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by
Todd Brown
March 14, 2009
And so it begins. Baby Cordelia, barely a week old,
already being pawned off on family servants. It was
only a matter of time. Billy and Chloe hadn't even
unpacked their suitcases at the Abbott manor before
deciding it was perfectly fine to dump the baby off
on Mrs. Martinez so they could rush off to the
hospital. Mrs. Martinez, who hasn't even been seen
since John died over a year ago. I'm not even sure
she still works at the Abbott manor, and I don't
think even Billy and Chloe know for sure either. Nor
do they care.
It takes a lot of guts to be a housekeeper in Genoa
City. I know times are hard, but I hope that during
the interview, the potential servants are informed
that aside from keeping the house clean, their
duties will include raising the family children and
grandchildren. Because God knows they'll be doing
that far more often than the parents will. They'll
baby-sit 24/7 no matter what the hour of the day,
they'll chauffeur, they'll dress, they'll feed,
they'll change, they'll burp and basically they'll
be surrogate parents to heirs of fortunes they will
never see. And what will be their reward? If they're
lucky enough to get out of there alive like Miguel
was, they'll get some cheap clock they used to dust
as a parting gift for their trouble.
However, times may be changing. The new maid at the
Newman ranch, Estella, doesn't seem to cotton to the
idea of raising other people's children. More Mrs.
Danvers than Mrs. Martinez, Estella won't even care
for the family dog let alone the children and
grandchildren. It was thus that Victor's pooch,
Zapato, found himself inexplicably down at the tack
house with grandma Nikki rather than at home.
Meanwhile God only knows where Noah's dog Fisher
might be these days despite the fact that Noah is
currently living with Nick and Phyllis. And the way
Estella glanced back at the drawing of Sabrina
showed an utter contempt for Victor's revolving door
of wives the likes of which can only be found with
viewers like us.
I for one certainly share that contempt. I can't
think of anything more sick making that watching
Ashley thank Victor for having reversed his
vasectomy. Which to this day baffles me, by the way.
When and why exactly would he have done that? We
know he was still snipped and tied when he was
married to Diane. What inspired him have second
thoughts? Was he hoping for a child with Leanna? Or
did he plan on knocking Nikki up for a third time
without telling her it was even possible?
Meanwhile, the saga of Katherine, Genoa City's
answer to Anastasia, continues to plod along. Nobody
can seem to agree on whether she's Katherine or not
but one thing is clear, that's one tough old broad.
She crashed her car in an ice storm, got thrown from
the car, floated downstream and spent the night half
immersed in freezing water. She later fell on the
ice and whacked her head and now she's survived a
bomb explosion and yet she never once looked any the
worse for wear. Most people half her age would have
been dead by now yet her biggest problem seems to be
forgetting stuff.
I have to think that even if she did ever recover
all her memories she'll be longing for the day when
she was living in a trailer thinking she was a
waitress at a greasy spoon diner. Considering who
her friends and family are, I had to choke when
Murphy declared them "quality" people. If Murphy
thinks the idiots running around in the hospital are
"quality" just because they have nice coats on I'd
hate to think what he considers scum.
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