I don't think that Dusky is going to be paired up with Jack, because Dusky is probably going to chase after Cutter now, and Jack is probably going to have a "hot for teacher" storyline with his summer school teacher Kate!

That would be an interesting storyline, and it is along the lines of those socially relevant stories PP wants to tell.. Would be awesome if it's like the movie "Notes on a Scandal".. this "Mary Kay Letourneau" storyline could be awesome and the actor is legal now to tell a story like this

Edited May 28, 201312 yr by cassadine1991

That would be an interesting storyline, and it is along the lines of those socially relevant stories PP wants to tell.. Would be awesome if it's like the movie "Notes on a Scandal".. this "Mary Kay Letourneau" storyline could be awesome and the actor is legal now to tell a story like this

But what's the point of telling a storyline like this if Jack is of legal age, and isn't underage like that kid that slept with his teacher Mary Kay Letourneau? IMHO, Jack should be paired with Dusky, since I hate the idea of her trying to hook up with Cutter!

Edited May 28, 201312 yr by CBRVA83

Dusky can leave anytime. I can't with that chick, and she's not good. I have no idea what the point of that and the old dude/young girl stuff was, unless it is to indeed introduce a sugar daddy angle down the road. Which it might be. Judging by the way they're carefully handling Destiny I actually couldn't object to it that much, at least not right now. But we'll see what happens.

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You know who was good today? Andrew Trischitta. I was very surprised by him. I thought that scene, while too brief, was solid. Also FL and AT still have the wrong, wrong, wrong kind of chemistry. We have Spelling soap people HWing these shows - if this was MP or 90210 those two would be [!@#$%^&*] by summer's end a la Dorian/Joey. And I couldn't say I would mind it.

I loved the Natalie stuff but I hate that they seem to be setting up John in some way, shape or form. I just can't with John. Give me Cutter and his mending ways any day of the week - I hope it's a setup for her to be legitimately torn. And I love that Clint still hates John. He never did like him much.

I also liked the return of the Buchanan poker night. It has been a long, long time since I've seen one of those.

I agreed with all of that. And yeah the older guy with the creepy prepubescent mustache and that girl kinda confused me--but it must be leading to somewhere (I assume she was doing E and that wasn't more oxycotin?.) Or maybe it was just to remind us, along with the drug suppliers line to Dusky, that this is becoming a problem with the club (along with Tea's surprise that Dani stays out so late so often.)

Andrew was good--especially for him though the in a hug came too suddenly I thought but that may have just been too short of a scene and not his fault.

OK I hate to do just what I complain when a certain other poster on here has, but two tiny continuity things did bug me a bit. One was just my own confusion I think--after Nora was the one who remembered family poker night it seemed weird that they acted like it should be a guys only game but maybe they were just sassing her (although seriously, people have to stop letting camera man guy hang around and place his camera where everyone is when they ask him not to film--knowing David I'd make sure myself I was never in the same room with it.)

The other was Natalie saying she had to rush home (after a whirlwind visit) to pay the babysitter, and then next we see--apparently with her baby fast asleep by himself, she's out clubbing LOL. I'm sure this was just a detail that was lost with the speed and out of order way these early episodes were filmed on both soaps, so I can't be too hard on it, but it did make me laugh. They could have easily had her have Vicki babytsit in a throwaway line, or whatever. Also--and AMC does this too, we have scenes where characters come to visit another--like Natalie at VIcki's and then they leave at the next scene--I know that's a soap convention but it comes as even shorter and quicker in this new format. They could easily make it, to me, feel more realistic by when they cut back having the characters walk back int he room and say how much they enjoyed dinner and then leave, or something. It's a small detail, but one that is a pet peeve of mine.

Oh I also liked that Jeff and Destiny addressed the issue of her taking the Bukes money or not.

Haha, agree about the Hulu Plus line! I also agree they seem to be building up to Clint being behind miscommunications between John and Natalie. I liked Blair/Tea too.

Right and that would actually jibe well enough with what little we heard on GH--even if John still looked like the worse dad ever on there, I believe nearly all of his communication was through Clint.

But what's the point of telling a storyline like this if Jack is of legal age, and isn't underage like that kid that slept with his teacher Mary Kay Letourneau? IMHO, Jack should be paired with Dusky, since I hate the idea of her trying to hook up with Cutter!

I know... isn't the legal age in Pennsylvania 17 or something? I guess it must be a moral storyline, since it's a teacher breaking the trust b/w teacher and student.. I hope they don't do a double standard with this storyline

well someone posted a story idea about it..

http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/forums/13/05/26/is-one-life-to-live-doing-a-mary-kay-letourneau-story-with-jack-and-his-teacher

Oh I also liked that Jeff and Destiny addressed the issue of her taking the Bukes money or not.

I liked that too but I wish Jeffrey would have pushed her a little bit on reasoning. 1) No, Bo and Nora are not her family but they are Drew's family. It would have worked better if she threw in that she wants to be less dependent on them so that they don't think they have equal decision-making authority over how she raises Drew. 2) Yes, ok you want Matthew to step up- but even if the three of you were happily playing house, you're both 21 and that would be largely if not entirely bankrolled by Bo & Nora & the ghost of Asa for a few more years.

I mostly like how they're writing Des a lot and I get that she wants to be independent but I think there's enough to work with from Matthew not wanting to be involved. The whole single mother working nights to pay rent is just not ringing as true when the kid is Asa's great grandson.

Edited May 28, 201312 yr by greens_dupres

This was probably the weakest ep yet for me. Maybe I wouldn't feel so let down if it had come as the 3rd ep of a 4 day week instead of after a 5 day wait though so I'll cut them some slack.

