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ATWT Opinion Article
Week of July 7
By Anna Banks
7/12/03
This week of As the World Turns gave us wonderful glimpses of the new Paul
Ryan, played by Roger Howarth, glimpses of the new Jennifer Munson, and an
action-packed week that left us on the edge of our seat.
I know that there are many out there who think that Scott Holroyd is the
only person who should be playing Paul Ryan, but one has to admit that
Roger Howarth is a great actor. When Jennifer was speaking to Barbara at
the memorial, Howarth’s facial expressions told us more than what Barbara
and Jennifer were conveying by speaking. I can’t wait until next week in
which we will see Barbar’s reaction and Rose’s reaction to Paul Ryan being
back in town.
Right now I am a bit unsure of nuJennifer. The actress playing her just
doesn’t do it for me. Maybe all I need is a few more shows of her, but I
think it’s partly the ATWT makeup artists’ fault. Jennifer’s makeup looked
painted on, which is a bit different from the natural look the rest of the
cast has. It just made whatever she said less believable than if her
makeup was different, and it made her lines seem stiffer.
I don’t understand why Susan is so gung-ho about marrying Rick. She has
known the man for only two months, and he’s the suspect for serial
murders. No matter how much she loves him, common sense should tell her to
be on the lookout. I thought Rick’s proposal was pretty strange, and I
couldn’t believe Susan fell for it. He wants to marry her so Alison and
Emily will suddenly love him? That makes no sense to me at all.
Bonnie must have a screw loose in her head, because I don’t know why she’s
infatuated with Sarah. Bonnie is an immature adult herself, and now she
thinks that she is good enough to adopt a child who obviously has huge
problems. Isaac is her voice of reason, but as she so obviously does, she
disregards what is the best for her.
It seems like Lily and Holden are now surrogate parents for Rose. I
couldn’t believe that Lily was practically guilt-tripping Rose into giving
up Dusty. Sure, Dusty may not be the best guy in the world, and sure, he
has made mistakes, but it is Rose’s decision to whether she should be with
him, and nobody else’s. The scene at the police station in which Dusty was
calling to her and Rose and Holden were glaring at Lily just made me roll
my eyes. I was relieved when Rose told Lily off, because everything she
said was true. Lily was in essence blackmailing her, and I was happy that
Rose realized that she is a grown woman, and can make her own decisions.
I didn’t think Craig was out of line to be worried about Lily running off
with Aaron. I know that this is a soap, but in real life, parents aren’t
so lackadaisical about sex and teenagers. The fact that Lily and Aaron are
being allowed to travel alone for a period of time away from Oakdale is
suspect itself, and why Rosanna was passing it off as a normal thing
teenagers do made no sense to me.
Too bad Alison’s birthday was ruined by the incident with the man in the
wheelchair. Hopefully next week Chris can make her birthday feel a little
more like a birthday.
Best scene of the week: Alison and Chris making googly eyes to each other;
Jessica Dunphy and Bailey Chase made the occurrence believable.
Honorable mention: Any scene with Roger Howarth.
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