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I have been enjoying watching when I can, I almost wish I could call in sick when we hit season 5. The episode I watched this morning was such an interesting hybrid- the one with Diana’s kidney transplant. It felt like the original seasons but was clearly also in the transition period the show fully dives into with season 5 with intrigue stories, and Greg’s arrival. I don’t think they would make a good swap at all. Paige had the monied background and Anne being a thorn in Karen’s side works better with a husband still alive. I do not see Annie as a good fit at Summer at all. Lotus Point I could see though. I do think Annie would have made a great foil to Paige though, something she really lacked in her age range.

Is that why she left?

I don’t know. Jill Farren Phelps has a history of miscast recasts. I actually do think this was supposed to be more than a placeholder. If she was a placeholder, then that was twice in a row that Phelps temp cast Carly, which shows me she would have been fine to eliminate the character. Both SJB and IIRC Tamara were speaking up about the story more than women are allowed to on a JFP show, and both exited without much love for her as producer. Laura Wright feels like an example of someone better being free at the exact right moment, and ABC wanted her.

I love how much I recognize the classic soap staples and yet this casting breakdown also feels like a soap being created today. It feels fresh by having more age range than the youth obsessed 90’s and 2000’s, being I assume mostly Black characters, and a gay power couple. None of the other soaps feel at all like they are current. At least we know that in Atlanta these performers will have people bts that can make Black and Brown people look beautiful onscreen. Execution will determine success, but it looks great so far.

GH May climb back up to 2 million Nielsen viewers a week. But the frustration is that I believe there is more audience, and a few key movements away from his clearly losing strategy would get the show there. And with FV and these writers I don’t think they can go beyond that core base of steady Nielsen viewers. That’s why the nonsense with constant rewrites and propping and keeping Eva is a problem for me.

Jesus GH has been a nightmare trying to tie in one ill conceived character after another in Frank’s time. It’s so lazy. Just off the top of my head, in one convoluted story after another- Nina, Nathan, Britt, Liesl, Drew, Willow, Nelle, Ava, Valentin, Esme, Austin and before him retcon-central Franco…even Laura’s brothers had the added nonsense of explaining why one talks like Foghorn Leghorn. These posts trying to explain Nina are a prime example of the nonsense playing out right now with Natalia. It’s about keeping the actor, not the character

I don’t think Mulcahey was getting rid of Ava, at least not yet. He built in an out with Valentin having been the real person meddling with his meds. If anything, I saw Ava as being moved into the kind of spot characters like Roger were in on GL during his time there. Many times his schemes blew up and he just kept on ticking, always smart about covering his tracks. I think Ava was going to use the meds to be a hero and buy herself some credit while she plotted against everyone. But that was when Mulcahey was there and stories had structure. At this point it would not shock me if Finn finishes his three months in rehab and is back on the show before the year is out.

At least DAYS makes an attempt before they all quit or Ron blinks and decides to start over again. There have been many attempts at a younger and 30 age set of characters on DAYS. Frank has just given up on GH. All those younger characters featured when Jason returned were just quietly ignored. On DAYS they would have been swapping beds weekly.

I just keep coming back to what a mess. The show is a public relations mess for this whole season, and FV and ABC have made zero attempts to engage the audience. I am starting to think Frank wanted kids and never gave himself the life needed to get them, hence all the young children constantly given time on GH. And that Frank’s idea of dealing with a mistake or something he doesn’t like is to just ignore it until it goes away. One of these days, another situation will hit like what happened with Genie and the outcry will once again last long enough that a change happens. As little as I care for Blaze this is just shitty nonetheless.

I am kind of shocked that he has been allowed to make such publicly bad decisions for almost 20 years when it comes to LGBTQ representation. We can’t have anything modern (and even that is laughable, diversity onscreen is hardly modern). We have plenty of room on the canvas for more Violet and those kids, and another player in the over 50 age range, but not really the in between? Make it make sense to me please. And I am not calling out for a return of only 20-something’s onscreen. But this is equally unbalanced.

It’s the backpedal to keep her that just makes me angry as a viewer. Let’s keep the bigoted character who hasn’t really had any lessons learned or any lasting jeopardy in her relationship with Blaze, and dump the pesky lesbian. It’s gross.

I forgot about that. The whole thing is just gross.

Your corrections also immediately make their great sets look even more expensive. We all need to remember Valentini started under Rauch. Nobody likes bright lighting more than him.

