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Post by Zathras on Oct 3, 2014 19:59:34 GMT -5
Hope springs eternal
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Post by francescavl on Oct 4, 2014 7:40:34 GMT -5
Oh God, I hope not. I don't want them to concoct some farfetched scenario in order to bring back Edwin "from the dead" (I know it's typical of soaps, but I hold GTST in higher regard than most other soaps, so I hope they wouldn't do something like that).
Besides, I like Menno more than Edwin (anger management issues aside, of course). They already have the perfect opportunity to realistically and believably bring back a partner from the past for Lucas, his husband!! He can come back to Meerdijk in a year or so having successfully worked through his problems through therapy, asking Lucas for another chance (a proper chance, this time).
Hell, even bringing back a Bilal who's come to terms with being a gay man and is finally comfortable in his own skin would be more realistic than Edwin being alive again.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Oct 4, 2014 8:54:15 GMT -5
I don't see Edwin coming back. It's true Ludo came back from the dead, but with him it was planned. And I basically knew it would happen the moment he died. The doctor was a friend, a closed casket et cetera. Also, if they were going to bring Edwin back I think they would have to recast. Unless Raynor wants to leave film school in Belgium. But... it's fun to speculate about these things. I've always liked the idea of Bilal coming back. He could be a friend for Nuran and a lover for Lucas. But now that Nuran is gone... Anyway, we'll see what happens. Maybe the new hunky lawyer in town (Thijs Kramer) is bi.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Oct 4, 2014 16:47:25 GMT -5
Part 594Episode 4892: Lucas tries to convince Ludo to leave Bing alone.
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Post by HQ75 on Oct 7, 2014 16:24:37 GMT -5
Y'all know how I feel about Bilal so I won't go on about it. But if they wanted to bring him back having working through his coming out issues and reconciled his religious doubts, I'd be SOOOO up for it.
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Post by Hawthorne on Oct 9, 2014 23:36:12 GMT -5
Lucas has been back on the show for about a week, but I'm not sure what story he is going to be involved in yet. He's had some scenes with Nina involving Nina wanting to get married to Vincent. Lucas doesn't seem too thrilled about the idea, I guess because Vincent is her first cousin. I was surprised Vincent and Nina stayed together when it was revealed they are first cousins. Apparently that's not as big of a taboo in The Netherlands as it is here in the the U.S. It's actually illegal in a lot of states for first cousins to get married. I think that Nina thinks that Vincent is going to propose to her during a trip they are taking to Israel, but perhaps he's not going to. And perhaps my understanding of what's happening is wrong...
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Post by anthonyl on Oct 10, 2014 9:50:11 GMT -5
Will Lucas even have a love interest this year? Usually they've kept him single for awhile between men.
I wouldn't want Edwin back, but then I was never enamoured with them in part because I think the show botched getting them together.
No to Bilal. He and Lucas were together for about a minute.
I honestly haven't forgiven the show for taking a wonderful character like Menno and doing what they did. I love soapy conflict and drama but I need not to see a man hitting or abusing his gay lover ever again.
Let's hope Lucas next man, whenever he gets one, brings plenty of drama, but I'm done with closet cases and abusive men. Move on, show.
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Post by dalphine on Oct 10, 2014 18:43:58 GMT -5
I didn't mind the story line because I'm sure stuff like that happen. I'm mad that they got rid of Menno. I like that character and wanted him and Lucas together. They could have worked there problems out. I want be coming back to this show, because they give Lucas a love interest for a year and then he's gone. Sometimes shorter than that. I don't want to get involved with another romance with Lucas and they end up letting him go as well. I like the character Lucas but I'm done.
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Post by jjose712 on Oct 11, 2014 15:48:56 GMT -5
The question is not if he'll get a new boyfriend, sooner or later he will get another, the question is if the new boyfriend will beat him, because frankly this is getting tiresome. If they want his boyfriends to treat him like crap there are other ways without physical violence.
And yes, the show did an amazing job spoiling a great character like Menno, congratulations
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Post by dalphine on Oct 12, 2014 18:10:30 GMT -5
I hated it to that they always was letting Lucas, get beat up. They did Christian from Eastenders the same way, I hatred that to.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Oct 19, 2014 6:06:20 GMT -5
Not a spoiler anymore (not sure if it actually ever was a spoiler). But here's the show's new opening tune:
I like it. It feels more like the old tune but in a modern version. The one we had before this sometimes felt too modern.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Oct 22, 2014 9:55:53 GMT -5
Sjoerd, while visiting Anton in the hospital, looks at photos from his wallet. Always nice when they show us they didn't forget about Edwin.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Oct 23, 2014 15:21:24 GMT -5
Part 595Episode 4894: Janine senses something is bothering Lucas.
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Post by Hawthorne on Oct 27, 2014 7:36:04 GMT -5
Thanks, Mark! Things just keep getting more troubling for Lucas.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Oct 29, 2014 16:35:30 GMT -5
Part 596Episode 4895: Janine wants Lucas to go to the police.
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Post by Hawthorne on Oct 30, 2014 11:44:32 GMT -5
I think we're getting close to the point where Noud gets heavily involved.
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Post by Hawthorne on Nov 1, 2014 22:01:50 GMT -5
Man, there's some heavy sh*t going down in Meerdijk this season. I don't understand most of it, but it looks intense! Apparently Ludo and Janine have killed someone. Rikki slit her wrists. Sjors cheated on Tim with Bing, Anton had a near fatal car crash, and worse of all there's a foxy new vixen in Sjoerd's life who has trouble written all over her. Meanwhile Lucas has been abducted and so, apparently, has been Nina. I think. I'm not sure what Nina's status is actually apart from being seriously injured. Somehow Noud is slowly being drawn into the story. I'm not sure he knows yet that Nina and/or Lucas is in trouble. Mark, can you help me understand what's going on?
