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I've watched two soap operas constantly since I was six years old and they're All My Children and One Life To Live. I love both of them but AMC has been my standard favorite because of Susan Lucci and Erica Kane.
However, there are times with OLTL slips into the top position and I like it more than AMC and the past few months, despite the glorious beginnings of the Bianca/Reese romance, I've enjoyed OLTL consistently more than AMC. Right now OLTL is at the height of soap opera awesomeness. Everyone on the show has some level of angst and it's all so very good.
Normally I'm not someone who goes in for a lot of angst. It's good, especially in soaps, but my obsession with AMC and OLTL remains rooted in my sad love for romance which is also why I own hundreds of plot repetitive shoujo romance mangas. Anyway! I'm not big into it when they just deluge a show with angst but I have to admit when it's done right it's so fucking delicious and currently OLTL is goddamn Turkish Delight with how delicious it is. Everyone on the show has some level of angst and it's all so very entertaining to watch them interact with each other.
Let me list some of the characters and their various woes.
Cole Thornhart: His girlfriend, Starr Manning, got pregnant and decided to give the baby up for adoption. The baby "died" after she gave birth. His mom, Marty Saybrooke, came back from the dead with amnesia and proceeded to blame him for all her problems adjusting and ignored him and when she didn't ignore him she treated him badly. This led to him to become addicted to painkillers to numb himself from all his problems. He goes to the school dance and finds ex-gf, Starr, kissing her teacher, Mr. J, he gets into his car while high with his friend, Matthew Buchanan, in the passenger seat and because he's high, crashes into Gigi Morasco's car. He is trapped under his overturned car until his mother, Marty, gets super strength and lifts the car while John McBain pulls him to safety. Matthew wasn't wearing his seatbelt and he's flung from the car and is paralyzed from the waist down. Nora Hanen, the District Attorney and Matthew's mother and Cole's temporary guardian while Marty ignored him, finds out Cole was high when he caused the accident and presses felony charges against him. He's now in jail.
Marty Saybrooke: Is in a horrible accident in Ireland where she's found by Todd Manning, who gang raped her in college, and she's on the verge of death. When she wakes she has amnesia and Todd sees this as a chance to make things right between them and he nurses her back to health. She's isolated from all her friends and family, not even told about her son Cole Thornhart, she becomes dependent on Todd and she falls in love with him. They decide to have a family together, Todd doesn't want Starr to give up her baby so he comes up with a plan to kidnap her and raise her with Marty. After the first time they make love John McBain breaks into Todd's penthouse and finds her. He reveals what Todd did to her in college and she suffers a mental breakdown. She's slowly introduced to her friends and family but she can't take the responsibilities, she's too damaged, and she runs from Cole and moves in with Wes Granger. One night she wakes up to find Wes in bed next to her stabbed to death and she's covered in blood. She's charged with the murder but is released on recognizance by Nora Hanen so she can help Cole who is suffering horribly without his mother and has become addicted to drugs. Cole rejects her for her previous behavior and gets into a car accident where he's almost killed. Nora blames Marty's selfishness and bad parenting for Cole becoming addicted to drugs and crashing his car, causing her son Matthew's paralysis.
Gigi Morasco: Her sister, Stacy, comes back into town and has a longtime unnatural obsession with her boyfriend, Rex Balsom, and starts immediately putting the moves on him. The night that she gets into a car accident with her and Rex's son, Shane, her sister slips a drug into Rex's beer and attempts to seduce him. Shane has a bad asthma attack during the accident and they're taken to the hospital where Gigi is frantic and trying to reach Rex. She has no luck, she goes home to find Stacy on top of Rex who is clad in his underwear and passed out. The next day she gets a call from the hospital and discovers her son, Shane, has leukemia. Stacy, might be a bone donor match or she might take credit for Rex's unknown comatose father's bone marrow donation, and she uses this to force Gigi to give Rex to her to save Shane's life.
Jessica Buchanan: Has dissociative personality disorder and has two alters, Tess and Bess, Tess took over her life without anyone knowing for months. She locked her sister, Natalie, and Natalie's boyfriend, Jared, into the basement where she planned to blow them up so they wouldn't tell anyone that it was Tess in charge and not Jessica. She gives birth in a cabin all alone and the baby dies. Bess comes out to take charge and decides Jessica would be devastated and couldn't survive her baby dying so she goes to the hospital and switches Jessica's dead baby, Chloe, with Starr Manning's baby, Hope, so Starr thinks her baby died and Jessica thinks hers lived. Ultimately Tess is caught and Jessica is sent to St. Ann's where she forms a friendship with Brody Lovett. Through investigation, Natalie has discovered what Bess did by switching the babies and is currently trying to prove Chloe is really Hope while Jessica has no memory of what happened. Which means her personalities are not integrated and Tess or Bess could emerge at any moment and take over again.
