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OLTL: Discussion for the week October 20-24, 2008


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Farah Fath does nada for me, I found her really overated. She is very pouty and annoying in her scenes. OMG Melissa Fumero always kills in her in all her scenes. OMG I will miss MY MELISSA. I love BITCHY BANGS and it is all due to Melissa Fumero who rocks the freaking house. OMG the best moment when Adriana punched Gigi, that was awesome at the wedding. Actually the week of the wedding was my favorite OLTL week all year besides Dorian taking Buchanan enterprises. I hope we see Melissa somewhere soon, I love her. Hasn't Melissa grown into a gorgeous woman. I remember when she started almost five years ago and she was like a little meek girl and now she is a vivacious, cunning, channeling her inner bitch BITCHY BANGS WOMAN. LOVE MELISSA FUMERO.

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I really liked Jared/Natalie today. It was probably the first time I've enjoyed since, well coincidently, when they were in Texas.

I'm glad Bo/John/Viki/Charlie realize that Jared/Natalie are missing and it could be because of Tess. And people thought they were dumbing down Viki last week.

As for Farah Fath, she's the same as she was on DAYS. She's good with the light stuff but really bad with the dramatic stuff.

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I am conflicted about the Jared/Natalie scenes.

They were extraordinarily cheesy, but those of us who love them really needed to see them somewhere other than that room. The part that is missing is we haven't really seen them do anything to try and escape other than use the cell phone. As soon as they were locked in, they become resigned that they had to wait until somebody rescued them. They should be trying to remove the hinges from the door, and finding things they can use as tools, anything other than just sitting there and accepting that they're trapped. If they'd shown that and then they'd tried and failed a few times, it would have made more sense for them to try to escape in their fantasies.

But I do love Texas. I hope when this is over, Jared and Natalie decide to take a little sabbatical in Texas and go down there (off screen) and just come back married. I don't need a long engagement, or a big wedding ceremony for them. I want them to have a different story next that isn't about their relationship.

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I enjoyed the Natalie and Jared scenes. I liked the romantic aspect of it and it was a nice relief from the drama of the rest of the show. I also LOVED the Charlie and Viki scenes. They just make me sigh and I liked how they are slowly coming back together. My only beef with their scenes was I needed something in the dialogue that tells me when she told him about her past with DID. As it was I felt like I missed an important page in their story.

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I am still very much enjoying OLTL, but I sort of agree about Farah. Now I love Gigi, and I feel she's a bit better than she was on Days, but I was thinking the same thought myself a day or so ago. Again I love the story but its starting to remind me of Mimi vs Jan during 2004-2005. :P

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Coming out of lurking because I'm ready to hit the roof. Today's entire episode - Gigi, Tina, Tess... it was all just people TALKING TO THEMSELVES. (And I don't care if Tess was "talking" to Bree or Gigi was "talking" to Rex) It's all just ONE-SIDED SCENES. And I don't care enough about Lee Halpern to even count those as scenes. Not to mention the other half of the show were FLASHBACKS.

Sorry. I thought today was downright bad planning, bad layout, bad breakdown. The poor scriptwriter had nothing but monologues, and nobody strong enough to pull any of them off.

Had to get that off my chest before *I* ended up talking to MYSELF here in my living room. :-)

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Well it took my eight years and for Natalie to be locked in the basement but I like her now. Jess turning into psycho Tess to the point where Tess is unreedemable has made me sympathetic to Natalie. I really care what happens. Of course, why she and Jared haven't tried to knock on the ceiling is beyond me. Or the toilet pipes. But whatever.

I love Rex and Gigi. I never liked Rex with Jennifer or Adrianna. I thought he was boring. Catherine Hickland makes every man look good. I just love that connection that the two have. I never liked FF as Mimi, but she is a relatable character to me. If I were to compare myself with any character, it would be to her.

I love Tina and I want more Tina and Viki. With Todd. Talk about dysfunctional families.

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Fair enough. :) I just had to vent because it so wasn't my kind of soap opera episode. But I'm glad it's somebody's version, because God knows I don't want any of these shows to lose fans. I'm glad somebody likes it.

(And no, I'm not being sarcastic - I'm genuinely glad it has its fans) It really just made me want to claw my eyes out. :D

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I haven't watched today and probably won't. Next week things seem to start moving. I am wondering again if there are rewrites. The talking to the mirror, or the coma patient and "telling" the audience through these monologues seems to be a tool tptb often use when the story is changing direction and they want to bring everybody up to speed quickly before they veer off in a different way than we would expect.

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It wasn't that bad - breakdown wise.

Shane and Gig both has flashback montages and it fit well with their scenes - Shane was remembering Brody after his discussion with Matthew about having different dads (which I loved! It was great use of history and good character based interaction with Shane/Matthew) and Gigi was remembering her time with Rex to try and bring him out of a coma. The flashbacks were only two scenes.

Tess overhearing Todd's plan. Loved it.

Like DP, I thought everything was good except Tina's scenes.

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