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Topic: Good and bad stuff today, but another re-write of history


Topic Posted by: julia
Date Posted: Tue Oct 27 16:03:54 2009
Additional Comments: Janet said she told Liberty not to go looking for her father, that he would be the same jerk (or something like that) that he was back when she got pregnant. I recall the opposite - Liberty set out to find her father because her mother was too difficult to live with and Janet set out to get Brad back because she'd carried a major torch for him since high school. Very annoying.

The other bad - the Code Blue scene.

The good - TC and MP - good acting today. And Kim looked fabulous!





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Posted by: Mandi
Date posted: Wed Oct 28 10:56:57 2009
Message:

Tuesday's episode was very well done. I was moved by Katie's scenes with Brad. I was also touched by Kim's compassion for Janet. It's just a shame Audrey had to be shown at all, and I won't even go into how disgusted I was by Janet's over-the-top walk down memory lane. I wish someone would shut that woman up, and offer her a sweater to cover all that boobage.


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Posted by: BessBeau
Date posted: Tue Oct 27 20:46:41 2009
Message:
I'm glad to see positive comments about TC's acting...really good, as was MP.

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  • TC was at her best today, BB. She really is a very good actor. We give her hell, but it's not TC's fault, it's the idiotic script she's handed. Today she was able to actually ACT for a change. They don't give her that opportunity very often and it's a shame! Roxie
  • TC was good. The whole deathbed scene did bring a tear to my ever so cynical eye. (eom) Mandi

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    Posted by: MaryHatch
    Date posted: Tue Oct 27 20:07:10 2009
    Message:

    Excellent work from Michael Park and Terri Colombino, but I have to say that Terri especially knocked my socks off.

    Why have they been wasting this actress all these years in idiotic stories about promiscuous sex and pet bunnies? Katie should have been a heroine, a loveable character. I fear it's too late now, no matter how many times they call her "Kate."


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    Posted by: Liz
    Date posted: Tue Oct 27 18:19:58 2009
    Message:
    Well, I thought it was all good stuff and the acting was very good! Except for the annoying writing where Janet hounded Jack about his two drinks along with her happy rambling rememberance of Brad playing football while everyone waited as the poor man lay at death's door. I wanted Jack to say 'Janet Shut-up' but instead he gave her a weak smile. At the end when Katie brought the baby and laid him in Brad's lifeless arms..I really lost it..even giving out a sob. No show, soap or otherwise, has caused that reaction in me for a longtime. It was just so sad. All I can say is..Well Done ATWT!

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  • the ending was really sad, I really could have done without janet. Seeing dead brad hold his baby with katie, I might actually start to like her. I think that scene has never been done before in a SOAP EVER. Still I would have liked him to have seen the baby. Its just opinion.
  • Yes, I really could have done without Janet. Katie with Brad and the baby got to me. ht
  • Oh yes! I could have done without Janet and her loud-mouthed *Brad and Elevator* story being screeched while Katie watched her husband die. Roxie
  • Once again Janet's presence ruins an otherwise powerful scene. Remember how she showed up during Carly's intervention? There really is no place for a blowhard, big mouth piece of trash in emotionally charged, sentimental scenes. (eom) Mandi

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    Posted by: gallyn
    Date posted: Tue Oct 27 17:08:31 2009
    Message:
    I'm not seeing that as a history rewrite. Knowing Janet as I do, I wouldn't for a minute doubt that when this all came up, she badmouthed Bradley as the chump who knocked her up and deserted her.
    My take was that at the time, she and Libby were fighting, and Libby (having seen Brad and Katie's marriage on TV and being told he was her father) took off to meet him. Janet (the *coughcough* good mother that she is) fully expected Brad to blow Libby off--that's why she didn't come right after her "precious LibbyLou", thinking that she'd learn her lesson and appreciate Janet more.
    When Brad didn't do that, Jan assumed she could weasel her way back into Brad's life because he loved their daughter.

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    Posted by: dolphina
    Date posted: Tue Oct 27 16:31:18 2009
    Message:
    TC and MP did great work today, that's for sure. No matter how good TC's performance was, though, I can't get too broken up because I've never fully bought into Katie and Brad as a "great love." Of all the men there have been in Katie's life, Brad is the only one that never seemed at all credible to me. Simon - of course. He was her first love and she walked through fire for him. Mike and Jack - sure. In both cases they were good friends before they fell in love, and I always like that. Henry - nobody ever even tried to persuade me he was Katie's "great love" so it didn't matter. But Brad was Katie's big dumb booty call, her rebound guy. That's not "great love" material.

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  • I do agree that the one true love of Katie's life was Simon. When Katie was with Simon, I actually liked her a lot. ht
  • dolphina, I'm not a big Katie fan, but I could not agree with you more. There is not one word of your post that is not 100 percent to the letter as if I had written it myself.
  • Wow, SANDY B, I don't usually get that kind of validation. Thanks! eom/D
  • I have to agree, when brad came to town he liked V he couldn't stand katie. Out of the blue, and really over night, he just started having feelings for her. Brad was totally, katies booty call! Bratie didn't even really date. Katie refused brad. It was only when jack told her they were over. Then only did she actually accepted brad's proposal. So really how can Brad really be her true love. Also all the times brad with disappear and be back in the morning at the farm. He was a player. And all that time he was suppose to be presuing katie.
  • People do fall in love with their booty calls and live happily ever after. Just look at Jack and Janet. LOL! (eom) Mandi

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    Posted by: cycworker
    Date posted: Tue Oct 27 16:22:12 2009
    Message:

    I thought TC and MP were both fantastic today.  I wondered about that bit of history re: Janet and Liberty.

    I actually am a big Julie Pinson fan, yet I found her a bit over the top today. Yet I loved Kathryn Hays (Kim) who I often don't like.


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    Posted by: julia
    Date posted: Tue Oct 27 16:07:02 2009
    Message:
    Oh...other bad...Audrey. Blech.

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