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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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