Austin – what a wimp!

 I only knew Austin Peck as Austin, and he was always naive. it seemed that he let everyone walk all over him. This Austin is the same. I know that Patrick was Austin first but he is just as clueless! Don’t know if he was always this dull, but he is not the brightest bulb in the box.

I think he needs to tell her that he’s going to tell Jennifer what happened and that she probably needs to talk to somebody about her obsession with him because it just isn’t natural. 

Then, STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM HER.  He can tell Carrie anything he wants but just tell her he doesn’t want to be around Abby.  In fact, Carrie is sickening the way she fawns over her.  Yick!

I also think if Melanie is as good a friend as she claims, she’d knock on Abby’s head and ask her what does she think she’s doing and to wise up and forget about Austin.  She’s obviously (even to Mel) delusional.  Especially after that trip to GM.

she’s turned into a stalker, which these writers don’t know how to write a good story around, I’m certain of that.  She’s become the male version of Nick Fallon, and sadly no one can prove her wrong, because Ausdumb believes he slept with her.  Personally, I wanted to show him what to do with her skis, but it probably wouldn’t sit well with the viewing audience.

but certainly not until she drives Carrie straight into Rafe’s open arms, and that’s going to make me sick.  It seems to me like once that happens, Austin will finally make her see the light and force her to realize that this has now given him reason to despise everything about her that he once admired.  Once he can forcefully do that and she finally realizes what she has done, and that most of all she is not going to become Mrs. Austin Reed, she could possibly suffer a complete meltdown, perhaps even attempt suicide.  That’s the route I’d go with it, anyway.  Surely Austin won’t allow himself to go near her ever again once she drives Carrie away (if he does, then he deserves the name "Ausdumb"), but it’s hard to say with these writers.  They don’t know when they are staring at a gift horse with a storyline in its mouth, and there could certainly be a lot more to it if they would just pull their dull thoughts out of their heads and take this opportunity to be what they are being paid to be — namely, good and juicy soap writers — but I’m not holding onto any high hopes.  It will probably simply be swept into a corner and buried along with Mrs. H’s secret envelope for Stefano.  Abbey will cry one week and meet someone new the next, realizing she never truly loved Austin after-all, and, of course, that it’s all Jack’s fault for abandoning her (ugh!).