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He was popular, but not so much that anyone picketed GH and wrote letters when he was let go, which did happen with Lesley.

This actually had me lol! Same.

He plays Chase so smug that I hope we get to see the fall when he learns he blew his whole life up for a killer. Bring on the affair and the multiple reveals. And again, if this show was cleaning house or going all out Chase could also end up dead at the hands of Willow if he learned the truth. I’m not ready for Willow to leave, she’s been fully revitalized here, or go so far as to become a killer killer. What she did to Drew is bad but not so terrible I want her punished and gone. But the ground is seeded for a killing spree with a bunch of victims that only Trina and Alexis could put together fully. Which puts both of them in danger too. I just hope Kai and Trina don’t panic tell Chase before we get to an affair and humiliation for his stupidity.

Those tight ass shirts should have been ripped up! Michael’s pants were so tight I’m surprised there wasn’t an accidental split down the seam too. Willow is so much fun now! And unlike a lot of the stuff that happens on GH just for the plot, this descent is actually justifiably character driven. I like that we have several credible people that will believe Willow did this. And if KM was leaving the show they have set up a killing spree pretty well. We have Kai who is recurring but has been around long enough, and Alexis/Diane’s assistant has been established. I would hope they don’t go that route because this version of Willow is great. Sonny/Jason have certainly committed worse crimes and are still out and about Port Charles. And who can blame her? Drew is a jerk. I don’t think I can stomach Anna in that room talking to Anders Hove on the telephone for three months. And I love both of them.

And they have other options for a past antagonist! Grant Putnam wasn’t killed off, IIRC he was placed in a sanitarium that he had already escaped from twice. You could easily say after the Snowman storyline that he became obsessed with Anna instead of just wanting revenge on Robert, and go from there.

I have said it before but in no way would classic era Y&R let Rory go. He has a classically handsome face that would have worked well with the old Hollywood staging of Bell era Y&R. And today’s director had to know what they were doing. Faison is my favorite GH villain of all time, and I also think he should have died for good in 2013. I am not a fan of the masks and face swapping hijinks, but that one worked because of all the stakes involved and Finola sold it so well. But I also like Anna strong and calculating not a basket case at the thought of him being alive. It worked because he was wearing Duke’s face, so her revulsion made sense. And it’s not Hove’s fault. Even his last stint as they have made him more clownish Hove still has a connection to Faison’s creepiness.

I just watched the 60th anniversary week on DAYS and I was shocked at how bad the show was. And I was primed to enjoy it with those returns, the flashbacks, etc. It kind of broke my heart. And I watched a couple of recent Y&R episodes and it was so lackluster. GH is not faultless. There are so many things that should be tweaked. But it has energy and some vitality to it since Michael was recast and it was the best by far between those three shows.

And an actual fan favorite the audience wanted to see return, with a real story to back it up! Same. I just think if she does return, wants to stay, and they finish this story it would be best to put Maxie fully in supporting to avoid this. And the story is clearly on hold and they need to do something about that. A half assed chemistry test with Lulu isn’t it either.

The entire story should have been scrapped. Compare this to Britt’s return- the Five Poppies, built in angst with Jason and her family. Brad. Tying her into the Laura/Sonny plot. Her issues at GH and getting her medical license back. Rocco. I haven’t seen so much story flung at a returning actor since Vanessa Marcil in 2002. Nathan is just there. Just like Lucky was. If he didn’t fit the Valentini mold so well I would wonder if ABC forced him on them instead of Frank wanting him back. They aren’t even using Obrect and I assume that is also part of the story stalling, because it was set up to include her more by having her so upset with Britt and then here’s Nathan back too. I also got the impression when they were interviewing him about coming back that this return was for a specific story, not necessarily a return meant to last beyond said story. So the question now is how long until they fully revamp the whole thing? I like Storms, and Maxie was another character that got her mojo back when Mulcahey was handling the scripts. But they need to work on transitioning her fully to supporting if they get this story told, because she cannot be counted on as a lead anymore.

Much like Trina and Spencer, the actual romance is being imbued by the performers. And they also were shelved for months at a time. The fact that they read the room well enough to lean into a sweetness for their characters obviously paid off.

