AMC: Friday, July 15th

[Wizzerkat]

I love how they are doing some character exploration again. Angie and David=love. I love how Angie is getting why David does what he does without being completely sucked in. Jane was hilarious! Poor thing is equaling sex and love like a 16 year old whose cherry just got popped. I do hope JR's latest foray into the bottle is short. Miss Mona but loved the flashbacks and Erica realizing how right Mona was..

[reallyhateskateonlost]

Some gal pal Opal is! If you sleep with David Hayward, you get dumped as a friend!

[Cheap21]

Opal's just jealous she hasnt had sex since 1998

[marceline]

Maybe David needs to break Opal off a piece. Apparently he turned Jane out so good it obliterated her years-long obsession with Erica.

[Skin]

I can't remember the last time the Erica/Opal friendship was taken seriously. Let alone the last time the character herself was.

[dragonflies]

It's not as much about David as the way Ferica is acting. I'd "break it off" with her too

[EricMontreal22]

Oh come off it. Janerica has been flat out MEAN to Opal since she came. Not distant, but cold and borderline insulting. Lord knows old Opal wouldn't take it for a second, and I don't think even the kinder gentler Opal should or would.

[marceline]

OT question: has the bottom part of this thread gone all bold for anyone else?

[reallyhateskateonlost]

Somethings up. Old posts are coming back and the posting looks different.

[marceline]

Hmmm...I think some there a hanging HTML tag in somebody's footer.

[Kylie]

If only that was real Erica with David. Damn show blew that out of the water with the Miranda betrayal. Bah. But they really are sooooooooooooo pretty.

[Steve]

ITA. But I disagree with everyone who said Friday's episode was the best; I think Wednesday's was.

+2

I think this is the first time Erica acknowledged that her problems with men are due to her father's abandonment. Hopefully this epiphany will lead to her finally accepting that she doesn't need a man to be happy, and then she'll be able to fully commit to marrying Jack in the finale!

Loved that line because it's so ironic.

I also agree that the cliffhangers were fantastic. For too long, most Fridays didn't really have any and this week we got several great ones (Tad telling JR Marissa's a lesbian, David's proposal and Erica hearing the banging).

[EricMontreal22]

Terrific episode. I love that we are still gettingsoapy stuff (Project Orpheus, coincidences, people bumping into each other, etc) but it's done with so much more intelligence then we've had in a long while. It feels logical, people act realistically (ie Angie starting to see some good in David, Tad's reaction to drunk JR, etc), terrific dialogue (even from scripters--I believe today was Joanna Cohen--who I usually don't like), a perfect pace (things are slightly drawn out but feel like revelations, etc, happen at still a fairly realistic pace). It really capped off the best week AMC has had in a VERY long time, for me anyway.

(And I don't mean to throw shade, but again, to watch OLTL right afterwards which currently is missing nearly all these categories--particularly story and character logic, and knowing how to draw out storylines without making it seem like an endless repeat of the same scene, I mean if it was Carlivati writing we would have spent two months with Amanda starring at her STD test results-- is just too much). If they can manage to keep and even build from this momentum, the last two months could really be something. Even characters I usually don't care for, I'm starting to like (or in Ryan's case at least not mind).

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Omg I am watching this episode and it is just to good!

Jane is too much, LOL @ her saying to Opal: "Would you just stop with all the "tarnation" and the hokum-yokum? If you don't like something I'm doing, would you just say it to me in English?" LOL!

Will someone PLEASE go back to this episode and listen to how Jane says "tarnation"? LMAO!!! To damn funny.

[Steve]

The scriptwriter was Rebecca Taylor. I know what you mean about the writing even for characters who are usually annoying. I don't mind Ryan or Greenlee these days, which says a lot!

ICAM about OLTL. My ex used to watch it and I've been following it a little on SoapNet. I caught most of it last night to see the 2 Todds and couldn't believe how bad the dialogue is. Every scene seems to be written for plot exposition and to build suspense with no character development.