Topic: So, Tea has a child with Todd, what is the big deal??
Topic Posted by: ladfan
Date Posted: Mon Nov 2 19:06:53 2009
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Tea is a big phony!! She cries about how she did not know who the father is, and I call BS. Can you imagine Tea, as obsessed as she was with Todd sitting on her trump card that she has a daughter with Todd? I don't. I wonder when the light bulb went off about the paternity. Could it be after she hauled her behind back to the US to defend Todd? Could it possibly be after she realized that Todd could possibly give her a second chance? Then suddenly Ross became the bad guy. I don't believe her story that she shipped of her kid to the boarding school to protect her from Ross. Like others have mentioned, Ross looks like a saint compared to Todd. What kind of a mother ships her kid off to a boarding school and keeps her away from her father AND mother?
Also, why are people acting like just because Tea has a child with Todd, that automatically means that they should be together or that Todd would forgive her? Today Elijah and Rachel before said that 'but you have a child with Todd'. So what?? Blair has three with Todd and look at all that he has put her through. If anything, that should tell Tea that Todd is less forgiving when it comes to his children.
I can see where this is going. Daniella(let me say how much I hate Tea's pronounciation of that name) already resents her mother for taking her away from her dad. Once she finds out about Todd, she will hate her more. Tea will snot and blubber like she always does for weeks on end. I will be mad if Elijah sides with her instead of his brother Ross.
Posted by: janesturgeon Date posted: Tue Nov 3 14:19:40 2009
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Tea chose to believe that Ross was the father. She put the suspicions aside until she got called the Llanview to represent Ray Montez. Tea called it fate that she was in Todd's orbit again and decided to find out for sure. Some might think that she should have seeked out Todd earlier but Todd paddle his butt back to the B so screw him. She don't owe him squat. Yeah Tea should have told him when they reunited but she didn't and now she is paying the consequences of that. Her secret is going to come out and she willl have a lot of 'spaining to do! We need to get over the 15 yr thing, TIIC did that. WE know Dani should be younger than Jack, but she isn't, and Jack should be Max's but he's not, and Todd should have kicked Blair to the curb after she conned him into marrying her the first time but he didn't. Us viewers roll with TPTB or do something else besides wondering how low TIIC can go on the stupid meter.
Tea has stated that Ross is a conartist, and a bad one because she obviously has been the breadwinner in the family. And his violent streak has her freaked. Do you want her to wait to get smacked/ Dani to be kidnapped to get a clue?
I don't think Tea should be with Todd because she had his kid. That's Blair's thing, she demands the all or nothing.
As for the way Tea pronounces Danielle, I live 40 miles north of Mexico, her name sounds perfect to me.
As for Tea "snotting and blubbering", jeez, we've been reading that whine since FL hit the screen, it's redundant and annoying now LOL!!!
Posted by: Wanda Wolek Date posted: Tue Nov 3 13:36:08 2009
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Well, I still like Tea, but I hate when the writers put her in "poor me" stories. I like the b$tchy, take-no-prisoners Tea even when I'm yelling at the screen at her over her b$tchiness. The last time Tea Delgado was in Llanview, her luster (for me) faded when she became Todd's victim. It was a downward spiral after that. When she came back I held out hope that RC and company would have her keep her fire. Then they paired her with Todd and a big ole bucket of water got thrown on that fire.
My biggest complaint about this storyline is how all of a sudden Ross doesn't count as a parent anymore. Who cares that he was there as Dani's father for the first 15 years of her life. It was Todd's swimmers that did the job so just throw Ross to the curb. And I'm not going to blame this on Tea so much as the writers. Most soap writers make this mistake. I'm surprised the writers have Natalie remembering she was raised by Roxy and maintaining a relationship with her. Rex never mentions his aunt, who raised him. If you didn't know Rex's back story, you would think he was raised by Roxy. On AMC, Tad had a relationship with his bio-mom, Opal, and adoptive mom, Ruth, but Ruth was the salt-of-the-earth main character for years. On the other side is Kendall Hart, who was raised by loving adoptive parents but dropped them like a hot potato once she found out Erica was her bio-mom. I don't watch a lot of other soaps, but I watch enough to be disturbed by this "biology is all" mentality of soap writers. Biology is not all. Not by a long shot.
Posted by: sea Date posted: Tue Nov 3 12:07:27 2009
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Actually, ladfan, Blair only has two children with Todd, but who's counting? I agree with everything you said, and I'm trying to convince myself that it is not because I have never really liked Tea. I've thought for a long time that the writers don't have any long-range goal, and sometimes rewrite the day of taping so some things will never make sense. Like, as others have mentioned, Dani is 15 years old.
Ross was right. Tea is a control freak. The problem is that if she did just find out that Dani was Todd's child, why would she think it would be better not to tell him? Even Todd has a rational moment once in awhile. I just don't agree with everyone who thinks her chances are better with Todd if she reveals Dani's existence 7 to 15 years after the island.....which, by the way, was pretty stupid, as well, so it isn't all today's writers. I'll never forget the sight of Todd sailing off on the raft he made of seashells and reeds. Not even any bubblegum.
