Nathan and ... (Monday) (Read 1,024 times)

[Kpatch]

I loved the scenes between Nathan and Maggie in today's episode. It seemed like they were really saying goodbye to each other. They both seemed very natural and it didn't seem like they were even acting.

Scenes with Stephanie? Not so much. It was sad inasmuch as both actors are leaving the show, but it seemed completely unnatural. I actually laughed when Nathan told Stephanie "you're a great girl, despite everything." Sounds like something the show's executive producer said in a recent interview when he was talking about the actress who plays Stephanie.

What did you think of these scenes?

[MrsM]

I honestly didn't pay much attention to Nathan and Maggie. I missed the scene with Nathan and Stephanie. I just have gotten to the point that he doesn't even interest me anymore regardless of who he is interacting with.

[DancingDays]

Nathan was on today? I ff'd most of today.

[Kpatch]

Go back and watch, you guys. It was actually a good episode.

[ghoulgirl]

I agree. Maggie and Nathan had a good scene together. I also did not mind his and Stephanie's scenes either.

[slyn11]

Oops thanks for the reminder I need to add those scenes to my Philip/Melanie playlist. I was slacking because of disinterest.

But I do agree the Nathan and Maggie scenes were real and heartfelt. Loved her telling him he deserves a woman that loves him and only him. Maybe this time some of Maggie's advice will sink in. And it really did feel like their last scenes together as actors...I would be surprised if they get much more. I would think his very last one will be with Melanie.

The Stephanie scenes with him...well I am all for closure...but yeah...how can she hug a man that just told her he "Tried to make himself love her"? She should have smacked him, not hugged him.

[Sparkster]

I agree about the Nathan/Maggie scenes. Very heartfelt. I agree with slyn, I bet those were their last scenes together. I liked the way they ended too with Nathan heading for the stairs and then he turns around one last time and looks at Maggie. Very well-done indeed.

The Nathan/Stephanie scenes weren't quite as good but it was nice to see Nathan be honest with her for once, even if it was brutally so. LOL. Stephanie knew the writing on the wall for quite some time. I didn't like that she was trying to take the blame for Nathan and Melanie not being together. At first she seemed to be sarcastic about it but then I think she really thought it was her fault for trying to hold on to Nathan. I'm glad they were able to patch things up and talk civilly instead of tossing insults back and forth.

[rockfordfosgate]

Of Nathan/Stephanie...if one of them was sticking around, then yeah I would have liked the scenes more. It does leave them on semi-amicable terms, but what good does it do to have him tell her she's a "great girl" (or even for Maggie to tell him he deserves someone who loves him and only him) if neither on sticks around. There's not much payoff for us viewers that way. It writes them off too neatly, especially when other characters who have deserved much better, ahem...Tony, Anna, John, Marlena, Steve, Kayla, for starters. Those characters got hasty, sloppy exits, so why should Nathan and Stephanie get any better? Grr....

[Trey]

I liked the resolution for Nathan and Stephanie. I like that he admitted to loving her only b/c Mel wasn't available and how it didn't do either of them any favors.

And, Maggie/Nathan were pretty natural together. It was a good Nathan goodbye episode.

[mae00]

I absolutely LOVED the Maggie and Nathan scene!!

The scene with Stephanie & Nathan just irritated me. Stephanie's have to know attitude when she overheard him on the phone and her jumping to conclusions made me wanna jump through the screen & slap her. Her whole "John Hopkins huh...............mind telling ME what that was all about??" What does it matter? He didn't have to make that decision with her permission. i had to laugh tho when Nathan told her he convinced himself that he was in love with her because Melanie wasn't available. Talk about a reality check slap to the face for the little heifer.

maybe Stephanie needed to be paired with EJ. Two control freaks like that who manipulate to keep the people they "love" would definately had to have had a good outcome (and by good I mean both ending up in Vivian's sarcophagus) and left on the island.

[addictedtodool]

He's still such a little wussie. But he will go become a wonderful doctor at John's Hopkins and one day he will return to Salem a more likeable character. Nathan is admitting he made a mistake, saying heartfelt goodbyes and before you know it...POOF! he's baaaaackkk. Mark my words, he will come save her from the stupid Dario thing. And we will cheer him and be glad because he's better than watching Melanie and Dario. Can you imagine Dorkay behind the cutrain twisting his hands together trying to find a way to make Melanie and Nathan a rooting couple and coming up with...DARIO? Perfect!

And mae...love the heifer comment. Glad to see you here!

[ghoulgirl]

I think that you may be on to something there ATD!
Dorkay, er, I mean Corday, has said that Nathan will be back....then again, we cannot always believe what comes out of his mouth, but that being said I think you may have hit the spot! LOL There are quite a few "mate" (boy it seems really weird to be using combo names, I never, ever use them at all LOL) fans out there and they feel let down after the news of Mark Hapka being let go, as things could have just gotten good for them. I was one of those fans for a while, but am not any longer.

[addictedtodool]

Corday has been a victim of his shortsightedness for a long time and I don't expect him to change much since it has been keeping his show on the air. He doesn't have his parents touch for romance that builds; he wants his fire to burn quick instead of smoulder and as a consequence he changes the couplings too quick for them to work as well as they could. If Melanie had truly begun to change and her and Nathan slowly discovered he loved her I may have bought the coupling too. Because he couldn't settle on a couple and instead played with the Stephanie/Philip/Melanie/Nathan thing it just didn't work for a character like Nathan that we didn't have enough time to get to know first. And Mark suffered because of it. But I am certain that Nathan's scenes with Maggie and Stephanie were meant to cement his viability as a future character.

[slyn11]

I hope Corday was smoking when he wrote about Nathan returning. What a dull waste of character...they need to let him go. And Corday needs to get over his man crush on the Hortons...and step into the new millennium. We need more gray characters with layers, not whiny, inert grandma's boys with no real connection or value to the canvas. Unless Nathan comes back as a mass murderer, I rather him stay in Baltimore. Melanie doesn't need to be chained to Dr. Dull.

And we have Dario for that now anyway...

And Nathan was let go because someone on that show never wanted things to get good for Melanie and Nathan. They were writing a story where Nathan was just a tool to get Philip and Stephanie to react. If they truly were writing a story for Nathan, he would have had a life outside of Mel/Stephanie and he would have his own storyline. They never built the Melanie and Nathan romance because they didn't want there to be one - that was not who Nathan was in Melanie's life, despite what the boss was spewing. Now if he forces them to bring back the character....maybe this time they will actually use him as a character and not a human plot point.

[liz27]

I've always enjoyed the Maggie Nathan scenes and this one didn't disappoint either.

Oh Slyn I have to disagree on the Hortons. We need the Hortons in town they are the heart of Salem. Could we get some more interesting Hortons to come to town? Yes I believe we could, but I think we should always have the Hortons.

I do hope they recast Phillip or Nathan so that Melanie has a decent love interest. Dario hasn't sparked my interest at all.