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It was actually Marlena who was posessed
By ELB | January 29, 2008
Er ma gur! Remember when Dan Savage left a comment on my lame personal pity party? I like to think he’s been lurking this whole time. Like, he can’t get enough of my trenchant 90210 commentary, and finally spoke up because he was afraid that’s I’d get too bummed out to talk shit about horrible people living in a fantasy land.
While I’m on the subject, As the World Turns has been seriously pissing me off lately. Noah moved into Luke’s grandma’s house with him, so now they can spend more time hanging out in the kitchen, not fucking. Well, they’re spending so much time trying to keep their hands to themselves that they don’t even have time to be on the show anymore.
Seriously, I was talking to Jason, a friend and known homosexual, and he assures me that there is no way in hell these two 19-year-old guys are living in the same house — even if it’s grandma’s house — and not fucking thrice daily at the very least.
I mean, for real, remember on One Life to Live when the angel what’s her name came back and left angel feathers all over Llanview to let people know she was looking out for them? Or what about when Luna went over into the netherworld to fight for Max’s soul? I realize that OLTL isn’t ATWT, but things such as angel wings and trips into Hell are to be expected from a soap. Two teen gays sitting in their kozy kitchen talking about taking it slow is just too far beyond my suspension of disbelief.
It’s been years since I watched OLTL so I had to go back and do some fact checking. I though Victoria Lord (who will always be Vicki Buchanan to me) went through a demonic posession, but it turns out she just had multiple personalities for a while. Then I remembered that it was Marlena from Days who was posessed by a demon named “MarDevil.” When I went to confirm this, I learned about the time Marlena received a mysterious job offer to lead a women’s empowerment program in New Jersey. Not surprisingly she disappeared soon after she got there. John went looking for her and found her bound and tied up in a crate in a storage room. I guess John got her out because when Steve and Kayla were poisoned, he and Marlena flew to Canada to get a drug that might help them. Their plane went into a flat spin and naturally Marlena agreed to jump from the plane. Fortunately she had her own guardian angel that day. She was rescued by Smokey Robinson, who then turned right around and helped Marlena and John reconnect.
That shit is definitely better than the time Andy Williams was all over ATWT.
Topics: ATWT, Baffled Mutterings, Television | 8 Comments »
January 30th, 2008 at 11:37 am
OMG, I was a huge OLTL junkie. You musn’t leave out the fact that Viki (Niki) had a multiple personality because of the trauma of watching the entrance to the secret underground city of Eterna collapse around the ears of her lover Roger. Roger was raised in Eterna but escaped and met Viki in high school. He knocked her up but before she had the baby the entrance to Eterna exploded with Roger inside. Thus Viki became Niki. During childbirth, she became Viki again, but Victor Lord totally had her hypnotized so she didn’t even remember the pregnancy. He convinced Roger (who actually didn’t die) to take the baby (Megan) away. Megan later came back to Llanview as a fully grown adult a few years later, and became Viki’s most invidious enemy. Viki eventually learned that Megan was actually her love child.
And speaking of Days, remember when Marlena and John turned evil because of the chip that Stefano had implanted in their brains? OMG, and then they had that submarine ‘n’ shit. Or wait, was that John and that other chick with the split personality? That princess chick. Gina? And don’t forget that when it was discovered that Marlena was possessed by “The Desecrater”, it was John, a former priest BTW, who performed the exorcism.
Holy fuck, I need to start TiVo-ing this shit again.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:48 am
OH! It was Megan who died and left angel wings all over the place! But I’ve never really watched Days, so I don’t know anything about an exorcism.
You need to quit your job and move into my house so we can watch TV all day.
January 30th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Right?!
January 30th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
I am so glad you are taking your duties as a daily poster so seriously. I think with a little exercise and a little posting you are going to be just fine.
I’ve only watched soaps when visiting my grandmother and a bartender friend – she watched soaps all afternoon and worked all night, maybe you could pick up some shifts? I remember the whole Marlena/Stephano thing on Days with the submarine – wow. All I could think about was how Marlena was the mother on “Our House” and she ALWAYS wore her shirt collar “up” and it drives me crazy to this day. A quick imdb search has shown me that Marlena was Electra Woman on “Electra Woman and Dyna Girl” in 1976. Hmmmm.
January 31st, 2008 at 8:36 am
Amelia, the “popped” collar is straight from hell. A device of Sauron’s making. It’s all over goddamn New York, too.
January 31st, 2008 at 11:24 am
Nothing makes me feel more like a mean old woman than when I see youths of today wearing their ironic totally awesome 80′s gear. For real, I want to punch face.
January 31st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I spent the summer of 1995 living in a trailer with my dad in Weatherford, Oklahoma. Undoubtedly the Marlena possession story – yellow eyes first, then white, all deep, scary voice – was a highlight of that summer.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Oh, Nate. I love that story.