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by
Todd Brown
November 8, 2008
I don't understand why almost everyone is so sure
Victor would never murder someone. While it's true
that Victor has never killed anyone in the past, he
is hardly a shining example of pacifism. We know he
likes to beat people up - he doesn't go around
punching that punching bag for nothing. I know the
Newman family tends to be a little dense, but for
them to dismiss the possibility that Victor may have
killed Walter Palin out of hand, especially given
the circumstances, seems willfully naive. Only
Nicholas has his doubts, and when Nicholas is the
smartest person in the room, you know you're in
trouble.
Ashley of all people should know better. She should
never have been so dismissive of the possibility
considering her own father, John Abbott, killed a
man who was threatening their family. And of all the
people in Genoa City, I'd say John Abbott was about
the least likely candidate to commit murder - and
Tom Fisher didn't even kill John's wife. While it
may have been something of an accident, John did in
fact go after Tom with a gun and go to jail for the
crime. So Ashley should really be a bit more aware
that such things can happen, even to the best of
people, one of which Victor certainly isn't.
While Victor prays to the Patron Saint of Unborn
Children, he is pursued by Ashley, who prays to the
Patron Saint of Sperm Thieves. Meanwhile somewhere
in London, their daughter Abby is no doubt praying
to the Patron Saint of Children Whose Parents Have
Abandoned Them Just Long Enough For Them To Go From
6 to 16 In About A Year. I think that Saint has a
permanent home base in Genoa City. I'm not sure what
Ashley hopes to accomplish, wandering the streets of
Paris showing Victor's picture to every random
stranger she encounters. I imagine she hopes to
eventually find someone who says "Yes, I remember
that man, he mumbled quite a bit."
Sharon is the picture of sanctimony these days,
isn't she? The way she holds her moral high ground
over Jack's head you'd think she was some kind of a
saint instead of the adulterous dimwit history has
proved her to be. Jack may tell lies and keep
secrets, but as far as I know he has never so much
as looked at another woman since he married Sharon,
let alone cheated on his spouse, and that's a lot
more than Sharon can say. Even now, Sharon runs to
former lover Brad Carlton or ex-husband Nick Newman
every time she has a little tiff with her husband.
Jack, by comparison, has had exactly one
conversation with former wife Phyllis about the
state of his marriage, and even that was instigated
by a clandestine letter Sharon wrote to her former
husband and Phyllis' current spouse.
And Sharon really needs to stop playing the "Noah
card" with Jack. Her endless defense of Noah as
though he were some feeble, fragile little boy who
could be swept into an unrecoverable abyss should
the slightest circumstance shake his carefully
insulated view of life is a crock. Isn't this the
same kid who has survived countless family scandals
and the divorce and remarriages of his parents? The
same kid who has known Victor and what Victor's all
about his whole life? Jack handed the kid a fistful
of Euros and he was out the door on his way to
France. He sure didn't look that broken up to me.
Maybe Sharon should pay a bit less attention to
Noah's delicate psyche and bit more to his grooming
habits. Someone needs to tell Noah to brush his damn
hair. I don't know what it is with kids these days
(get off my lawn!) but this trend among young men to
wear their hair as though they just rolled out of
bed and couldn't be bothered to drag a comb through
it is unsettling. It dates back to the days of the
original teen incarnation of Billy Abbott and even
today is an affectation that Daniel Romalotti
employs. Why is messy hair "in" and why don't
responsible parents - if not mirrors and common
sense - put a stop to it?
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