OLTL: Discussion for the week January 26

[SteveFrame]

It's one of the areas he needs to grow and be more consistent with. He is a great writer and he hits more balls than he misses, but he needs to grow and become more consistent in certain things. The Todd/Marty thing was just right for me as an old time soap viewer. It brewed and simmered at the right pace and really worked people into a frenzy and then exploded.

But with the Natalie thing here he needed more build up before Natalie exploded. Even though I felt her when she was talking to Vicki, I still couldn't help but think that it came out of nowhere.

[rhinohide]

I guess if you were enjoying the Todd/Marty interaction the pacing may have been just right.

As for Natalie's blow up at Viki, I didn't find that so out of left field. She'd only just found out that Jessica deliberately unleashed Tess. As a fan of Natalie, for years I've been annoyed that she gives Jessica a free pass. The scenes after she and Jared were freed from the SR irritated me because Natalie was still so obsequeous. Natalie has always made a distinct separation between Jessica and Tess. So it made sense to me that once Jessica admitted that she called Tess forth, that the blinders came off for Natalie and she finally gets that Tess is just a fragment of Jessica's personality that is always in existence even when Jessica is integrated. Once that reality set in for her, I was thrilled to see her fury, and felt it was totally justified.

[Antoyne]

David: Namaste Todd

Todd: Bite me.

Golden.

[Antoyne]

I love that they're using Jack for this Todd storyline as well.

Has anyone else noticed that Tea's hair is NEVER the same...everytime she changes locations her hair is different..

[DeeeDee]

Natalie is such a bitch.

[NorrthCafe]

Would that I could feel bad for Nat. I got nuthin'.

I would love it if David was setting Dorian up, already aware that he's the Buke heir.

1 - Dorian pretty much left him penniless and on the run the last time he was in town (destroying his relationship with Addie - whatever THAT was.

2 - How could he NOT love a penniless Dorian at his mercy?

Imagine that he's already struck a deal with Moe and is planning to make Dorian beg to get her fortune back. There's no way this guy has made a real change, and therefore no way he's let her give up her fortune without thinking of how to get a piece of it for himself.

[DRW50]

I would feel more for for Natalie if this had built up, instead of Natalie mooning around for months until suddenly she snaps. I'd also care more about David if they weren't using him as a joke until this endless Buchanan heir story finally ends. OLTL would improve if they started writing for the characters as more than chess pieces.

Why is Rex so smug towards Dorian every time he sees her? She even gave his kid a game system. I thought the interminable months with his great love Gigi would make him less of a craphead.

Cole on drugs is a strangely entertaining storyline.

[Cheap21]

She should be a bitch. Thats how she came on the show and how she made her mark and why I loved her. I hated when they had her go soft

[SFK]

I'm a little wary of Natalie and Jared always watching Chloe. Wouldn't it be so like them to get attached and fight for custody saying Jess is a mentally unfit mother and they have bonded with the child?? Lorrrd, all we need is for that baby to call Natalie "Mommy". And what a blow up mess it would be when the truth about Starr being the mother came out...

[Cheap21]

I mentioned yesterday that I think Natalie might want custody. I dont mind her watching Chloe bc really who else is doing it? Its either Natalie or some random nanny. Viki's around to help but she's busy with Jessica, her relationship with Charlie and has the Banner (which is offscreen since they rarely mention it anymore). Cant you just picture a 4 way custody battle with all 4 mothers fighting? Natalie, Jessica, Starr and Marcie? Oh brother....

[Cheap21]

good lord is Jessica's doctor some type of quack? He honestly thinks Jessica is fine to go home? What progress has she made? She is not integrated and Tess and Bess continue to randomly pop out. Im upset with Viki for not putting her foot down and following her gut instinct and own experience here by demanding that the doctor reconsider. Tess tried to murder Natalie and given how Natalie has recently expressed her feelings on that topic, why would Viki be so willingly to just unleash her again? I dont see her throwing Natalie out of the house nor Jess and having Nat with an unstable Jessica is beyond wrong and unhealthy for both, not to mention the kids. The girl is a mess and no better than when she entered St. Annes 3 months ago

[EricMontreal22]

OK drug users--especially ones who are justy starting and aren't hooked, do not take or contemplate taking their drugs in the middle of restaurants at the library at school etc. They go to someone's house or their room or something. Sheesh

[Cheap21]

WTF is Cole even taking? Didnt they say the other day that it was pain killers? Pain killers gets him that wasted?

[Antoyne]

I LOVE Tea...Such a schemer

[Cheap21]

I loved her all happy and saying hello to Todd while turning around and giving Blair a dirty look