Sisterhood of the Traveling Rex on OLTL
By Jamey Giddens on June 19, 2009
Brian Frons will no doubt have on his 3D glasses next week when Rex (John-Paul Lavoisier) screws Stacy (Crystal Hunt) on the floor like a wild dog before Gigi (Farah Fath) can tell him the heifer has been lying about saving their son. Carolyn Hinsey has this preview from Lavoisier about the stomach-churning plot twist for New York Daily News.
Brian Frons will no doubt have on his 3D glasses next week when Rex (John-Paul Lavoisier) screws Stacy (Crystal Hunt) on the floor like a wild dog before Gigi (Farah Fath) can tell him the heifer has been lying about saving their son. Carolyn Hinsey has this preview from Lavoisier about the stomach-churning plot twist for New York Daily News.
Rex gives Stacy the keys to [his club] Ultra Violet so she can teach a ballet class to little girls," says Lavoisier. "Rex is downing a beer when Stacy turns on the charm: 'What do you want, Rex?' He looks at her and ... they wind up doing it on a dance mat that had just been used by a bunch of minors."
Okay, I have no problem with popular soap couples being torn apart by a surprise sibling, this happens all the time in soaps. When these types of stories are done right, the interloper is generally deliciously skilled at seducing (sometimes with the added benefit of man ruffies) his or her sibling's true love, while protesting innocence and/or or the abilty to "understand" their relation's lover better than their former bunk bed met can. Think Melrose Place's Sydney, DAYS' Sami, etc. We haven't seen any of that with this story. Instead we've had a set up so contrived it makes the entire run of Passions look like a BBC production, played out by three—yes I said three—actors who were too bored or uninspired to give a damn.
I cannot believe this is the same Rex and Gigi I adored last year, or that Hunt ever so much as resided in Spaulding mansion on Guiding Light. A shameful, inorganic story brought out shameful, inorganic acting in three once-rising soap stars who we all know are capable of so much more. Thank God this story— much like Rex I'm afraid— is about to climax all over Ultra Violet. Paging Bitchy Bangs!
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13 June 2009
13 hours 33 min
They are all so very dumb...like every bad soap cliche ever thrown together.
3 October 2007
6 weeks 4 days
I love OLTL, but this story has dragged on and on for too long. The only thing that would make it great, would be to find out that Stacy is a tranny after she slept with Rex!!!! HA!
27 November 2007
25 weeks 2 days
Tell me it isn't so. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy the heck would he be falling in bed with this chick this fast anyway it makes no sense. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy is Rex being written like a idiot. Let's just find GIGI a new man and move on she deserves the man she was with last year.
30 April 2009
13 hours 45 min
it's the writing...sucks...plus stacy (sorry but the actress playing her sucks - and you feel nothing for her) which in turn makes you mad at rex for not KNOWING..
20 February 2009
3 hours 13 min
Actually, I guess I was in the minority in that I loved Rex and Adriana. It was an old fashioned soap love story with a slow build. They were friends, they were from opposite sides of the track and they had to fight for their love. The only reason I could see for the quick demolition of that love and Adriana was the offscreen affair of FF and JPL and perhaps MF wanted to focus on her new marriage.
Although even JPL thinks Rex is acting like an idiot, and the talents of all 3 are limited, I think that a relationship as rushed as Gigi/Rex was and is ripe for friction.
27 November 2007
25 weeks 2 days
I liked both couples would have been happy to see Rex with either one I just want to throw Stacy under a bus. I think I would like her more if she felt like a sexy Vixen but she just comes off as a slut.
22 March 2009
27 weeks 4 days
Seriously, what?! I thought Carlivatti is a genius and hope for daytime. This sounds like stright from JER´s playbook. His second DAYS run playbook and that´s not good. Using stupid plot contrivances to force members of popular couples have unprotected sex with interlopers only to introduce an unwanted pregnancy short time later was practically the only storytelling scheme JER used.
22 January 2008
7 hours 47 min
Seriously, what?! I thought Carlivatti is a genius and hope for daytime. This sounds like stright from JER´s playbook. His second DAYS run playbook and that´s not good. Using stupid plot contrivances to force members of popular couples have unprotected sex with interlopers only to introduce an unwanted pregnancy short time later was practically the only storytelling scheme JER used.
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The difference is, James Reilly had complete autonomy. Ron Carlivati does not. He has a meddling network exec who can force actors/characters down his throat.
8 May 2008
6 hours 29 min
Maybe Stacy goes back into time and never been seen again, LOL. I take that or have someone hit her with the car.
26 November 2008
6 hours 2 min
I can't believe they are going to have Rex sleep with Stacy. Ugh! They have made Rex the stupidest character in all of soaps and I don't think he can come back from this! John-Paul Lavoisier makes it obvious that he hates this storyline, not only with his acting but in his interviews as well...which I always find amusing!
14 December 2008
9 hours 33 min
Rex and Stacey are really going to sleep together? Pass the barf bucket!
6 January 2008
24 weeks 1 day
Really Jamey? You loved Rex and Gigi a year ago? In 1968? I didn't recall that you loved that story and I'm surprised. 1968 was so heavy handed and contrived it ruined Rex and Gigi for me, and things have grown progressively worse since then IMHO. Each new attempt to create a dramatic storyline for this couple is a more spectacular failure than the last. Initially, Rex and Gigi were cute and sweet and romantic. They could be excellent romantic and possibly comedic relief when firmly situated on the mid burner in fun mini-stories, but I think it's been proven that making One Life to Live Gigi/Rex centric is a recipe for mediocrity.
22 January 2008
7 hours 47 min
Oh no, I hated 1968, but I still loved the couple back then.
8 May 2008
6 hours 29 min
They making Rex look like an idiot and I don't blame JPL for being angry about this horrible s/l. I wish that Stacy would just fall down in Eterna and never to be seen or heard from again, LOL.