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by
Todd Brown
August 9, 2008
It's interesting that they managed to kill off two
people and yet still make the whole week about
Victor. And by interesting, I mean boring. So,
unfortunately, aside from the repulsive and insipid
escapades of the Von Winters Family Singers and
Michael's latest quest to find his father, very
little else happened on the show this week that
didn't revolve around Victor.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that Victor
lacks people skills. Aside from Katherine, he has no
friends to speak of that aren't either on his
payroll or related to him. When your lawyer has to
plan your wife's funeral, it speaks to how alone you
are. His behavior leaves little doubt about why this
is so. He's lucky his children are such masochists,
because no matter how badly he treats them, they
still try to be there for him in times of adversity.
But reaching out to Victor is like reaching out to
an alligator. You're bound to lose an arm.
I know Victor is grieving but I don't think Sabrina
is an appropriate benchmark for unconditional love.
Zapato is really the only one he knows who qualifies
for that role. And what about Hope, and Ramona?
Didn't they love him unconditionally, with no
strings attached? Or doesn't he count them, since
they left him? No doubt Sabrina would have
eventually done the same, given the time and
opportunity. Let's face it - they knew each other
for less than a year, and were married for about a
month. I'm sure all of Victor's marriages would have
been happy ones had his wives died during the
honeymoon.
Victor wants to play the blame game with Nikki. Do
we really want to go there? Do we really want to
stop and think about the circumstances that led up
to this whole thing? Because it's rather a twisted
tale that makes little sense. After Jana killed
Carmen, David came to Genoa City seeking revenge. He
became embroiled in the Winters family and,
initially, Newman Enterprises, which bought
Granville Global, a company David allegedly worked
for.
But wait! Then David became a campaign manager -
inexplicably - working for Jack Abbott, who Victor
was supporting in the senate race. I don't recall
Victor having a problem with him then. And then
David jumped ship for Nikki's campaign after posting
a stripper video of her on the web, a tactic she
admired. Again, inexplicably.
Then Nick's plane crashed, the family was in
mourning, and Victor chose that moment to go on a
quest to find Victor Jr., who Hope had told him had
gone missing in South America. Apparently Hope
didn't know South America from Harvard business
school, but I digress. Victor remained incommunicado
for weeks while his grieving wife turned to David to
console her. And that, folks, is when Victor decided
David was scum.
Victor isn't psychic. He didn't know David was a
gambler or a mobster until Paul told him. His
dislike of David wasn't due to any keen instinct
about the man's morals or character. It was rooted
in jealousy over the fact that Nikki had cheated on
him with David. And Sabrina's death had less to do
with Nikki or David than it did with Victor himself,
who left Sabrina at the gala in order to privately
investigate her former boyfriend. That left Sabrina
to ask for a ride home from David, a man she knew
her husband despised. So Nikki's culpability in this
tragedy is minimal at best.
And I don't buy for one minute that Victor is so
torn up about Sabrina. He's torn up about himself.
He pushed everyone else away and Sabrina was the
only one left. If he gave a damn about Sabrina he
wouldn't have basically given the finger to everyone
who came to her funeral to honor her memory only to
learn that he'd hijacked it and didn't tell anyone.
And he wouldn't have thrown her body into a grave
along with his cell phone to disturb her eternal
rest with the constant ringing either.
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