LOL I love how Clint always has to say the full name. He did this with Roger Gordon too. Like there are no other Sloans to my knowledge! Sloan CARPENTER! Yes, we get it!
I so agree with you. I HATED Viki here and I had never done that, the true character of Viki was damaged herea and I so agree they made Clint the bad guy. He always had a temper, but he'd NEVER have raised his hand to her, NEVER! For this alone I NEVER accepted Sloan and Viki. I hated their relationship.
OLTL went down the tubes when Michael Malone and Linda Gottlieb took over. Paul Rauch and Peggy O'Shea kept the show exciting during the golden 80's. Clint Ritchie himself cited Malone's/Gottlieb's destruction of Clint Buchanan as his reason for leaving. Paul Rauch could have saved One Life.
Sloane just sucked so much. I hated that they had to throw Clint under the bus (and back it over him a few times) just to prop him up. And turning Clint into someone who would raise his hand at Viki in order to justify and excuse Viki's adultery? Ugh. Also, on a superficial level, Clint was just better looking than Sloane.
I HATED THIS STORYLINE! And for that reason for the writers to have Clint raise his hand to Viki like this was just WRONG and not in keeping with his character AT ALL.
They also could have brought back Andrea Evans after the situation with the stalker calmed down and they didn't even try. They really didn't understand what made the show so successful in the 80s.
It's Still Hard For Me To Watch This Scene😢Clint Would Have Died For Her!!! No Way In Hell Would He Had Ever Ever, Ever, HIT Her!!!!! I Stopped Watching It.I Was Done. Started Back When The "Classy General"🙄Died..👍🏾👌🏾Stop Again When She Got With Ben.Charlie Was Just Pitiful.They Ruined Oltl By Breaking Viki&Clint Up.I Began To Watch It Again in 2012. They Robbed Clint&Viki Fans By Keeping Them Apart Until The Show Got Canceled. I Hated Sloan. Mark (Ben) Couldn't Act,&Charlie Was A Drunk Snooze Fest😴Oil&Water Dont Mix! No Chemistry🔥With Any of Them! Except Clint Ritchie (May He #RIP💕) Really This Was A Mistake&The Beginning of The End For Oltl.😔
This was when they jumped the shark for sure. It was HORRID. ES said it was some producer decided to 'create more drama' by breaking them up, yet it was what killed the show for me. Then once she got with Sloan, thank God they killed him off, and brought back the real Clint they still didn't let them mend the fences. He was there for her and just wanted to love her. I just hated this story and like you, I quit watching.
@@sundishine2: Clint was a jealous gasbag and immature and Sloan was a phony sleaze and Vicki was irresponsible and self-righteous. And what's funny is that Clint, Vicki and Sloan all wasted a lot of time running their mouths about Dorian's wrongdoings and badmouthing and berating Dorian.
I believe the last time Viki witnessed a fight between Clint and another man she had feelings for (Tom Dennison, Joe Riley's twin), she lost her memory of Clint. I would rather that have happened here. LOL
NO!! I don't believe Clint should have died. I just don't think this story should have happened. If you were going to take Viki down that path, then there should have been some sort of reconciliation between the two, because Clint Ritchie and Erika Slezak had AMAZING chemistry in my opinion. She and Sloan did not. And this will really get a lot of people, I don't think Viki and Ben had a lot of chemistry. But I will agree, that Clint is not the Clint we used to know and love.
This was terrible. I hated they turned viki into a cheater and dumped clint. They tried to make clint into this cowboy rube or sloan was the brilliant general and chancellor of the local college . Paul rauch always knew how to keep the buchanan men as heroes like with austin Buchanan. He did throw roger Gordon in the mix to give them some obstacles but clint & viki prevailed. Michael malone wanted to marginalize the buchanans set the sun on them and rise the sun on the lords. He wanted to revive dorian & viki and made todd a lord. Bo asa clint and cord were treated as some throwbacks to the 80s . They made clint almost hit viki ! He was homophobic with the joey Billy thing and they had to destroy clint , vikis rock always for sloan who they killed off a year later so that viki could do the d.i.d. thing which Clint cared so much for her and helped her. Sad they both pretty much remained single until they weirdly had him marry lindsey rapaport after 2 seconds of meeting her and she went with Ben whom I thought was an annoying bore. Yea they reconciled them at the end but it was Jerry van dorn and the show decided to make clint an evil man with no morals . That guy was not clint to me at all . His name might as well have been Dave. Than they put viki with charlie a drunk who cheated on her with echo.
