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This gets my vote so it's certain NOT to happen.

Add to that, I've never found Gigi and Rex believable as parents PERIOD. Gigi in particular is too young to have a pre-teen son. I don't know how old Shane is supposed to be but he seems 11-12. Gigi would have had to give birth at age 13, which happens, but that's not the story.

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Awesome post. You guys are so smart!

I never even made the parallel.

OLTL kills me in the sense that EVERY story must have an old person (Frons word) and a young commodity. No adult (real adult) gets their own storyline anymore. Sometimes it DOES work, most times, it is so obvious how ABC works.

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From your keyboard to tptb ears. Seriously, I thought Shane should die from leukemia. We'd have to endure a bunch of drama surrounding his death and funeral, but then Rex and Gigi could get back to being this young sexy couple in love. I'm sorry, but kids cut down on sexy. I think maybe I agree with everybody. It's such an unfamiliar feeling I didn't recognize it at first.

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TnT were hot today and hilarious too. Loved that Tea played him.

Chloe Victoria Brennan is a nice name.

I've been wondering, and I know she's not everyone's favorite characters, but what did everyone think about Schyler's crush on Stacy and their discussion the other day?

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If I thought there were a good part, I'd agree with you.

And remember my theory that ratings lag actual viewer satisfaction. I think I'm being affirmed. Wait til next week. I think they're going to be worse.

Vee! I loved your spoof. Can't wait for part two.

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I don't know what to think anymore. I guess I liked his vision, and when he was allowed to execute his stories his way, I thought they were good. Nothing on the show right now reflects any of the virtues I originally saw in his stories. Good use of the vets. Balanced use of the entire cast, where few were over exposed or languishing on the back burner. He also did a good job of rotating stories so that just when you were about to get tired of one, another one took off. Most of the stories I liked were threaded together so the character integration made things so much more interesting and it allowed different characters to interact (ie., Nora and Jared and Natalie) instead of now when it seems the same people have the same conversation with each other every day.

I think he's getting back to that. He said in an interview that the serial killer story would tie into the baby swap in some way. Viki's interaction with Natalie was really good and included heavy foreshadowing (da da da dum). But I do think he does a very poor job of executing the mandates he is given. He doesn't seem to adapt well, and that's just part of it. How many of us perform our jobs without a boss who sometimes interjects their own preferences into how we get our jobs done? It's just a fact of life and he's got to be able to take whatever crap he's forced to use and make it work.

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I think he's very good when he can operate with more autonomy. Any good writer can be ground down by ABC Daytime, case in point Michael Malone. But any good writer can also have bad ideas of his own, such as Tarty. Doesn't make them a bad writer overall, but it means they wrote at least one bad [!@#$%^&*] story.

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I have been starting to wonder lately how much Frons is to blame.. I know he is a nightmare, and i am confident that he is why Viki is not front burner, but at the same time Ron does not seem to understand soap opera basics, like how to introduce a character. Stacy. And i was a huge Tarty fan, i thought November was awesome.

But then i read that Ron submitted the 1968 storyline (not the anniversary, not the incredibly acted TARTY scenes) as his Writers Guild Award work.. and it really, really makes me wonder.

I am just sad that OLTL may have just begun its final ratings dive into the historybooks.

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