Posted by: Edward Date posted: Tue Nov 3 12:02:32 2009
Message: ITA that Tea's actions make no sense. Ross doesn't strike me as someone you would need to protect your child from, while we all know that Todd is an irrational maniac who has endangered his children repeatedly. But TPTB insist that he's a good guy and a catch, and that it makes sense that both Tea and Blair are crazy for him. TPTB also apparently believe in the archaic notion that having a child with someone means you're supposed to be with that person. Both Tea and Blair have been dumbed down in order for this fighting-over-Todd storyline to work, just like everyone was dumbed down to make the whole Stacy storyline work.
Posted by: Proudmary74 Date posted: Tue Nov 3 3:41:40 2009
Message: Maybe, since this is a only a soap, I shouldn't be so irked at this latest storyline that not only rewrote history from years ago, it changed it abruptly within the past few months. This kind of writing is what makes the soap writing genre well worthy of all the scorn and parodies that have been made about it over the years. I only wish the Carol Burnett show was still on the air because I would love to see what they would make of the seed that we were told was sewn seven years ago on a deserted island turning into the full fledged fifteen year old daughter of a serial rapist.
Anyway, right off the bat, there are several more things about Danielle I don't get. First there is Tea's insistence that she is like Todd. How is she anything like Todd beyond having a bit of a temper and being a little possessive? I mean, she is nice! She bonded with Matthew so fast after that little spat over her phone, and she is going out of her way to be kind and understanding about his condition. That is nothing like the Todd I know who as a frat boy would have made fun of a kid like Matthew and he certainly would not have gone out of his way to help him. Frankly, she seems much more like Ross than Todd. She has a tendency to fly off the handle, and she's impulsive. Number two. If escaping from Toddwarts is so easy with a paraplegic in tow, then why hasn't this girl been long gone ages ago when she just had herself to worry about? Number three. She has a cell phone! I repeat, she has a cell phone, and she's obviously had it for a long time. She can contact her mother in the states. How was she not able to contact the man she thinks is her father when he was in Tahiti all this time? What would prevent her from doing that, since the phone obviously has overseas connection ability?
I admit that I would be much more willing to let some of these glaring contradictions go if I liked this storyline more, and I would like this storyline much more if the writers had not made this character yet another of Todd's undeserved children. I actually like the kid that is playing Danielle. She's spunky, she's independent, and she's smart. She's a lot like her mother in that she knows how to go after what she wants, but unlike Tea, she doesn't seem to have that self destructive materialistic streak, at least not yet. I know this is futile but I really hope that somehow the DNA tests turn out to be wrong and she is Ross's kid after all. I mean if the writers can make eight years disappear before our very eyes, then surely they can change an offscreen DNA test? If only they would I might actually look forward to what is happening with this plot.
Posted by: Tea Delgado Date posted: Mon Nov 2 21:22:43 2009
Message: Oh my God! (Boohoohoohoohoohoohoo) How could you attack my parenting skills like that?! (Wail) I did what I did to protect Dahn-yell-ah. (Wimper) I can't let Todd know about her, he's so possessive, he'll keep her all to himself and shut me out of her life! (Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah) How could ANY parent prevent the other parent from spending any time with their child, that's disgusting!!!!!! (Blows nose) The best thing I can do is to keep her thousands of miles away from everything she knows and loves, and let her continue to believe that Ross is her father, and then never let her see him. (Boohoohoohoohoohoohoohoo) My parenting skills are second to none. No mother is better than me. Blair took her kids to a Halloween party- that's awful! All those people in scary costumes, her children could have nightmares! And the candy, that is sooo unhealthy, just ask my good friend and former call girl Rachel Gannon, she can tell you that Reese's Cups are the gateway to Mars Bars! (all rights reserved). You know what I did for my precious little girl on Halloween? I talked to her. On the phone, for one WHOLE minute. She is that important to me. (Blows nose again) So don't you EVER question my parenting skills again!! (Sobbing, wailing, moaning, etc., etc.)
Posted by: Rhonda Date posted: Mon Nov 2 19:27:18 2009
Message: I am a huge Tea fan, but the show has really painted her into a corner with this storyline. As you point out, it's completely unbelievable that Tea wouldn't have checked out the true paternity of her child from day one. So already she looks bad keeping the truth from both Ross and Dani. She looks even worse by dumping Ross and spiriting Dani away the minute Todd gives her the time of day again. I realize Tea puts her brain in mothballs when Todd is around, but she should put Dani's feelings first. Nothing I've seen so far explains why it's okay to split up a child from her father (the one who helped raise her, taught her to surf, etc.). But the weird part is that everyone else is going along with Tea. I consider Rachel to be very level-headed, but I have yet to hear her mention Ross's feelings or Dani's feelings about being forceably separated. I guess I agree that Todd should know the truth, but he's such a bum his feelings should be considered last. Oh, how I hate this storyline. The only possible bright side is that Todd might be getting a cool daughter again now that Starr has been wrecked by Cole-contamination.