The writers made Clint the bad guy to justify Viki's infidelity with Sloan. It was so out of character for Clint to raise his hand to Viki, and it was totally out of character for Viki to cheat on her husband. I got used to Viki and Sloan as a couple, but it took a long time because they seemed so self-righteous about their adulterous relationship, which everyone in town seemed to accept. I think Dorian was the only one who voiced any objections.
I really hate how OLTL made Viki into this, cheating with sloan and then making clint out to be the bad guy. hated it. and sloan & viki ending up together was just a joke. stupid storyline, they killed him off and then she just went on turning her back on clint and being with other men. not right. her character was ruined. thank god OLTL had the good sense to reunite them at the end.
Unfortunatly, by the time Clint and Viki did reunite, it was with Jerry VerDorn as Clint, and it just wasn't the same. Clearly, VerDorn is an excellent actor, but if they was anyone who embodied a character in soap opera, it was Clint Ritchie. So many levels to his performance. It always astounds that he didn't have at least 10 emmy nominations under his belt. His level of talent was certainly right up there with Anthony Geary and David Canary. The fact that he was a "cowboy" made it all the more impressive. And as a couple, he and Erika Slezak were as realistic and believable as it gets. I think the primary reason for breaking them up was ES. I really think she grew tired of working with him, and probably had a little bit more influence on producers than the average soap actor.
Yes, Viki and Clint were both damaged by this implausible turn of events. At this point, he basically had become a supporting character for Viki and her numerous problems. His cheating on her would've made more sense, especially since he'd strayed in the past (with Echo DiSavoy). Unfortunately, the show chose to have him pine endlessly for Viki even after she dumped him for another man, which just made him look desperate and pathetic.
But don't you see, it's not what the fans want, it's conflict they need! LOL, ugh, I hate when the only conflict they can come up with is another person and change the core of the character.
@dereka79 I hated everything about this too!!! I don't care if you like cowboys or not ESArchive! Infidelity is just plain WRONG! And the reason you all think that the Clint storyline is a "waste of airtime" is because the current actor IS a waste of airtime! He couldn't convince anyone of a knock-knock joke! Say nothing about portray a tough, but so loving of a man - a manly-man, but so gentle/kind & romantic - heroic, yet genuinely humble. & on & on... No actor can measure up to CR - RIP.
I wish they had just killed Clint off instead of making Viki an adulteress. I mean, Viki is really moral and it'sjust stupid. Clint should've died. His character today is a mere shadow of what it was 20 years ago, or even 10....
agree with you. i certainly love the viki and sloan romance. sloan is indeed a nice gentleman. Viki and Sloan romance is one of the best moments. And how tragic. I hate the fact that he dies. Tragic ending to a love story. phew. Cheers.
2:53...LOL, their marriage _IS_ a miserable failure.
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Clint is a fine one to talk. I guess he forgot about banging Echo Di Savoy back in the day.
Wasnt nikki in control & they broke up ?I was too young at the time but I assume that is what happened bc nikki came back when she learned about Tina.
@@natalieps2387 Whether or not Niki was in control back then did she force Clint to have an affair with Echo?
Clint had the affair with Echo in 1983.. Niki didn't come back until 85.@@natalieps2387
My mother absolutely hated Gen. Sloan Carpenter.
LOL I love how Clint always has to say the full name. He did this with Roger Gordon too. Like there are no other Sloans to my knowledge! Sloan CARPENTER! Yes, we get it!
I so agree with you. I HATED Viki here and I had never done that, the true character of Viki was damaged herea and I so agree they made Clint the bad guy. He always had a temper, but he'd NEVER have raised his hand to her, NEVER! For this alone I NEVER accepted Sloan and Viki. I hated their relationship.
