Diva Picks - 10/12 to 10/16
WINNER OF THE WEEK: I’m not a fan of Chad by any stretch, but I like the character a little better after he stood up to Nicole and EJ about trying to get his kid back. Apparently, we’re watching his Brady backbone form right before our eyes if the rumor is true that he’s Bo and Carly’s long lost love child. I still don’t know how he thinks he can raise a kid by himself though when he can’t even make good grades in school. I’d prefer to see him recast though. I really hate even giving him this title this week, but there really were no other winners.
LOSER(S) OF THE WEEK: Bo and Hope are equal losers. I still remember Bo in 1991 saying to himself that he loved Carly more deeply than Hope before he “married” Carly in Matzalan. And now he’s babbling away to Justin that no relationship of his was complete without the love of his life, Fancy Face. Why does he always have to pit these women in a competition to justify these relationships and proclaim which one he loves more? And then you have independent feisty Hope running to Daddy and Julie in her time of trouble, not calling Bo, dredging up every bad BOPE moment she can think of. It’s ridiculous how the writers are slanting this relationship so much in Bo’s favor in a transparent attempt to make the BARLY love affair to come more tolerable. Just too contrived and out-of-character for me.
SCENE OF THE WEEK: The scene where Chad confronted EJ that Sydney was his…followed by Nicole discovering this…followed by the EJAMI scene…was all soapy goodness.
PERFORMER OF THE WEEK: Got to give it to James Scott again.
ZINGER OF THE WEEK: Victor to Chloe when he interrupts a Danloe scrump session with Chloe half dressed - “Well, Chloe, why am I not surprised to see you looking like you always do?”
WORST WRITING OF THE WEEK: I love seeing Peter Reckell and John Aniston in scenes together and the whole Bo/Victor dynamic…but someone fire the scriptwriter. First, Victor shows Bo the newspaper with Lawrence’s picture and then he grills and lectures Bo not to run after Carly when Bo showed no indication at all that he was going to do so. It made no sense. Couldn’t the writers have come up with some way to get this exposition and history out without making this scene so sloppy?
RANDOM THOUGHT OF THE WEEK: As I remember Carly from the 1990s pre-Reilly, I also recalled what a perfect Superwoman Saint Doctor she was. And she’s at it again. So for fun, I’m keeping a list of all of her annoying good deeds.
Good Deed of Saint Carly Manning the Martyr #1: Saving Rafe from drowning, honoring her Hippocratic Oath, even while she’s running for her life after slicing up her hubby.
MOST PREDICTABLE MOMENT OF THE WEEK: I knew that Rafe would somehow save Carly from getting shot, even though he was half dead from drowning.
James Scott is definitly the best male actor on this show right now.
ReplyDeleteArianne Zucker is good but the chemistry between JS and AS is undeniable, in their scenes there is a tension, intensity you could cut with a knife.
I hope we will see a reunion between them before JS goes for better and bigger things (prime time, movies). Seriously the TPTB are wasting that, it's difficult to understand their motivation maybe they want to set up a tortured couple/non-couple dynamic a la Roger and Holly where they aren't together but they always interact and stay in each other's orbit..
I don't share your opinion about Chad and his performer, he can act, he is better than the other teens and can stand face to AZ or JS.
I am ok for more storyline with him in the futur.
Carly 2.0's no saint. She carved up Larry and feels no remorse. Saving Rafe's life hardly qualifies her for sainthood. What was she supposed to do? Toss him back in the water?
ReplyDeleteI'm agnostic on Bope vs. Barly, but I look forward to all three of them (and Justin!) getting more air time. DOOL badly needs more storylines to balance out the mind-numbingly repetitive baby switch saga.
Kate, Stefano, and Victor are woefully underused. Hopefully Vivian's arrival will remedy that, but we shouldn't have to wait until then.
To quote Prevuze, today's show was snooze inducing.
I thought it was stupid of Bo to say that also "oh Carly and I were close but Hope always had my heart" I get it Bope is the big supercouple but come on Hope was dead (presumed) and gone from the show Bo loved Carly and then Billie I don't know why he has to always compare them to Hope its not his fault she was presumed dead nor was it Hopes. The triangle between Bo/Hope/Carly is already feeling forced and really it shouldnt all three of them are wonderful actors they dont need the writers trying to foce something let it happen naturally for once.
ReplyDeleteWell, if it were not for St. Katerina -- not going to call her Carly because apparently she willingly went back to that life, and Carly was never a legal name -- Jennifer would not have been raped. Least we also forget, Carly was leading Bo on because she was going to willing sacrifice him to save her brother Freakie von Loser. Her actions in turn Jennifer to believe Lawrence thought she was the real Katerina. And to save Jennifer Alice and Jack went to Alamainia,and then Julie went to save Alice, and Shane and Kayla went because of intel that Lawrence was behind Steve's "death," all the while when they were there Katerina never said a word. Then Lawrence nearly killed them all. The woman had an affair with Lawrence until she discovered he was Lawrence. Never understood why as James she loved him but as Lawrence she did not. She kept that secret from her Bestest Friend Jennifer when Jennifer told her she was scared because she (Jennifer) thought Lawrence believed her to be Katerina. Carly had her even lie to Jack that she was Katerina -- what was the friggin point, Lawrence knew what she looked like. She lies to everyone. I still think her murdering Larry is bogus. And how the hell can a cop in the US help someone who DID kill someone in another country. That country has its laws, and since Larry was pretty much and it was a rather totalitarian country that they would like it that some nobody cop gets in the way.
ReplyDeleteKaterina was just a rebound thing for Bo. Never worked. And apparently he NEVER THOUGHT OF her so, so much for this grand love.
Katerina wasnt a rebound I watched the episode on youtube were he was talking to himself (in days grand fashion) that he never loved anyone as much as he loved Carly meaning Hope also. Jennifer was the one who went after Lawrence after Carly begged her to stay out of it. And the reason they never talked about Carly was because CC and MS left on not so great terms.
ReplyDeleteComment 4: Oh please, give up on the it's Carly's fault Jen was raped silliness. I get it. You're bitter about anything that doesn't revolve around Jack Deveraux. Jack isn't the be all end all of the show. It managed fine without him in the past and it manages fine without him now.
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