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I rolled my eyes when Layla and Chris told Fish that he could stay in the apartment. It is the beginning of Layla as his fag hag. It is so ridiculous. I will never understand why soaps won't be daring or realistic. Have Layla kick Fish out, then in time rebuild their friendship as he struggles with his parents. Instead we are getting this trite unrealistic instant acceptance and forgiveness.

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Well, I can understand Layla's romantic feelings for Fish being completely D.O.A. with the gay revelation, but all of those scenes were a bit rushed. They could've spent at least a week's worth of their storyline with the forgiveness and acceptance of Fish as a person and friend rather than as a homosexual.

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I think they don't have time to play the beats. This is a small story with small characters, and soon most of the story will be about what Stacy is doing. Frankly I was surprised they gave as much time as they did to Layla's feelings, or showed her trying to understand Fish. I assumed she might just disappear for a few weeks or more.

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I'm with Ann and DeeeDee. Too damn quick and a waste of castmembers capable of good drama. It went from - almost a good movie, I really mean that - to an ABC Afterschool Special over the space of a weekend, Mr. Evans's efforts today notwithwstanding. Last week Tika and Scott were the most exciting thing I had seen on TV, and for a brief period, Stacy and Kim became people I loved to hate! I know. I'm such a fangirl. So easily manipulated, I guess.

Let's see how Fishy does in the real water, with this semi-touted- only in the WATER of the internet and *HORK* magazines - With real Mommy as homophobic bitch and Daddy as homophpbic !@#$%^&*].

And poor Tika, who more than proved herself last week is now reduced to a cartoon about "tolerance"

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So glad Tea said yes to Todd's proposal, but I think Ross and Blair will cause a LOT of trouble for them..

I felt Layla/Fish/Cris's scenes were a tad rushed, I wish they would've dragged it out, had Layla pissed at him for some time, threaten to kick him out of the apartment, then have him reveal who he is and his story. Now his parents are coming into town.. wow.

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Until they get Blair out of this story I can't buy anything from Todd or Tea. None of this story seems like their true character anyway. It's all about them as the generic happy couple with evil people determined to ruin their happiness. Poor long-suffering Todd and Tea.

I wouldn't be surprised if Frons told OLTL they had to rush through the coming out and acceptance parts of the Fish story as quickly as possible. The real part which will probably drag on is when Stacy takes over.

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Blair with Tea's castoff. Poor KDP. At least Michael Lowry isn't as completely horrible as he was on AMC.

I think Ross will be evil and Todd will have to save Blair and Tea from his nasty ways.

I'd be more interested in the mayor story if he wasn't such a cartoon.

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I just detested Michael Lowry on AMC but I quite like him here. Blair and Ross have instantly made this crap story watchable, not unlike Elijah. Todd and Tea are snoozeville together; now that they've been made bland, soppy and "good", Todd of all characters has become her clueless hubby, while Tea only comes alive with others, as she skulks around snarling at people to keep her secret. The question is can they find a foundation to build on Ross's rather scant character for a real storyline with Blair, or will he instantly be sacrificed as yet another "much worse person than Todd, no really, we swear"?

The undercover storyline worked for me for awhile but it's starting to peter out with too little homoeroticism between Cole and his buddies in the last couple weeks, plus Mayor Lowell, who has been blown up and out of proportion. Lowell has always been a handy plot device, just another iteration of "the mean college dean" from Animal House or "the !@#$%^&*] police sergeant" from Police Academy, a heavy shaking his fist at the heroes screaming "McBaaaaiinnnn!!!" like something out of The Simpsons. Now we're supposed to invest in these weighty scenes with his beating his child, who BTW can't cry to save his life. It's all a bit much, and him as the drug network's "Mr. Big" is just silly and way too convenient - they should've found someone more surprising. That said, this undercover arc has been infinitely more interesting than any of Malone's two-second hamfisted attempts to meld city/political issues in 2003-2004 (remember the Santis scheming with the Governor?), and is going to lead into a better storyline, post-drug war, for Viki and Dorian, so I'm all for it.

I also think the Greg/Rachel/Shaun thing in "the black corner" has surprising life, though they still need to open up to more potential partners. I think both Tilford and Sean Ringgold have really improved, and Daphnee Duplaix is plain wonderful. Shaun's speech to Rachel was touching, and surprisingly organic in that unlike most soaps today, Shaun did not immediately attack and castigate his brother as evil, EEEVVILLL!!! He just sadly said Greg couldn't help but play the game, and that's what a sibling would say, one who's probably lost to Greg before.

If Susan Haskell really isn't long for the show thanks to the AMC move, I pray they give her one last whiz-bang story. It would be terrible for her to have been wasted in the rapemance and as John's backburnered cheering section.

BTW, I've been fine with the Fish story developments. Layla is by nature a nuturer, and always had to forgive Evangeline's inconsiderate behavior and attention domination. It's in character for her to soften to Oliver quickly, but as we saw the other day, she's still angry, still not over her pain.

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