Multiple Personality

About Victor Junior… I TOLD YOU SO!!!

I’ll write more later. I just had to gloat for now.

Goodbye, wonderful show.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh.

These writers are so fuckin’ good, it’s scary.

<sniffle>

(And I’m more convinced than ever that Victor Junior is showing up tomorrow.)

Even though a third of the eppy was wasted with Lumber and the Jack-o-tron, there was still enough soapy goodness to make me…cry (okay, I admitted it). I was not pleased that they killed Bobby yesterday, especially after they’d gone to all the trouble to make him triple-gorgeous the day before (that was either homage or sadism). (more…)

Okay, I’m a little weepy right now…that sequence of Clint and Viki deciding to live, and the smile on Megan’s face as she closed the “heavenly doors” behind her — that really got me. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Y’know, I’m not happy the show is ending. But I will say, with all sincerity, that I feel very grateful it’s ending under the aegis of this creative team. People think I’m a little funny for being emotional about this show ending, but I’ve had it in my life since I was a kid, in the late ’60s. These characters, these stories have been a part, to whatever extent, of the texture of my life. And there is an intelligence, an artistry, and a dignity to the way Carlivati and company are sending them off. (more…)

Today’s Good Tease was Viki and Clint flirting more with each other, and today’s Bad Tease was Histrionica going completely insane and convincing herself that Mumbles should never darken her marital door again. Wha-whaaaat?! I realize there’s nowhere else to go once John and Natty get back together, but we’re reaching One Hurdle Too Many here, with this latest piece of bogus conflict. I mean, unless we’re about to discover that Natalie also has D.I.D., and one of her alters makes bullshit up out of thin air (”Natty” and “Batty”?), there’s really no justifying how she spun out of reality and found a reason to dump John. The rule of thumb is, when Roxy is making the most sense of anyone onsceen, we’re in trouble. (more…)

I think the creative staff at OLTL was hoping that my joy at having Matthew back would outweigh my rancor at having been lied to about “the day I died” on the episode before Thanksgiving. Hmph. I guess that’s part of the soapy, switcheroo goodness, but…hmph. “The day I died — for four minutes.” At least the Matthew scenes were good acting. Shall I mention the Destiny-Lumber-family scenes in the same paragraph? What the HELL was that? Never has so much pie amounted to so little entertainment. And that’s all I’ll say about it. Because the quicker we can all forget every second of it, the more we’ll have to be thankful for. (more…)

“It was the day I died”…?! Holy crap, I only started to see that coming 2 minutes before it happened. I had had ambivalence about whether I was liking this Coma-tthew voice-over thing, but I guess it was the best way to give the kid a little something to do before they yanked the life out from under his character. It looks like we won’t be taking much of anything for granted during this sweeping-toward-the-finale storytelling. (more…)

From lively RIO DE JANEIRO, Mama Alex helped her Cuttie-Wuttie “fool” Rex and Blondie into thinking that “Frankengigi” (I loved that) is really she. Nobody really believed anything, but it was fun watching Alex and Cutter work together. And when Alex put on her “Gigi” face to try and convince Rex — well, it actually was kind of eerie how she could resemble Gigi a little…and absurd at the same time. (more…)

So it seems that Prospect Park has cancelled its plans to bring OLTL to the Internet after it finishes its run on the Brian Frons Satanic Network. And for those of us watching how the writing staff was handling the end of a soap, we will be left with some kind of mush. Because, according to Hillary Smith, they changed the ending to accommodate the move to the Internet — ostensibly to keep storylines and characters active since the soap would continue. Now that it WON’T continue, we will likely be left with a fragmented version of what their original vision was. I hope that Carlivati will release the original outline, so we can know what the intention for the “grand finale” would have been (the show already had its last day of shooting and closed the set down, so they won’t be going back and doing any more re-shooting — although I have heard one story that multiple endings of stories were shot…so maybe it won’t be quite as unfocused as it might be).

It’s Thanksgiving, so I’m grateful we’ve had over 40 years of this show, with such fantastic writing and production values these past several years. And I’ll leave it at that, for now. grumble grumble Frons asshole grumble. No — I’m leaving it at the thanks-giving gratitude-y thing.

grumble.

Furball may have had a bad day today, but The Actor Known As Furball had a great one. Didn’t Brody rip your heart out when he was handing Uber-Mumbles back to Mumbles Senior? That was some good stuff, and I liked how they used it to end the episode. (more…)