June 10 2008 Shocking Confessions I have to admit, I didn’t watch one minute of television from the first day of June until the eighth. When I returned to civilization (and sanity), the first thing I did was watch the current episodes of our beloved (be-hated?) ABC soaps and I was most shocked to find how much I liked what I saw! All My Children On second sighting, I might not hate Jake utterly. What a great face! He’s staying till Tad is recovered (something else I need to see that I missed: the heavenly reunion of “Tixie”) and looks to be consulting on Ryan’s viral infection, rather having been asked to or not. All right, I can dig it. What he is suggesting may kill Ryan? Glory halleluiah I am so “rightthere”. I love the seaside location shots. I hadn’t heard that All My Children was adopting the hand held cam format but if those shots are any indication, then I like it. Zach and Greenlee’s friendship might be the only thing I like about the boresome foursome plus a few. Richie is onto Annie’s big fat idea. So yummy! How awesome are Jack and Lily together? (sniff) Nice touch her leaving to go to MIT. Maybe All My Children is really getting back to old fashioned soap staples? After all, they wrote Lily off screen and didn’t have her murdered by breakfast or maimed by any other meal… that’s GOT to be a big improvement! You know, I like Erica so much better in small doses. Her advice to Kendall to “focus her chi” was priceless; incorrect about the process by which to do so, but good, solid motherly advice nonetheless. I always wonder why soap people give so much of their power away to other people and it is rarely addressed. Nice job. Erica’s temper fit didn’t resonate, but then I’ve never been La-Kane’s biggest fan. Oh, I was so worried after the big homecoming was over and they explained Jesse’s big fake death that I wouldn’t like them anymore. Soap fans are fickle, I can admit it, but I liked the hot senator and Jesse. I think I would love to see a soap police force written as a strong and dynamic procedural. General Hospital flirted with it the last time they miscast Steven Lars. then they hit their backs like a two-dollar date and never followed it through. Wouldn’t it be so fine if one of them decided to write a strong, honest, hard working police force that was not a failure or outright joke? This could be it. A girl can dream. One Life to Live Man, oh man, I missed this show. This one. I know I feel like I’m cheating on General Hospital but I just can’t help it. I am really jazzed looking forward to a bottle of wine and an all night One Life to Live marathon. Meanwhile, for the first time I like Jared. Cops taking him away, finally I feel him. I also liked Natalie with Charlie and Roxy. Charlie & Roxy could have some chemistry if they decided to play things that way. How sweet would it be top off this show with Roxy getting an old fashioned, slow building love story? Viki could take the loss. She’s going to have her hands full with Tessica if I hear things right anyway! The break up scene with Rex and Adrianna is by far my favorite thing I have ever seen from them; BY FAR. I was slightly irritated at Nora’s sanctimonious attitude at the Gannon Spread (doesn’t have the same ring as Buchanan Spread nor does Cramer Enterprises sound as grand as Buchanan Enterprises, in my opinion.) How dare Nora act as if she hasn’t been on the other side of a scandalous act? I’m not sure I like Nora anymore. She has become one irritating wench. I really am impressed with all of the closure and growth I’m watching in the characters on all three soaps. Things like Marcie so bravely closing the drawer with the picture in it and going to try to be a friend to Adriana. Blair and her mothers revealing chat… it all really bodes well for things to come. I’m practically a cock-eyed optimist right now. It’s definitely a mood swing I am not normally going through. I believe I have mentioned that I didn’t want to be invested in the Starr and Cole story in a column where I said “Damn you, Ron Carlivati” for dragging me into this one! (or something close to that) it is still true, but Starr’s intelligent and heart wrenching discussion with her mother about being pregnant touched a few of my heart strings. I hate it that I love this story! Cole’s naively thinking that he gets to be a father like the one he wanted, at his age and under these circumstances and without the knowledge that Starr hasn’t decided to keep this baby, apparently, is very touching for me. I saw the promos for the “original” returns. I am really looking forward to this! It’s like freakish! Don’t break my heart, Ron,
seriously, I mentioned how fickle us fans are didn’t I? I know that people
are counting on you not to screw this up but I’m the tough broad at this
