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Liveblogging "One Life To Live": Prelude to a Kish
Welcome to our first ever One Life To Live liveblog! While ostensibly we're here to follow Kyle Lewis (Brett Claywell) and Officer Fish ( I grew up watching OLTL and fondly remember the great moments, such as the emergence of Viki's alternate personality Niki (and re-emergence through the years), Tina's tumble over the Iguaza Waterfall (she survived and showed up to crash the wedding of former flame Cord and feisty archeologist Kate, played by a very young Marcia Cross), the ongoing catfights between Viki and queen bee Dorian, and of course, the greatest storyline in the history of soapdom ... the journey to the underground lost city of "Eterna". I haven't watched the show in well over a decade, so it'll be interesting to see who's still there from the bygone days. And of course, I can't wait to see how they explore the characters of Kyle and Fish (who apparently have a past). And I'm especially anxious to catch my first glimpse of out Scott Evans. Journey below to follow along, and refresh for breaking updates! 2:05PM EDT: We start with a tearful graveside breakdown from Viki's daughter (I think ... but not the one who died from Lupus and is now a vampire on True Blood). We have Fish and Kyle! Something about Kyle not want to keep a low profile anymore, which makes Fish's eyes narrow. 2:10PM EDT: A gaggle of young people are talking about "bags of blood", and then a deranged woman is waving around a bag of stem cells. We're just minutes in, and I'm already having a WTF? moment. I love it. Hey, it's Blair (Kassie DaPaiva), who I recognize from way back when, but when I see Kassie, I always picture her swallowing an eyeball and being assaulted by a possessed tree in Evil Dead 2. 2:15PM EDT: Kish have an intense scene culminating in Kyle calling Fish "Pal" ... but I don't think he meant it. The deranged woman is still waving around the bloody bag, prompting lots of "Ewww!" and "Ick! Gross!". 2:20PM EDT: Hey, It's Todd Manning! But last time I watched, he was played by Paul from ATWT. Fish tells Kyle "I have a date waiting inside", and Kyle says "oh yeah, the beautiful girl ... maybe one day you can introduce us". Fish looks perturbed and says "yeah, I'll see you later, Kyle", as Kyle smirks. 2:25PM EDT: Hey, it's Christian! But why is his shirt still on? Fish and Layla meet up. More blood bag stuff, and Rex has a shirtless flashback. Thank you!
2:35PM EDT: Fish and Layla talk about her joining the force, and he mentions how ULTRA CONSERVATIVE his father is (which may just possibly come up in the future). As they're talking Fish sees Kyle watching them, prompting Fish to suddenly grab Layla and begin snogging. Kyle hilariously rolls his eyes, and when Christian presents him with a drink a blonde bought him, Kyle looks at Fish and says "I've got my eye on somebody else". Blair (who apparently is still her old, wonderfully devious self) asks Christian to admit he's carrying a torch for Layla. He says he can't think like that because she's dating Fish, but when he sees the two of them kissing, he's obviously ... not happy. 2:40PM EDT: Is it "conserve a shirt" day today? Not that I'm complaining. 2:45PM EDT: Fish apologizes to Layla for coming on so strong, and she responds with "what took you so long? I didn't know you had it in you!". Kyle grimaces and says "neither did I". Meanwhile, Christian's eyes narrow. 2:47PM EDT: Oh dear ... Stacey disrobes revealing a zebra print panty and bra set. Rex says "not tonight, I've gone temporarily blind". 2:55PM EDT: Blair sings as we get a montage of various characters in bed, at the bar, etc. It really needs kittens in a field. Kyle looks longingly at Fish, as Fish grasps Layla's hand, and Christian looks on. Preview Time: Huh! No preview? But don't worry, this is just the beginning of what promises to be a very interesting storyline! Stay tuned! Submitted by on Wed, 2009-07-01 12:44. |
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This is definitely my favorite of Our Three Soaps. I'm supposed to be asleep right now, but I couldn't pass up the first liveblog.
So what happens when OLTL and ATWT both cry out for Liveblogging at the same time?
Kyle's Low Profile
Kyle and Fish shirtless
Stem Cells
This one's VERY complicated, but it ties into the blackmail, since Kyle lied about who the original donor was.
The original donor is Rex's father, but no one knows that. All the blackmail has to do with cover-ups of that. (Rex and Gigi's son is the one who needs the stem cells.)
Stem Cells II Electric Boogaloo
Okay, I'm spending the commercial break summarizing the stem cell story.
Roxy, Rex's mother, has only told Rex that his father was a bad guy one-night stand, who is dead. But he's not dead, he's in a coma somewhere. (Theory is he's an old-school baddie, you might be able to make some guesses here.)
