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No, and no. Rayna actually encouraged Scarlet to find her own path last season. I think Rayna's role with Scarlet is done, for now at least.
Scarlett is a song-writer. If Rayna is so much into encouraging talent, she could encourage that.
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Burning questions regarding Pam, Deacon's new girl-friend.
Will Teddy steal her away from Deacon?
Has or does Luke Wheeler sleep with her?
Did Luke put her up to chase and bed Deacon?
Is Pam most likely to suck up to Rayna or insult her?
Could Pam be Avery's mother?
Does Pam do drugs?
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Scarlett wanted out and Rayna released her, as I recall. They no longer have a professional relationship, and Scarlett was supposedly leaving town. I'm not even sure Rayna knows Scarlett's still in Nashville. Maddie's certainly not going to tell Rayna she saw her! They may yet still interact because of Deacon and Maddie, but Scarlett is no longer Rayna's artist.
Okay, so Scarlett is no longer a country singer. Did Rayna see that she get help? Did Rayna do anything to encourage Scarlett to stay in the business?
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Their kids. (While Maddie isn't biologically his, he is, if I recall correctly, still listed as the father on the birth certificate.)
Thanks for the correction. I was only thinking thru Rayna's POV.
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Okay, first LW won't be any time soon the girls step-father. If Jeff sets Teddy up in a scandalous situation I say about time. If he insists on signing the girls (which I doubt because he isn't into music because of Deacon) Rayna has her own situation to force Teddy to think about not signing any contracts. The bank deal that Peggy and him embezzled 2 million from to hold over his head. Now that would be one hell of a drama episodes...The mayor, handsome, wealthy nice person to talk to can't find someone nice to date with all the functions he goes to. Is he the only one that's going to take his time looking for someone he really cares about this time or does he still think he has a chance with Rayna?
I find Teddy's situation rather curious. He is needed and necessary, because who else can Rayna leave her kids with while she is on tour?
Rayna knows about the embezzlement, but does she have proof.
I think there has to be a reason for that brief scene of Teddy sitting alone at a bar and looking lonely.
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I really hate Rayna. I know a lot of people like her character but for me, Connie Britton and Callie Khouri failed with her. I find her incredibly unlikable and self-righteous. In their attempt to write this strong female character they've made the mistake of writing this judgmental hypocrite who doesn't behave like a normal person. In season 1 she made all these sassy demands and then stormed out of rooms. That is not what a mature businesswoman does. I thought she was alright at the beginning of season 2
as she was recovering from the car crash
but the Rayna I hate has been slowly creeping back in and now she's back to infuriating me more often than not.
Half the time I dislike Rayna.
For instance, I realized that Rayna and Scarlett have not had a single scene this season. Was Scarlett just dropped from Rayna's label? Don't they have a contract? What about Rayna's claim that she is there for her artists and intends to nurture their talent? She hasn't been there for Scarlett?
Yes, she did drop her hot pursuit of Sadie, momentarily, to go tend after Juliette. But also this gave Rayna the opportunity to gauge how much use Juliette was going to be to her and her label in the foreseeable future. Otherwise, she hasn't been there for Juliette either.
Rayna is dead cold around Teddy. However, he seems to have been and will continue to be the main care-giver and custodial parent. I tend to think she initially married him for that purpose alone. She couldn't leave her baby with the drunk Deacon while she toured on concert, so she chose Teddy.
Rayna is often a hypocrite. She acts as though mothering her daughters is the most important role in her life. But it isn't. I don't mind that her career is given the priority. What I do mind is all the BS and pretending otherwise.
Rayna always makes the self-serving decision. Which is okay. But then don't pretend otherwise. When she chose Luke over Deacon, a lot of it had to with vanity and taking the easy way out. Since then, she has not given two hoots about Deacon's well-being. Like Teddy and Scarlett, he's just dropped.
I think it is Rayna's hypocrisy and tendency for passive aggressive mannerisms that makes me dislike her quite a lot.