I just intended to watch a few minutes, the first couple of seasons are not my sweet spot. But the combination of Karen Allen and seeing the show again, I found myself drawn in. I forgot how much I really did like Sid even though he is an ass in this episode.

Add to this that Korte was in position before him. Was she just sitting there with Frank thinking of ways to disrupt what he was doing once Mulcahey started? Some of these stories had to be hers too. The job shuffles, though messy, I got. It was attempting to group characters together into story clusters. What a mess this show is! I was horrified by the show rallying behind a bigoted character. Getting rid of Blaze and keeping Natalia is just awful. Reeks of Frank cutting all the gay characters on OLTL instead of reworking them/curtailing Ron’s stupid Dorian story.

She has said before that she started working on a book but realized it was nothing but a collection of jobs and trauma until she got married and started a family. She had no life beyond her career before that, and her career had been traumatic in her younger days when she became famous. She loved the actual work, but the fame part mixed with the isolation of being so young really did a number on her. As far as a spark- when they first came back she had it. They didn’t really stop writing anything but Luke loves danger until after her second maternity leave. That last year or so of Labine Laura was more neglected than Luke because Luke had stronger ties to the only story they were telling-Stone dying and how the community responded to that. Back then I had only seen a handful of Luke and Laura scenes before the return. Now that I have seen more of their original run, I think Guza leaned into more of the younger, very troubled Laura. And Labine didn’t.

It is all perspective, but one person’s excellent character development is another person’s (mine) watching a show jump through hoops to keep someone because they liked the actor more than the rest of the show. He should never have been Franco. They should never have tried to keep RH and Michael Easton in roles that kept failing instead of trying something else. Poor Rebecca Herbst was forced to prop both of them. Hamilton Finn might be a beloved character right now if they had cast someone else to play him that had not played several characters already in the same decade.

This had been stricken completely from my memory, and I just had to look at it. I wouldn’t mind a Miguel mention if the show didn’t dip into that well too much already. You know- Jagger being back in name only and his reasons for hating Sonny, Jason living at Bobbie’s, Luke’s dead but Geary won’t be playing a part, the poorly executed return of Jeff Webber, Jackie Templeton. The list goes on and on, and it has all amounted to bad fanservice. I saw some rumblings online, please tell me Frank isn’t getting rid of Blaze (sending her on tour), but keeping the mom? I am not even enjoying their story, but if they keep the bigot and dump the Lesbian? No.

If GH thinks us watching this Heather story is going to move their ratings up, they are mistaken. Watching several contract players rotating in and out of this unpopular story about a recurring character makes me really scratch my head. In one episode Trina, Laura, Liz, and Portia were supporting players to this stupidity, and none of them has a story of their own right now. How is this proper showrunning? I might be more willing to give the show some grace, except the writing team has been in place since May when PM’s exit was announced. As far as Kristina goes, I am truly upset at the show for basically ignoring TJ and Molly as actual characters, while centering everything around Kristina. When Mulcahey’s work started airing, right away every beat of the stories were being shown. Now we are back to a focal person or two, and everyone else is just there to support scenes of that focal character. I cannot believe anyone looks at this canvas and thinks we have to create a storyline for a recast Heather’s murder hip to keep her, and also decided to make Ava the most bumbling excuse for a villain who appears to be so far in a corner only an exit could be coming. Even if it was time to go Maura West deserves better.

Whoa. I will be looking into his case. As I said I don’t really follow her, so this is new information for me. How stupid of her husband and how blind of her.

I think we did eventually land on a good one though! But ridiculous none the less!

I know and I hate it. These shows are so lazy!

Can anyone give me the short version on what the hell she is talking about? Saved her family? I was just coming here after seeing Byrne’s posts. I never followed her online, I had no idea she was this radicalized for Trump.

The truth is that in the reality of this show they should have never made this arrangement. IIRC Kristina has often been characterized as flighty and impulsive from way back. In this reality I absolutely see Kristina flaking on the agreed arrangements because she doesn’t think things through. Especially in the glow of a new romance, she was already playing family. With someone that left her in the hospital in her worst moment to eat at a nice restaurant. Not the hospital cafeteria so she could be close. Molly and TJ’s baby and the Davis family overall were doomed from the start. Personally, I think this is making Kristina look awful and verging on unwatchable. We see clearly that she was never going to be able to hand that baby over.

Whatever the power struggle is about or who the players are, Valentini got back control of the writing. He lost Michael Easton, JPS, and Roger before them. And the show is bringing back Lucky and Lulu. He has suffered some blows in this round of struggles bts.