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Thanks for the heads up. Everyone was terrified of those Monty heels clicking as she came from the booth to the set! That was a sweet story about Genie Francis and the earrings.

Frankly at this point the show cannot handle the outcry if they get rid of Liz. I am supremely confused about Jason. He has two popular romantic interests on the show, and Carly. Yet they are not leaning in to that at all. This month was very strange.

That part.

She is increasingly annoying online, but I did find it funny when Alexis was in jail and NLG outright said it was her boss punishing her.

I agree. And the fan based rumors about his difficulty and departure. From insiders wink wink. It read to me as both a fan thank you and a plea for people to not blame Frank for what has happened. Reminiscent of Genie Francis posting accolades about Frank when the audience turned on him when she refused recurring. I have no doubt he is a good boss to work for. I just think he’s a better manager that keeps the trains running than a creative EP. All the cast comments about him make me wonder what the hell JFP did all day. Because they all talk about how hands on he is on the floor and how it wasn’t that way before (the 80’s vets compare it to Monty’s eyes on everything).

As opposed to lying to everybody about Sonny still being alive and all the other crazy stuff Nina has done since she arrived with both actors? If my option is the Nina we had before who was a jittery, crying mess obsessed with Sonny, or the one we have now that has so much more going on…I will take the current version. This one is at least fun to watch. And she made CM’s Drew tolerable to watch!

The original Kate story worked. I recall very vividly these same fools ranting at Cynthia Watros online and Frank about Nina breaking up Sonny and Carly. Maurice spoke out about it a couple of times. That group of people are best ignored. My feeling from the beginning was we won’t see real movement until May/early summer. They are taking a bit too long to rearrange the deck of the Titanic when it comes to many of these characters. This is what happens when you hire new writers and put them immediately to work without a bible or time to strictly focus on where they want things to go instead of slowly shaping it day by day. I am constantly reminded of SSM returning to Y&R. The characters and scripts were so much stronger, they just didn’t have stories to propel them. The reason I am still a little hopeful is that Mulcahey is a much stronger writer than SSM.

I thought she had at least a spark of bitch when she first came on. She would just need to tap into that. Oh they are all boring. But at least give them something soapy to do to pass the time if we have to be stuck with the likes of Michael forever.

Of everyone on this show, Sasha should have gotten the Marland Barbara Ryan treatment. Too long a victim, pissed at how things shook out at Deception, ends up at Drew/Michael’s company and is the first person to find out about the Nina/Drew anger sex. Lures Michael into her bed again by playing up her sadness and his savior complex, and sets the stage for Willow/Drew affair. She can also be sleeping with Cody. What we needed was a character to mix things up in several stories. We need a schemer desperately!

The amount of characters starting something new on this show is wild. Especially because none of the new stuff is sparking any more than the old stuff. Curtis running wellness gym/spas is less interesting than the mob trying to move in on his club. Sasha cooking for the Q’s is a dead end. Willow flip flopping into another new venture with all the rest of this career changing going on is stupid. The only one with a point is Alexis. I keep looking at Lynn talking about Deception and she could easily sell the product. Have Lucy brag on camera about her age and tell the buyers she’s been using Deception the whole time. She looks incredible! I give zero F about Blaze or her mother. I might be slightly interested if the show wasn’t a huge sloppy mess when it comes to characters and stories right now. The one thing they had momentum with was Jason’s return. They could easily have more characters helping them to stretch that out. Sam decides to investigate what Jason has been into to protect her family. Dante could be in the mix with Anna but can’t tell Sam everything. Use Anna more with the Valentine angle. Rope Laura in because she has never really trusted him. I know the stalling is because of budget. If every there was a time to let a story run and deal with the budget later it’s now.

I liked Cheryl and I was certain Lucas was going to end up Robert’s. And that was when I was only catching the show occasionally depending on how fast I got home from school. As a kid I really liked a lot of Wes Kinney’s GH, and not as much of Hardy’s. Edge I had very little interest in.

That is accurate, as a potential spoiler between Ned and Lois. Ned covering up Jason’s accident was going to play a part in friction between Lois and Ned. This entire argument is what I think is wrong with Frank’s GH. Ned, Lois, and Olivia are all recurring. They need to focus story on their contract cast, or up these people to contract if they are going to be corners of the show!

The whole besties thing with Lois and Sonny doesn’t make sense to me anyway. Back in the day they were increasingly estranged as Sonny gained more power with the mob. She was trying to extricate him from L&B due to his mob ties.

