OLTL: Discussion for the week November 17-21, 2008

[rangethatrover]

[rhinohide]

Sigh! I can't believe how much I used to love John McBain. But it's gone. I don't care who "wins". I don't care about Marty, and Blair (KDP is so awesome) is the only one who's being sensible about this. She's trying to keep it light, but if spoilers play out, that won't last. So we have the same old story. McBain, who can't commit torn between two lovers. Yawn!

But I am enjoying the rest of the show. I am even beginning to like Gigi/Rex/Brody again.

[Kstaff]

I've read the posts about Todd's scar. Is there something significant about him having a scar? I didn't watch the Roger Hawarth years. Thanks!

[Vee]

IIRC, Roger Howarth's Todd gained an unseemly scar in 1993 after attacking Marty and Luna again after the rape trial began. The scar became his "mark of shame" for his crimes, symbolizing all he had done. It was a special makeup prosthetic which took hours to apply to Howarth's face, and he kept it there until leaving the show in 2003. When Todd had plastic surgery and became TSJ, the scar was gone. Now it's back.

[Kstaff]

Thanks!

[rhinohide]

Am I the only one that will laugh if Todd has a permanent scar from a nick on the side of his face while John McBain who had third degree burns over much of his body bears no permanent scars?

[EricMontreal22]

You mean full orchestration all on synthesizers I assume No real instruments. Still I loved that opening--it was Gottliebshowing that the show was now going to be a classic, sophisticated soap, none of Rauch's cheese

[SFK]

I thought those were real strings and a pan flute!

It was very early '90s Red Shoe Diaries kinda stuff. I was envious of the dude's pearly whites back in that pre-Whitestrips and veneers age.

Though it may have been more appropriate for Loving, I thought this opening added a very sophisticated tone to OLTL, only thing that would have made it better perhaps were smooth dissolves of the actors' faces, more like Y&R with only a handful of cast members a day.

When Erika Slezak in her perfectly clipped Mid-Atlantic speech delivers that epilogue at the end of the 25th anniversary special over the new theme, it sounds so damn classy and brings a tear to my eye.

When there was talk of a new "jazzy" opening theme (the "blue" opening), I was hoping it'd be a riff off of the sax part of the champagne theme.

[EricMontreal22]

The Pan flute may be real but them strings aren't It's interesting that they tested, for 3 or so months, a VERY similar opening for Loving just before the OLTL one was on--and then changed it anyway.

Is that Erika Slezak clip on yotuube? I've only seen the anniversaies from the 30ths on