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OLTL: Discussion for the week March 9


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Oh God, so today is "The Starr Manning Show." Not fun. Through the power of voicemail, we were blessed to have her in TWO scenes that alternated with each other. Alderson, I love and respect that you've been on the show for close to 11 years. I love that someone younger than me is considered a "vet" on a soap. But you can't act. And I hate that they're writing her as a young adult. Biologically and physically, yes, she's a young adult. But she's still a little too precocious for me.

Is Gigi furious or just pissed off? She seems little more than annoyed by Stacy and Rex. And Rex needs to be without clothes 95% of the time. And they should just give up with Rex and women. Make him get dirty with Jared.

Oh hell no, Marty should have slapped the piss out of Nora. She's upset, and she has every right to be, but she's easily forgetting that her son willingly got into the car with Cole.

Nora is just being an over the top bitch today. Completely. They need to give her a sedative.

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Not only that but this is a scene-for-scene rip-off of the worse material Crystal Hunt had to play as Lizzie on GL. It's identical: She wants a guy who's in love with another girl, so she drugs him unconscious and rolls around with him in bed in her undies until said other girl catches them together. :rolleyes:

It's bad enough to have to play such insulting dreck once but twice?

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Stacy's pathetic.. Ugh.

The best scene came from Nora when she flipped on Cole, then later the tweens. Hillary was AWESOME today. She rocked it.

John & Blair<333 "You won."

Is it me or does Moe seem really suspicious?

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I can't take any more Starr or her ceaseless, infinite rambling about the baby saga or her horrible year. I really want to die every time she starts in. She brought the show down. I loved the rest of the accident stuff, though.

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Great episode today! Loved the Norah-Marty-Cole scenes, heartbreaking as they were, and the Norah-teens scene that followed.

I like that Ray is still around

Mo and Noelle were not as annoying today but I think it's time for them to move back to Texas. I'd rather see Viki and Charlie... I know, I know, wishful thinking

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The Stacy story is happening WAY too fast. She just came on the show last week and already they have her drug Rex, try to sleep with him and reveal her secret to us that same night? Where's the build up? She seemed to be fine with Gigi before this. They should have shown her resenting Gigi behind her false smiles. Show us that she had a torch for Rex. Show Gigi suspecting something going on between them with Marcie trying to convince her that there wasnt. Had they done that, Gigi walking on Rex and Stacy in bed together would have been more plausibile bc as it stands teh whole set up was ridiculous and made Stacy look crazy

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I've been wondering the same thing. It also has my thinking that maybe OLTL has changed their minds about dropping Erika Slezak and are now thinking of dropping Hilary B. Smith and possibly Bob Woods and Jerry Ver Dorn. It's an easy setup now with Matthew's condition. The Gannon’s return to Llanview to support Bo and Nora threw their crisis with Matthew. The family mentions a rehab facility in Chicago and Nora and Matthew are ushered off the canvas and dropped only to be mentioned as needed. Let’s face it Bob Woods hasn’t had his own storyline in a long time. Even the 1968 story was more about Rex and Gigi then it was about Bo. So was the lead in to that story, IMO. Bo and Lindsay getting engaged at a funeral and getting married the next day was just a little too quick for our level headed Bo. But it did set up the 1968 story line. With Bob Woods on recurring we’ll see him at the Police Station and the Buchannan’s at holidays and special events. The savings from dropping 3 big names would massive, I would imagine, and open huge holes in the canvas for new faces. What’s everyone else’s opinion?

Finally, I really liked HBS today and Brandon Buddy knocked it out of the park again. I also love Dorian and Ray and can someone get KA an acting coach PLEASE.

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