Hi all, and hoping your week is off to a great start....here's another of Juju's clips for us. We're getting close to the end of the trial, and more great stuff from Roger and the gang. Commentary follows.
First of all, we've all said it or thought it, but the day players back then were better than the main characters in some cases now. Judge F is one of my FAVE judges ever on OLTL. I love her and her attitude. She's perfect for Todd's story.
Nora is a complete shambles, and everyone knows it. Love the shot from the back of the court that they use here. What happened to "art" on these soaps? I feel like we loved them so much because they did so much to keep us loving them.
Powell's talking about Todd, not so convincing. By then, he doesn't even care if Todd breathes anymore. Nora is twirling her hair a lot. Another subtle way of showing us what is going on inside her! She's definitely shirking her responsibilities here. Looking at her in this scene, I just flashed on her when talking with Todd during the Lord Heir story.....as if he were having two heads.....how much they allowed these characters to evolve and interact, without losing sight of the real story and the past. Love it. Clearly she should be objecting over and over and instead, just sits there.
I simply LOVE when Hank says that Todd has a history of forcing himself on women, and Powell says "I didn't know anything about that!" And the court goes wild, while Nora is staring at Marty, and the Judge asks if the defense attorney is in the courtroom. I mean, how great is this? The show was really at an awesome point, wasn't it?
Peter gets a nice slappola from Bo. Love that. "She's her own woman..." Peter has never thought of that one, neither has Todd. Step one to us understanding Todd more, and the misogynistic and abusive home he grew up in. I love how OLTL revealed Todd to us slowly, over ten years! So well done. Even if we get Roger back, I doubt highly we will ever get this back. A sad note: juju's edits may be all we have of Roger as Todd....imagine.
FAIL: I guess my fail here is "why didn't Nora just tell the judge WHY she wanted off the case?" I guess I don't know enough about the legal system to understand that. The judge says put your personal crisis aside, but we know why she's doing this....why not just tell? Hmmm....
Sound off!
The first thing that I notice in this scene is how "dead on" Hank is about Powells mental state during all of this.......Hank pretty much repeats word for word exactly what Powell says in group therapy later about Todd and why he "did it for Todd" because he wanted Todd's approval......pretty good on Hanks part. Second is how much of Peter Manning really is in Todd......the way he tells Bo to control his "girlfriend"........those are words I could here so many times out of Todd mouth! As far as Nora not doing anything........I think they wrote the story (don't know if it's true in reality) that Nora's duty was to defend her clients as a defense attorney and anything that she knew about after the fact that was damning to the boys was part of the client confidentiality stuff, so she really couldn't say anything......she was truly in a Catch 22......either be in trouble because of that confidential stuff if she told or defend clients she knew were guilty......either way she was screwed so she choose to do what she did......defend them but not to her best ability.
ReplyDeleteI LOVED the whole Nora thing and her final decision. Just loved it. It made for such great courtroom drama.
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