One Life to Live Tribute Thread

[Vee]

Oh, wow.

[janea4old]

 

 

This article and its video are amazing
https://6abc.com/post/amtrak-police-officer-comes-rescue-when-conductor-has-medical-emergency-heroes-frontlines/16080799

Just amazing.

[alwaysAMC]

That warms my heart - love to see it.  Also, wow to see where these kids from OLTL landed in life.  I haven't thought about or seen them in YEARS, so I love this.

[Vee]

A bit of idle gossip crossposted from the GL thread. Seems like Nia Long may have been warning Robin off of JFP.

Edited March 26 by Vee

[Khan]

I hated when they wrote him off the show.  Just imagine if KdP's Blair, for example, had become involved with Rafe, acting as stepmom to Sami, etc.?

[DRW50]

That would have made sense. I could have seen him with Luna too.

A shame he didn't even get an exit.

[DRW50]

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[dragonflies]

[Vee]

It's on the last page.

[DRW50]

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[DRW50]

I can't remember if this one had ever been up before, but just in case it hasn't been: 

This has some of the Paris location shoot, including a neat little sighting of a Pat Ashley Show clapperboard and some footage of Pat actually filming her show. (I didn't realize how long the Paris sojourn was as there are still moments there in September) 

A big location shoot and hoopla with Asa too for...a party being thrown for Samantha Vernon and Mimi King (sure, why not). I was trying to figure out if this is the "Asa raps!" episode but I don't think it is? Didn't fully check though.

I do wonder how viewers at the time felt about the sudden yee-hawization of their Llanview.

Fascinating they were doing all this location work in August, not even a sweeps period.

Some fun moments here with Dorian, Clint and Viki where Dorian asks Viki if she'd save her if she was drowning: "Dorian, I would think about it." 

It's nice to see this lighter Dorian, a reminder we are still early into Robin's run.

Oh, there's a really good scene with Katrina and "Mario" near the end of this episode. Nancy Snyder brought so much believability to a role that was basically an extended plot device.

Good scene in here of Karen blasting the hell out of "Mario" because he still has the horn for Tina and is just a trashy, sloppy mess in general (poor Edwina...). The layers of deception with Karen and Marco are fascinating (and they casually talk with Katrina even though IIRC they had already stolen her child by this point). It's a credit to Judith Light and Gerald Anthony that viewers were still on their side. 

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Edited March 30 by DRW50

[Vee]

Thanks!

I have seen the Asa Rap before and it is a sight to behold.

[Contessa Donatella]

Thanks for the tag!

[Khan]

I'll bet if Frank Valentini were to view this, he'd have a stroke.

I confess that this is not one of my favorite things to see from this period (although, I do thank you, @DRW50, for the tag).  Perhaps, if it were all happening in Arizona, or in Texas, it'd make sense.  But it's not.  It's happening on Long Island. 

I mean, it's something Asa Buchanan would do, but it's just too DALLAS-y; and between that and Pat's Paris remote, ABC and Joe Stuart were just blowing through money like there was no damn tomorrow.

Peabo Bryson: "But there's always tomorrow!"

Khan: "Shut up, Peabo!"

[DRW50]

I do enjoy the Buchanans, but episodes like this remind me of the consequences of their devouring the show. You have such a beautiful scene near the end of the episode with Karen and Edwina (she really did have very pretty hair - no wonder her cutting it got such notice), two outsiders, very broken, trying to survive, and Karen can only try to take Edwina into her arms to share her pain. That was one of the cores of OLTL - outsiders, outcasts. And then you have Asa and the whole jamboree, hee and haw. You know which one ends up winning.

In the Rauch era, you mostly just have those characters being absorbed into the Buchanan circle and the focus shifts to the danger they bring to the "good" characters, rather than focusing on their brokenness. It still works, in some ways, thanks to the work from Andrea Evans and Fiona Hutchinson, and some tender writing here and there, but it does turn OLTL into something it was not intended to be.

Edited March 30 by DRW50