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by Todd Brown
April 12, 2008

It looks like Amber and Daniel are reviving the long held Genoa City tradition of sex in the workplace. Good thing they haven't seemed to have hired a cleaning crew yet or someone would have been in for an eyeful. Although anyone across the street might have been enjoying the show considering the big picture windows in that office overlook an adjacent business and/or apartment building with a full view of the warehouse.

Thank God we didn't have to watch Victor and Sabrina getting it on. It was bad enough watching Victor risk a hernia just carrying her up the stairs. She's not exactly what I would call dainty. And he's not exactly what I would call young. Does anyone want to see this? I realize Victor still has his fans among the geriatric set, but do even they want to see him macking on some chick young enough to be his granddaughter?

I've long held the belief that Victor Newman is the male daytime equivalent of Erica Kane. Both characters are treated as commodities instead of real people and their respective shows refuse to let go of the stranglehold belief that their fans want to keep seeing them do the same things over and over again until they're both 90 no matter how absurd it becomes. Erica will be walking down the runway in designer gowns with her new boyfriend with her AARP card in her purse and Victor will still be surrounded by a bevy of beauties when both of them should rightfully be in nursing homes with Alzheimer's disease. Women who will be 40 when Victor is 80 want him not because he's rich, but because he's such a "stud."

Look, I realize that Eric Braeden's enormous ego is matched only by his influence over this show, even to the detriment of credibility, and it must have been a real slap in his face to have Nikki leave him for another man and have his son stand up to him. But the way the writers are backtracking by introducing a new son and a beautiful young woman both of whom are fighting in line to kiss his wrinkled old ass to pacify him is hardly an improvement over the last two years. I had more fun watching him picking petunias and making paper snowflakes when he was having epileptic seizures.

I'm not real impressed with Victor and I'm not looking forward to the day they have to wheel him out in a motorized scooter with his colonoscopy bag hanging by his side and a drool cup suspended under his chin while some 20-something blonde throws herself at him. Not even if it's played for laughs like if the woman is Anna Nicole Smith. If the show wants Victor's fans to be happy they should maybe think about pairing him up with someone those fans can relate to. Someone closer to his own age and girth. And somehow I don't imagine Victor's remaining legion of fans, those of whom are still among the living, can relate to a statuesque brunette in her 30's who is vaguely European and has the facial structure of a drag queen impersonating Cher. Just guessing.

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