Gigi, Shane, Brody, Cutter, Kim, Aubrey, Slick Rick, (The Fords) Eddie (who is returning) Robert, James, Nate, Dani, Tomas, Baker, Irene, Louie, Calmar, Vimal, Rama, Neela, and Destiny (He stopped caring about her two years ago, and he never knew what to do with her or her family after he created them) are all Ron Carlivati creations. In creating new characters, Ron maligns those he didn't create. He takes them apart, bit by bit until their essence is gone and they are unrecognizable.
Another of Ron's characters is Charlie Banks. He came in with that Paris Texas crew and Dorian was almost destroyed in the process of making that sad-sack her hapless victim. (I still hate him for what he did to “The Diner” by turning it into that crappy Buenos Dias Cafe.)
The show is so heavily laden with Ron’s characters that veterans have disappeared from the canvas or they are used merely to prop Ron’s favorites.
A character who has been on the show since birth was turned into a socio-path so that Gigi, Rex and Shane get yet another front burner story? First there was the great “Bullying” story. Remember the hype around that? This story was going to change things for kids who are being bullied throughout the country. Jack Manning became the most hated character on the show when only months before, soap opera message boards were lit up with posts by fans who loved the Christmas episode where Jack and his little brother saved Santa. It wasn’t enough that Jack was turned into a teen bully, he was also turned into a murderer. Why? So that then again, Rex, Gigi and Shane get yet another front burner story. “See Rex chase Gigi!” “See Gigi Disappear”.
How about Ron’s hard-on for Robert Ford? This character broke up a beloved couple and while Markko ended up with a broken heart, Bobby ended up with the girl, whom he quickly dumped when he saw hot mess, Tess. It’s not suppose to matter that this slime had sex with Jessica and got her pregnant when she was going through an emotional trauma caused by her “father’s” attempt to rape her. So, screw Jessica, (which is what he did.) Bobby gets the girl and the baby while Brody who loved Jessica gets another trip to St. Anne’s. [Brody is the one character that Ron has placed on the chopping block several times.] I think he does it because Brody comes with a “Crazy Card”, which ultimately relieves him of culpablility when he messes up.
We were suppose to root for Cutter when he was choking the shit out of Alex, right? Yeah! I think we were suppose to root for Cutter, the guy who just had his sister put in jail for a murder he committed.
Then there is that slew of people who have been attached to Todd. His mama, Baker, Louie and Tomas. Louie I liked, but the rest of them can go to hell! Ron believes that he can make the audience go against what they know, again by flipping the script. He blew it when he had Tomas admit to Blair that he delivered Todd’s bloodied body to Irene, where he was imprisoned, and tortured for eight years. The script says that Tomas was a good guy, who was just doing his job, but the audience is not buying that bullshit. So, Ron continues to flip the script and in doing so, Blair is being sacrificed by literally being in bed with the enemy. Ron may have forgotten, but I haven’t. Blair kidnapped Mitch Lawrence and put a gun to his head because she thought that he had something to do with Todd’s disappearance, yet because Ron wants a “juicy” triangle, we are suppose to believe that Blair loves this man. We are not buying it. The irony is that as the show heads for its final episodes, we should not have to buy any of Ron's usual or unusual crap. Enough with the trickery. All any of us have ever wanted was good storytelling and all we have ever gotten from Ron is a big, fat “SCREW YOU!”
