However, something has gone wrong somewhere over the years. Todd is now a grandfather and seemingly is incapable of learning anything from his mistakes. I bought into Todd’s redemption at least so far as two things:

1) He would never, ever, EVER sexually victimize a woman (yet) again.
2) He loved Starr more than anything.

However, these two things were totally blown out of the story. I was repelled by the “Rape!… Oops! It’s a brain-tumor!” plot with Blair years ago. Given who Todd was and how the initial scene was staged, I was seriously not amused by that storyline. It took years for me to let that resentment go. Then the show went had had Todd lock up his rape victim (he GANG RAPED HER!) and then he locked her up in his house for months, telling her that she had no one in the entire world but *him*, lying and keeping her from her child. Every moment of Tarty made me want to vomit. It was just repellant. But then they had to push it further. They had to have him have sex with her while she was still amnesic. Without telling her the truth. While plotting to steal his daughter’s child and telling her it was dead.

That was it for Todd for me. Everything his redemption had been built on was gone. He was the same consciousless victimizer her was in the beginning. He’d not only learned nothing, he hadn’t changed. He was still doing the same stuff!

Add in that he’s not been made to pay for ANY of this on top of TSJ apparently deciding that walking through scenes like a zombie is more entertaining for him (but not for this viewer) than actually acting. Because of that we had scenes such as Blair bleeding to death at Todd’s feet and TSJ’s Todd displaying allo the emotion as if he’d been told that he’d missed a call from his dentist. Or the sad display of the Todd/Tea wedding where… I don’t even know what that was (other than ridiculous). Was I supposed to think that Todd even gave a damn? With TSJ who the hell knows what — if anything — Todd feels. He’s just smug, smirks, is totally blank, or a self-pitying sad panda.

Todd isn’t entertaining any more. There’s no “he’ll learn”. He won’t learn. There’s no “he’ll change” he won’t change. There’s no “He’ll pay.” He won’t pay. And it’s only rarely that we see him even REACT to anything much at all.

I’m done with the character. It’s sad because once he was the character I tuned in to OLTL to watch. Now, he’s just a waste of space. And a boring one at that.

I just don’t feel it with Todd and Tea. I really believe this relationship was so rushed. I never got to like Tea before they tried to make me believe that Todd couldn’t live without her. What a rushed story — and then to find out he has a daughter? Geez, just how they fit that into his story is quite amazing. I know it only takes once, and then I have to remember how many ONS children there is on soaps! LOL