OLTL: Discussion for the week April 6

[reallyhateskateonlost]

David's Commercial

[Vee]

Austin Williams has his bad moments but otherwise I think he's pretty good for a kid actor. He never fails to make it at least seem like Shane is crying or emotional in the appropriate scenes, and I think he can cry. Matthew/Eddie has fucked up MANY an emotional scene over the years (Sam's death, anyone?). He's only begun to improve.

[Ann_SS]

Bwah! David's commercial is hysterical. I couldn't stop laughing. The expression on Dorian's face made it even more funny.

I really like Destiny. If Matthew was smart, he will hook up with her and not the blonde princess. All these black people OLTL are a shock. I thought RC was allergic to black folk.

[Vee]

Just dull ones, dear.

[Ann_SS]

Hard to tell since he hasn't hired or featured any since becoming headwriter.

It is good to see Hank.

[Vee]

My point exactly, they were all dull until the Gannons.

[Dr Neil Curtis]

Anyone think RJ return is connected to Shaun and Destiny's scenes today? It got me thinking maybe Shaun use to work for RJ and thats one Destiny wants him to contact to help Matthew.

[DavidEvanSmith]

If RJ was Destiny's father, that wouldn't screw up a Matthew/Destiny pairing, would it?

I like Destiny. She needs to work on her acting a lot, but she has presence and personality. I like the scenes where she hasn't employed the "oh no she DIDN'T" attitude-acting. She was good today. Tying Destiny to Shaun was a good idea too.

[SFK]

No, there's no blood relation there. She is a cute little thing, it's weird but I can forgive her "not quite there yet acting" because it's not often that you see a young girl like her on a soap. It's always some preteen Lohan-wannabe. Destiny's casting is much more Degrassi in style.

[rangethatrover]

I hope it continues, there is no excuse for no racial diversity on this show.

I love Destiny. She is charismatic and endearing too. And yeah, she needs training but this girl is a keeper. Hope she sticks around.

[Scotty]

If you remember all three ABC soaps stopped the previews late last year. Then a month or so later, OLTL started them again for sweeps because RC, FV, or somebody said that they wanted to promote the wonderful stories they were showcasing during sweeps month, or something like that.

The way I took that to read was that once the sweeps were over, so were the previews again.

I didn't catch that today.....did they take somebody out to make room for her, or just stick her in someplace?

[alexisfan07]

He just weirds me out to be harsh. Not sure why. Especially in the makeup scenes.

Yea, we got Layla, Rachel, Hank, Shaun, Destiny, and soon RJ. But keep in mind how many are on contract...

HBS was slotted in between Matthew and Clint. No one was removed, they probably just hastened BAB's clip or took out a title card somewhere.

[MichaelGL]

LMAO! That was the best line, and for once, Crystal Hunt's reaction was appropriate.

[EricMontreal22]

Matthew's clip looked definetly speeded up (unless your avatar slows it down?)

[alexisfan07]

Yeah, my avatar isn't accurate. It's the same speed, but they cut part of the end of his second clip out to overlap with Nora's.