Maxim

Up to November 20th, 1992. 🦩 "I loved him from the first moment I saw him." 🔷 Ladies and gentlemen... buckle up... because it's going to be one hell of a ride! 🔷 You know it... the moment you hear his name - Dr. Jonas... that hot blond male psychiatrist that turned Sarah into a drug addict with 3 sessions. @DRW50 - He was back! And I just knew this hottie would give her the worst advice possible and push her into the most careless possible direction. A guy that good looking shouldn't be giving people advice. He should be the reason they are going to see a psychiatrist. 😈 So when Viki sat in that chair, looked into his eyes... her defense mechanisms stopped working. One, two, three questions... so simple and asked with such calm... made her face all her deepest... desires. She confessed to not only being IN LOVE with Sloan, but actually WANTING him... and the most shocking of all... the fact that maybe she fell in love the moment she saw him. That brings us back... nearly half a year or more ago. So all the time she was gaslighting Clint... she was lying to him and to herself. 🔷 And that brings me to the moment I've been waiting for months. Michael Malone, you did this again! Every beat played to the max, slow build up that made us fall in love with Sloan along with Viki... then you gave her so much turmoil and so much self-sabotage... that you almost drove me insane. But in the most amazing, addictive way. And now... seeing Viki stand on Sloan's door and for the first time in months actually be the one taking control - she turned around and kissed him HARD. It was not him kissing her. It was VIKI doing everything she had suppressed for so long. Dr. Jonas... you little devil... you did your job again... I felt such a release... I teared up. I couldn't believe it. It was such an Anna Karenina moment. If Tolstoy was alive... he would be a Michael Malone/OLTL fan. Believe me. She deserved that kiss. We all deserved that kiss. It was time to say - f-ck the rules and let's LIVE like it's the last day of Earth. We'll think about consequences later. 🔷 In such a beautiful twist... we saw Asa Buchanan show his good side. This man is so accustomed to hide every sign he is human. I get it. I know why he is doing it. He wants to protect himself and he also wants to seem as monstrous as possible so people fear and respect him. Powerful people are like that. Not all, but a lot of them. So seeing him almost tear up in secret sitting next to comatose Max... was heartbreaking. He is secretly still loving a man that he wants the whole world to know as his biggest adversary. This reminds me of the sentence that all wars start with love. Hate is just love turned wicked. And do you know who was the person who saw a glimpse of that good Asa back - Renee! The only woman that I could se standing next to him in the future. I am hoping from the bottom of my heart that Cain manages to break Asa and Blair and Renee is back in that house. He needs her! We all need her! 🔷 Cassie and Andrew were having one of their mini arguments about marriage. Cassie was once again giving him the "Not now." But then everything changed when Satan herself came to gloat at the fact that she doesn't have a ring on her finger. Marty Saybrooke and Cassie had such a wicked scene, where I felt they were testing them for a potential rivalry. Marty was so clever. The actress is sublime. Real rare talent. One other thing triggered Cassie - Bo announced his plans to marry the ex-druggie - Sarah. She felt so humiliated in that moment. Seeing how little she meant for the man-whore Bo. I think this is the last straw that will make her agree to marry Andrew. We'll see. Overall - 10/10! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Clip of the day Viki finally gives in to temptation.

Apathy is a great word to describe his attitude towards Tina, @DRW50. She has been given only 2 or 3 more interesting scenes in the year he's been writing the show. I was surprised by how supporting she felt... given how legendary this character was. The actress is talented... charming and funny and sometimes I speculate... that this might be the issue. Malone struggles with comedy, and her natural humor clashes with the odd Woody Allen-style material he gives her. He should focus on drama and suspense, where he excels. Perhaps he'll prove me wrong as a comedy genius in the future, but I doubt it. I don't need that either... I'm here for the drama. For good comedy, I'll just watch my favorite stage version of Gogol's The Government Inspector. 😁

Amen.

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Yeeees. It will make such a difference to my tired-ass eyes ( I work on my laptop, so I'm usually so eye-fatigued. ) 😂

I enjoy your posts immensely... along with @Taoboi and others too. This topic would not be the same without them. I would definitely add @Aback in that group too. Even if today we are compleeetely on the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to this one conversation. I like SON better than most other places on the world wide web... because here we have the boldest and frankest of opinions. It's not just some clique where everyone repeats the same thing. Yes, we ca be a tough crowd sometimes... but that's what's charming about us. 😂

Exactly. And keeping in mind how this girl was incredibly infantile just months ago (I notice they've changed the way she is dressed a bit... in an attempt to make her appear slightly more grown lately) - it's too big of bite... too sudden... for me to swallow. I mean in the first couple of weeks Samantha had scenes where she was soooooo child-like. I don't know if I'm the only one that noticed that. You don't go from the girl with the ribbons and pink outfits to f-cking on the living room sofa in less than 8 months without your parents freaking the f-ck out. It's so sudden of a change that it makes all kinds of alarm bells go off in anyone's head. If she was just months younger... imagine that scenario... if she was 15 and 8 months... and not officially 16... how would people react? Are just mere 4-5 months more enough to say - OK, now it's fine since you are officially 16. It's not. You don't automatically become mature enough just because you hit a certain number. That's just my opinion. Samantha needs to slow down and think... and realize that her fathers just love her and want the best for her.

I agree with all of this. And in my personal life I would probably act similarly to Smitty/Martin. If that makes me a bad person or whatever then be it. My gut tells me it's just two fathers being very concerned about the daughter they love.

I just finished a 2 episode watch. And my eyes are still sore from crying. This show just overdid itself in so many ways... and is officially stepping into the place only The Bold And The Beautiful has ever been since my childhood - my favorite soap opera of all time. I'm lost for words. I'll leave the emotions to ripen till I write it down tomorrow. All I'm gonna say it - Viki, you did it, girl!❤️

From your lips to MVJ's ears. 😍

@AbackI'm just not agreeing with so much of what you are saying. And that's okay. You are one of the members whose commentary I appreciate and there was meant to be a time where we would be on a different page... P.S I also think we generally need to give this storyline more time before we judge Martin and Smitty, just saying. There's plenty of time for conversations to take place. Nobody is saying that there is no need for that. Of course there is. But I'm not going to shame them for acting like they are. It's in their instincts to want to protect her.

😁❤️ That booty deserves a spot in the intro if you ask me. I'm happy to hear, haha. There would be a lot more if I was not so deep into OLTL classic binge. But I think next week I'll focus more on BTG. ❤️

❤️ And I'm here for it. The guys are improving... along with the entire show. The acting especially. I can't believe at one time I thought Martin was the worst. He's come a long way. And boy... he steals every scene with that booty. I just stop being able to hear the words and have to remind myself to listen. 😂 Yeeeees. And doing this while remaining fabulous as ever (face-card younger than Samantha really). 😍