Tuesday, May 30, 2006
i cannot believe it's not butter!!!!!
i just cannot. i am speechless. done even. they've killed...KILLED todd manning. okay, he's a bad guy(per se), but this time he was absolutely innocent. 100% guilt free. can this be a lesson from the boy who cried wolf?
todd manning is an illegitimate son of victor lord. victor was a very nefarious man himself. he molested his daughter at an early age causing her to develop dissociative identity disorder (d.i.d.) or...multiple personalities. in total, victoria lord buchanan (matriarch of one life to live) has 6 different personalities including her own birth/host identity. niki smith is her main alter, a polar opposite of victoria buchanan. this is only important now because she is the identity who brought vicki's daughter, jessica (at 8-9?), to a bar. as the writers would have it, jessica got raped (on tape no less) and developed d.i.d. also.
but this isn't about all the things victor did (that i'm not witness to), or vicki and her multiple personalities, or jessica/tess and the baby she has that they don't know who the father is because tess was a loose girl and then fell in love with nash and now wants to be the dominant personality to mother her child. >;-)> tee-hee. this is about todd and his wrongful death.
keeping it simple to start with, todd manning and blair daimler have a star-crossed love. they are both "bad" (opportunistic, greedy, vengeful, spiteful, shady, bitter) characters who finally found love and companionship with one another. they have two children, starr and jack. starr is a star. i hope they keep the same actress for her character...she'd be a great lead! the whole manning family is a great focal family for the show, although it is usually concerning something negative or malicious. in this storyline, however, they are the victim.
during one of the bad patches of their marriage, todd used a young accountant, margaret cochron, to make blair jealous. actually, it wasn't quite that simple. margaret was the accountant for buchanan industries which kevin buchanan was running at the time. kevin was also having a fling with blair, so todd used maggaret to frame kevin for embezzlement. making blair jealous was just a red herring.
well...when all the cards fell, kevin dodged the charges, blair and todd got back together and margaret turned out to be crazy. nutty as a squirrel. crazy as a loon. lost as a dodo bird. margaret got it in her head that todd was in love with her. todd is in love with her and they will be married. so, she hatches the plan to kidnap todd on his wedding day. she shoots him in the leg (twice), drugs him, and ties him to a bed in a remote cabin in the mountains, but he does love her. anyway, when she finally understands that he doesn't love her, she commences to torture his family until he gives her what she wants. her consolation prize to his love is his seed.
by the time todd is rescued (some 6 months later) from the bomb in the cabin, and he rescues blair from the car compactor, margaret had accomplished her goal and left town. of course she hasn't left for good. now carrying todd's son, she returns to landview to torture the manning family. all she wants is for todd to leave blair and the kids, then runaway with her and "todd jr.". after she nearly killed starr manning in her mothers office, todd begrudgingly agreed to meet her by lantano lake. here is where things get hairy....
they get in a boat and row into the center of the lake. todd convinced margaret that he had finally seen the light and would do right by the woman carrying his son. margaret throws the gun in the lake and the truth comes out. now, we don't know "the truth" for some time. but as it goes, todd tells her psych!!! i still hate you, you sick twisted beepity-bloopity bloop. and since you can't swim, i'm gonna rock the boat and kill you that way. well, she just has an ultimate revelation. she's been a fool, a fool for todd and love, and she doesn't deserve to live. she back-drops off the row boat and is never seen from again. todd comes back to shore, hides the evidence as the guilty would and pretends nothing happened. besides...he didn't kill her. but the police don't think so, and when the body turns up (or should i say bodies), it was all the media needed to get the people in an uproar. the menace has to go!
and so, the villagers came to the castle with pitchforks and torches...wait. okay, they didn't, but they really wanted to. life was hell for the whole family. hell, the whole clan. the buchanans and the kramers felt the fires of the people for this crime, too. and so, he came to be put to death for his crimes; more so for the crimes of his past than the murder of margaret cochron and their unborn son. margaret had finally succeded in destroying todd's life, post mortem. a distraught todd had refused his right to an appeal because blair had forsaken him again. she'd lost faith in him again and was flying fast into the arms of another man...again. spencer truman.
as todd's attorney, evangaline williamson (who will most definately receive more blog entries. she's a powerhouse. i'll even likely write about her works off the show, like her appearance in "the color purple".) never gave up on todd. she never doubted his innocence and re-examined the leads and clues until she found new ones. she risked her career, and even her life, to help todd after he escaped prison transport. after surviving a tornado, and the loss of her sight, she continued to fight for todd with new leads pointing toward spencer truman for margaret's murder. unfortunately it was all too late.
they were thirty seconds too late, to be precise. john mcbain was in bangkok looking for david vickers who was looking for margeret's son in thailand. david knew his brother spencer (don't ask) had something to do with todd's case but he was looking for "todd jr.". when john found david with a very live margaret cochron, he immediately arrested them both and b-lined it back to the states to free todd manning. surmounting all the obsticles, john arrives in the viewing room with margaret cochron thirty seconds after the last injection was given to a flatlining todd.
can they pull todd back from a flatline? will they? i doubt it when the only medical help available is the malicious spencer truman. are the fans truely tired of todd's selfish form of justice and blind revenge? god, i hope not. what would we do without todd? is it because they don't want to recast todd again? who cares?!?!! i personally loved todd's character, as misguided as he was. even when he did the despicable, you loved to hate him. part of me just can't deal with the lost of a legendary character. especially under these circumstances. it's as if they let todd get away with everything, every evil he had done, only to pay for the one crime he did not commit. it's a bit beyond ironic. it's a bit beyond cruel. but, eh. such is life, such is art!
