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The mother and child reunion is only a motion away
Paul Simon
My goodness those mother and child reunions were happening all over Pine Valley this week. Maria and Maddie. Nessa and Trey. Brooke and Jamie.
Brooke and Jamie? Yes, Brooke and Jamie. This is third Jamie that Brooke, and we, have had in the past year. This one looks almost old enough to have fathered the Jamie we started out with in January. The last time we saw Jamie he was mute and having trouble accepting Brooke’s engagement to Edmund. Then he disappears at camp for months and reappears recast just before the wedding. To begin with, the only camp it makes sense for this Jamie to be at is boot camp. And couldn’t Jamie have shown up at least a day earlier for the engagement party? Then he and Brooke could have had a little conversation about his accepting the marriage. I would have appreciated anything that showed some connection between Brooke and this version of her son. As it was, I had to keep reminding myself that it wasn’t a stranger at the wedding, it was Jamie.
And I am still reminding myself about NuJR and NuTim. NuJR has yet to seem like he is related to Adam and Dixie. And NuTim looks like he wandered in from the road company of Godspell. (I cannot help it, I keep expecting him to burst into Day By Day at any moment.) When the boathouse gang gets together I find myself saying, “OK that’s Tim, that’s JR and that’s not Frankie, that’s Maggie.” At least Bianca is still Bianca, sort of. I wish they would bring Philomena back so I would have two touchstones in that crowd.
End of diatribe; back to mother and child reunions.
Nessa and Trey’s reunion was not quite as touching as Maddie and Maria’s. Maybe Nessa should head over to Llanview for lunch with Viki. They could trade stories about the difficulties encountered when an alternate personality gives birth. TreyBen (never to be confused with trés bien) is now part of this rather unholy family. It’s just not working for me. Glasses on or glasses off, Trey just does not seem to fit.
(His best scenes have been with Kendall. She has enough energy, positive and negative, to fill that entire loft. That almost kiss just about guarantees that they have the same father. Another thing she has in common with Erica, almost hitting the sheets with her half brother. Although I cannot picture them chuckling over that coincidence any time soon, can you?)
Maria and Maddie’s reunion was sweet but felonious. Maddie’s excitement at seeing her Angel Mommy was palpable. Maria kidnapping Maddie was illogical. Taking a child she does not remember to wander the streets of town she does not know, in the middle of the night, makes me think that amnesia is not the only thing wrong with Maria’s brain. Though this action gives Eddie more reason to be angry with Brooke and Aiden a chance to play hero once again.
And there were some other kinds of mother and child reunions, too.
Isabella’s talking to Maria’s spirit had me in tears. And would have even if Maria had not been crouching behind the sarcophagus. Isabella did not sound very convincing when she said Brooke was a good person. Bet she will be even less convinced of that when she discovers Brooke knew Maria was alive. Isabella and Brooke is one confrontation I am looking forward to. After all how would Brooke feel if someone thought little Laura was alive and withheld that from Brooke?
Anna did not really have a reunion with her new child, just a growing awareness of what being pregnant with David’s child means. Rather than picturing family picnics under the willow tree, she is probably picturing family visits to prison the first Saturday of each month. Husband in handcuffs, scone in the oven, brother hiding a kidnapper, just another day in Anna’s life.
About Anna. I have been getting emails asking me how can I enjoy her on AMC when she rightly belongs on GH. At first she seemed like the odd duck out in PV but that is changing. A mainstay of AMC is friendships and Anna is developing those with Tad, Jackson, Greenlee and Maggie. She has family in Edmund, Leo and Aiden. Her career is in Pine Valley. Oh yeah, and her husband is carving out a nice niche for himself as PV’s major fiend. Lots to keep her there and keep her busy.
Putting all those AMC reasons aside, there are actual reasons why I don’t want her to return to GH in the near future. The GH she would return to is not the GH she left. It’s Sonny’s world now. What would she do in PC? Anything in law enforcement would eventually have her portrayed as a buffoon who cannot outsmart Sonny. Maybe there could have been some WSB tie-in with the Cassadines but that family has pretty much been decimated.
