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OLTL: Discussion for the week August 3


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The new lawyer guy Elijah Kent reminds me of Tim Gibbs' Kevin.

Good God, I almost like Schuyler and Gigi -- and I really don't want to.

John Paul Lavoisier is a terrible actor and needs to be given a pink slip. Ditto for Shenell Edmonds. I know bad actors are probably cheap, but damn.

Matthew is a little sh*t. They've completely rewritten the character, and I still don't like him.

Cole and John, boring as usual. It's been wall to wall Cole for the last 3 years, and now he gets another story. Backburner him and his eyebrows please.

Starr was usual annoying self.

The 'Cristian catched Fish/Kyle kissing' scenes were phony. The writers are already screwing up the realism with nervous placating dialogue. IRL, a guy catching the guy who is dating the woman he wants kissing another man would probably not react so...errr..."PC." He'd either be pissed, or find the situation hysterically funny.

Unfortunately Todd and Tea scenes were apart from each other, so I wasn't as rivited by them as I usually am.

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What's up with JPL's acting choices? I don't remember him being like this years ago. Has Farah Fath influenced him that much? He's making weird faces, body movements, hand jestures.....ie: his facial expression in the last shot of today's episode. WTF was that!

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I don't know whether Tuc or the writing is responsible for what's happened to David, but I still see the seriousness in there sometimes, which is why I can never completely write David off. Everything with Rex is so contrived and unlike Tuc I don't think JPL ever manages to cut through the crap.

Please, OLTL, don't put scenes with Todd and his granddaughter. I could only sit there and wait for when he was going to steal her and run off with Tea, or Marty, or both, to some fantasy land.

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Brett Claywell (Kyle) is on contract, however Scott Evans (Fish) is recurring. That's why he is not in the opening. Also, he is not leaving anytime soon.

And to answer an earlier question by another poster...it was rumored that FL (Tea) signed several short-term contracts for the first part of this year, and that she was not on recurring. Not sure how true that is though.

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I am watching right now on SoapNet. And JPL sucks big balls. He is so bad in his scenes with Robert S. Woods. I am surprised RSW didnt die laughing at the acting....or better yet pissed off...LOL

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It's sad. He wasn't like this for his first couple of years. Sure, he had some rough times in the beginning, but he was a somewhat respectable performer around 2004-2007ish. They made him a lead, and everything went downhill.

What are they even trying to do with Todd? They spent months and months trying to be "deep" with him, with the Starr/Cole interference, the rapemance, the baby switching, and blah blah blah. And now he's whacky old sex-starved dad, making whoopie with Mom, he's got a chick on the side, he's grandpa to lil Starrlet, etc. Todd needs to go away for a long time so that Blair and Tea can retain some dignity.

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I think the rapemance blew into a whilrwind they weren't anticipating (I don't think they expected as much backlash, and I don't think they had a clear idea of what to do once the truth came out), and then they realized viewers were tired of the angst. They also may have realized that TSJ damaged most of the material with his phoned in performances. So now they are doing what he seems more comfortable with, which is smug, snarky, Toddie the hottie, isn't he so hot treating Blair and Tea like pieces of meat, isn't this fun stuff. This almost works, at least with Tea, but when they have him in scenes with his family, the ceiling caves in.

JPL might improve if they get him away from Farah Fath for good, at least onscreen. They are a horrible combination. People like to blame Stacy for their failures but JPL is bad in scenes no matter who his co-star is.

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Their acting choices have been sinking their stories for ages (and sunk FF's when she played Mimi), but I do notice them getting progressively worse.

I wonder how many actors at OLTL try to sink stories they don't like and how many do their best no matter what.

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