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OLTL Catch-up Week 11

Week 11

-       Dorian gets to insulting Markko’s parents and to drinking too much and to becoming further embarrassing and winds up in the pool

-       There’s some more custody back and forth, but things degenerate into usual soap court ridiculousness and I find it hard to watch, until Tea aims to hit Todd over the head with her walking stick.  But then the idiot Judge follows up a sensible speech with a stupid decision to make them all live together and I just roll my eyes. Until Tea actually hits Todd with her walking stick

-       Marcie gives the baby back to Starr, and Kathy Brier breaks my heart. Cole gets busted with drugs he probably wouldn’t have taken.  Michael and Marcie decide to move to Seattle

-       Matthew gets to play the generall hilarious role of Mr Soap Exposition by explaining to Destiny about the baby-switch and his mother marrying his uncle, while we find out what Shaun and Destiny’s brother does for a living

-       There is much amusing Todd-Tea banter, for example:

“You were just participating in some ex parte communication.”

and

“You were going to stay in the Angel Square Hotel? People get stabbed in that flea-bag.”
“People get stabbed at your house.”

-       There is another baby funeral, Cole gets jailed for 1-2 years and then gets hit over the head with the fact that they have the baby back and that Starr still loves him.  He reacts to all of this by proposing

-       I asked for Bo and Rex, I get Bo and Rex.  And Bo counselling Rex to stay the hell away from Stacey

-       The younger teens who aren’t quite ready for marriage yet get to play and/or sing in a band/choir which provides heart-warming family moments, lovely montage music, and happy tears when Marcie finds out she’s pregnant.  Which is convenient, but fabulous.  Bye-bye Marcie and Michael

-       Dorian’s drunken escapades may have been painful, but her hangover is reasonably amusing

-       I really like Todd and Tea, but am disconcerted with her being injured and in the same bed as injured, lied to, raped Marty was.  I do like that Blair has the same issues and vocalises them

-       Markko’s parents forbid him from seeing Langston

-       Layla wears short shorts and is shot in a crotch-tastic way, then accuses Cristian of being under-dressed (which he is, but no one, including Layla, is complaining).  The groundwork for Fish and Kyle begins, although Fish asks Layla out again and she agrees to go. Kyle, Rex and Fish also go shirtless for varying periods of time

-       Roxie dresses like a go-go dancer in the middle of the day, and Schuyler figures out she has a clue or two about what’s going on with Stacey, Gigi and Schuyler continue to be watchable, Rex and Stacey become even more fast-forwardable

Rating for the Week: 3.5 out of 5.  The Marcie-Starr stuff and a lot of Todd-Tea-Blair was good, but the goings on with Markko’s parents was painful on all fronts and there was too much of Malibu Stacey even on fast forward.  Further, I am concerned at just how many episodes of Three’s Company the writers have been watching, given their current penchant for throwing groups of three into odd living arrangements – Layla, Cristian, Fish; Todd, Tea, Blair.

Blogiversary

Today this blog is 3 years old.

Happy birthday blog.

Honestly, it feels like longer. 

I originally started the blog because I had started to get back into the soaps after a hiatus and didn't have time (and, in many cases, the fan-girl sensibility) to hang out on boards and chat about all the nutty goings on on the shows. That's still the case.  In fact the starting of the blog ironically coincided with me taking on a major new role at work that involved a lot more work and travel.  Which does interfere with soap watching from time to time, but also makes me appreciate coming home to curl up on the couch with the soaps and blog away.

There were a few other soap blogs around in July 2006, but absolutely nothing compared to the number there are now, which is such a cool thing.  I love this soap blog/site community that's grown up in the last few years and continues to grow and feed itself and build a soap community within the soap community.  It's supportive of the genre, it's generally pretty smart, and it keeps me in touch with what's going on on all the shows I might not be watching so that if there's something good I'm missing out on, I know to check it out.

Or, as with the moment, it gives me the hint that steering clear, even when I'm tempted, is still the best way to go. 

See, General Hospital has been doing a few things that make me think that perhaps it could be on an upswing.  More Alexis, getting back into great casting with Michael and Kristina, having Michael get back involved with the Quartermaines, ending the post-partum story with Robin, Martha Byrne, not actually killing Ric or turning him into a serial killer even if his send-off was virtually non-existent, remembering to throw in things like little uncomfortable scenes between Jason, Elizabeth, Lucky and Jake.  All of that sounds good.  But just as I know all of that from the blog-o-verse, I also know that there's still mob crap, not one but two pregnant women falling down the stairs, Sonny impregnating someone else, some rewritten history giving Luke another kid, Emily having a long-lost badly acting twin, and that Dante is about to maybe, finally, make an appearance.  But, more importantly than all of those negatives, and despite the potential of all of the good stuff above, it seems that everyone still watching is bored to tears.  And it was boredom that had me cease watching in the first place.

So I won't be tuning back in right now.  Thanks soap blogoverse.

On with year four.