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Port Charles Update for Friday, 17-Sep-1999

And now...
Another Friday update from the wonderful world of Port Charles where men are blessed with great women, and women are blessed with ... wonderful opinions of themselves.

At least, this week.

(Not that anybody with a ratings book would care what a guy would think!)

We open BOOM! right into the Frank and Courtney plot, my least favorite plot of all soap-dumb at the moment. While Courtney berates and threatens Frank yet again, let me tell you about hurricane Floyd, the pitiful - at least it was pitiful in New England. It was... Oh wait...

Here comes Kevin and Eve! Eve is as proud as Punch as she shows Kevin how she locked Chris into the closet. (How she turned into Xena to stuff Chris into the closet and move a super sized chair against the closet without Chris being able to react is left unexplained.)

Well, looky here! Scott's got DV all tied up and spends most of the rest of the show threatening to kill him. "Let's have a little fun!" he says. Forget Six Flags! Here's where the fun starts!

OK, we now return to Courtney and Frank. While Frank tries to convince Courtney to do the right thing and stop blackmailing him, I have to tell you that Floyd was one wimpy storm. A little wind and some much needed rain is hardly...o wait, here's Kevin and Eve again.

Kevin and Eve release Chris who is not a happy camper. Weddings are not things one should miss, particularly if your partner to be is a serial killer. Besides he's falling in love with Julie for real (or so one begins to think.) Eve doesn't think Chris should be within 10 miles of Chris and begins to say so. Kevin however is telling Eve to calm down. Eve starts to but pleads with Chris to reconsider what he's doing. Chris says something like "Later babe, like never!".

Scott continues to taunt DV and forces him to call off the guards. He's holding a hyperdermic needle about 9 feet long and has probably learned to fence with it on the side.

Chris is now desperate to see Julie. After some angry words with Eve, he's off. Kevin sort of tries to be the calming influence, but calm is not the word for the day. The word of the day might actually be "Hmmmphh!" as Eve continues to be utterly sure of herself, and Chris has decided that Eve can no longer be trusted.

Scott meanwhile is now reading Bordisso letters from his mom. Scotty is quite convinced that she wrote them to break up with Bordisso. Bordisso squirms and looks menacing. Scott waves his hyperdermic needle. Gee. I wonder how you spell "Hyperdermic".

Uh oh, Frank and Courtney are in the bedroom trying to get horny.
You know, the other thing about Floyd is that there probably wouldn't have been so many traffic deaths if people were allowed to try and use their own common sense. Or is there any of that left?

"This command performance is strange" says Courtney. Nah, just a normal day for Courtney. Maybe a breath of fresh Floyd-cooled air will make her feel better.

And now for some actual dialogue....
"Blackmail" says Frank.
"Danger" says Courtney.
"Blackmail" says Frank.
"Danger" says Courtney.
"YYYEEeeechh!!" says Scott.
"Omigod, my Chinese food!" says Scott's wife Lori threateningly.
"Meeeooww" says our smaller cat.
"CRRASH" goes the vegetable dish in our bunnies' cage
"Get me OUT of here", says Floyd....

Then suddenly out of the blue, Frank and Courtney have a pleasant conversation filled with a taste for real affection. So startled I am, that I actually am paying attention for a second. Then they have sex. Oh well.

Kevin and Eve consider other ways to stop the Julie/Chris marriage. Eve whines about how bad things seem to happen to her closest buddies, and darn it, she doesn't want Chris and Kevin to be the next victims. At this point, I suddenly miss Greg Cooper.

Not to worry about Chris for the moment though. Chris meets Julie too late. Julie sends him out on his ear. Chris shows signs in this scene that he really IS falling in love with Julie, but it appears that he won't be able to marry her now. Life's rough when you can't rumble with a serial killer.

DV says that Scott really isn't interested in killing him, is he? Scott now brings out the rat poison to kill him slowly! Boooo, come on Scotty, what's all this?? Suddenly there's a knock at the door. Scott reverts back to the 15 foot hypodermic needle. (Yes, I decided to look "Hypodermic" up!)

And that's how the show ends!
It was a lot more threatening here in PC than it ever was here with Floyd!

Scott
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