I wonder what she could have done with Alexandra Spaulding when Beverlee left. Maybe kept some of the more subtle shades that Marj played larger.

I loved the scenes between Sonny and Laura today. But I have to wonder what is the endgame here? An entire town against Sonny but him still standing will get old quickly. We have heard nothing concrete about him actually ready to leave like we did with Tony Geary.

She was incredibly memorable as Dina. Both the complexity and the effortless style she brought to her. RIP

Pregnant woman are allowed to keep living their lives. This conversation is ridiculous and old fashioned. The Sonny danger is fine, that’s a real concern for them. Did I miss Kristina being told her pregnancy was high risk? If not she can dance the night away!

The writers did a terrible job justifying it, but knowing her history I did believe her supporting Esme as far as Ace goes. Not just the Cassadine trying to steal my kid part though. Laura was incredibly troubled as a young woman. She killed two people (Hamilton and whatever the hell woman that Rick Webber story involved), she had serious abandonment issues, she fell in love with her rapist, her issues being raised an Vinning and being Lesley’s daughter, etc. That’s all before she is kidnapped and forced to marry Stavros and have his baby. She did make Esme turn herself in when she thought her memories were returning. If she had shunned Trina while befriending Esme I get the animosity. But she supported their relationship. If anything, Trina agreed with Laura that Spencer should not be trying to take Ace away.

That last reunion felt very much like they had run out of options to keep them apart so they might as well marry them again. It reeked of running out of ideas for them. So I agree, I don’t think Sonny/Carly are inevitable.

We all know how much JFP loved focus groups and how good she was at skewing the data to support her decisions/kinds of characters she wanted to focus on. Partner that with Frons who had certain sensibilities towards young women and flawed men as the leads on his network and we got the results in the 2000’s on GH and ABC daytime in general. Sonny has always been a popular character. My argument back then and now is that if he and Carly and Jason are the most popular characters why does that not translate to ratings? Guza and JFP made a quality show that drove millions of viewers away during their tenure. The ratings growth happened when FV and RC brought back tons of vets for the 50th, and their big ratings win was due to Robin returning from the dead a year later. None of those stories focused on Sonny, Carly, or Jason (who was gone). Even that ratings growth was beyond the show because they dragged it out due to KMc’s availability.

Mulcahey also spent years working at B&B. And even though I don’t watch that show, I follow the major goings on here. So he also has experience working in nonsense.

Watching the last two days and I noticed it’s almost the same color too, especially in the back. Lots of icy and ash blonde in Maura’s color.

That’s because from what I have read and the limited ATWT I have seen, Marland was also recapping the stories constantly by having new characters find out what was happening. It added to the small town feel that soaps do so well and kept all the stories alive each week. What we have here so far is better day to day writing and lots of character work, coupled with the starts and stops of Frank’s production style on the show the last few years. For me it leaves things disjointed, and so I am sometimes not sure what characters know what, and often things are either cut or skipped over to keep a story alive after not really visiting it for days or even weeks. Cody being a prime example- we know the real world reasons why it has stalled. We don’t know the in universe reasons because all the old team cared about was the start and climax, and always a meandering middle. If I was watching just this week, I would think the A story is Sonny’s crimes and mental instability. I’m not sure what the B and C stories are. Dex trying out for police? Jason and Carly? Maybe Nina/Drew was B and Dex C? The problem is the momentum and movement was in Jason’s return and Valentin is the head of Pikeman. And that’s barely been addressed since. But we are seeing nearly every step of Dex trying to win Joss back and become a cop. IIRC the diamonds on the necklace were the Ice Princess cut up. And Victor ended up with it for his new weather machine? It was very convoluted. Cody just wanted the diamonds, I don’t think he was connected to the 60th anniversary story with Holly trying to get it and also Victor. I don’t know what happened to it after they saved the day and Victor was killed. And Britt was also involved?

A great actress and really talented writer. GH with Guza, Karen Harris, and Meg driving story was one of my favorite periods ever on the show. As others have stated, anyone that doctors his scripts and won over Bill Bell was incredibly talented.

I know people think the Sonny stuff came out of nowhere and Laura and Anna have shaky justifications for their change of heart. I think I would have gone with the Cyrus beating and also beat Dex nearly to death. But I am okay with the turn because the show seeded this when Guza was still there with Jason/Carly and the beloved end of relationship convo between Sonny and Brenda. He told her he would always choose power. Then it was lightly seeded again when Sonny came back from Nixon Falls and his two besties were married. To me this is a thread finally being picked up and I am thrilled, even if the current show wasn’t completely ready for it.