OLTL went down the tubes when Michael Malone and Linda Gottlieb took over. Paul Rauch and Peggy O'Shea kept the show exciting during the golden 80's. Clint Ritchie himself cited Malone's/Gottlieb's destruction of Clint Buchanan as his reason for leaving. Paul Rauch could have saved One Life.
I agree. I never watched OLTL after they broke Clint and Viki up for the last time.
stallion I was devastated over Clint and Vicki’s Break Up! I hated Sloan for a long time over this!
Similar to when Clint beat up Tom Dennison.
@@MRInvincible569 At least Tom Dennison put up a fight.
@@bmbutler2 , me too. I lost interest when they ruined Clint and Vicki.
This was vicki excuse to be with Sloan... make clint the bad guy...
Sloane just sucked so much. I hated that they had to throw Clint under the bus (and back it over him a few times) just to prop him up. And turning Clint into someone who would raise his hand at Viki in order to justify and excuse Viki's adultery? Ugh.
Also, on a superficial level, Clint was just better looking than Sloane.
I think Clint Richie was better looking. I didn't watch this then as I missed a few years but it does seem out of character for V to cheat.
Whoa Clint calling Viki a liar, lol. Who would've ever thought. We already know Clint didn't mind kicking somebody's ass over Vicki.
😆So True
LOL, Clint and Viki were both so immature.
Her "Friend" ? I think she meant my BOYFRIEND.
Does Sloan live in Megan and Jake's carriage house?
I HATED THIS STORYLINE! And for that reason for the writers to have Clint raise his hand to Viki like this was just WRONG and not in keeping with his character AT ALL.
Michael Malone and Linda Gottlieb didn't understand the fan fave couples. In a year they ended Asa&Renee, Cord&Tina and Viki&Clint
That was a horrible period for OLTL all of my favorite supercouples were destroyed during this time.
They also could have brought back Andrea Evans after the situation with the stalker calmed down and they didn't even try. They really didn't understand what made the show so successful in the 80s.
@@MRInvincible569 And Jensen Buchanan wanted to come back as Sarah but they turned her down.
I agree the writers really messed up when they changed clints character,he and Vicki were the best, the other men in her life after Clint were a joke
It's Still Hard For Me To Watch This Scene😢Clint Would Have Died For Her!!! No Way In Hell Would He Had Ever Ever, Ever, HIT Her!!!!! I Stopped Watching It.I Was Done. Started Back When The "Classy General"🙄Died..👍🏾👌🏾Stop Again When She Got With Ben.Charlie Was Just Pitiful.They Ruined Oltl By Breaking Viki&Clint Up.I Began To Watch It Again in 2012. They Robbed Clint&Viki Fans By Keeping Them Apart Until The Show Got Canceled. I Hated Sloan. Mark (Ben) Couldn't Act,&Charlie Was A Drunk Snooze Fest😴Oil&Water Dont Mix! No Chemistry🔥With Any of Them! Except Clint Ritchie (May He #RIP💕) Really This Was A Mistake&The Beginning of The End For Oltl.😔
This was when they jumped the shark for sure. It was HORRID. ES said it was some producer decided to 'create more drama' by breaking them up, yet it was what killed the show for me. Then once she got with Sloan, thank God they killed him off, and brought back the real Clint they still didn't let them mend the fences. He was there for her and just wanted to love her. I just hated this story and like you, I quit watching.
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Clint was a jealous gasbag and immature and Sloan was a phony sleaze and Vicki was irresponsible and self-righteous.
And what's funny is that Clint, Vicki and Sloan all wasted a lot of time running their mouths about Dorian's wrongdoings and badmouthing and berating Dorian.
I believe the last time Viki witnessed a fight between Clint and another man she had feelings for (Tom Dennison, Joe Riley's twin), she lost her memory of Clint. I would rather that have happened here. LOL
NO!! I don't believe Clint should have died. I just don't think this story should have happened. If you were going to take Viki down that path, then there should have been some sort of reconciliation between the two, because Clint Ritchie and Erika Slezak had AMAZING chemistry in my opinion. She and Sloan did not. And this will really get a lot of people, I don't think Viki and Ben had a lot of chemistry. But I will agree, that Clint is not the Clint we used to know and love.