When Shane, Rex and Gigi's son, needed stem cells, Roxy harvested them from the comatose grandfather and passed them along to Kyle, with instructions not to reveal the source.
Stacey, Gigi's sister, wanted to steal Rex, so convinced Kyle to claim that she was the donor, then told Gigi that she wouldn't donate the stem cells unless Gigi drove Rex away so she could snag him. Gigi faked an affair, Rex left her and got with Stacey, Shane got the stem cells, Kyle blackmailed Roxy.
In the last few eps, all of the victims have managed to piece it all together, but they still don't know who the donor is. Supposedly the donor died, so that should be the last source of compatible stem cells.
Secretly, the donor is alive, had the bag stolen, and passed to Stacey.
Whew!
Boy....
I'm loving OLTL
Kish
OLTL is also on the SOAP Network at 1am CST
You can catch a repeat of that day's episode at 8pm CST or they replay the prior day's spisode each night at 1am CST.
Plus...on the weekend they play a marathon of the entire week's episodes.
I have three things to say
1. I totally loved Kyle's reactions to Fish's desperate attempts to banish their past from his mind.
2. That was a LOT of sex. I'm officially holding OLTL to the letter that they deliver the same when Fish and Kyle have their booty call! Seriously, I want sexual equality on my soaps!
3. I love this show!
Night and day compared to
Night and day compared to the self-contained episodes of ATWT, no? OLTL actually lets its stories play out for more than a few days.
Ollie Fish and Kyle Lewis are going to be great. Scott Evans plays the adorable goof really well as does Brett Claywell as the sneaky, manipulative guy who's got a heart somewhere deep, deep, deep inside him. :-)
Jean Passanante explains
You're absolutely right.
You're absolutely right. Jean Passanante's explanation was an exercise in stream of consciousness babble. She made no sense whatsoever why ATWT is cranking out the crap it's airing. Whatever the case may be, her and Chris Goutman's storytelling technique is not working.
And the Nielsens refelect that.
Future
This is why I've stuck with OLTL for a year...
Seriously, this show is my favorite soap. It has plot lines that stretch out for long periods of time, and they allow themselves to be fully developed. The same goes for the relationships. Every relationship takes its time. Brody and Jess has been developing for months, and so when they finally did make everything official and finally sleep together it was a great moment.
I have a feeling that is what is going to happen with Fish and Kyle. Don't expect to much to soon. Just expect things to start up, and then simmer for a while. Today's episode makes it look like the show is packed with love scenes (and it really doesn't hold much back), but it also allows relationships to develop over time before the characters hop into bed. If they show it, I'll be suprised. The show takes big risks, like the Marty/Todd storyline, but I don't know if it is ready for that risk. Although if they follow in All My Children's footsteps, expect things to get pretty steamy. Bianca and Reese actually had some pretty steamy scenes in bed.
I'm just happy to see the show developing some of its smaller characters into bigger players.
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Welcome, snickerewski
Great to have you paying heed to this soap, snicks.
I do a daily recap of OLTL, if you need to catch up on any backstory...although some of the bag-of-blood business with Nurse Man-Hands has even us longtime viewers going WTF.
Here's the link.
Yawn...
Sounds like much ado about nothing at this point. Wake me up when the cliched coming out part starts up....
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Take a break and explore the world of hedonism and pleasure-seeking!
Chuckles!
DUH!
Wake up and read all of Anthony's stuff. There is no coming out party!
Or, actually, go back to sleep!
Go Kyle!
The thing I like best about this story line is that, yes, Fish's dad is a neanderthal which has left him a conflicted closet case and we've seen that all before, but - conversely - Kyle is all up on his nuts. Homeboy is out to get some!
Almost all of the same sex pairings on TV develop with so much hesitancy and trepidation. I'm sure we'll see tons of that from Fish while he sorts his stuff out, but it's really refreshing to see the Kyle character completely own his desire for another man offsetting that.
I Could Be Wrong....
Did it, though?
Considering how he asked to be introduced to Layla, a non-spoiled, non-gay-thinking viewer could be inclined to think Kyle was eyeing Layla (although the shot during the musical montage makes it a little more obvious which of the two he was watching.)
Is that musical number going to give Youtube fits?
What up with Todd's hair in the intro? Did he think it was the 80s?
The lack of previews bugs me almost as much as commercials that show clips from last week. Cole proposes to Starr? Ohmygod, what will she say?
If you'd started your liveblog one week earlier...
...you'd have had a more steamy shirtless start
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