And I have no illusions about Anna and Robin being together as a dynamic mother-daughter duo. When Robin left GH, she had been turned into a self-righteous bitch. The headwriter that did that to her is the headwriter now. And forget any idea of Anna as a great mother. Felicia went from being just about the best mother on soaps to being one of the worst in the blink of an eye. Why wish that on Anna? Woman characters do not fare well in the current version of GH. I am content to have Finola Hughes’ excellent portrayal of Anna right here on AMC.
Quibbles and Bits
1. One thing TreyBen and Leo do have in common is the inability to ask the obvious question: ”Who the heck is my father, Nessa?”
2. I love the name of David’s illegal drug: X-17!! Sounds like something out of an Ed Wood movie.
3. Who thinks David was burying the body of an experiment gone wrong ?
4. What kind of idiot buries a body on the beach?
5. I had to laugh when Brooke told Maria she would fetch Edmund and “be right back.” Brooke could hardly move in that dress. Must have given Maria 2-3 hours to make her escape.
6. How did Maria and Maddie get past Wildwind’s crack security team? Or should that be crack addicted security team?
7. For a no-tell motel, the Pine Cone sure has lovely bed linens. How long before we can buy them on Shop the Soaps?
8. It’s obvious from that DVF dress that Mia has passed wanting to look like the lady of the house and is trying to look like the matron of the house.
9. It is rather fitting that Tad knows Anna is pregnant before David does. After all, David knew about Dixie’s pregnancy before Tad.
10. As fellow returning-from-the-dead-amnesiacs, wasn’t Tad and Anna’s shock about Maria’s return a bit of a stretch?
11. Anna must be the only character in soap history to rinse her mouth, use breath spray and reapply her lip gloss after vomiting. You go, girl.
I have an idea about how David can survive all his troubles. Right after the crash Maria remembered Maddie therefore X-17 is most likely what caused her amnesia. All David has to do is wait for the next large gathering and drop some in the punch bowl. That way everyone will forget everything he did. Of course they will forget everything else too, but I am sure the writers could find a way around that. They work their way around logic all the time.
If you have theories about what will happen to David or any other thoughts on AMC, please email me at katebrowneos@hotmail.com
Happy Labor Day!
Kate
Paul Simon
My goodness those mother and child reunions were happening all over Pine Valley this week. Maria and Maddie. Nessa and Trey. Brooke and Jamie.
Brooke and Jamie? Yes, Brooke and Jamie. This is third Jamie that Brooke, and we, have had in the past year. This one looks almost old enough to have fathered the Jamie we started out with in January. The last time we saw Jamie he was mute and having trouble accepting Brooke’s engagement to Edmund. Then he disappears at camp for months and reappears recast just before the wedding. To begin with, the only camp it makes sense for this Jamie to be at is boot camp. And couldn’t Jamie have shown up at least a day earlier for the engagement party? Then he and Brooke could have had a little conversation about his accepting the marriage. I would have appreciated anything that showed some connection between Brooke and this version of her son. As it was, I had to keep reminding myself that it wasn’t a stranger at the wedding, it was Jamie.
And I am still reminding myself about NuJR and NuTim. NuJR has yet to seem like he is related to Adam and Dixie. And NuTim looks like he wandered in from the road company of Godspell. (I cannot help it, I keep expecting him to burst into Day By Day at any moment.) When the boathouse gang gets together I find myself saying, “OK that’s Tim, that’s JR and that’s not Frankie, that’s Maggie.” At least Bianca is still Bianca, sort of. I wish they would bring Philomena back so I would have two touchstones in that crowd.
End of diatribe; back to mother and child reunions.
Nessa and Trey’s reunion was not quite as touching as Maddie and Maria’s. Maybe Nessa should head over to Llanview for lunch with Viki. They could trade stories about the difficulties encountered when an alternate personality gives birth. TreyBen (never to be confused with trés bien) is now part of this rather unholy family. It’s just not working for me. Glasses on or glasses off, Trey just does not seem to fit.
(His best scenes have been with Kendall. She has enough energy, positive and negative, to fill that entire loft. That almost kiss just about guarantees that they have the same father. Another thing she has in common with Erica, almost hitting the sheets with her half brother. Although I cannot picture them chuckling over that coincidence any time soon, can you?)
