Everything posted by titan1978
- GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
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The Politics Thread
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.
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GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
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.
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ARTICLE: ‘General Hospital’ Executive Producer Frank Valentini Embraces New Writing Team, Says Fans Will Have “Much To Look Forward To”
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.
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GH: Classic Thread
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.
- GH: Classic Thread
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GH: Classic Thread
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.
- GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
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GH: Classic Thread
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.
- GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
- GH: Casting Call for "Lauren" ⏤ Code for Lulu Recast?
- GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
- GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
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ARTICLE: ‘General Hospital’ Sets New Writing Team Led By Elizabeth Korte, Chris Van Etten & Cathy LePard
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?
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GH: Casting Call for "Lauren" ⏤ Code for Lulu Recast?
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.
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GH: Mulcahey OUT!
Based on how sloppy the show has been for the last couple of months, all I feel is disgust with this decision.
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GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
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.
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2024: The Directors and Writers Thread
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.
- GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
- GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
- GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
- GH: Casting Call for "Lauren" ⏤ Code for Lulu Recast?
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GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
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!
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GH: August 2024 Discussion Thread
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.
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GH: Classic Thread
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.