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One Life To Live Discussion Group
This is a guy who:
Hit a woman in the face (Tea)
Raped a woman (Marty)
Brutally beat a minor (Cole)
And a bunch of other despicable, horrendous things that, in real life, would make you stay busy praying he stayed locked up surrounded by white walls weaving baskets forever, but, onscreen, is morbidly fascinating to watch.
For me, the fun in watching Todd Manning was I felt like you never knew what he could do. I saw Trevor in an interview once saying that ''Todd is always about one second away from ripping someone's face off.''
You just never knew when he might just totally FLIP OUT - or what might set him off.
i have watched MOST of Roger's work. What I liked about his portrayal was that he just didn't seem to ever GIVE a @#%@#% about what anyone thought, he would do what he wanted when he wanted and he could go from laughing and smiling and joking to scarily violent in a split second.
I have always liked Trevor too. ALOT. - I never understood why fans couldn't like the work Trevor does just because Roger is gone.
The last thing I saw Todd FLIP OUT on was when he beated up Schuyler Joplin real bad.
Roger's Todd used to have some cool scary them music too. Well, i guess the music department did not lose it because they have used it for Trevor, but RARELY. Ive heard it twice in 2009.
I love what Roger made. And I lov what Trevor shows he CAN do.
But they don't give him anything. Todd is on all the time - hes getting the airtime of a major leading man on a soap, but, outside of the eternal Tea/Todd/Marty/John/Blair loop, he really doesn't have a storyline -and hasn't in awhile.
I wonder if Trevor is pi$$ed.
He plays Todd so passivelately.
I don't know if that is TSJ or specified by the director.
I want the man who for years was known on the show and in the mags and on the net as The Prince Of Darkness back!!!
Chris/PT
Don't get me wrong. I think Todd is plenty capable of evil, just not with the malice that drives Mitch. Todd's evil comes out of his own self centered need to be in control, and fear of losing everything and everybody he cares about if he doesn't carve it out for himself no matter who he hurts along the way. Mitch not only has to be in control, he seems to genuinely thrive on the chaos that he leaves in his wake and the suffering of others, including those that he deludes himself with believing must love him. The best I can describe Mitch is as a messianic Jim Jones like character. He wants worshipers and followers. Todd really does not care that much if anybody goes along with his program, just that there is someone willing to stick around and pick up the pieces every time he goes off on another self destructive venture. Mitch just wants scorched earth, period.
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We've all known two or more people with the same first name.
I just happen to think of TSJ as a different Todd than the Todd of Roger Howarth. They aren't the same and the characters aren't the same. I don't blame TSJ for that. He's an actor. He wanted a job and RH left. I blame the writers for any inconsistencies that drive me nuts about Todd/NuTodd.
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Another part of why I don't find him frightening or menacing is because the character isn't written that way. He has been softened too much & rendered pretty harmless to make Blair look good. But Blair is another character that should be much more than she is. She too has been watered down & changed to the point of being unrecognizeable & untrue to her established history--for whatever 'reasons'. As long as TPTB (Corp) keep trying to make these characters 'appealing' to their own destruction, they aren't going to be appealing, IMO.
Todd & Blair could/should be interesting, multi-faceted characters w/dark sides, as well as light. But they are SO watered down that they have become uninteresting characters in bland, weak, lousy stories. It also doesn't help that they don't really circulate in a community. It is all about THEM &, frankly, that gets boring.
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I'm guessing its the calm before the storm. The eye of the storm?
I see Todd is trying to act like everyone has asked him to be for years. The question should be what flips The Prince of Darkness' switch. I don't think the flip will be Todd finding out about Dani.
Now if Rex's dad would of turned out to be Peter Manning, we would of seen the flip. I think alot of the show was put on idle until TPTB figured out who would be the daddy. I think Mitch was a last resort.
If Peter was to of came back, I think it would of fit into where Todd is now.
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