From Joe Diliberto
"Happy New Year!" Well, it was certainly shaping up that way for ALL MY CHILDREN's Colby. She interrupted Tad and Krystal canoodling on the couch to announce her intention to go out partying on New Year's Eve, and was rewarded with a dawn curfew. Say what? " />

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December 31, 2007

Ambyr Childers (Colby, AMC)
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From Joe Diliberto
"Happy New Year!" Well, it was certainly shaping up that way for ALL MY CHILDREN's Colby. She interrupted Tad and Krystal canoodling on the couch to announce her intention to go out partying on New Year's Eve, and was rewarded with a dawn curfew. Say what?

Who in their right mind gives a high school girl a dawn curfew? Especially one with a past as... (ahem) "checkered" as Colby? Sure, the teen has been a saint for the past few months, but she is not that far removed from her bad-seed schemes. Wasn't her Sweet 16 party — and all its atrocious antics — just about a year or so ago? This is a girl who has a history of getting drunk and stealing a yacht. She is no amateur when it comes to getting into trouble with booze. And what night offers more opportunities to get into trouble with drinking and driving? Neither Tad nor Dixie even asked where Colby was going or whom she would be with. (Seems like they were more eager to get back to smooching.) Tad should have given her a speech about responsibility and that no matter how much he and Krystal trust her, she has to be wary of the other guy. They are plenty of drunks on the road on NYE — heck, that's what the holiday is famous for! Why not give Colby a limo and driver for the evening? Even if fans assume these things happened offscreen, the audience would have been better served by seeing Colby offered actual parental guidance onscreen. We never see enough of parents advising kids before they get into trouble. Granted, Tad is not Colby's father and Krystal is not her biological mother, but they were the adults in the room — it was incumbent on them to it make it clear to the once-wayward waif that partying too hearty was not a good way to end 2007 — or kick off 2008.


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