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OLTL: Discussion for the week August 17

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RC is trying hard to win the title of "hack of all hacks" from his fellow ABC soap headwriters. RC and Pratt are making Guza look good these days. It is all pathetic.

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You're still here? And defending Pratt? Did you lose a bet?

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I'm so glad OLTL is rocking so many enjoyable stories these days. Love this Rachael girl and I'm glad they've integrated the minority characters: the African Americans and the Gays. It's awesome. They feel real.

And Stacy's not annoying me as much because she's caught in this bind. I'm sure she'll get out of it and be surrounded by idiots in no time flat but it's nice to see her squirm for now.

If only it were available on the abc website. I'm so over youtube clips.

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This Stacy story is BEYOND stupid. Stacy concieved her dead baby with Rex WEEKS ago. She had a miscarriage about a week or 2 ago. How the heck does she possibly think she can get pregnant now and still pass that baby off as Rex's? I know Rex is dumb as hell these days so maybe he might be fooled, but others like Gigi, Rocy and especially Schuyler would see right through this asinine plot. Dont tell me TIIC are going to dumb the characters down once again and not notice that Stacy gives birth when she's 11 months pregnant.

I don't know....no one seemed to notice when Margaret was pregnant for 12 months.

Why didn't she just go to a sperm bank and be done with it? lol

Plus, what may be a week or two in real time, is probably only a day or two in OLTL time.

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That was the old Todd. He's cool now. He helped Marty get her memory back, and they'll never be able to fully quit each other. He also loves Tea, as they need to remind us as often as they can since they don't seem to think viewers will believe it otherwise.

This whole Todd/Tea instalove would work better if Marty wasn't even involved. I know why Blair is involved, because they need a prop for TnT, but I don't know why they keep stringing Marty along. I think they have no idea what to do with Marty. I'm not even sure why they brought her back. She barely interacts with most of the people she used to know and when she does it's usually flat. The relationship with John is very dry. She is so fully buried in her own unhappiness and her anxiety and the fallen butterfly routine, she seems very cut off from the rest of Llanview.

I agree....it does not appear as if they have any real plans for Marty. She has become like a tumbleweed blowing around in the wind, but with no real purpose or home these days. Outside of John, Cole, and Hope we really haven't seen her around anyone else (aside from an occassional scene with Jessica, Viki, or Todd). She has no real function right now.

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Well, I hate this Stacey story for many reasons, but I have to say the possibility that Schuyler - the one likable character in the mix - may not be the one to get Stacey pregnant and become as stupid and selfish as everyone else by lying about it so that Stacey can continue to cause problems between Rex and Gigi is definitely not one of them. In fact, the possibility that Fish could end up being the father is the only thing giving me hope that any of this will be watchable. If we have to watch one of the most antiquated soap stories there is, which should have become extinct when DNA paternity testing became something the general public knows about, then at least tying it to a contemporary issue like gay parenting would put a different spin on it. And I'd rather Stacey just leave town, but if she has to stay and continue to get away with everything, then at least this could lead to a fresh take on a classic soap story for characters who have the potential to be interesting: Fish sleeps with Stacey in a last ditch effort to convince himself he's not gay. It wasn't what he hoped it would be Stacey's got what she needs from him, so Fish doesn't see anyone from the Morasco fiasco for months. During which time he starts to come and decides he wants Kyle back. They are finally about to get back together, when it comes time for the paternity test and Stacey tells Kyle that Fish is really the father. Kyle reverts to form and once again helps rig the DNA test because he'll lose Fish all over again if being a daddy sends him back into the closet. He ends up losing him anyway when the [!@#$%^&*] finally hits the fan, and then it's Kyle's turn to win Fish back. And so on. (None of that is a spoiler, just off the top of my head.) It would be like Vicky and Ryan on AW or Jack and Carly on ATWT...except it happens to be a couple of gay guys.

I do agree that Friday's episode was the low point of the week. There wasn't even a cliffhanger, and if not for Viki and Dorian's scenes and a brief glimpse of Tea fighting something to fight for that's more important than Todd, there would have been literally nothing to hold my interest. Marty as Todd's therapist? Eww! Stacey and Gigi and Rex? Zzzzz... Blair, a woman pushing 50, with nothing better to do than using her aunt's money to have her ex's new/old flame investigated while she lounges by the pool? Nice work if you can get it. And that Disney product placement with John and Marty was just so weird...

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