todd manning is an illegitimate son of victor lord. victor was a very nefarious man himself. he molested his daughter at an early age causing her to develop dissociative identity disorder (d.i.d.) or...multiple personalities. in total, victoria lord buchanan (matriarch of one life to live) has 6 different personalities including her own birth/host identity. niki smith is her main alter, a polar opposite of victoria buchanan. this is only important now because she is the identity who brought vicki's daughter, jessica (at 8-9?), to a bar. as the writers would have it, jessica got raped (on tape no less) and developed d.i.d. also.
but this isn't about all the things victor did (that i'm not witness to), or vicki and her multiple personalities, or jessica/tess and the baby she has that they don't know who the father is because tess was a loose girl and then fell in love with nash and now wants to be the dominant personality to mother her child. >;-)> tee-hee. this is about todd and his wrongful death.
keeping it simple to start with, todd manning and blair daimler have a star-crossed love. they are both "bad" (opportunistic, greedy, vengeful, spiteful, shady, bitter) characters who finally found love and companionship with one another. they have two children, starr and jack. starr is a star. i hope they keep the same actress for her character...she'd be a great lead! the whole manning family is a great focal family for the show, although it is usually concerning something negative or malicious. in this storyline, however, they are the victim.
during one of the bad patches of their marriage, todd used a young accountant, margaret cochron, to make blair jealous. actually, it wasn't quite that simple. margaret was the accountant for buchanan industries which kevin buchanan was running at the time. kevin was also having a fling with blair, so todd used maggaret to frame kevin for embezzlement. making blair jealous was just a red herring.
well...when all the cards fell, kevin dodged the charges, blair and todd got back together and margaret turned out to be crazy. nutty as a squirrel. crazy as a loon. lost as a dodo bird. margaret got it in her head that todd was in love with her. todd is in love with her and they will be married. so, she hatches the plan to kidnap todd on his wedding day. she shoots him in the leg (twice), drugs him, and ties him to a bed in a remote cabin in the mountains, but he does love her. anyway, when she finally understands that he doesn't love her, she commences to torture his family until he gives her what she wants. her consolation prize to his love is his seed.
by the time todd is rescued (some 6 months later) from the bomb in the cabin, and he rescues blair from the car compactor, margaret had accomplished her goal and left town. of course she hasn't left for good. now carrying todd's son, she returns to landview to torture the manning family. all she wants is for todd to leave blair and the kids, then runaway with her and "todd jr.". after she nearly killed starr manning in her mothers office, todd begrudgingly agreed to meet her by lantano lake. here is where things get hairy....
they get in a boat and row into the center of the lake. todd convinced margaret that he had finally seen the light and would do right by the woman carrying his son. margaret throws the gun in the lake and the truth comes out. now, we don't know "the truth" for some time. but as it goes, todd tells her psych!!! i still hate you, you sick twisted beepity-bloopity bloop. and since you can't swim, i'm gonna rock the boat and kill you that way. well, she just has an ultimate revelation. she's been a fool, a fool for todd and love, and she doesn't deserve to live. she back-drops off the row boat and is never seen from again. todd comes back to shore, hides the evidence as the guilty would and pretends nothing happened. besides...he didn't kill her. but the police don't think so, and when the body turns up (or should i say bodies), it was all the media needed to get the people in an uproar. the menace has to go!
and so, the villagers came to the castle with pitchforks and torches...wait. okay, they didn't, but they really wanted to. life was hell for the whole family. hell, the whole clan. the buchanans and the kramers felt the fires of the people for this crime, too. and so, he came to be put to death for his crimes; more so for the crimes of his past than the murder of margaret cochron and their unborn son. margaret had finally succeded in destroying todd's life, post mortem. a distraught todd had refused his right to an appeal because blair had forsaken him again. she'd lost faith in him again and was flying fast into the arms of another man...again. spencer truman.
as todd's attorney, evangaline williamson (who will most definately receive more blog entries. she's a powerhouse. i'll even likely write about her works off the show, like her appearance in "the color purple".) never gave up on todd. she never doubted his innocence and re-examined the leads and clues until she found new ones. she risked her career, and even her life, to help todd after he escaped prison transport. after surviving a tornado, and the loss of her sight, she continued to fight for todd with new leads pointing toward spencer truman for margaret's murder. unfortunately it was all too late.
they were thirty seconds too late, to be precise. john mcbain was in bangkok looking for david vickers who was looking for margeret's son in thailand. david knew his brother spencer (don't ask) had something to do with todd's case but he was looking for "todd jr.". when john found david with a very live margaret cochron, he immediately arrested them both and b-lined it back to the states to free todd manning. surmounting all the obsticles, john arrives in the viewing room with margaret cochron thirty seconds after the last injection was given to a flatlining todd.
can they pull todd back from a flatline? will they? i doubt it when the only medical help available is the malicious spencer truman. are the fans truely tired of todd's selfish form of justice and blind revenge? god, i hope not. what would we do without todd? is it because they don't want to recast todd again? who cares?!?!! i personally loved todd's character, as misguided as he was. even when he did the despicable, you loved to hate him. part of me just can't deal with the lost of a legendary character. especially under these circumstances. it's as if they let todd get away with everything, every evil he had done, only to pay for the one crime he did not commit. it's a bit beyond ironic. it's a bit beyond cruel. but, eh. such is life, such is art!
