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Keeper of the Wing at St. Anne's for the Nuts for Nathaniel
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(11/11/03 5:57 pm) Reply
Michael in the mirror...
I just have to comment on how brilliantly NM showed his reaction to having another's body.. it was the first we've seen of what is to come... the great part of this story, aside from watching Marcal fall again... is to see Al deal with having another's body. I got to see Trevor St John do this, but I think that there was so much focus on everything else, we never really got to see it, aside from joking with Starr about how ugly he is now. Trevor has enough to chew on though... and does it brilliantly.. I think Nathaniel is the man for this job. Something about him that he brings that allows us to feel what Al is feeling, just like when he looked in that mirror... I could feel him imagining Marcie looking at him, and its not his face or his body, unable to love himself because its not his body... the body issues are enough to make me want to faint about how TPTB raised the bar on the body issues... Marcie was one thing, now this..
Excerpt I love from Luisa Valenzuela's The Lizard's Tale: I have my obsessions, I have my fear that drags me along. I’ve been woven into a network of fears, they cross back and forth over my head, they close me in like an enormous web spun by a spider in the reeds, black and precise, malefically beautiful. This net of fears, this geometric pattern, I go on weaving it too without knowing why, without understanding it. I would like to decipher a small end of it at least, a point in the web, so as to go along unwinding the infernal plot, but I’m not permitted that either. Some of my dearest friends have been… running all kinds of risks, and here I am messing around, talking about a spiderweb that entraps me, putting myself into poetic images. The worst thing is that I can glimpse it so clearly, something woven by clusters of black spiders, crouching in wait for their prey, a broad, mile-wise web with us as the prey, and the spiders too.
This is a picture of a wall at the OLTL studio back in 95. My picture is the one on the right, 3rd up from the bottom. These pictures were up at the studio because the stage manager wanted to show everyone who they were talking to online. In those days, with AOL, people at the studio got to talk to us, even the actors would stop by the chat room.
katjam007 Registered User
Posts: 89
(11/11/03 10:03 pm) Reply
Re: Michael in the mirror...
I'm thinking there might be more of this adjustment coming up. Just like Marcie has never had a chance to fully grieve for Al, for the moment Al hasn't had a chance to fully comprehend being in someone else's body. He's so focused on being with Marcie (swoon!) that he hasn't really realized that he's not Al. Which is why Luna has to keep reminding him and showing him his reflection.
Of course this is a soap and its possible they'll be no adjustment period for either one of them. No internal story at all, just reaction to other characters around them. And that would be okay too.
Hey, tomorrow we get the kiss and the slap! I'm looking forward to that.
kathy
Al to Luna: I may be dead, but I still have some fight left in me.
Keeper of the Wing at St. Anne's for the Nuts for Nathaniel
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Smitten Kitten
Posts: 745
(11/12/03 10:51 pm) Reply
the kiss and the slap
Quote:we get the kiss and the slap
I can't believe I'm saying this but.. that was so hot! Even Marcie had to pull out her picture of Al.. (feeling guilty for LIKING his kiss?) Poor girl, doesn't know what she was liking was HER MAN!
Excerpt I love from Luisa Valenzuela's The Lizard's Tale: I have my obsessions, I have my fear that drags me along. I’ve been woven into a network of fears, they cross back and forth over my head, they close me in like an enormous web spun by a spider in the reeds, black and precise, malefically beautiful. This net of fears, this geometric pattern, I go on weaving it too without knowing why, without understanding it. I would like to decipher a small end of it at least, a point in the web, so as to go along unwinding the infernal plot, but I’m not permitted that either. Some of my dearest friends have been… running all kinds of risks, and here I am messing around, talking about a spiderweb that entraps me, putting myself into poetic images. The worst thing is that I can glimpse it so clearly, something woven by clusters of black spiders, crouching in wait for their prey, a broad, mile-wise web with us as the prey, and the spiders too.
This is a picture of a wall at the OLTL studio back in 95. My picture is the one on the right, 3rd up from the bottom. These pictures were up at the studio because the stage manager wanted to show everyone who they were talking to online. In those days, with AOL, people at the studio got to talk to us, even the actors would stop by the chat room.
Quote:I can't believe I'm saying this but.. that was so hot!
Why not?? I wouldn't be surprised if in the upcoming couple of months we see a very angry and expressive Marcie. And next year i am certain we are going to get a Naughty Marcie. Besides a little game of slap and tickle never hurt anybody. Ya' know?
katjam007 Registered User
Posts: 96
(11/13/03 5:52 am) Reply
Re: Michael in the mirror...
Quote:And next year i am certain we are going to get a Naughty Marcie. Besides a little game of slap and tickle never hurt anybody. Ya' know?
Ain't that the truth. And I'm all for a naughty McAl, too. Just imagine the fun they'd have...and the fun we'd have watching them.
kathy
Al to Luna: I may be dead, but I still have some fight left in me.
Excerpt I love from Luisa Valenzuela's The Lizard's Tale: I have my obsessions, I have my fear that drags me along. I’ve been woven into a network of fears, they cross back and forth over my head, they close me in like an enormous web spun by a spider in the reeds, black and precise, malefically beautiful. This net of fears, this geometric pattern, I go on weaving it too without knowing why, without understanding it. I would like to decipher a small end of it at least, a point in the web, so as to go along unwinding the infernal plot, but I’m not permitted that either. Some of my dearest friends have been… running all kinds of risks, and here I am messing around, talking about a spiderweb that entraps me, putting myself into poetic images. The worst thing is that I can glimpse it so clearly, something woven by clusters of black spiders, crouching in wait for their prey, a broad, mile-wise web with us as the prey, and the spiders too.
This is a picture of a wall at the OLTL studio back in 95. My picture is the one on the right, 3rd up from the bottom. These pictures were up at the studio because the stage manager wanted to show everyone who they were talking to online. In those days, with AOL, people at the studio got to talk to us, even the actors would stop by the chat room.
Just imagine the fun they'd have...and the fun we'd have watching them. 
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