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Date Posted: 20:55:57 05/29/02 Wed
Entitled "Sympathy for the devils". The writer speaks of three characters, Edmund on GL, Sami on DOOL, and Lindsay on OLTL. Since I don't watch the other two shows I will pick up in the article when she discusses Lindsay...
"Finally, on One Life to Live, I now have a smidgen of sympathy for Lindsay. Catherine Hickland's performance as this amoral blonde has always been consistently delicious, but I never cared about Lindsay because the woman was utterly self-centered. I never believed she truly loved Sam or Clint or Bo, her kids or anyone else. Her brand of 'Love' was always mental, damaged or manipulative.
But, lo and behold, as this story progressed I have felt for her in two instances. Even though Lindsay left Troy to die, when Hickland started delivering those monologues about how she really thought Troy had loved her and not judged her, she had me. As she collapsed inwardly, realizing Troy had bamboozled her from the get-go, I saw at least a flash of someone who just wanted to be loved but had no idea how to treat people. And, just as she was trying to find out how to love, she got the rug pulled out from under her. Follow that with the scary and harrowing scenes of what Lindsay dealt with in prison, and I genuinely felt sorry for her.
When even the most wicked characters can win you over, little by little, that's something to crow about. Future stories for Edmund, Sami and Lindsay -- who will all undoubtedly slip back into their evil ways (Sami already has) -- will be infinitely more multidemensional. Soap Opera is never more engaging than when -- despite the color of the ink and the paper the scripts are printed on -- the characterizations on-screen are anything but black and white.
~This so validates why I love the bad girls!!!
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