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OLTL: Discussion for the week of April 4

Scotty
in Discuss The Soaps: Archive (2010 - 2014)

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Oh I love CPL and wish he had stayed in the role but I think the main reason they decided to go with someone that looked older was bc he looked younger than he was. He does look younger than AW to me and they wanted someone who physically looked like he could be a threat to Shane

I see what you mean, but since the story is so much about psychological terror I don't know if physicality came into play. I keep remembering how they had that kid terrorize Matthew, and he looked much younger than Matthew.

I can't shake that this casting was mostly to make Jack into their new junior lead, since the Fords haven't been as popular as expected, and the way to start that off, since this is Fronsland, is to have him bully/traumatize people, because that means he's a dreamboat.

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Great show today, didn't skip over anything.

Viki and Tea in scenes is always good.

Bo, Nora and Matthew were fantastic. Eddie Alderson and Hilary B. Smith were on the mark.

Blair is taking a very hard line with Jack, which is good, because he's out of control.

Clint is steadily become more tolerable again.

Rex was right for blasting the principal on calling the video a mishap.

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I bet they didn't. Matthew being the killer is a total rewrite in my opinion.

I read an interview with Agatha Christie, who obviously was the best authority on murder mysteries and it is impossible to argue with her. She said she always wrote the murder first and that a good mystery only has one possible solution. Soaps never seem to do that, they just write a murder and make sure nobody is accounted for, and then just plug in whoever suits their need.

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I read an interview with Agatha Christie, who obviously was the best authority on murder mysteries and it is impossible to argue with her. She said she always wrote the murder first and that a good mystery only has one possible solution. Soaps never seem to do that, they just write a murder and make sure nobody is accounted for, and then just plug in whoever suits their need.

The whole show seems like rewrites. Ron doesn't know where any stories are going unless it is someone that is pregnant. The whole Ford murder mystery resolution..yawn.....I guess Matthew will be spending a lot of time in prison. The bullying storyline with Shane....oh dear lord.......JPL acting today....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I did like the scenes between Vicki and Tea.

I think all of Ron's storyline conclusions are coming out of his ass ....he has no clue where they are going.

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No it wasn't, we saw in her flashback last week that she opened the door. She looked shocked and the next thing we saw was her passed out on the court room floor.

It was explained today that she saw Matthew sitting on the floor next to Eddie's dead body while he was waiting for Clint. But she made a comment that it was horrible that she just left him so I have to wonder if there is more to the story or if that was it.

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Oh I love CPL and wish he had stayed in the role but I think the main reason they decided to go with someone that looked older was bc he looked younger than he was. He does look younger than AW to me and they wanted someone who physically looked like he could be a threat to Shane

I mean you can say that, but Jack's little chrony is 4 ft nothing and does a helluva lot of the bullying and Shane could easily flick the kid. CPL was a bit shorter but he had enough of the snarky douche bag attitude that I think he could have done ten times better than this nuJack..Not all bullies are bigger than their victim.

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After today the Lead Actress Emmy belongs to either Debbi Morgan, Erika Slezak or HBS.

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OLTL has done variations of this bullying story several times now. First with Starr when she got pregnant, then with Matthew when he was in a wheelchair. This one is more extreme but I feel like that's mostly because they want to hype this new Jack and ultimately make him into the victim.

And even before they started focusing on Llanview high, there was Marcie's hazing... not exactly bullying but pretty close.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qenMk9nSPX0

Now as far as the SORASing and changing the character with the recast... it's a way to drive story, and it always has been. You always have personality changes with recasts, especially SORASing. If they didn't have Jack be the big bad bully, it would have been a newbie... now I'm sure some people would rather have that than a personality 90, but the show probably figures it might as well try to use the cast in some way. I understand it but don't necessarily like it.

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Im not as critical on FF as you guys tend to be but man was she awful when Gigi was telling the nurse that Shane attempted suicide. That was just bad

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Im not as critical on FF as you guys tend to be but man was she awful when Gigi was telling the nurse that Shane attempted suicide. That was just bad

It wasn't FF or JPL's best day.

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What a very schlocky episode today. Viki was the only higher point of it.

After damn near 20 years of parenting, Blair is only just NOW questioning her awful mothering skills? The fact that she has a daughter who had a police record before she was 12 and a baby at 16 should have tipped her off <much> sooner...but it took her hellion son posting a video of a kid naked to switch the light on in her head that, perhaps, she failed. Yeah, okay. :rolleyes:

And seriously, that Destiny girl...I don't know how in the hell she's lasted this long, but she needs to go, like tomorrow. The way she whimpered to Bo and Nora like she saw a school shooting was either bad writing, bad acting, or both. And I'm tired of seeing her and Shaun getting together to 'commentate' on the happenings of the episode. I don't even know why they keep them.

Yeah, yeah...OLTL got in those little "dramatic" episodes that they were aiming for. Raw.

Move it along now.

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