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Gah I hope there's more to this Stacy character than what I saw today.

I have hopes that maybe RC could pull a Douglas Marland pull a Angel Lange with Stacy? But only by the grace of God could I endure such a story with CH in the role.

Everything else was fantastic and I loved how everything seemed to mesh so well today.

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Between Blair's stabbing, the car crash histrionics and Stacy's ill-conceived "revelation episode", this episode was WAY too melodramatic for me. I wish they'd take some of these reveals a little more slowly, and hit the subtle button more often. Starr was particularly a hot tranny mess (two notches above 'hot mess') in this episode, and considering the writing, I can barely blame her for the overacting.

Starr's general dialogue today:

MY MOTHER WAS STABBED?!

WHO WOULD STAB MY MOM?!?!

AUNT DORIAN, WHY WOULD YOU SAY MY DAD STABBED MY MOM?!

MY DAD WOULD TELL ME THE TRUTH IF HE STABBED MY MOM, I MEAN, HE TOLD ME HE THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW HE WAS PLANNING TO STEAL MY BABY!!!

COLE WAS IN A CAR ACCIDENT?!

MATTHEW WAS IN THE CAR TOO?!?!?!

Okay, so I'm paraphrasing a little, but this was all I was getting from Starr during the whole episode. TOO MUCH. There was so much screeching and wailing in this episode between Dorian, Starr, Marty, John, Bo, and Gigi, I just found myself laughing at it all. And I know soaps tend to use these catastrophic episodes to submit for Best Drama Emmy reels, but I REALLY hope they resist the urge with this episode. And it's a shame because the episodes around Nash's death were also melodramatic, but in the better way. This was just random messiness.

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This is a weird place for me. The lone dissenting voice amongst all the how bad is OLTL. But I have to say, today's show wasn't that bad. I loved all the parent/child scenes. My big problem? This is stuff that should happen ALL THE FUHREAKIN' TIME! JMO. Families should be interacting. Family drama should be a major part of every show. Not reserved for sweeps.

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Well yes it was. I was joking about the super strength. LOL ;)

I liked the Nora/Matthew/Bo/Michael scenes, especially the last scene when Michael and Bo kept looking at each other.

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Some of the specifics have been iffy this week, but the overall tone of the show has improved. Yes, it's been overly melodramatic, however, I like that better than fearfully waiting for David Vickers to pop up and start pulling rubber chickens out of Blair's stab wounds or Moe and Noelle swinging by Matthew's hospital room to deliver a pie and a punchline.

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Yes, clearly OLTL has been misusing David Vickers and not accurately portraying him as the dark, gritty antihero he truly is. A true story about David and Dorian would feature, say, a hepatitis scare, or Darfur.

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