Blair Cramer: Helped her daughter, Starr, go through her pregnancy only to have her grandchild "die" shortly afterwords. Falls in love with former police detective, John McBain, only to find him slowly slipping away by the return of Marty Saybrooke. Her ex-husband, Todd Manning, gets away with the kidnapping of Marty and she puts a restraining order against him which he repeatedly ignores. She makes John choose between her and Marty and in the end he goes to help Marty. That same day she's stabbed in the shower by the serial killer who has murdered two other people and is currently in a coma.
Cristian Vega: Was put into a Columbian prison by Carlo Hesser. While in Colombia, he meets Vanessa Montez and the two start to connect because she saves his life. Their friendship develops and he helps her escape the country along with her stepdaughter to get away from her husband Ray Montez whom she claims killed his ex-wife. He ends up dumping his current gf, Sarah Roberts, to marry Vanessa to keep her from being deported. They fall in love and then Ray escapes prison in Colombia and comes to Llanview. He finds out that Ray never murdered his wife and Vanessa set him up so she could get his money, Vanessa confesses to all of this and to using Cristian.
It just goes on and on, people! Everyone on this show has drama or is connected to drama. Even my favorite crush on the show, Tea Delgado the world's sexiest bad ass defense attorney that is featured in my icon, was wonderfully angsty as she realized today that her ex-husband, Todd Manning, whom she still loves, will never love her the same way. As she put it herself, she's coming in third for Todd's love and she's not someone who settles for being the bronze medal. The end of today's show had one of those sequences where they play sad music over sad scenes and normally that's so cheesy but I thought it was well done. Being a Tea fangirl I loved the scene with her grimly deleting Todd's name from her cell phone, though she should have a nicer phone like a BlackBerry, after she tells him that she's done being his lawyer. Teaaaaa! Be my attorney? I love you big time.
I'm serious, I so crush on her. lol. I want to write Tea into one of my All My Children fanfics somehow. Originally I planned on her being the attorney for Bianca or Reese for my bitter Bianca fanfic but I think I might just write that fic in Paris with what happens after they exit the show and how they put their relationship together and if I do that no need for Tea Delgado lawyer awesomeness. Such a bummer.
Anyway! Watch this clip. The show is sooo good.
Scenes go in order: Cole goes to see Nora and Marty and prepares for his arrest; Matthew reads a sports magazine and looking at cover reminds him how he might never walk again; Rex and Gigi pray for their son, Shane, who has leukemia; Bo comes in and comforts his son, Matthew, about his paralysis; Cole is arrested for DUI as John McBain watches on; Tea deletes Todd from her cell phone and removes him from her life knowing he'll never love her like she wants him to; Todd gets a new lawyer and wants his kids back.
However, there are times with OLTL slips into the top position and I like it more than AMC and the past few months, despite the glorious beginnings of the Bianca/Reese romance, I've enjoyed OLTL consistently more than AMC. Right now OLTL is at the height of soap opera awesomeness. Everyone on the show has some level of angst and it's all so very good.
Normally I'm not someone who goes in for a lot of angst. It's good, especially in soaps, but my obsession with AMC and OLTL remains rooted in my sad love for romance which is also why I own hundreds of plot repetitive shoujo romance mangas. Anyway! I'm not big into it when they just deluge a show with angst but I have to admit when it's done right it's so fucking delicious and currently OLTL is goddamn Turkish Delight with how delicious it is. Everyone on the show has some level of angst and it's all so very entertaining to watch them interact with each other.
Let me list some of the characters and their various woes.
Cole Thornhart: His girlfriend, Starr Manning, got pregnant and decided to give the baby up for adoption. The baby "died" after she gave birth. His mom, Marty Saybrooke, came back from the dead with amnesia and proceeded to blame him for all her problems adjusting and ignored him and when she didn't ignore him she treated him badly. This led to him to become addicted to painkillers to numb himself from all his problems. He goes to the school dance and finds ex-gf, Starr, kissing her teacher, Mr. J, he gets into his car while high with his friend, Matthew Buchanan, in the passenger seat and because he's high, crashes into Gigi Morasco's car. He is trapped under his overturned car until his mother, Marty, gets super strength and lifts the car while John McBain pulls him to safety. Matthew wasn't wearing his seatbelt and he's flung from the car and is paralyzed from the waist down. Nora Hanen, the District Attorney and Matthew's mother and Cole's temporary guardian while Marty ignored him, finds out Cole was high when he caused the accident and presses felony charges against him. He's now in jail.
Marty Saybrooke: Is in a horrible accident in Ireland where she's found by Todd Manning, who gang raped her in college, and she's on the verge of death. When she wakes she has amnesia and Todd sees this as a chance to make things right between them and he nurses her back to health. She's isolated from all her friends and family, not even told about her son Cole Thornhart, she becomes dependent on Todd and she falls in love with him. They decide to have a family together, Todd doesn't want Starr to give up her baby so he comes up with a plan to kidnap her and raise her with Marty. After the first time they make love John McBain breaks into Todd's penthouse and finds her. He reveals what Todd did to her in college and she suffers a mental breakdown. She's slowly introduced to her friends and family but she can't take the responsibilities, she's too damaged, and she runs from Cole and moves in with Wes Granger. One night she wakes up to find Wes in bed next to her stabbed to death and she's covered in blood. She's charged with the murder but is released on recognizance by Nora Hanen so she can help Cole who is suffering horribly without his mother and has become addicted to drugs. Cole rejects her for her previous behavior and gets into a car accident where he's almost killed. Nora blames Marty's selfishness and bad parenting for Cole becoming addicted to drugs and crashing his car, causing her son Matthew's paralysis.
