To think, too, we went through all that paternity drama years ago w/ Matthew...all for it to end with him dying. :-(

To think, too, we went through all that paternity drama years ago w/ Matthew...all for it to end with him dying. :-(

that paternity drama is why I could never accept him. I wish they had left him as Sam's son. He always felt like a Buchanan interloper to me

Hardly any shows these days shock me, but this has. I didn't believe it when I first read about it, but that photo cements it, and I can't believe they're actually killing off Matthew! I don't see what the point of it all is, or what story it will so desperately create that just had to be told with Matthew dying. It's misery for miseries sake, and that's the worst kind of misery to ever write.

Wouldn't it be amazing if he woke up though? Maybe now with cancellation somebody will have a common sensegasm and give viewers a typically soapy deathbed scene only to have Matthew open his eyes and breathe on his own. They can still write EA out by sending him away for physical therapy. It's all the same drama and you don't give the audience the double screw of Matthew dying at the hands of a Ford.

Wouldn't it be amazing if he woke up though? Maybe now with cancellation somebody will have a common sensegasm and give viewers a typically soapy deathbed scene only to have Matthew open his eyes and breathe on his own. They can still write EA out by sending him away for physical therapy. It's all the same drama and you don't give the audience the double screw of Matthew dying at the hands of a Ford.

That still leaves the matter of Clint.

Clint could either A. get some other person's heart or B. learn that his heart condition isn't as bad as the doctors once presumed, have Clint continue to use his heart condition to gain forgiveness and acceptance by his family, such as Bo and Joey, and then have a reveal of the truth down the road.

Clint could either A. get some other person's heart or B. learn that his heart condition isn't as bad as the doctors once presumed, have Clint continue to use his heart condition to gain forgiveness and acceptance by his family, such as Bo and Joey, and then have a reveal of the truth down the road.

Or just let him die.

Clint could either A. get some other person's heart or B. learn that his heart condition isn't as bad as the doctors once presumed, have Clint continue to use his heart condition to gain forgiveness and acceptance by his family, such as Bo and Joey, and then have a reveal of the truth down the road.

That would all be pretty lame I think. To be at death's door and meanwhile Matthew is dying in the next bed, and then lo and behold Matthew wakes up and the doctors rush in and tell Clint they read the wrong x-ray. I think people would laugh and it would be a ridiculous cop-out way to end the show.

Edited May 14, 201114 yr by quartermainefan

That still leaves the matter of Clint.

Clint could get a donor heart from someone he doesn't know. The way most organ recipients do.

that paternity drama is why I could never accept him. I wish they had left him as Sam's son. He always felt like a Buchanan interloper to me

Buchanan interlopers are trash like Rex and David. There was always a good chance that he was Bo's son. I was very happy they didn't keep him as Sam's son, one of the worst characters on OLTL. Seeing some old clips of Kale Browne's eye-bugging and hissing and lisping just reinforce that for me.

That would all be pretty lame I think. To be at death's door and meanwhile Matthew is dying in the next bed, and then lo and behold Matthew wakes up and the doctors rush in and tell Clint they read the wrong x-ray. I think people would laugh and it would be a ridiculous cop-out way to end the show.

People would rather see that than BJ's Heart 22: Pissy Boogaloo.

Or just let him die.

that would be worst than Matthew dying

Buchanan interlopers are trash like Rex and David.

they're all interlopers

Edited May 14, 201114 yr by Cheap21

that would be worst than Matthew dying

[Kevin McCallister] No it wouldn't. [/Kevin McCallister]

Edited May 14, 201114 yr by Amello

they're all interlopers

I don't think a child of 3 or 4 is an interloper.

To me you are only an interloper if you have no business being in the family and you add zero to the dynamics. That's why I would not call Cord an interloper, while Rex and David (who drag down every scene they're in, IMO), are.

I think I might have felt differently had he been recast years ago bc EA was such an awful actor (one of the worst child actors on this show) early on for years and it was obvious the only reason he was kept around was bc he was Kristen's little brother. I just had bad impressions of the character of Matthew that Ive never been able to shake off. I hated when they made him a Buchanan and wish they had shipped the kid off to boarding school.

Edited May 14, 201114 yr by Cheap21

I don't think a child of 3 or 4 is an interloper.

To me you are only an interloper if you have no business being in the family and you add zero to the dynamics. That's why I would not call Cord an interloper, while Rex and David (who drag down every scene they're in, IMO), are.

Plus One......

I think I might have felt differently had he been recast years ago bc EA was such an awful actor (one of the worst child actors on this show) early on for years and it was obvious the only reason he was kept around was bc he was Kristen's little brother. I just had bad impressions of the character of Matthew that Ive never been able to shake off. I hated when they made him a Buchanan and wish they had shipped the kid off to boarding school.

I see what you mean, but if we take away Buchanan kids for being bad actors, we would have been left with about one or two.