high school musical revue (call me Rizzo-diva today) and I’m from Missouri
so you still have to “show me”. General Hospital Oh, my goodness. This is the part that I don’t know how to say. It’s so alien to how I have felt for so long but the growth implied by the scenes Monday and Tuesday June 9 & 10 were awesome. Elizabeth and Sam… Wow. I am so impressed and then right on the heels of that Lucky and Jason. It was spot on. Sonny has to face the reality of who he was and is not who is going to be from now on and I sincerely love the idea of retribution for all that he has done. For me it needs to be in the form of restitution and I don’t mean of the financial kind either. This is what it's going to take to make Sonny anything but the cardboard cut out they made him and I like what I see. I also loved Mike and Jason’s conversation at Kelly’s. Jason really has to be “the borg” now or none of this plot works. I find myself hoping he fails. Those still aren’t the shocking parts though. The shocking part is I love (love, love, love) Jax and Carly. I’ve said it before and I don’t think the hugeness of it was truly verbalized. I like Carly. Surely, some where Hell is freezing over. Wait for it, though: because that isn’t the most shocking part. I love Carly and Sonny right now. I don’t know what they are doing with Sonny. I can’t BE-LIEVE that they will allow the character to grow and mature and actually get out of the mob but then I’m one of the ones still hoping Jason could reconcile with his Quartermaine roots and abandon the mob too. Hold on because I don’t want you
to think I’m loving them or want a reunion (horrors or horrors, I still
fear one may someday occur anyway) but it pleases hell out of me to have
Carly verbalizing every thought I have ever typed about her ridiculous,
unhealthy romance with that man. I do not see how she can still be Jason’s
BFF and cut Sonny out, so my pass on the “I hate Carly” bus has not been
completely revoked. (No, right now it has I’m disappointed in Maxie throwing in with Vixenella to seduce J-Yawn-Y ZaCrazy and let Lulu catch them. Trouble is, I’m beginning to hate Lulu, so I almost can’t wait! It is so poetic to have this follow on the heels of Logan’s bet and getting caught with his pants down. The problem is how much I love Spinelli and Maxie and their rather madcap and unconventional friendship. We know that it will no doubt cost Maxie the opportunity to grow from the scheming, conniving turbo-ho, but I guess she has a few more scandalous years before she has to tie on the respectable façade. That’s one of the things I always loved about Bobbie, you know, is that she never quite embraced the whole 9 to 5 lifestyle after her early upbringing in the whore house. Damian Smith had her dead to rights when he and Lucy Coe made the bet he could seduce the seemingly happily married up and mobile young professional woman. It made her so human to me because we never change so much from one time in our lives to another—not like, I don’t know, getting away with cold blooded murder one year and saving puppies and babies the next? Why do they have to try to make every villain a hero and in doing so make all the heroes idiots? It isn’t necessary. We love our villains. You can take that to bank. They just don’t have to try to say they are gummi mobsters or decent terrorists. Just saying. How adorable was Spinelli and Mir at the wedding? Spinelli was, like, almost normal, and she seemed genuinely charmed by him. I don’t really care if it goes anywhere or is just a random chem test, I enjoyed it. If there were to be one complaint about the rosy red glow with which I seem to adore these shows since I made it back to the real world, it would be that so few things I am enjoying are in the hospital. Go figure. That’s a big gripe I know, and legitimate, but I just want to savor the afterglow of fully loving an entire day or two of the soaps. This is how it used to be. All summer days and cold drinks in the a/c, squinting through the afternoon glare to see every aspect of our shows… it feels good to have recaptured that feeling… If only for the moment. Next week, the Diva will have caught up on all the great episodes I missed and might find some of them worthy of commentary, (Dorian took over BE? Rex kicked Bitchy Bangs to the curb? Nik & Claudia? Spinelli is a stud? OMG!) Or if you want to know what I think of a specific event, please just send me an email and I’ll be sure to pay extra special attention to those episodes. You can catch me on upcoming ABC Editions of Daytime Continental’s wildly popular podcasts and I sometimes have the honor of blogging about One Life to Live at Daytime Confidential, so you can find me pretty easily. Until then…. Peace!
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