Noah and Maya ended up out on a balcony talking, and he was being pretty forgiving about the whole situation where she set him up and played him, but then there was an earthquake and she fell to her death. I was not clear at first whether it was supposed to be an accident or suicide. The dialogue and foreshadowing seemed to indicate suicide, but the way she actually fell looked like an accident (and, you know, it was an earthquake). BODY COUNT: 2.
For Friday’s show, we open on a cheesy, fake exterior shot of Rome – with lightning. Yes, there are apocalyptic doings afoot, and I’m very much afraid that this means we’re coming to the end of our time together in Rome. It’s really been lovely, and it’s just not going to be the same once we’re back in boring old Harmony.
Luis is sad. Very sad. Why so glum, Luis? Well, it’s just because of a little thing called his baby son getting blown to smithereens in a car explosion. Earlier in the week, Beth escaped from the inexplicably masked art-show opening. Luis and Fancy pursued her in a relatively high-budget motorcycle/car chase, but her car blew up, with her and Marty inside. (BODY COUNT: 4.) Luis briefly caught fire while trying to rescue Marty, but it was all for naught.
Notice that Fancy’s cleavage is visible from 100 yards.
Now, I think we all know that anyone who dies in an explosion on a soap opera is very far from being dead. However, poor Luis does not know this (even though he was recently “dead” himself), and so he is devastated. But I find his devastation a little squicky, because it comes across as though Marty being dead is kind of the secondary issue. What is REALLY bugging Luis is that rescuing Marty was supposed to be his in for getting back together with Sheridan.
Luis did talk to Sheridan on the phone after the explosion, but he couldn’t bring himself to tell her the truth, so she still hopes he’s going to be bringing Marty home to her. Don’t get me wrong – Luis is acting sad about Marty. I just think it’s questionable that, at this particular moment, he is also all broken up about his relationship. With a woman who’s married to, and pregnant by, someone else. Way to keep your eye on the ball, there, Luis.
So, today, Luis and Fancy are in her hotel suite, and he’s talking about how crushed Sheridan is going to be when he tells her what happened, and about how he couldn’t save Marty. Luis says the whole thing is his fault because it took him so long to believe Sheridan, for all those years when she was telling him that Marty was her son and not Beth’s. Fancy is consoling him by displaying a lot of cleavage in her evening gown.
Then Luis breaks the news that Alistair is probably the evil mastermind behind everything, since Sheridan discovered he’s not in a coma in a nursing home like he’s supposed to be. Fancy is a little defensive, because she thinks her “Grampy” isn’t really that bad.
Elsewhere in the hotel, Theresa is babbling to Ethan for the 4,967th time about how J.T. Cornell is going to prove to him that Gwen and Rebecca were the ones who revealed his paternity. You see, last week, Theresa got J.T. to tell Ethan the truth, but Ethan didn’t believe it because he had just heard Theresa offer the guy $10 million to tell the story. (This was an uncharacteristic display of thinking by Ethan.)
After that, Theresa and J.T. got into a little verbal tussle about whether she had to pay him the money if Ethan wasn’t convinced of the truth. Meanwhile, J.T. was on the phone with Rebecca, who was hint-hinting around that he should kill Theresa. He made a sort of half-hearted attempt to push a big rock onto her or something, but it landed on Ethan instead, but unfortunately, he didn’t die. J.T. got away as per usual.
Um – this was supposed to be nighttime, outdoors, in Rome. How come it looks exactly like the beach set?
Next, Theresa had Crane Security put up a $50 million reward for anyone who could find J.T. again. Yes, that’s right. $50 million to find someone
(a) who has only been missing for 10 minutes;
(b) whom she has successfully located herself, for free, several times in the last few days; and
(c) who has already failed to convince Ethan of anything, even after telling him the whole truth.
I mean, hell, why not just make it $50 billion?
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Comments (2)
Lena's electrocution was funny, she looked like a burnt french fry.
Glad Maya is dead and gone, she was the worst daytime actress, ever. Sadly, I suspect that Maya may be hanging on the edge of the building someplace.
I still think Theresa (Lindsay Korman) is a pretty bad actress too, and she looks like a monkey.
KH
1 of 2 | Posted by KatiesHole
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Posted on June 19, 2006 4:08 PM
Darn it, I've become hooked on this show again.
2 of 2 | Posted by Ubiquitous
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Posted on June 21, 2006 11:09 AM