Dion

I'm a bit miffed they had Waverley being the one responsible for accidentally starting the fire but Claire Chitham knocked it out of the park as usual, particularly in her scene with Maeve. With many of the major locations destroyed by fire we can expect a dramatic refresh of the sets in the new year

Worst thing the show ever did IMO

That's true, especially in Jessie's case. Although it should be noted that both Audrey and Diana's childcare arrangements eventually ended up playing a huge role in their storylines lol. That said, I do think it was particularly cruel to kill off Jane's daughter just as a precursor to Jane's exit.

I hinted at that above when I said that Port Charles had some of the worst infant and child mortality rates in the 60s and 70s. I mean up until Gloria Monty took over... Jessie had a miscarriage in '64 Chuck died in '65 Jessie's daughter Nancy died in '66 Audrey had a miscarriage in '68 Diana's son Tracy died in '72 Lesley had a child that died as part of her backstory Jane's daughter Joanne died in '75 Lesley had a miscarriage in '77 Diana's daughter Martha was killed in a hurricane in '77 In the end only Angie's child,Tom Hardy and Augusta McLeod's child survived.

Wait...Lee had a (biological) son? I suppose he probably died. Port Charles - or rather "the unnamed city where General Hospital is set" as it was back then - had some of the worst infant and child mortality rates back in the 60s and 70s. Speaking of Phil....

The lighting and the overall look of the show did dramatically improve in the immediate lead up to going HD in early 2009 though (about one or two weeks before the actual switchover). It was quite dreary beforehand but suddenly brightened up. Which brings me to what I'm thankful for, I quite enjoyed most of 2009, even the first run of Franco. I particularly liked the carnival which ended with a drugged Edward driving into everyone. After Sonny shot Dante - which was a great moment - the show slowly lost its appeal.

**Not to be confused with Sarah Horton whom the thread was about a few days back That said, I'm not sure she had anything to do with Sami/Austin/Carrie/Lucas so perhaps this is a more candid shot of the younger cast posing together rather than a promo for a particular storyline?

I think Carrie was supposed to be slightly older (at least in 1990) because I remember them being candystripers together in the hospital and being interested in the same boy, Chad. And I distinctly remember Sarah saying to Chad that he was probably more interested in Carrie because Carrie was older. But then of course they wrote out Carrie (and Chad), recast Sarah with an older actress (which kind of gave Sarah a bit of a bump in age too, though she was still a teen) and tried to pair her with Michael Easton's Tanner before writing her out.

No need really. They've totally just glossed over 2006 Holly. Plus they already did that with Anna and Alex just recently.

I liked that they used Paloma to give some added motivation to Holly's actions, because let's face it, she was only a lookalike half-sister created for an adventure storyline 30 years ago and they were never going to use her in a meaningful way again. So may as well kill her off.

I'd also add Valerie Starrett to that as Diana replaced Jessie as the lead central heroine in the early 70s (even taking Jessie's two love interests!), though after the Phil Brewer murder mystery wrapped up it seems Diana quickly began to peter out (pun somewhat intended lol) with the show finally getting a handle on what to do with Lesley and pushing her to the forefront. And then of course Starrett was eventually replaced as Diana by Brooke Bundy.

I guessed that it was Holly who shot Lucy a month ago in the October thread. I mean it is kind of obvious.

And now it's finished!

Now halfway through, some thoughts...

Just finished watching the first episode of the new season and damn it feels like the show is going all out to

To be fair on Emily, neither Sarah or Jason realised the connection either lol And it was pretty cold of Jeff to break up with her via letter...poor Anne had just decided she was ready to go live with him outside marriage and well...you know...lol

Even in the comments for that vid you have one that says Caroline and one that says Carolyn lol. I did know or rather assume that Carolyn was the woman Jeff threw Anne Logan over for (offscreen, eventually told to Anne via a letter that caused her great agony lol) but didn't know she was actually named Carolyn back then until I came across this vid. Obviously whoever in the writers team was involved in Sarah and Liz's creation had a fair idea of the history (probably was working on GH back in the 80s too). In 97 we got references to Monica's marriage to Jeff as well as Emily noting that Sarah's description of Steven-Lars sounded exactly like the old Jason (with Emily not being aware that Jason and Steven-Lars were second cousins).

I really do hope Carolyn is evil (I still think they should've used Denise Crosby as Sela more on TNG), and I hope she can put the fear of God into Heather too. They should have history, as IIRC Heather was originally written out to go visit Steven-Lars and Liz mentioned in 2004 that Heather used to bother them when she was little. I do think I saw it written as Carolyn in either the GH Wiki or the who's who profiles on Soapcentral long before this. Tbh though, to me Caroline and Carolyn can be a bit interchangeable to the ear (and likely to the people calling you Carolyn as well) but of course to you since it is your name you'd always hear the difference immediately. So in that case, I'll leave it you to decide whether Lesley is saying Caroline or Carolyn in this 1982 clip (just after the five minute mark)

Judging from the trailer the events covered in this trailer will include

Victor told Lucy to meet him on Pier 55 but put in his calendar that he was meeting her on pier 47. As a result, Victor's office directed Anna to go to pier 47 while Lucy went to pier 55. As for who shot Lucy hmmm...could it be that Just my speculation but i'd find that interesting.

I just hope she isn't too much like her Scandal character. But very pleased to have her in the role.

Quite fitting too as Christopher Plummer played General Chang, the last villain that the TOS crew faced. Which makes her literally "the next generation" lol I gasped when I saw Moriarty and again a few seconds later with Lore (but of course that should've been obvious to me since as you say Brent Spiner was announced to be involved).

Another mass suicide in the Shortland Street carpark, like TK's brother's cult back in 2018 perhaps

Feel free to ask any questions...I'm sure someone around here can answer, or failing that I'll attempt to answer myself lol

I remember there once was a story with Spider going to work at the Benefits office which worked because IIRC it was a case of a well meaning anarchist naively going to work for the system in order to help people and subvert it from within, only to get caught up as a cog in the system and ultimately quitting. But an undercover cop? really? The backstory had better be good.