogue and characterization. It's intelligent, sharp, not melodramatic or over the top... and everyone has their own voice. Every character is completely different and has their own way of relating to the world in the soap. I was instantly charmed by Cassie! (seeing her go through her hellish wedding, getting verbally and physically attacked by the sinister Alex Olanov, was beyond entertaining! I went back couple of months prior to catch up on some scenes that I have missed from this particular storyline - I binged the Lake episodes where Alex tried to drown Cassie - I loved them... Tonja Walker is one of a kind. Even Glenn Close's Alex in Fatal Attraction was not that menacing! One thing I didn't like... that has connection to Cassie, Bo and Alex - the return of Bo's presumably dead... wife... Sarah. Who is this woman and why are they shoving her in my face? I am not a fan of these return from the dead storylines and it derailed the show for a week or two in my opinion. Blair and her quest for fortune and power is what I CAME FOR. It was interesting seeing her try to get her hooks into Cord, but then they just... killed him, which was... a huge WTF moment for me. Felt like casting issue. I was sure they were building up to an affair... and then Boom. Now I'm seeing Blair getting particularly focused on Max... and Asa at the same time. She has just been discovered as a liar a couple of episodes back... I just love "All About Eve" storylines like this. And her mentally ill mother that she is hiding away in the apartment... is just so gothic and sinister. And they've build it up so well - we saw glimpses of what Blair is capable even in the beginning - she stole Luna's tip... now we seen her lie and try to manipulate everyone at the newspaper. Tina is the only one that really sees through her. I think you get my point - I'M LIVING FOR BLAIR. On the contrary I'm having problems with Luna - she just is too forced for me at this point. They are trying to make her happen, but I'm not feeling it. She really annoys me. Too much humor, too much chatter. The actress is good and I've seen glimpses of substance ever since she got infatuated with Max, so I'm going to give her another chance to grow on me! Asa - I'm obsessed with this guy, he is so cynical, so egotistical, so untrustworthy, but so charming at the same time. I adore his relationship with Renee (a wonderful actress if you ask me) and can't wait to see if and when Blair will derail it. He's been inviting her a little too much lately. Max... I'm not too fond of... he is really making this girl Leanne crazy. Her - I'm pregnant, but who is the daddy storyline is the most cliche soap opera, but it works perfectly. Jason - I'm obsessed with - Maybe my second favorite character after Blair... His relationship with Dorian Lord is... fascinating to say the least. I know people like this in my real life. Couples like them. If you can even call this a couple. They are so different, but so alike in the same time The actors have crazy chemistry. So far I haven't seen anything too evil or devious from Dorian Lord... she is very relatable with her toxic relationship with her daughter. She is probably my 3rd favorite character after Blair and Jason. So, yeah... I was not wanting to comment, because I was not sure if this show will be for me, but it is. It's better than anything I've seen from a lot of other soaps... and quite frankly it's the best classic soap I've tried out so far. OLTL and AMC so far have been my favorite. I'm continuing my AMC journey too and have yet to make some comments in the AMC topic. So yeah... compared to 1986, where everyone was really campy and screaming out the dialogue... this particular period - late 1991, start of 1992... has something special that I like. Of course I can't judge 1986 that harshly, because I haven't seen as much I have seen from 1991... but still. There is a big difference. That's just my opinion. I'm thankful to my friend that he asked me to watch this period every single day for the past year and I finally said - OK, I'll give it a try. Even though I have zero time to watch soaps... I've managed to sneak in an episode or two before sleep most of the time. Can't wait to see more from Llanview in the coming months. P.S Forgot to say - I don't care for Megan... at all. Maybe because I'm only seeing her sickness, lupus, kidney failure storyline, but she and Sarah just... are a fast-forward material for me - the only fast forward material. One other character I'm not perfectly sure about is this Tomas Ripley-type of scam artist - that we just revealed his real name to be Cain Rogan. I just don't like how Asa is giving him too much power already. I have a hunch that he may be Asa's long lost child... but we'll see. P.S 2 - I liked the storyline about Jane and her abusive husband. I will loved to see more from Jane, but they have written her out so far. Victoria and Megan kidnapped was very suspenseful! And Luna showed us her fighting skills in the end of that storyline. 🤣 I hope we see Jane again some day. The actress had potential.

OMG! Thank you thank you thank you @janea4old ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Elonia is apologizing. I can't.

Co-sign this.

At this point and laziness that I've witnessed... I doubt anything will be better or improved in this show. Bell doesn't care.

The best way to deal with an idiot is to ignore them. ❤️