The idea of Snoop/Bo as friends always cracks me up but their scenes today added little. I think we have a few more days of Snoop though so maybe it will get better.

I admit, scenes like Snoop, or that band on AMC, or whatever, which I tolerate and sometimes really enjoy o9n the hours soaps frustrate me more when I know we get so much less soap per week--even if that's unreasonable of me.

In a similar fashion, I hate complaining about the cut to two episodes a week, I do, but... While I thought this episode had some really strong character stuff it (and to some degree Monday's AMC) clearly felt like what they were--the third episode of a week of four, which when you watch four days in a row is a lot easier to take than in the two a day format. But I know we have to put up with this for a while now.

The dudes working for Cutter are hot. Bruce the sexy Aussie is my favorite. Yum!

They are,even if I suppose to various degrees they're all meant to be no good--it's completely ridiculous that they all wanted Dusky so quickly and badly but, *shrug*

I smell a John recast in the future. They could have made things a bit more final but today just opened things up to revisit him in the future. Unless he is killed off, I think he could show up by fall to be honest

Me too. And I embrace it.

While I think OLTL is great it feels like nothing at all is happening. NOTHING is progressing storylinewise

It started off moving so fast, but I agree now it sorta has settled. We've gotten a lot of great writing though, so I've enjoyed that and the character moments. Again, this also plays a part with just two episodes a week (I wish there was some way to go to three, which I think would be much easier to take), but I agree it does feel a bit like the stories have suddenlyslowed (but I think this is just a perception.)

Of course you mention the few characters they're taking time to develop lol. Just about every adult is like an alien who pops in and out. We still don't even know where Bianca and Miranda live. The adults have no life, no development and serve little purpose. Brooke is a great example of that. She is just there.

Well except for Zack, David, Bianca JR, Cara, Angie and Jesse. But I see your point. I think AMC is in a much stronger place than you do from your comments, and it seems to be improving quickly, but I certainly wish that AMC and OLTL would swap some of their qualities at this point (I will say for OLTL they have the superior dialogue, so when nothing happens in either show, that does make it stronger.)

And in both cases, we aren't even into the 20s episodes yet--to some that may seem like me making excuses, but I really am loving watching both shows--even if I admit this two episode a week thing is annoying me more than I expected--yes, it leaves me wanting more, but it just feels a bit too little (especially when they do have several stories going.)

I don't see this going well- I think the rabid Jolie fans were mostly rabid ME fans. Its not like every other Natalie pairing tanked- I liked the start of her and Cristian and her with Jared. I wish they'd leave John in the past.

You would be very wrong. Jolie fans, like every fan base had varying loyalty to the pairing as a whole, and to the characters individually. I never liked John except when he was with Natalie, and I also never hated him more than when he was with Natalie. Lol. The rest of the time I was pretty apathetic. He just faded into nothingness. I've enjoyed most of Natalie's love interests. But they've spent most of the last 8-10 years telling us the story that John is the love of Natalie's life. And that's what they seem to be continuing to tell us.

However, it was nice to see some Natalie time as well with her dad and mom. I didn't think it was in character for Natalie to do a restraining order against John so nice to see that Clint masterminded it without Natalie's knowledge. That seems more in character then what Frons presented.

Can't wait for the next episode! Blair singing?!?!? I wonder if she can adapt to the techno/dance stuff since she isn't known for that. I guess this is Kassie's singing clause LOL She sang on GL in the past and on occasion as Blair.

Plus, I think that older man/younger woman scenes is a foreshadowing to the sugar daddy angle plus the drug dealing story that is going on at Shelter that Cutter is involved in and Blair is unaware of.. BTW, Blair of old would be micro-managing the hell out of Cutter and co. I do kind of miss her friendship with Christian, and wonder who she could be friends with that is male? She seems more the type to have male friends as opposed to female friends (Tea seems the same way)

Frons wasn't involved in the John restraining order stuff, that was all implied on GH in the past year, post Frons.

And Blair did a lot more than just occasionally singing as Blair, especially for a while there at her bar Capricorn--I think she has a decent voice but it became a bit of an in-joke here (especially after she filmed the bumper of her on the piano or whatever and people started commenting on how funny it would be for her to fall off the piano mid-song...)

(especially after she filmed the bumper of her on the piano or whatever and people started commenting on how funny it would be for her to fall off the piano mid-song...)

That still cracks my [!@#$%^&*] up. LOL.

It started off moving so fast, but I agree now it sorta has settled. We've gotten a lot of great writing though, so I've enjoyed that and the character moments. Again, this also plays a part with just two episodes a week (I wish there was some way to go to three, which I think would be much easier to take), but I agree it does feel a bit like the stories have suddenlyslowed (but I think this is just a perception.)

I don't think its perception as much as that they were zooming through the Victor/Todd beats (revealing him mid-ep 2) because they only had TSJ for a very little bit of time. The Dorian Senate stuff also plugged along pretty quickly the first week. Now everything else seems comparatively super slow.

I admit, scenes like Snoop, or that band on AMC, or whatever, which I tolerate and sometimes really enjoy o9n the hours soaps frustrate me more when I know we get so much less soap per week--even if that's unreasonable of me.

I don't think that's unreasonable at all. My tolerance for Snoop is just much higher than random musical acts in Shelter since he's such a big fan of the show & Bo in particular. With 5 eps a week, things like that that take you away from story can be fun, especially if story is not on fire. With 50 minutes a week, its like we need every second devoted to our characters.

Yeah!

You are a mess.