Reflections by Jill - A Weekly Commentary for OLTL for October 14, 2008

Obviously Clint thought it was going to be a piece of cake to get Dorian to give B.E. back to him. Silly Clint. Was he kidding when he tried to deny that he had any involvement with Ray? Thinking Dorian will just roll over and admit defeat is just plain stupid. I don’t think Dorian would ever go so far as to give up Langston, but she is heading down a nasty path paying Jackie McNaughton to take care of Ray. I think Dorian would sacrifice almost anything to keep what she believes is hers and she wouldn’t give up Langston. She just believes that her plan will work. Let’s hope everyone lives through it. LOL. Dorian is so furious at Clint for using Langston and she’s fighting back. Who could blame her? Jackie definitely has Dorian’s number when he tells her that he has known people like her before and knows that she wants to keep Langston and B.E. He tells Dorian once he takes her money there is no going back. Of course, she’s not thinking past her anger.

It gave Dorian great pleasure to tell Clint that he could keep his deal. I can’t say I blame her for reacting the way she did. She has no guarantee that Clint will get rid of Ray once she signs B.E. back over to him, or even that Clint will do anything at all to get rid of Ray. What they don’t know is that things are about to happen around Ray that will probably surprise everyone.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I believe that Dorian deserves to pay for every nasty thing she has ever done, but in this case, I have to side with the twisted old girl. If Clint could somehow prove that she blackmailed his competitors so that she could buy up all that B.E. stock, then I would say I don’t blame him, but Clint was a fool in the first place to get involved romantically with Dorian. He let himself be led around by a certain body part (which I won’t mention) and when he was done with Dorian, he stupidly believed he could toss her aside and that would be the end of it. Dorian did plenty of nasty things before Clint decided he had enough. He used her for as long as he wanted her around. After all that Dorian did to Viki and the rest of Clint’s family, he deserved what he got for staying involved with her for as long as he did. And even though Dorian’s takeover of B.E. set a lot of bad things in motion, I don’t think Clint can blame her for Nash’s death. Jared’s lies and deception started that ball rolling long before Dorian got on the bandwagon.

Now Cristian is stuck with Vanessa, Ray’s wife, in Columbia and Ray’s supposed daughter, Lola, from the woman he supposedly killed. This story gets more contrived every day. And Cristian has been out of jail for a while and hasn’t figured out how to get to a phone. Come on! They will all meet up in Llanview. Surprise! Ray will be at the airport about to take Langston out of the country (maybe) and Cristian will be arriving with Vanessa and Lola. What a small world!

It is interesting that Cole told John all about Langston’s uncle coming to take her back to Columbia but didn’t mention Ray’s name. Now several people have information about Ray and someone needs to tie it all together. So, in comes Nora and I guess she’s tired of standing on the sidelines waiting to see how nasty Clint is going to get and how badly Langston is going to get hurt. I’m disappointed that Nora waited this long to react to Clint’s behavior. So she pulls Ray in for questioning when she finds out that Clint not only threatened to take Langston from Dorian but that Ray was planning to take her back to Columbia.

I died laughing when Clint had the nerve to yell at Nora for bringing Ray in for questioning. Clint doesn’t care that Ray conveniently got out of prison at the same time Cristian disappeared. He just can’t believe that Nora would interfere with his plans and I loved it when she said, “If you have a problem with the way I do my job, maybe you should be living with the D.A.” Go Nora! Now if she would only go home and tell him and his ridiculous ex-girlfriend to pack their bags and head for the nearest No-Tell Motel I would be a happy girl.

Oh, how sweet was it to see Todd and Marty out for an afternoon drive and a picnic in the country? Geez, this relationship is going to earn a place on Ripley’s Believe it or Not! She’s falling in love with him; he asks her to marry him. Am I living in a parallel universe here? Honestly, the writers are doing such a huge disservice to any woman who has even been close to going through what Marty has gone through and I think it’s really horrible that they wrote this storyline.

You can tell this storyline is heading for disaster. John now knows that Marty is still alive and you know he’s convinced (except for the proof) that she’s with Todd. John is convinced from his talk about Marty’s x-rays that the woman probably wasn’t in the van when it actually exploded or she would have been burned. Now John is totally stuck for a way to solve this mess and he is also dealing with his budding relationship with Blair. Someone is going to get badly hurt here and let me tell you that if it’s Blair, there won’t be anything clean about the fight for John McBain. Knowing how Marty and Blair feel about each other, I don’t think either one of these women will come away without a few bruises, either emotional, or with Blair in the mix, physical. Blair has been showing a lot of emotional stability lately. I hope that doesn’t change.

I can’t wait to see what happens with Tess and her ridiculous master plan next week. Tess took cruelty to a totally new level when she had Natalie convinced that Rex was dead. She knows how Natalie feels about Rex and she played her like a violin. The only thing that gave Tess more pleasure than telling Natalie Rex was dead was giving her the old GOTCHA and telling her it wasn’t true.

So, Natalie has had her fill of Tina and Tina has had enough of the guilt. First she gets a boatload of grief from Roxy, who knows in her heart that Tina knows more about Natalie than she’s admitting and then she decides to go see Natalie and really buckles. Of course Tina would do just about anything to keep the jewels and free Natalie, but obviously, that’s not going to happen; at least not now.