Boogie Chillen
October , 2001

I know Leo can be dense sometimes, but how could he POSSIBLY believe Laura's little act about calmly, even HAPPILY, accepting that the marriage is over and getting some therapy? She's never LOOKED more looney than now! As usual, this constantly wilting little flower is not being monitored, nor does she even have an IV. Why is she in the hospital then?

Does Opal have a problem with her furnace, because Frankie is dressed for a hot July day in a barely-there tank top.

Hmmm, at least three years have passed since Jr. was about 14, based on the new actor playing him and all the comments that he's almost a grown man, etc. It was only a few months ago that he and his friends were all drugged up and stealing drugs from David, who consequently held the sword of doom over JR's future, making Adam help him get away with the Libidozone thing, causing David to be a major thorn in PVH's side (more than usual) and lording it over Jake and Joe, which set Tad off enough that he enlisted Leslie to help him get back at David, which is why Dixie is now breaking up with Tad. How can they age a teenager so much when said teenager has been such a front-burner storyline so recently? It throws everything OFF! By this timeline, Lorenzo should be walking, talking and riding a tricycle by now.

And that mother-son chit-chat between Dixie and JR was hard to swallow -- he looked like he wanted to get it on with her.

Bianca insists Frankie loves her in a way that she's never been loved before. Huh? What exactly has she done to show Bianca that she loves her? All we've seen is Frankie being evasive and constantly pulling away from her. Something more must have happened off-camera in the 3 or so PV years that have elapsed since two PV days ago.

Leo and Greenlee are SO happy and just can't wait to make love, so they do so ... in a rowboat ... in a boathouse in Pennsylvania ... at the end of November ... at NIGHT. Then they STAY in the rowboat, ON the water, NAKED but for a thin (probably moldy) blanket that only partially covers them while they cuddle. I don't care HOW young, horny, hot-blooded and passionate you are -- that's F**King COLD -- LITERALLY! Oh wait, I stand corrected -- they're both wearing watches ... and possibly a condom. Is there a condom machine in the boathouse? There SHOULD be one (or more).

I'm glad to see that Bianca ran off after seeing Frankie and JR in bed together, rather than faint as some spoilers had stated. Otherwise, I'd have to recommend a complete neurological work-up on the poor, frail girl.

Is there a city ordinance that decrees that all PV women MUST wear sleeveless tops in winter? Now Frankie is lying, presumably dead, on the floor while Erica holds a gun and sits calmly in a chair. Oh great, Frankie is REALLY going to get cold NOW.

And now we have a who-done-it. Obvious signs point to Erica, but murder is NEVER obvious in Pine Valley, so I dismiss that idea right off the top.

Robin "shivering in California" Coutellier