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Topic: The whole show is very well done--68 will be missed

A second post because I finally caught up with my viewing.  When the story focused on Bo, Rex, Professor Fina, Delaphina and Gigi, I enjoyed it immensely.  I especially liked how the stories were written in a parallel way.  Everything else was pretty much a bore.  I ff everything about "Maria" because MA is so awful, and I ff everything with "Clint" for the same reason.  And it's not just JB's acting.  Clint punches Bo/Rex, knocks him out, and all he can do is yell at his dad about sending Maria away?  Talk about self-absorbed!  The only thing that made any of the Clint/Maria scenes bearable was that the next scenes included Cord. I liked that the very start of Cord's life story was linked to the present. 

And to answer SqueezeMe in a post further down on the board - yes, Catherine Hickland was drop-dead gorgeous as Olympia Buchannan.  I also like how the show had CH as Olympia because it was a nice nod to the "Lindsay killed Spencer" storyline.  And to the fact that Lindsay faked insanity and Olympia really was nuts.  I loved Bo's comments to Professor Fina explaining all of that.  RSW delivered it with just the right amount of dryness that made it pretty funny.

I've really enjoyed it so far, but if it runs past the end of this week, I'm going to start complaining.

I said in another post that I too enjoyed CH as Olympia.  But I forgot to mention the PRICELESS moment when she gave Spencer that threatening look.       LOL perfect!

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it is suppose to thats why i start to complain. nat

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Posted by: Edward
Date posted: Thu Aug 14 11:54:20 2008
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 I have to disagree. It started out interesting and humorous, and would have been a great one-week stunt during the 40th anniversary, along with Viki's dying and going to Heaven. But it's gone on way too long and has just gotten dumber and dumber (Paris, Texas, was a hippy haven in the 60s, yeah, right. In reality, any hippy probably would have gotten their a$$ kicked there). Bad accents, silly impersonations of past/younger characters (if I see Moe flashing the peace sign and saying make love, not war one more time, ugh), the whole Back to the Future ride-the-lightning thing, it all just needs to end. 

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Posted by: Crane Tolliver
Date posted: Thu Aug 14 10:03:01 2008
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I enjoy the story, but they're spending too much time on the time-travel hocus pocus and too little on the emotional aspects of the story. Asa sending Maria away with Cord is an exceptionally painful moment in Clint's life. The requirement that Bo do this to his brother, while in Asa's body, ought to be tougher on Bo. The same goes for how Asa treated his wife, which was a sore spot with his sons for years, and how he treated Emma.

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But it makes sense that Bo as Asa knows he has to act as if he IS Asa otherwise he will be changing history. He may not like it, but he knows he has no choice. Like Bo as himself said yesterday to Mr Del fina about the way he was treating Clint. He had to act as Asa did otherwise Clint would never have gone to Llanview to work @ the Banner & meet Viki...G

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Posted by: Wanda Wolek
Date posted: Thu Aug 14 9:35:55 2008
Message:
A caveat - I haven't caught up with my "tapes" for the past two days.  But here's my opinon so far.  It's not that bad.  I really liked it at first.  However, it has dragged for a while - all the scenes were somewhat repetitive.  I have no problem with Bo/Asa and Rex/Bo as it reminds me of "Quantum Leap".  If that's the "logic" used, Bo is inhabiting Asa's body - so even though it is Bo's mind, it is always Asa's body and, therefore, Asa's sperm.  We just see Bo, just like we always saw Scott Bakula even when the person he slipped into was an old black person or a teenaged pregnant girl (that one was a hoot).  Now it appears the writers may be borrowing from "Return to the Future", which is okay with me as long as it is entertaining.  Hey, even Shakespeare borrowed from other sources and plays and he didn't have to produce a show 260 days a year.  

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Posted by: gemini
Date posted: Thu Aug 14 8:44:43 2008
Message:

I think we're the only ones enjoying it. It's better than anything else going on in Llanview except those few scenes of Tina & Cord. I felt like I was 20 yrs. old again watching those 2. John L. is still a cutie.

As for the 1968 story. Except for some of the hilarious, hidious accents & the fact that Clint was long gone( I thought that he left around the time he was 16) from Asa's home by the time Bo would have gone to Nam, & Maria was not Mexican (I think she was Colombian). And I also don't understand why they have "Renee" acting the way she is & why she is in Texas when in fact it was Vegas where she had her brothel. Emma is one of her girls, so why would she be mad at how Asa is treating her? There is a lot of WTF's??? But..I'm enjoying watching todays characters portraying past characters. I LOL at Shane/Spencer being afraid of Olympia/Lindsay. I'm also intrigued as to who will really be David's pa. I still think it could be Bo & Asa knew but didn't want anyone else to know. In his Will he said "when the time is right". They keep saying that in 68 & yesterday Bo said something about how he will treat his son in a different lifetime. He treats Matthew just fine, so it has to be more to this dialogue, or not? Maybe I'm just reading too much into it? But I'm enjoying the whole thing.

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