Members marceline Posted December 21, 2009 Members Share Posted December 21, 2009 More likely OLTL is simply turning another dayplayer...or Roxy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted December 21, 2009 Members Share Posted December 21, 2009 That's what I'm thinking (the dayplayer). Either that, or Des is gonna go butch thanks to Matthew's rejection. ETA: Just watches the WLS memoriam video, and I had no idea Norman Painting died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members y&r_fan Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 I see Nelson is STILL picking on Jacqueline MacInnes Wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darn Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 ...yeah. Was someone under the impression he'd signed a 4 year contract? I assumed the role was strictly pay for play, he was there as needed. And he's been there long enough. Mitch is beyond absurd. Rex and his daddy issues no one gives a damn about. Mitch having every non-contract character in his pocket. 13 weeks is more than enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 For real. They're trying to make Mitch Laurence "happen," but it's just not. He doesn't have enough history or enough relationships to happen. Most of the people in Llanview now only hate him because of what they've *heard* he's done. "Ooooh, Mitch Laurence, that's that bad man." When Stenbeck returns to ATWT, most of the people there have a reason to hate him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 I think they have enough material to make Dorian, Jessica, Natalie, and Viki hate him. He made Natalie's life hell back in 2002, he raped Viki, and then all the ugliness with Dorian over the years. There was some genuine terror in the first few weeks of his return, which I can't say about James ever since they brought him back as a cartoon at the start of this decade. For a short term return, to get attention and make stories go forward, I think this has worked, probably better than most of the returns of the past few years. The only part which has completely flopped is Rex being his son, because Rex is a waste of oxygen and I don't know if anyone even cares who his father is, it was telegraphed ages ago and besides Rex whining and feeling sorry for himself, again, there's no drama in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 Yeah. Nothing about the Rex's father story could've worked because it's gone on for years. They should've just said that Keith Richards knocked up Roxy one night when the Stones came through Atlantic City and dropped the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 Yes. Or used this to bring in a new character. Or even do what they used as a red herring eons ago and made Charlie the father. It would have been interesting to have seen Rex have to try to get over himself and help Charlie stay off the booze. Making him Mitch's son just hasn't had any story potential. I think it's like David being Bo's son, which aside from a few amusing scenes, has led to a big zero. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darn Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 They spent so much time building up Rex's father as the ultimate evil that it had to be either Mitch or...Satan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 They spent over a year building up Asa as David's father, and that didn't happen. They could have had Roxy believe Mitch was the father, and then they learn it was someone else. I think that could have given them some new material. That's something Rex needs, as what he has now makes him look like a douche 24/7. Then again, JPL's "acting" manages to ruin the material which isn't so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 they could at least get some play out of. i mean, if nothing else make rex or even shane want to try and get to know him, see if there is something else to him besides what they have read or heard and it adds tension to his relationships with jessica and natalie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 Id still prefer it if Charlie were Rex's father. Say he and Roxy had a drunken one night stand that neither remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 My question is does anybody care enough about Rex anymore to give a damn who his father is? This question was hovering around back when I was watching the show but at least then I remember people kind of liked Rex. In the last year I've seen a real backlash against the character to the point where people put him in the same category with John and Todd. Whether it was Mitch, Charlie, Spencer or, hell RJ, does it matter anymore who's the daddy if Rex isn't rootable? It looks like Born is just being the fall guy for a bad story. Although in all fairness he's probably just the easiest to get rid of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ben Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 Out of all the stints that Mitch has had, have they ever explored the character's psychology and revealed what makes him act the way he does? Or is Mitch simply tagged as being "Evil?" I'm still waiting for the point to Mitch returning this time... Or was Jared's death that point? If so, it's not enough. As for Rex: Just get rid of him all ready! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted December 22, 2009 Members Share Posted December 22, 2009 I think Mitch is just a generic moustache twirling supervillian and, sadly, I don't think those types of characters work anymore, not the way they used to. It gets a little tiring to watch some cackling bulletproof reject from Marvel comics talk to himself as he describes his evil plan to exact revenge on his nemesis and take over the world yet again. At some point someone is going to do what you just did, they're going to ask why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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