SPOILER !! Week Dec 9

The Yo Daddy plot was terrible and convoluted. But, and someone will correct my memory because I glossed over most of it, Yo Daddy was some kind of super soldier builder. He claimed to be John's father and at the time what was where John's parentage remained until Timothy (Dick Van Dyke) replaced Yo Daddy in a long line of who is John's father storylines. Yo Daddy was a terrible person and a tried to make Paul kill John using his specialized drugs, hypnosis and other magical potions and spells.
 
Here's a quick rundown of John's history and how Yo Daddy (a nickname we used on the board for Yo Ling) came into his life.

In the early 90's, John was found to be the bio son of Philomena and Leopold Alamain, named Forrest Alamain, who drowned as a 3 or 4 year old. Lawrence said no one in the family saw Forrest's body after the death and later when the casket was exhumed, it was filled with sand. A DNA test was done on Lawrence and John, and it was a match.

Then Tony (really Andre) returned around 2002 with a letter from Daphne (Tony's mother) saying she had a baby from an affair and gave the child to Philomena (her sister) and Leopold to raise. Another DNA test was done and and it showed John and "Tony" to be brothers. Then we later got another rewrite that John was the son of Colleen Brady (Pop Shawn Brady's sister) and Santo DiMera (Stefano's father), named Ryan Brady.

When the show wanted to hook up Brady and Jeannie T, we got a quick throw-away line that John went to Europe to do extensive research and discovered Ryan Brady had died as a little boy. Then later he was said to be the son of Maude Robicheaux and Timothy Robicheaux, a/k/a the deranged Yo Ling. Timothy went off to the war and Maude couldn't afford to take care of John, so he was either sold or put into an orphanage. Timothy became deranged while fighting in the war, changed his name to Yo Ling and became a mercenary of sorts. When John went to meet Maude, she tried to kill him with poisoned tea.

And now, the most recent rewrite is that Yo Ling stole the identity of Timothy Robicheaux, and John found his bio dad, the real Timothy Robicheaux, a/k/a Daddy Van Dyke.

Due to rewrites, they seem to stick with the story of Philomena and Leopold adopting/buying John when he was little more than a baby, and somehow his death (drowning) was faked (unbeknownst to the Alamain family), and he was whisked away to the Hunger Games style boarding school, Winterthorne Academy, where he met Eduardo Hernandez as a kid, and somehow Yo Ling (the one we call YoDaddy) had a hand in arranging. :rolleyes: Oddly, Vivian appears to be fond of her adoptive nephew John.
 
I started out thinking the actress playing Cat was pretty good but now I think everything she does is over the top. Especially facial expressions. Love her hair though!
 
I totally agree. She is in my opinion, not just an actress but an "over acting" actress. I admit I am liking her a bit more the past few days, and think that Chad's character is at least "in like" which might well turn to "in love" in near future. Thanks oldschool and oldsoapie for your comments.
 
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oldsoapie said:
I don't care much for the character of Cat nor the actress playing her. Hope she will be gone soon!
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I'm with you. I don't care for her or Chad, or their potential caring/coupledom. And I find most of her acting choices to be... unique. Not in a good way, like I want to see more, but in a bad way, like I'm embarrassed to be watching it because it makes the acting in YouTube videos look skilled.
 
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