It seems to me that GTST has become increasingly dark in recent years. Meerdijk has never been a land of sunshine and joy, but there used to be more fun scenes in-between the psychos and the wedding massacres. Now there's kind of a grinding gloom. I take this to reflect the mood of Dutch society at present. These are pessimistic times in many places around the world.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Nov 3, 2014 10:00:56 GMT -5
@ Hawthorne Okay, here we go. The foxy new vixen in Sjoerd's life is Anna, Bianca's niece. She used to live in Dubai with her parents but suddenly left for the Netherlands. She invited herself to live with the Bouwhuis family. Anton doesn't want her in her house. And I guess Bianca wouldn't be too thrilled about a young, sexy woman living with Anton. Ludo and Janine didn't kill anyone. Someone else killed Veltman and just put his body in Ludo's office. Very creepy. And yes, Lucas has been abducted but only because they couldn't take Nina after she fell from the cliff and got injured. Ludo and Janine thought Veltman was the one who abducted Lucas until they found his body. That's when Ludo realized this wasn't about business. This was personal. It's very likely one of Ludo's enemies from the past is making a comeback for this story line. We saw someone in an office talking briefly to Veltman but we only saw his or her hands. So it must be someone the viewer knows. Nina hasn't been abducted. Ludo and Janine moved her to a different hospital. Nobody else knows where that is for Nina's safety. Also, nobody but Ludo, Janine, Vincent and Lorena know that Lucas is abducted. The rest thinks he met a friend in Israel and decided to travel further with him. They also said Lucas lost his phone so they can't reach him. And Janine supposedly doesn't want to tell him about Nina in an email. But the other Meerdijkers are getting more and more suspicious. Last week Ludo received this photo: I agree that the stories are rather dark right now but I have to say that the current Sanders story feels like old-fashioned GTST. Loving every minute of it. It's nice to see Ludo and Janine in such a big, dramatic story again.
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Post by Hawthorne on Nov 5, 2014 11:21:41 GMT -5
Thanks, Mark! I wonder how much Ludo really cares about Lucas' fate. Perhaps he mainly cares because Janine is so devastated.
I have this suspicion that originally Nina was supposed to be the one abducted, but then a need arose to explain Ferry's absence for that other show he's on and so they created this situation where Lucas has been abducted and Nina is in a coma in an off-screen hospital. I'm pretty sure they've foreshadowed that there is more to come between Nina and Noud and Noud rescuing her from her abductors might have originally been how that was to come about. Now, I think it's not clear what they do with Noud. Is he going to try to rescue Lucas when he finds out about his abduction? I'm not so sure. Is Noud going to spend the entire season as a supporting character?
So that foxy vixen in the Bouwhuis house is Sjoerd's cousin. She's of Sjoerd's age group and an obvious seductress, so I'm thinking she's going to try to get into Sjoerd's pants. If so, kind of strange that the show is so fixated on incest.
The GTST website has started charging for watching episodes from previous weeks, which sucks. If you click the Inwoners link, though, you can view all the scenes connected to the character you're interested in for free, which is nice and in some ways better than having to watch an entire episode to see the story that interests you. They even show scenes for characters no longer on the show. So if you access Edwin, for example, you can view the key scenes in his and Lucas's romance.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Nov 6, 2014 17:10:12 GMT -5
The foxy vixen Anna actually kissed Wiet at the end of today's episode. And she's also interested in Thijs. No interest (so far) in Sjoerd.
I don't think they've rewritten the story. I think Ferry had to leave temporarily anyway because of his contract. That coma was already three years ago. Maybe Nina wasn't going to be in a coma in the original story. It seems more likely that they had to rewrite that part because of Marly's pregnancy.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Nov 6, 2014 17:20:34 GMT -5
The GTST website has started charging for watching episodes from previous weeks, which sucks. That's strange. Are you sure? Because I can still go back to all those episodes and they're still free. The only two I have to pay for are the ones that still have to air. The rest is free to watch.
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Post by Hawthorne on Nov 7, 2014 12:32:08 GMT -5
I think it might have been a bug on the website that made it start charging for videos. I noticed that at the same time half of the content on the main page had disappeared. So maybe something just went wrong. I'm glad you don't have to pay to see the videos again. Lucas' trip to New York covered for his absence due to his contract, I thought, whereas his abduction covers for his absence due to that other TV show. To me, there would have been more drama if Nina had been the one abducted since she's the child of both Ludo and Janine. That's why I think it's possible they modified the story to accommodate Ferry's continued absence. Yeah, maybe they simply won't write anything sexual between the new vixen and Sjoerd. That didn't occur to me.
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Post by GTSTfanMark on Nov 7, 2014 15:07:53 GMT -5
Lucas' trip to New York covered for his absence due to his contract, I thought, whereas his abduction covers for his absence due to that other TV show. I think it's actually the other way around. Filming for that other show took only three weeks, I believe. Lucas I was in New York for about a month. That's not long enough. BTW, today was Ferry's first episode of The Bold and the Beautiful. I hope there's a way I can watch those scenes.
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Post by crayran on Nov 7, 2014 21:36:41 GMT -5
Sjoerd, while visiting Anton in the hospital, looks at photos from his wallet. Always nice when they show us they didn't forget about Edwin.
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Post by crayran on Nov 7, 2014 21:41:06 GMT -5
Why is the Lucas and Edwin story line blocked even after all the time that has past. I would love to be able to view the story from beginning to end . I have seen some of the story line but a lot of blanks that need filling in
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