This was terrible. I hated they turned viki into a cheater and dumped clint. They tried to make clint into this cowboy rube or sloan was the brilliant general and chancellor of the local college . Paul rauch always knew how to keep the buchanan men as heroes like with austin Buchanan. He did throw roger Gordon in the mix to give them some obstacles but clint & viki prevailed. Michael malone wanted to marginalize the buchanans set the sun on them and rise the sun on the lords. He wanted to revive dorian & viki and made todd a lord. Bo asa clint and cord were treated as some throwbacks to the 80s . They made clint almost hit viki ! He was homophobic with the joey Billy thing and they had to destroy clint , vikis rock always for sloan who they killed off a year later so that viki could do the d.i.d. thing which Clint cared so much for her and helped her. Sad they both pretty much remained single until they weirdly had him marry lindsey rapaport after 2 seconds of meeting her and she went with Ben whom I thought was an annoying bore. Yea they reconciled them at the end but it was Jerry van dorn and the show decided to make clint an evil man with no morals . That guy was not clint to me at all . His name might as well have been Dave. Than they put viki with charlie a drunk who cheated on her with echo.
The writers made Clint the bad guy to justify Viki's infidelity with Sloan. It was so out of character for Clint to raise his hand to Viki, and it was totally out of character for Viki to cheat on her husband. I got used to Viki and Sloan as a couple, but it took a long time because they seemed so self-righteous about their adulterous relationship, which everyone in town seemed to accept. I think Dorian was the only one who voiced any objections.
I really hate how OLTL made Viki into this, cheating with sloan and then making clint out to be the bad guy. hated it. and sloan & viki ending up together was just a joke. stupid storyline, they killed him off and then she just went on turning her back on clint and being with other men. not right. her character was ruined. thank god OLTL had the good sense to reunite them at the end.
Unfortunatly, by the time Clint and Viki did reunite, it was with Jerry VerDorn as Clint, and it just wasn't the same. Clearly, VerDorn is an excellent actor, but if they was anyone who embodied a character in soap opera, it was Clint Ritchie. So many levels to his performance. It always astounds that he didn't have at least 10 emmy nominations under his belt. His level of talent was certainly right up there with Anthony Geary and David Canary. The fact that he was a "cowboy" made it all the more impressive. And as a couple, he and Erika Slezak were as realistic and believable as it gets. I think the primary reason for breaking them up was ES. I really think she grew tired of working with him, and probably had a little bit more influence on producers than the average soap actor.
Yes, Viki and Clint were both damaged by this implausible turn of events. At this point, he basically had become a supporting character for Viki and her numerous problems. His cheating on her would've made more sense, especially since he'd strayed in the past (with Echo DiSavoy). Unfortunately, the show chose to have him pine endlessly for Viki even after she dumped him for another man, which just made him look desperate and pathetic.
But don't you see, it's not what the fans want, it's conflict they need! LOL, ugh, I hate when the only conflict they can come up with is another person and change the core of the character.
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Clint and Cord are both so childish and immature.
@dereka79 I hated everything about this too!!! I don't care if you like cowboys or not ESArchive! Infidelity is just plain WRONG! And the reason you all think that the Clint storyline is a "waste of airtime" is because the current actor IS a waste of airtime! He couldn't convince anyone of a knock-knock joke! Say nothing about portray a tough, but so loving of a man - a manly-man, but so gentle/kind & romantic - heroic, yet genuinely humble. & on & on... No actor can measure up to CR - RIP.
@Beckywild9 HEAR HEAR!! CR was/is THE ONLY CLINT BUCHANAN!!!! Though I do respect JVD, it is not the same at all.
I wish they had just killed Clint off instead of making Viki an adulteress. I mean, Viki is really moral and it'sjust stupid. Clint should've died. His character today is a mere shadow of what it was 20 years ago, or even 10....
agree with you. i certainly love the viki and sloan romance. sloan is indeed a nice gentleman. Viki and Sloan romance is one of the best moments. And how tragic. I hate the fact that he dies. Tragic ending to a love story. phew.
Cheers.
Sloan was a two-faced sleaze.
@brinpol LOL - I agree with your comments WHOLE-HEARTEDLY!!! ;O)