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Kelly has never had any purpose and she probably never will, although I find her more tolerable now because she is not written as moral arbiter as she was the last time around.

The whole idea of Kelly has always been oh, isn't so much better than ______? Dorian, Blair, Sophia, and so on. Now I guess it might be Natalie, if the show is still trying to make John look less comatose. I still think they brought Joey in to humiliate him for Cutter but of course it must be for John too.

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I'm confused--after trying to hard to redeem Ford are they meant to be making him skeevey again? I know the actor isn't great (*coff*) but did they really direct him to say that line to Tess about if she was 17 again as if he just had an instant erection and wanted to jump her? I mean the character is a mess to me anyway--but if now he's meant to be a bad boy again running around town with Tess I just wonder why they even bothered in the ifrst place (though I wonder that often I admit...)

I like Kelly more than John, even though I agree with all the complaints of having no real use or direction for her. But was she really meant to be comparing what happened to her to what happened to John? And he was just sitting there and listening to her rants about how devestated they both were? I woulda just left...

I like Blair too but that singing and everything was ridiculous--I didn't like the song anyway but they did her no favours stretching it out between a commercial break... And Thomas' little display of piano virtuosity was... well not impressive. I don't play the piano but studied violin for close to twenty years and if I heard someone do a couple of chords I would never expect them to be able to sight read my accompaniment.

I did like some of Tess' jabs at Ford (surely they know that's what we're all thinking anyway) and I thought the Brodie/Natalie stuff, while pretty much filler, was actually fairly well done with both characters actually making some sort of sense and understanding (OK well Natalie less so but that's keeping in character...)

Of course I didn't expect the soap to keep up the momentum from last week--no soap could but I just get this feeling suddenly we're dealing with the characters and stories I care the least about (don't get me started about Todd--unless this is meant to make him unsympathetic again--though I'm not sur ehe ever was sympathetic--for the "big" Todd drama to come...)

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The biggest travesty today was that GT's character was drunk and they didn't have her dance on a table or bar

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BOOO OLTL! Dropping it like it's hot is what she does! hwwlc6.gif

Acually I take that back, the biggest travesty was that ugly ass dress Tess had on. She somehow managed to make Jessica's fugly wedding dress even fuglier. She looked like Glenda the Good Witch.

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I agree Redd, Starr's speech had an odd After School Special ring curiously blaming/warning parents that their over protection can drive their daughters to getting knocked up. And then they threw in that nice little cliche for Starr ("I made a HUGE mistake... err... I would *never* regret having Hope, but I wasn't ready :unsure: ...")

Eric, love that post, and you really opened my naive eyes because I wasn't even open to the possibility that Tess and Ford might become naughty running buddies. I can see it now. Something about him is a *little* Nash-like, and for the sake of being in his daughter's life (I still think that baby is Brody's) I can see him doing Tess' bidding and falling in love along the way. Tess reluctantly doing the same. Then a tearful bye-bye to Tess, as Jess has to come back now and we get a scene of Ford forcing his eyes not to blink like Eden Riegel until he cries as he loses his girl. Langston who?

The weird thing about Blair's song is that it seemed almost free verse, it just kept going and going with no hook, no chorus, zzzzzz...

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That bit from Starr claiming it was Todd who pushed her into sex felt like odd retcon to me. I mean I guess you could KINDA see it that way but... Well I didn't. (Them running away on the other hand...) Was it added just to make it all the more clear that Starr is more than ready to move on from Cole (cuz Carlivati and crew--WE GET IT).

I could be wrong about Ford and Tess becoming OLTL's version of Bonnie and Clyde but it just seemed like too much back peddling to remind us of Ford's creepy/"dangerous" past after months of them going out of their way to make him seem like the hero of the show. It's gonna be a mess though I admit I'll prob find it more entertaining to watch than I fever would good Ford and Jessica (or Ford and Langston for that matter). LOL at your Eden comment.

Yeah usually Blair's songs (she writes them herself right? Is this on that Valentine's album?) have at least some basic melody--but this just kinda went on and on and on, I'd be awfully bummed to go out for a night out on Valentine's and have to listen to the owner *once again* try out one of her songs she can't get recorded on her customers, but she seems to jump to the wine pretty quick after one number so I guess it's not too bad.

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LOL! :lol:

And I agree, I thought Starr's little slip served the additional purpose of establishing that she really was ready to move beyond Ford. James is just so... sweet though. Wondering what will be the great conflict of their relationship. Because of course there has to be one.

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Dani needs to sit her fast ass down. I couldnt beleive she said "I cant believe he just did that to me" Huh? WTF did Todd do? ANY parent would be unpleased to see their teen daughter ready to have sex right there in in his or her living room. Todd IMO did NOTHING wrong today. I cant believe the gall of those kids to have the nerve to try and do it in his house. Like seriously, WTF were they smoking

On a side note, anyone else think Starr is resembling her cousin Sarah with the way her hair is styled these days?

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