Maria and Maddie’s reunion was sweet but felonious. Maddie’s excitement at seeing her Angel Mommy was palpable. Maria kidnapping Maddie was illogical. Taking a child she does not remember to wander the streets of town she does not know, in the middle of the night, makes me think that amnesia is not the only thing wrong with Maria’s brain. Though this action gives Eddie more reason to be angry with Brooke and Aiden a chance to play hero once again.
And there were some other kinds of mother and child reunions, too.
Isabella’s talking to Maria’s spirit had me in tears. And would have even if Maria had not been crouching behind the sarcophagus. Isabella did not sound very convincing when she said Brooke was a good person. Bet she will be even less convinced of that when she discovers Brooke knew Maria was alive. Isabella and Brooke is one confrontation I am looking forward to. After all how would Brooke feel if someone thought little Laura was alive and withheld that from Brooke?
Anna did not really have a reunion with her new child, just a growing awareness of what being pregnant with David’s child means. Rather than picturing family picnics under the willow tree, she is probably picturing family visits to prison the first Saturday of each month. Husband in handcuffs, scone in the oven, brother hiding a kidnapper, just another day in Anna’s life.
About Anna. I have been getting emails asking me how can I enjoy her on AMC when she rightly belongs on GH. At first she seemed like the odd duck out in PV but that is changing. A mainstay of AMC is friendships and Anna is developing those with Tad, Jackson, Greenlee and Maggie. She has family in Edmund, Leo and Aiden. Her career is in Pine Valley. Oh yeah, and her husband is carving out a nice niche for himself as PV’s major fiend. Lots to keep her there and keep her busy.
Putting all those AMC reasons aside, there are actual reasons why I don’t want her to return to GH in the near future. The GH she would return to is not the GH she left. It’s Sonny’s world now. What would she do in PC? Anything in law enforcement would eventually have her portrayed as a buffoon who cannot outsmart Sonny. Maybe there could have been some WSB tie-in with the Cassadines but that family has pretty much been decimated.
And I have no illusions about Anna and Robin being together as a dynamic mother-daughter duo. When Robin left GH, she had been turned into a self-righteous bitch. The headwriter that did that to her is the headwriter now. And forget any idea of Anna as a great mother. Felicia went from being just about the best mother on soaps to being one of the worst in the blink of an eye. Why wish that on Anna? Woman characters do not fare well in the current version of GH. I am content to have Finola Hughes’ excellent portrayal of Anna right here on AMC.
Quibbles and Bits
1. One thing TreyBen and Leo do have in common is the inability to ask the obvious question: ”Who the heck is my father, Nessa?”
2. I love the name of David’s illegal drug: X-17!! Sounds like something out of an Ed Wood movie.
3. Who thinks David was burying the body of an experiment gone wrong ?
4. What kind of idiot buries a body on the beach?
5. I had to laugh when Brooke told Maria she would fetch Edmund and “be right back.” Brooke could hardly move in that dress. Must have given Maria 2-3 hours to make her escape.
6. How did Maria and Maddie get past Wildwind’s crack security team? Or should that be crack addicted security team?
7. For a no-tell motel, the Pine Cone sure has lovely bed linens. How long before we can buy them on Shop the Soaps?
8. It’s obvious from that DVF dress that Mia has passed wanting to look like the lady of the house and is trying to look like the matron of the house.
9. It is rather fitting that Tad knows Anna is pregnant before David does. After all, David knew about Dixie’s pregnancy before Tad.
10. As fellow returning-from-the-dead-amnesiacs, wasn’t Tad and Anna’s shock about Maria’s return a bit of a stretch?
11. Anna must be the only character in soap history to rinse her mouth, use breath spray and reapply her lip gloss after vomiting. You go, girl.
I have an idea about how David can survive all his troubles. Right after the crash Maria remembered Maddie therefore X-17 is most likely what caused her amnesia. All David has to do is wait for the next large gathering and drop some in the punch bowl. That way everyone will forget everything he did. Of course they will forget everything else too, but I am sure the writers could find a way around that. They work their way around logic all the time.
If you have theories about what will happen to David or any other thoughts on AMC, please email me at katebrowneos@hotmail.com
Happy Labor Day!
Kate