It seems to me that they planed his return around the original timeline Storms was going to return as Maxie. We were probably going to get a few weeks with his return before Maxie played some part in it. And it all got derailed. So he has been treading water since. It’s almost as bad as Lucky’s return was because there is nothing. Whatever the twist is they are preserving it by having him just there not really doing anything. They also dropped most of his interactions with Britt too. So her suspicions and odd looks at him will return a couple of weeks before Maxie.

I have been watching a lot of the original Frank Smith story into the early part of the Ice Princess. Laura is feisty, competitive with Luke to prove herself and to establish an independent life, and they are very much in love even if they spend time apart. But when returns after this disappearance, she is pretty much haunted and frightened and even when she sees her family and friends again Laura isn’t the same. It’s kind of sad when you watch them close together. It’s understandable with the story being told, just sad to see her victimized and losing so much spirit.

What we need is one of their out of nowhere twists when we see Vaughn again and he is soon revealed to be a double agent. That at least gives the Joss side of the story some real danger. And we already know him, as opposed to another no name day player.

ICAM. I just signed up for Peacock again for The Traitors (which I regret- Michael Rappaport is a giant no from me dog) and watched the 60th week. I have not watched DAYS since the funeral for Doug. Even with the lovely flashbacks and nostalgia the show was a mess, but I thought those four were good for the young set. Johnny is a himbo but that’s a soap tradition, especially on DAYS. I get Peacock doesn’t have the subscriber base of Hulu, or even Paramount Plus if you look at the money used for original programming. But DAYS needs retooling badly and enough money to get closer from tape to air dates. But I wouldn’t have cut the those four to do it. It actually made me sad for DAYS to watch it.

I agree tha My concern is that bringing Ava in will eliminate Lucy in the story because they are moving him more front and center and placing him with a more important to them character. Since we are revisiting the 90’s, my preference would be Lucy figures out what he is up to, or overhears about the dead professor, and works with her old pal and business partner Sonny and Laura to bring him down, while Ava genuinely tries to become a power player again by being with him. Lucy has always annoyed Laura, so we get the tension there. Plus I would love for some of Lucy’s more calculating side to come out again. She’s not a killer, but she can be dangerous. I thought the ADA was pretty great in the courtroom. Not for Sonny, but she did solid work there.

Alexis has a long history of panic and anxiety based reactions. She is the opposite of good in a crisis!

That was a really nice scene. Thank you for posting it. It does feel more like Tony and Genie than Luke and Laura. I recently watched most of the original Frank Smith on the run story, and the aftermath when they return to town. It’s not that I didn’t understand it before, because I did get them and why they were special. But when you watch it being built from the ground up, it’s really something. I totally get why the show was so popular, and why they became such popular characters. It’s interesting to see the nascent supercouple storyline being created that will become pretty much a formula that dominated soaps for the next decade. With them it was fresh though.

Back then every setting had those kind of recognizable supporting players. The Q’s had Stella, the hospital had Amy, Kelly’s had Ruby, Robin had Filomena etc. Built in talk to’s. And also the PCPD was such a huge focus they needed recurring cops for Robert, Anna and Frisco to boss around.

Willow has to be the best revitalization of a character on this show since Brenda went from attacking Karen to get Jagger and revealed her own vulnerability and deep insecurities. It’s nearly incredible. For the faults of that brief tenure, Mulcahey revitalized Nina, Drew, and Willow and laid the ground to make them watchable. Nina has fallen backwards, but Drew and Willow are keeping this show alive right now. And I never would have said this before this toxic pairing began. Speaking of Drew- I continue to see the complaints that he is not in character (I would argue Drew was barely a character to begin with), or he needs to go. He reminds me so much of what Scotty was like before the Dominique and Serena storylines. CM doesn’t imbue Drew with the sly humor Kin did with Scotty, but their behaviors are very similar. Kin was more likable in general to me than Cameron has ever been, but I don’t want Drew leaving anytime soon. I know this is shallow, but Michael is too hot for dayplayers. And if they do go there with Kristina/Jacinda, they have to figure out a way to do it without continuing to diminish Michael.

The Lucy Coe reveal is another thing that stands out as something he would do to me.

