After all these months I have to say Tracey’s impact on the show has been detrimental. I’ve downgraded the show to background noise and I FF through everything Joey and Vanessa. Sometimes I forget since I am so not paying attention and that’s when I catch things like Joey being this show’s Superman (gag me). If anything the show is teaching me a lot on how NOT to write for a soap (or any medium for that matter). Don’t write about topics you know nothing about and you’re not willing to research (ie Plasma theft). Don’t come up with stories that you don’t know where to place and have no clear, distinctive settings for. (ie Jacob being confined to a brick wall for months was ridiculous but at the same time where else should he have been? There’s no definite answer). Show don’t tell. When Naomi blurted out to Ashley that the bad guy was Lia it was so anticlimactic. Because we hadn’t seen any glimpse of Lia in that episode. It would have been a thousand times more effective if Lia was there, near the nursing station, and the scene would go like this: “Come on Naomi, tell me! Who is it?”. Naomi looking into Lia’s direction. Ashley turning around. Ashley being petrified at realizing it was Lia all along. This is a silly example but you get what I mean: let the audience put 2+2 together. I guess one could go on and on for hours, but for now I’ll keep ‘watching’ just in case it gets better. Random questions about the infamous Plasma storyline: is it me or literally nobody has mentioned “The Impaler” in weeks? Nobody has wondered about his/her identity. Everything has stopped at Lia. Is Lia a lesbian? How did Lynette scam her?
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