Tea is DYING and Ron is full of bullshit. This Tea is dying story is Ron’s last ditch effort to try to save his horrendous love story. He wrote it once and it stunk. He re-wrote it and it stunk. He threw everything out and decided to dig down way deep into his bag of tricks and decided that by giving Tea a fatal decease he could finally tell his “tragic” love story.
Poor, dying Tea got hoisted up yet again by none other than Blair Cramer, who has been lifting up this lead ball since Ron decided to try to make it bounce. If Blair could have sympathy for Tea, everybody should have sympathy for Tea, right? Ron pulled this straight out of his handbook, “Training the Audience 101". It seems to have worked according to some of the message boards where fans, “Just love Tea and Blair as friends.
Friends? Blair and Tea should never be friends. You had better believe that if it were Blair dying, Tea would have filed papers seeking custody of her children while Blair was on her death bed. Ron has managed to re-write history and what he doesn’t re-write, he just deletes. Tea’s motives are always pure according to Ron. According to Ron, Tea did Blair a favor when she took her daughter from her. She was just giving her a home until Blair got well. Ron neglects the fact that Tea was more interested in keeping Blair’s daughter away from her even when she was well. If she kept the daughter, she also kept the man. Ron even had Blair thank Tea for taking such good care of her daughter, overlooking the agony she was in when Starr was away from her. Of course this works with the new viewers who see Blair’s contempt for Tea as irrational and it works for Tea fans who saw nothing wrong with a woman taking another woman’s child away from her while she relishes in her misery, but not to worry. Tea is giving Blair guardianship of her rotten teen-age daughter. That evens the score, right?
If you didn’t buy Blair and Tea as friends, Ron dug even deeper into his bag of tricks to pull out Starr Manning herself to give a testimonial that Tea is the bestest stepmother ever, which is laughable because Starr was just a little girl when Tea became a distant memory, never mentioned again until Tea-Propping time.
Ron is so schizophrenic in his storytelling that he has deleted that pesky little incident where Tea sneaked into Starr’s home and badgered her into committing perjury. She played on Starr’s guilt, telling her that her father tried to kill himself because of losing her, knowing that Todd tried to kill himself because Marty, the woman whom he raped again, told him to jump into the river. Starr was almost thrown in jail because she followed the advice of her step-mother when she testified in court to save her father from going to jail.
So, Tea is dying, and Ron has given her story all of the fanfare of a dying heroine, including a back story to re-emphasize her sad, sad life. Ron penned Tea’s bucket list and allowed her and the love of her life and their love child to do whatever it was that Tea wanted to do before she kicked the bucket. He even gave the lovers a wedding, complete with of their children in attendance. Heart wrenching, right? BUT Hold the Presses! Ron has one more TNTrick down his rabbit hole. It's sure to make the show vanish.