I would think that too except I think they are also trying to victim her to give them the sex worker redemption route. Although I don’t want her to be another victim of violence, it would be easy where she is right now to pivot and have her end up dead, with scumbag Ezra set up to take the fall and it was Willow all along. Bonus points would be Nina as a credible suspect too, and throwing herself under the bus to protect yet another homicidal daughter. On the other hand, I actually enjoy Willow now so I’m not quite ready to send her away. She certainly found new life going from saintly victim to where she is now. I cannot wait for Chase to find out. But they should sleep together or at least kiss before he learns the truth. Twist that knife a bit more. I could see her with a decent guy but he would need at least a little bit of an edge.

He’s a little too far in scumbag land for Laura. The signs have been there since the stuff with Daisy/Sasha, thy just dropped that aspect except for Michael bringing it up once in a blue moon.

I will give them credit- the Willow reveal, and Trina/Kai putting it together and telling Alexis is good soap. As was Drew on the stand. My complaint remains that they skip the beats leading up to everything, so nothing feels emotionally explored or complex. Watching forlorn Valentin sad about Charlotte and their relationship continues to disgust me. Michael/Jacinda- I like the actress fine. She worked better for me when she was kind of sarcastic and not backing down in scenes with Drew and Nina. They are both so unhinged and freaking out all the time that having her remain calm and calculating while pushing back on them really worked. I also fully support Michael falling for a sex worker. The problem is Rory is a catch as Michael, and both him and the story need a stronger actor if they want to pair them. There wasn’t much there to begin with. Now Jacinda is scared of upsetting Nina and crying over Michael and it’s just bad. Much like Valentin, I didn’t miss Brad and I hate that they are going to invest so much again in their friendship while characters like Liz just languish. Is Finola directing another film or short right now? Her absence is very noticeable.

He has publicly stated he loved Gloria Monty, they were close. I honesty don’t know what his opinion of her was at the end of her second run, but around the 50th he still had more love than criticism. Tristan Rogers has been much more open about his feelings on her return. With Wendy Riche it honestly depended on what his complaints were and when he was asked. While she was the EP he was diplomatic and at times praised her. By the 50th he was much more critical and didn’t seem to like her all that much. He honestly has said very little about Jill, except in that interview with Kim Shriner and Jane they all seemed relieve when Guza, Frons, and JFP were let go. There were other times, like when Stuart Damon was fired and when distancing himself from the Endgame story he created and sold to ABC that you could read between the lines that he wasn’t thrilled with the decisions of her regime. He has had nothing but praise for Frank Valentini, comparing him to Monty as far as floor time and directing and crediting him and Ron with saving the show. He later hated Ron though. As far as writing goes, that’s difficult. We know he absolutely hated Richard Culliton’s brief tenure. He didn’t like Claire Labine’s vision of Luke, even if he had respect for the overall show at that time. Loved Bob Guza until the later part of that run, complaining about stuff like Luke being an alcoholic and the heart attack storyline. During his original run he clearly loved the stories Pat Falken Smith wrote, they created the version of Luke that existed to the end of his run. But I haven’t read anything by him in recent years about her. Like a lot of that group, he seems to have a lot of respect for Doug Marland, and his creation of the Spencer family (although Luke was created by Monty wanting Geary after he auditioned for another role).

I wonder if this was at all deliberate to build up to what happens later in the year with Burt Ramsey? Laurelton was such a mess. It has promise. Both when I was a kid and rewatching Terry is entertaining but not really suited to the position of the story hinging on her so much. She was a perfectly acceptable B/C player soaps used to have in stories that played on a Tuesday and Thursday. More tolerable than Amy but not as valuable as Felicia at the time. Laurelton was one of the handful of times Bobbie was in the more action oriented stories too. If you watched GH from the early 1990’s on, you see a very different Monica and Alan. Edward too actually. David Lewis was wiley and bitchy and always scheming. Ingle played him more like old money that wasn’t above using his influence to get what he wanted, even if it was underhanded. Monica and Alan had so many affairs and fights that viewers that met them later would have no idea how much subtext often existed in their scenes because they had so many layers to play almost all the time. They were passionately and toxically in love with each other, hated each other, having affairs with other people they also sometimes had feelings for, both respected doctors, and loyal to the Quartermaine family when it came to outsiders while also plotting within or against the family at several turns. A lot of the time there was humor involved, but it was a fine line to walk and Stuart and Leslie do not get enough credit for what they did all the time. They should never have been reduced to just worrying about their kids.