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A part of me wishes Katherine had left the show when her marriage to Ned story ended. They never really got a full character out of her. But I would not trade the Ball and those scenes with Laura and Stefan and her falling for anything. She should have stayed dead, but they weren’t willing to go that far with Luke in 1998. Laura asking her since when do we look anything alike and the way MBE played those scenes was so good, haunting even. It was possible for the Bobbie marriage to work for a couple of years and still get where they did with Katherine. Might have worked better too instead of trying to make Stefan her shooter and her savior.

Another one of the great ideas Guza set in motion in 1996 then had to leave before it could be fully fleshed out!

Back then, the only time I felt Laura was well dressed and styled was right around Lucky’s dead storyline. She had flattering bangs, her character was with Stefan and she was dressing up more. You know the show felt so too because right around this time she all of a sudden had a new round of photos taken that ended up in soap mags for months.

And all that behavior was very in character for Kristina. While not feeling as harsh about it, I agree it was a shitty thing to do, and she did walk right into a dangerous situation knowing full well Ava has killed before.

I hate that characterization. And Genie wasn’t there to push back, to ask why would Laura accept that? Part of the push and pull of their connection onscreen and off was he had a partner that also protected her character and grounded him. Left fully to his own devices and this is what we got. At the moment, it was easy to buy stuff like that as how broken he had become after what happened to Laura. The problem was he latched onto it as a truth from the beginning instead of an excuse for how he was behaving without her and because of the guilt he felt for his part in her breakdown.

Everything about that was 🔥 I miss good background music on GH.

Maurice had a hand in Dom being rehired. And Valentini clearly could take or leave him.

Lisa Locerio has confirmed that IIRC. Really Kevin? You feel like telling Ava about the status of another patient is appropriate? It might be time for me to stop watching until Lucky returns.

I would take Brenda freaking out at a photo shoot over anything I have seen on GH this month. What was so bad back then is gold today in comparison.

I already have a vote of no confidence considering how sloppy their work has been for weeks. Just not happy about this news and for the first time since 2011 I am afraid for the show. They have not moved those ratings up enough considering it was them the whole time! What the hell is ABC doing?

I liked her. That teen scene was the last time I felt they had something that was working as well as the 90’s group (as good as was possible on ABC in the late 2000’s anyway). And they had a group that could have been the building blocks for taking center stage on the show at a future point. And they decided to dismantle it instead and skip to Michael and Kristina, which has not worked like I think that earlier group would have.

Based on how sloppy the show has been for the last couple of months, all I feel is disgust with this decision.

Considering how laughable that seems in relation to his repeatedly casting the same two men over and over again in new roles, I doubt it. Seems more likely to me that he doesn’t want to deal with Bryan Craig again, or the complaints if they replace him and Craig bitches online about it, plus MO’s complaints.

Must be more of a yes man to Frank. These sloppy people have had months to tighten up the show, and instead it’s gotten worse. So disappointed.

Me too! That was my favorite of Lois in the old opening shots, as iconic to me as Lucy’s eyebrow raise, Puerto Rico, and Mac’s turtleneck!

There are so many lanes to explore with Brenda!

Surely there will be another change to the writers rather than that. Because after these last few months I think Chris and Dan were better than anything we have gotten with Korte, and they were not good. Was Dan the better of the two?!?

Well the online scuttle is that Frank has been trying to get JMB back for a couple of years. Apparently there was a significant push recently to get her and she keeps declining. Whatever she is doing now she would rather do than get paid to be on GH. So recast it is.

This show. Carly found out about this accident at her hotel hours after it happened? Which means Olivia is also in the dark because she would have contacted Carly. There is an entire show to fill with dialogue. It costs them zero dollars to use a character’s name if they don’t have the budget to feature them. The details matter!

I do not mean this in a nasty way at all. I have empathy for Maurice even though I do not really enjoy Sonny anymore. But if storylines that are darker in nature are ones he is no longe capable of playing without a health crisis, then maybe it is time to finally evolve Sonny, fade him to the background, or begin an exit strategy. He doesn’t want cuddly Sonny, but it’s pretty clear he isn’t the best judge of his own abilities to handle this material anymore. I feel a lot of empathy for his wife too, she seems to play an instrumental part in keeping his mental health in check. If you watch his YouTube show at all, you know things changed for him during the COVID shutdowns. I think at this point something has to be done, because Sonny as the town’s best friend doesn’t work narratively either.

I think that putting Sonny in Luke’s orbit to keep him on the show had more to do with it than anything about Laura. They were forced to work together by Frank Smith, and with that came Stone. Luke had a real relationship with Robert, and that was the deeper connection with Robin. Once they build Luke’s, it kind of cements him in with the characters that are more likely to go out all the time. The Outback was brightly lit and more of a restaurant. Luke’s was the kind of place where illegal poker games were happening, and Stone worked there. It was a cool place to be. Labine’s Laura was almost too good. For all the complexity in their writing, the issues of of angel Laura and hero Luke become cliches. She was his angel, and he was her hero. But they were not actually those things at their core for everybody. That got lost somewhere in middle point of their return. In the first year or so Laura was still fiery, she could be volatile. When Lucky is shot she attacks Luke, verbally and physically, in a way that would not fly today, just like pairing them up wouldn't fly today due to the SA. But Labine’s Laura also was not as broken as Guza’s was. Even if that is based in her history, it easily veered into basket case and that wasn’t what Labine would do at all. She was styled very much older than her age. I thought she had some heat with Sonny back then, and she was more his age than Brenda was, but that would never seem that way onscreen.

There is some great stuff to explore. Her seeing the house for the first time and them hiding out there was great. I hate what Guza did to that house. She also has a great scene with Frank Smith that I remember fondly. Most of what Laura did was establish a community. She and the Wards go against the incinerator project the Q family is backing that would impact her neighborhood. Her friendship with Tony. But mostly it was worrying about Luke/Lucky and violence. They also wrote a lot of just day to day stuff for her, and fun family stuff between her and Luke and Lucky until the danger overtakes everything. That peaks both with her going into emergency labor with Lulu after Frank’s goons shove her down the stairs, and then the shootout in her house. After that she kicks Luke out and they just hover there for months. I get it though, I mean her son was shot the year before. Frank’s dead and yet here they are shooting up her house. Luke was way more in the mix. He had his club stuff with Sonny’s crew and Lucy which made him more prominent, plus all the action stories and individual relationships with Stone, Robin, etc.

I would love for it to be Marci Miller. Overall what I hope for is that if this is for Lulu, they screen test her with both Dom and Genie. It is interesting that whoever the new, so far unnamed headwriters are, they are focused on Laura’s family coming back.

In her We Love Soaps interview she says she centered the show around them, and you can see that. Pretty much every character hub was connected to them even if they were not directly involved in a given story. Especially when the Wards arrive, that really ties them to the Q’s. Labine grew Laura up, their first year back on the show kind of cemented her having a big heart and being deeply involved in her community. I think losing Mary Mae and her maternity leaves are what derailed them doing more beyond that initial characterization. Luke was allowed to be more in the mix.

I just think Laura was more complicated than Labine wrote her to be. I thought her desires to be home in Port Charles and settled were better executed in the first year or so of their return. I think a huge part of my problem is how they chose to handle Genie having two kids during their run. By the time they got to her second child they had really made Laura into a handwringing damsel in distress. She spent months basically only talking about Luke’s obsession with danger. And I assume due to her first-in shooting schedule they also isolated her, she barely left her house.