Michael Fairman's Best and Worst of 2012

[ChitHappens]

^^^^Add in Nellie and you got yourself Daytime's best quad ever!

[DRW50]

The glamour shots look like he's recording a big band standards album...in 1995.

Add Jamey and Nellie Olsen and it's Big Love.

[EricMontreal22]

Ha so true. Seriously, click on the photos link at the bottom of http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/biography/

(I just realized one of them is of him looking down lovingly at a monitor with the OLTL logo on it...)

[Eric83]

LOL I forgot about that, it was good but it wasn't even the best two weeks of RC's tenure.

[DRW50]

I don't understand why online "soap" journalism now veers toward a relatively classy escort ad. It is offputting. I would rather go back to the faceless people, or a tiny photo, with words telling most of the story. I suppose it's a step up from some soap interviews I read, where the person conducting the interview talks about what a hot body they have, but it just seems very self-involved.

The end of OLTL gets praise because it rubbed the tummies of those who watched the show for Cartini, IMO. I got little out of it. The Megan/Gabrielle/Luna scenes and a nice speech from Viki - thanks for 43 years. Here's Trevor St. John hacking into a gag. Goodbye.

[Antoyne]

As a proud TSJTodd fan, and someone who thought the whole two Todd's thing was idiotic, I was quite pleased to see him alive as my parting memory of the show.

[DRW50]

I can understand that. I just thought it was a horrible last scene. If someone like Brody, who was one of my favorites (at least before the stuff with Natalie) had the last scene, I would have been annoyed. I would have given the last scene to Viki, and right before that, had the stuff with Allison/Victor Jr or whatever he was called at the end.

[Cheap21]

I thought the final 2 weeks of the show was amazing. They did a decent job at wrapping things up with several characters as well as providing a good lead in to the online version (which was supposed to start soon after). I cant really knock the finale. It was must see tv IMO

Then that would have taken away from it being a cliffhanger. You don't reveal your shocking twist and then follow it up with something like Viki getting proposed to. Again, lets not forget that this wasn't supposed to be the very last episode of OLTL. It was like any regular show. Maybe had they written it as such, things could have been different but this was intended to be a lead in to another show

[DRW50]

I would have had a last scene of Viki standing on her own, musing about what would happen next. It would still be a part of the cliffhanger, and also be nice closure. Even if PP had continued, I don't believe a scene of Allison rambling was all that suspenseful. I thought she was so ridiculous, even by her standards. If Victor Jr had to be the last scene, then how about Viki speaking, then they cut to him tied up or unconscious?

I think the finale stuff was mostly ideas that would look good if you read them on a Wikipedia summary, but did nothing for me as a viewer. I couldn't be happy about Viki marrying a deranged man who'd caused immense harm to his loved ones. I couldn't be all that happy about the rewrite of a rewrite saying that Jessica was now Clint's daughter, when Clint was a psycho, and Jessica was a psycho who basically even went as far as saying she felt zero guilt for what she'd done to people as Tess. I didn't understand why Matthew needed a child or why from the time he woke up he was almost immediately being shamed about said child.

If they'd cut out Clint proposing to Viki, dropped the pregnancy story for Destiny, and just had Jessica moving on with her life, and possibly reuniting with Brody, without a meaningless paternity rewrite, I would have enjoyed the end more.

[~bl~]

I liked the end of OLTL a lot, and actually enjoyed it more than most of the recent finales. The reason being the actors were allowed to show sadness unlike some of the others. And I appreciated the Jessica retcon and all of that as I hated the whole Mitch thing to start with, also if OLTL had lasted longer the whole redemption arc of Clint may have made more sense making Viki's choice more understandable. Does that make sense?

With Fairman, he is unabashedly a fan of OLTL, so I get why his comments are as such. That being said I see him as a personality who does interviews and not an unbiased journalist.

[ChitHappens]

He came off as a OLTL/Cartini stan, and it was quite embarrassing - just reading the comments here. Call me nuts, but I remember when the soap press did a very respectable job. Now that we are down to only 4 soaps and these "journalist" need to stay employed, they are shilling the same garbage as the writers. There is no way journalists before the Hinseys, Fairmans or Bronco's would be rimming these hacks this way. And I'm not just talking about Cartini.

[doolfan]

This list is the biggest bunch of B.S. ever. I can't stand Sabrina and Kristen Alderson is not a good actress. Hell even five years ago we had higher standards than this! Ugh.

[EricMontreal22]

Agreed, and I actually liked TSJ as Todd/Victor even though the horrible stuffhe had to play--so I'm fine with him being alive. But the whole final episode done as some bizarre script from Alison? (Which doesn't make one dot of sense in SOOO many ways), and that cliffhanger?? Why do the SAME people who HATED the AMC finale due to the gun shot ending, see this as soap perfection>? Not picking on you Antoyne, but many of these same sites (including Fairman's if I recall correctly) were IMHO overly harsh on AMCs, and yet kowtow down to this one which does leave the impression it's almost simply because they must praise anything Carlitini.

[EricMontreal22]

Yeah I get that, it was more for me the whole meta thing with Alison narrating some demonic script she was writing for Victor (how did she even know all the stuff she narrated--and does that mean they can rewrite any of the final episode and say Alison made that part up? )

While not as much as you, I thought he final two weeks had a lot of good stuff, and I give R/F credit in that they did seem to actually be trying hard to appeal to a lot of different OLTL fanbases. It's more specifically that final episode. (and again, best two weeks of soap ever? I'm gonna give him the benefit and hope he means of the last year, but ever??)

[marceline]

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