Gigi Morasco: Her sister, Stacy, comes back into town and has a longtime unnatural obsession with her boyfriend, Rex Balsom, and starts immediately putting the moves on him. The night that she gets into a car accident with her and Rex's son, Shane, her sister slips a drug into Rex's beer and attempts to seduce him. Shane has a bad asthma attack during the accident and they're taken to the hospital where Gigi is frantic and trying to reach Rex. She has no luck, she goes home to find Stacy on top of Rex who is clad in his underwear and passed out. The next day she gets a call from the hospital and discovers her son, Shane, has leukemia. Stacy, might be a bone donor match or she might take credit for Rex's unknown comatose father's bone marrow donation, and she uses this to force Gigi to give Rex to her to save Shane's life.
Jessica Buchanan: Has dissociative personality disorder and has two alters, Tess and Bess, Tess took over her life without anyone knowing for months. She locked her sister, Natalie, and Natalie's boyfriend, Jared, into the basement where she planned to blow them up so they wouldn't tell anyone that it was Tess in charge and not Jessica. She gives birth in a cabin all alone and the baby dies. Bess comes out to take charge and decides Jessica would be devastated and couldn't survive her baby dying so she goes to the hospital and switches Jessica's dead baby, Chloe, with Starr Manning's baby, Hope, so Starr thinks her baby died and Jessica thinks hers lived. Ultimately Tess is caught and Jessica is sent to St. Ann's where she forms a friendship with Brody Lovett. Through investigation, Natalie has discovered what Bess did by switching the babies and is currently trying to prove Chloe is really Hope while Jessica has no memory of what happened. Which means her personalities are not integrated and Tess or Bess could emerge at any moment and take over again.
Blair Cramer: Helped her daughter, Starr, go through her pregnancy only to have her grandchild "die" shortly afterwords. Falls in love with former police detective, John McBain, only to find him slowly slipping away by the return of Marty Saybrooke. Her ex-husband, Todd Manning, gets away with the kidnapping of Marty and she puts a restraining order against him which he repeatedly ignores. She makes John choose between her and Marty and in the end he goes to help Marty. That same day she's stabbed in the shower by the serial killer who has murdered two other people and is currently in a coma.
Cristian Vega: Was put into a Columbian prison by Carlo Hesser. While in Colombia, he meets Vanessa Montez and the two start to connect because she saves his life. Their friendship develops and he helps her escape the country along with her stepdaughter to get away from her husband Ray Montez whom she claims killed his ex-wife. He ends up dumping his current gf, Sarah Roberts, to marry Vanessa to keep her from being deported. They fall in love and then Ray escapes prison in Colombia and comes to Llanview. He finds out that Ray never murdered his wife and Vanessa set him up so she could get his money, Vanessa confesses to all of this and to using Cristian.
It just goes on and on, people! Everyone on this show has drama or is connected to drama. Even my favorite crush on the show, Tea Delgado the world's sexiest bad ass defense attorney that is featured in my icon, was wonderfully angsty as she realized today that her ex-husband, Todd Manning, whom she still loves, will never love her the same way. As she put it herself, she's coming in third for Todd's love and she's not someone who settles for being the bronze medal. The end of today's show had one of those sequences where they play sad music over sad scenes and normally that's so cheesy but I thought it was well done. Being a Tea fangirl I loved the scene with her grimly deleting Todd's name from her cell phone, though she should have a nicer phone like a BlackBerry, after she tells him that she's done being his lawyer. Teaaaaa! Be my attorney? I love you big time.
I'm serious, I so crush on her. lol. I want to write Tea into one of my All My Children fanfics somehow. Originally I planned on her being the attorney for Bianca or Reese for my bitter Bianca fanfic but I think I might just write that fic in Paris with what happens after they exit the show and how they put their relationship together and if I do that no need for Tea Delgado lawyer awesomeness. Such a bummer.
Anyway! Watch this clip. The show is sooo good.
Scenes go in order: Cole goes to see Nora and Marty and prepares for his arrest; Matthew reads a sports magazine and looking at cover reminds him how he might never walk again; Rex and Gigi pray for their son, Shane, who has leukemia; Bo comes in and comforts his son, Matthew, about his paralysis; Cole is arrested for DUI as John McBain watches on; Tea deletes Todd from her cell phone and removes him from her life knowing he'll never love her like she wants him to; Todd gets a new lawyer and wants his kids back.
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