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OLTL: Discussion for the week July 7-11


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More great conflict today!

I thought Starr was SPOT ON when talking about Cole's idiocy in betraying his mother's memory by going to the man who hurt her most in her life. But she's telling him like he didn't know all the ways Todd has hurt Marty, and he probably knows or has faced them more than Starr has. I would guess.

I don't really care who is worse, Marcie or Todd, because I LOVE their scenes together. And Trevor St. John played it so differently this time, he wasn't going off, calling Marcie a bitch (I did love him calling her Michael's degenerate wife) and every time Michael tried to usher Todd out, Todd was just like "it's okay, it's okay" and kept talking to Marcie, brushing Michael off. LOL!

Before the baby Tommy/Sam saga happened, I always wanted Marcie and Todd in the same orbit because she seemed like Todd's moral opposite. I thought it would have been good if Marcie (a writer, once upon a time) had gone to work for Todd at The Sun and they would have been begrudging friends as she tried to steer the paper toward more upstanding journalism and Todd towards the good guy side. BUT, I actually like this dynamic now so much better because they are both enormously flawed individuals with so many empty parts of themselves and all the wrong choices when it comes to trying to fix what's broken. Neither of them have room to talk about each other, honestly, but the fun is watching them convince themselves of why they are better than the other. I LOVED Marcie's rant on Todd today, where she was all "Don't you DARE tell me..." and the look on Todd's face was priceless. Todd brings out this whole other side to Marcie that we just don't see with anyone else. When Marcie says she's not afraid of Todd, I truly believe her, because with every confrontation she is very clear, targeted, confident, unwavering, smug, etc. She's not her fidgety, self-pitying, insecure self around Todd, and I think that's a very odd thing that Todd has brought out the true fighter in Marcie where those that love her and support her really don't bring that out of her. She's this vulnerable, shrinking violet around everyone that loves her, but she's this all-out grizzly bear when she's around Todd. Mesmerizing. I look forward to every Todd/Marcie scene because I know it will be worth watching.

I do think Marcie is incredibly naive to not fear Todd, though. Perhaps one of Todd's plots to scare Marcie can go awry and put her at the brink of death for a little while. But I don't want Marcie killed. The Todd/Marcie/Michael rivalry is one that has evolved so naturally over time that it would be a shame to cut it short when there are so many layers to it with Starr and her baby in the mix, and John and Blair's divided loyalties. It's such a layered, complex story, where EVERYONE has made their mistakes, and no one is blameless for the mess they all find themselves in.

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^^^The Nash montage was awful IMO. The Jess to Tess was good, and I have yet to see this one. I hope they don't overdue them though, because montages are better done in moderation.

I'm going to have to catch up on today's and tomorrow's show via online.

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