Bottom line, I'm glad they killed that storyline. Now is just not the time. There are more important things than what a daytime soap does for sweeps month. Emotions are very very raw, and this story did not need to be done right now. It's a good story in the can and it will be a fine story in September or whatever.

I don't like the bullying excuse either, and I don't let mass murderers duck under some skirt of mental illness. Yes they are crazy dong that, but it goes beyond crazy. They aren't having visions, or hearing messages. They are extracting revenge and enjoying it. They are very calculated. People who do this are evil. Yep, there is evil in the world.

Honestly, that is one of these things that bothers me about Higley doing this story. I guess she's been writing soaps too long because her perceptions are warped. I know she has been doing it for 19 or what years. It's almost like she has adopted this soap opera character judgement of right and wrong and who should be pitied and who should be heroes. That scares me when she writes a story like this, another reason I'm glad it's in the can for the time being.

Look at how she writes her so-called favorite couples: Dorian and Clint look like idiots. I'm sorry that was just painful to watch on Wednesday. He looked like a moron. Just seeing a character is not enough. The Jess and Nash story with Jamie in the middle is just sick. I think the fact that there are still some Blair and Todd fans after the way she wrote that couple for two years is a signal of the support TnB have because both Blair and Todd just looked awful. When she has that infant floating in the water, it was bad and it was Higley. And folks, Todd had made many comments about not caring if he killed that infant. We all were commenting on how she was making it possible for him to be a baby killer.

So, I think it's good that Dena's warped sense of entertainment and particularly right and wrong weren't brought to bear at this time in our country. I really believe someone can write a weird soap too long, and Dena did work for DOOL at its strangest times. She has not touch for writing heroes or root for people. I predict this story, when we do it see it, will be a disaster and we will all be glad it didn't air in May.

Oh, I agree with you for the most part.....I'm just saying that they will likely choose the wrong characters to replace this storyline. Probably more John, Antonio, Jessica, etc...

Why do I find that statement next to impossible to believe?

Starr, Cole and Marcie are the only ones with any connection to the remainder of the show. Todd would have been MIA since TSJ wasn't around to film. That leaves Blair and Marty as the sole concerned parents. We probably would have gotten a few scenes of Viki and Dorian wringing their hands in the background while fighting over Clint. Marcie and Michael might have had a couple of brief scenes. Certainly more of John. Evidently Nora was supposed to have some involvement via the DA's office so I guess Bo will represent the incompetent LPD. Did Henry have parents who would have made an appearance? Might we have finally met Langston's parents? Would the dayplayer Jennings have shown up? Would anyone have cared given the fact that we don't know them and know little about the teens beside Cole and Starr? The sad thing is Cole and Starr are the least interesting of the teens, IMHO.

Good point...we would have probably seen some Blair, Marty, Michael, Viki, Bo, Nora involvement, but most of it would have likely been nothing to write home about. And we have never seen Henry's parents. And Britney's haven't been seen since last year. And we have never seen Langston's parent's either. As for the other teens of Amber, Amy, Gabe and the no-name dayplayers who knows? So you're right, I don't see how this would have affected everyone in Llanview.

I'm so torn on this. I think it would have been a great story on OLTL. Especially with the kids and their parents reactions coming into play. Can you just imagine Todd's reaction? But I agree its probably best that it was canned...for now at least. Maybe further down the road they can revisit it or something. Oh well. I just hate what happened at VT and now this is making me hate the shooter just that much more...

I'm not sure how much parents and community came into this storyline, which is why I'm glad it was pulled. The only parents involved would be Blair, Todd and Marty. Henry, Brittany and Langston would only have new recurring or dayplayer parents, if that much. With what I know of other sweeps storylines, I don't think we would have seen much of Todd or Blair. Even community probably only consisted of Marcie and Bo. Maybe we'd have seen Tate worried about his star baseball player. OLTL doesn't have the community built around the teens to do this story properly.

Edited April 26, 200718 yr by ZaraB

Oh, I agree with you for the most part.....I'm just saying that they will likely choose the wrong characters to replace this storyline. Probably more John, Antonio, Jessica, etc...

Yeah, I agree. Todd isn't going to be around much in May because of the contract flap. Viki will be involved, but only ever so slightly in the Jessica being ill storyline, they have really written Nash/Jess/Antonio about as poorly as they can. You hope there is some new story out there that they can move up. I suspect we are going to see a whole lot of John/Marty/Miles/Natalie/Vincent/Jess/Nash/Antonio/Talia/Adrianna/Rex/Tate/Blair. That is a lot of characters. Unfortunately, it's the same ones we have seen for a while. And it is all a series of triangles, which whether you like the characters or not, still remain a series of triangles. A triangle is a triangle. Period. It's all the same story.

It would be a nice time to move up the Lindsey/Bo/Nora story. I'd like to see Natalie at BE. Oh well, I'll hush.

Viki and Clint and Dorian will all be standing around the hospital. Viki will be written like some old no-life busy body. Clint really is being written like he needs to be fertilized and mowed. And Dorian, ugg.

I'm not sure how much parents and community came into this storyline, which is why I'm glad it was pulled. The only parents involved would be Blair, Todd and Marty. Henry, Brittany and Langston would only have new recurring or dayplayer parents, if that much. With what I know of other sweeps storylines, I don't think we would have seen much of Todd or Blair. Even community probably only consisted of Marcie and Bo. Maybe we'd have seen Tate worried about his star baseball player. OLTL doesn't have the community built around the teens to do this story properly.

Well, Britney already does have dayplayer parents. We saw them a couple of times last year....like when Todd starting to beat up her dad at a back to school night.

But yeah, ITA with with what you said.

Clint really is being written like he needs to be fertilized and mowed.

Hahaha! That is funny and wrong on so many levels. But it's the truth, poor old dull Clint.

Lol I find Clint and Dorian to be very funny together. Don't get me wrong I love Viki but I also love the character of Dorian so its hard to see one win and the other lose. However I hope Viki finds someone that truly loves her the way Ben did. Whatever happened to Ben anyways? I coulda sworn that there was a story where he turned out to be Asa's son? What happened to that? Also I thought that at one point he was coming back from the dead.

Todd & Blair use to be so money for me. Now its just kinda sad to watch them. They've destroyed each other to the point where its unethical to even want these two together anymore. I mean all they do is find a way to hurt and betray one another and its got to stop for Starr and Jack's sake. Can we please get Tangie moving forward again?

I like nuMarty but I never saw the old one so I can't really compare. But I do like her when shes onscreen. Her relationship with Cole is pretty realistic too. In two years though Cole is gonna be some kinda HOT! Right now hes a baby...but that doesn't stop me from thinking naughty thoughts...lol.

They made the right choice pulling the story. Better to err on the side of being sensitive to this type of tragedy than to throw it up on the screen. (Frankly, I'm not sure the current writing staff would've done such a good job with the story to begin with....) I do feel badly for the writers and actors that are going to have to scramble to fix this. Who knows -- under pressure they might come up with something good.