But when she told off Jeff Fordham, I was totally with her. Although she was acting the hypocrite there too. She's been just as much as a whore as him - Teddy, Deacon, Liam, Luke - all within a year.
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My money is on alcoholic cardiomyopathy.
The season finale will be him waiting for a heart transplant. *headdesk*
REALLY?!
And knowing now that Juliette and Avery are getting married there's no way bliss will follow. It's sad and maybe a little unethical to demand this from Hayden but I'm convinced now more than ever Juliette will lose the baby.
Is Hayden pregnant?
It is hard to imagine that happily ever after is written in the cards for Juliette.
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Yeah, that's the thing. Rayna isn't against the girls being professional musicians, she just doesn't want them to do it right NOW, she wants them to have a childhood first. As previously established, Teddy would rather them not be pros at all. He knows full well how fickle and potentially damaging the music industry can be, he'd rather them do anything else. So if Jeff manages to talk Teddy into signing the girls, I call bullshit.
I was thinking the same way. Until I just remembered that scene of Teddy by himself at the bar and looking lonely and forlorn.
Maybe Jeff will set him up in a compromising and scandalous situation, and thereby force Teddy to sign.
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And if the Jeff and Teddy really try to sign the girls I think I might lose it. It is so stupid it boggles the mind. Of course Teddy has not supported the girls' musical ambitions and Rayna has. Also as their inspiration you would think they would want direction and participation from their mom.
And, uh, in case they seem to have forgot... Rayna has her own record label! If not for artistic reasons then for financial reasons it would make no sense for them to sign with anyone but Rayna. Are they really so short on ideas that THAT was the best they could come up with? They could read this board and literally get twenty better ideas from reader suggestions.
I always had the impression that Teddy was more against the girls' music. I think Jeff was just blowing smoke. He thinks he can talk Teddy into it, but I doubt it.
Who might have better luck with is Luke - when Luke becomes their step-father.
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Hi all! New to the board, and glad to read such frank discussions.
They quickly brought in this Pam and I don't know what to make of her. She strikes me as tenacious. I bet she is going to hang onto Deacon for dear life. It will certainly be interesting to watch when she and Rayna crosses paths.
I think next up in the cards for Rayna won't be Deacon but Jeff Fordham. She had a lot of nerve to call him a "whore"! The hatred between Rayna and Jeff is so much and so vigorous.
I guess I haven't been watching the show long enough to understand who Deacon really is/was. I've only been at it for a few weeks, although my family members who've watched faithfully from the beginning filled me in as best as they could.
I can only say that based on what I've seen, and understood about the series, that Deacon, for all his sins of the past, is trying to move forward in a more positive direction. He's going to stumble along the way, no doubt. And for all that the Pam character is doing FOR him to help him lighten up, get over Rayna, and have some fun with life, she strikes me as the kind of so-called "friend" who's going to cause him, eventually, to move past fun into risky, irresponsible behavior again. And when the inevitable crash and burn happens, she'll laugh, dust herself off, and go look for another victim.
But then, why not? This is soap opera, after all. If all the characters acted only in the kindest, most thoughtful, most mature way possible, what would be the point in watching? So I say, bring on the wreckers - the Pams, the Lukes, the Sadies (yeah, I don't trust her, either), the Jeffs, to tear up the place and keep us guessing as to what crisis they'll bring on next.
Deacon is very quick to over-react. This has been his problem with drinking. He's very over-emotional. Very little self-control. Last season he went on a binger, all because he found out Maddie was his daughter and Rayna didn't tell him the truth. This season he's been amazingly self-controlled around Luke.
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Rayna Jaymes: The Reigning Queen of Country
in Nashville [V]
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For some reason, Rayna wanted to stick it to Jeff and make it hurt. Even though she had won that round by signing Sadie to her label.
Yet she had some kind of harsh deep feeling against Jeff, which suggests that for her that it was more than about business. Maybe she has transferred her feelings for her father onto Jeff. Maybe due to Luke, Rayna finds Jeff threatening. Or maybe she is deflecting anger she actually feels towards Luke onto Jeff.