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It’s the shallow nature of them on the show. There is so little time spent on character. Once upon a time we would have had long scenes of them getting to know each other, and things from their pasts would have come up and been part of their relationship. We get scenes with Nina/Sonny but the dialogue is so generic it could be anybody. It feels like their entire relationship is more about Willow/Michael and Carly than them. Other couples fare better and have more specificity. But Nina being nothing like she was under Stafford and Sonny just existing are strange. Recurring Ned and Olivia are actual characters on the show right now compared to Nina and Sonny! Seeing Lois again is such a delight, but it also makes me sad. Outside of Ned she spent most of her scenes before with the Quartermaine family that is long gone, and Brenda. Really only Sonny is left. I have to give the show credit- it looks even better right now. The sets, the staging and lighting are all fantastic. Fake Puerto Rico looks better than the fake island scenes under JFP. And with today’s budget that is something!

This was Sasha’s earned victory. Too bad it became more a Sonny moment. Even with all these terrible stories for her I still like Sasha more than Willow.

I used to think so, but when she was on Mo’s YouTube show she felt there was unexplored territory between them and possibilities.

I doubt it this run, unless they extend her stay.

Diana really became a central figure almost immediately. And it’s been one tragic melodrama after another. I cannot imagine Brooke Bundy (the only Diana I have seen a lot of)playing this Diana at all. She kind of replaced Jessie as the put upon lead. Also in two years we had baby/paternity storylines with sexual assault victims- Audrey/Tom and Diana/Phil.

That was delightful. I’m looking forward to seeing more of Lois.

It’s wild to see Lesley so involved with Scott when he is going to be a very important part of Laura’s life later on. Without these recaps I would have no idea they had so many scenes together with young Scotty.

This whole Lois thing, no matter how long, really makes me wish they had convinced Vanessa to return. Those are the scenes I want- Brenda and Lois.

Did anyone care at all about Oscar on GH? I don’t imagine he had a fanbase. And they tried!

I absolutely hate how often GH brings back a set, but it is oriented differently. The Q doorway and staircase. Sonny’s penthouse door- isn’t This across the hall but now on the other side from Sam? The Brownstone now being Liz’s house, but no apartments anymore? Also- the art in Sonny’s penthouse does not make any sense for him. At all. I don’t think anyone has fallen as far as Y&R though- all that lush richness just decimated by eroding ratings and bad decisions bts.

I didn’t see anyone in the industry talking badly about soap actors. Online chatter from the public maybe, but not industry people. I saw plenty of non-daytime folks detailing how the contract is different and lots of soap people joined their fellow SAG-AFTRA folks on the line. That Variety article is hilarious. They caved because they were losing on all fronts- business aka $$$, the public, and the solidarity and willingness by the unions to go the distance.

I would marine that SAG-AFTRA will wait to see the language of the contract for the WGA to set up talks. I have read that SAG’s demands are more complex and expensive so it will be interesting to see what happens.

From what I have seen from various sources is that they have 2 WGA writers covered under the contract that is striking. I didn’t know the number until I saw Twitter conversations from writers, including Michele Val Jean. I trust the folks working in this industry, especially the strike captains, with knowing the contracts involved.

Yes it is. If you go back a couple of pages, I quoted from Michele Val Jean’s repost about daytime talk shows before Drew change course. They have writers under the striking contract and writers covered under a different contract, and news writers. And the news copy writers have a contract expiring next year. Also- they were already striking the View before the Drew stuff happened. It was even on their strike schedule weekly, I believe they were there every Wednesday. I’m never cool with personal attacks, but calling out scabs by striking employees is not bullying. It’s the consequences of those decisions. Drew did get a lot of heat. Partly from the ridiculous statements she kept posting, part from the WGA, and also because she is in SAG-AFTRA. Hard to deny women often get criticized harder and more harshly, that’s never good and should be called out. But again, I saw a lot of accountability from her actual entertainment peers, and lots of going too far from the general public.

It’s not a simple issue. The truth is that reality television has writers disguised as segment producers/other titles, and they pay them shitty wages with no residuals because it is “unscripted” when that isn’t true. So I’m just fine with them using this moment to picket everything that is part of their industry that has any writing. The talent in front and behind the scenes on reality need better compensation and coverage. Generations of people in this country have suffered from the corporations holding more and more pieces of the pie from the folks working/creating it.

Or just be gone if the delays last longer than his contract does.

Ron gonna Ron. That’s all I see here. The propping and actor swapping are just tragic on DAYS. This is as bad as poor Becky Herbst being used to try to make two Friends of Frank work on GH.

General Hospital- I quit the first time after Laura entered into her catatonic state and Rick Webber was killed. Brenda’s return lured me back until they killed off Alan Quartermaine. I have never watched consistently, day in and out for years again. There were periods of time I didn’t even check in for years at a time.

I grew up watching the soaps my family watched- GH, OLTL, DAYS. I started watching GH for myself when Frisco pulled the hat off Felica, and Anna became the leading character. OLTL with Tina being revealed as a Lord, and the return of Nikki Smith. DAYS with Bo and Hope, and the death of Wayne’s Roman Brady. My sister and I got hooked on Y&R when Katherine was going after Jill, and to this day I credit that part of the show with making me a fan- Katherine vs Jill, with Phillip and Nina ending up in their crosshairs. The cut up photograph, Jill/Jack and the divorce from John, Philip choosing Katherine over his mother, Nina and the baby everyone wanted control of. Years of story born from a story I had not seen, and the show deciding to revisit it. My local ABC affiliate moved All My Children to 3:00 in the early 90’s, and I was home by 3:15 from school. At first it didn’t really interest me, but I ended up hooked by the Kendall Hart storyline. Erica, Dimitri, Wildwind, Kendall, Anton- they were my gateway. I watched pretty much until Fons had all but destroyed the show.

What shocking, sad news. I thought he was a talented actor that really didn’t get consistent, strong writing on any show. At times, his Billy captured a little of the essence of Terry Lester’s Jack. And as others have said, he really brought Jason back to life on GH. He had chemistry with everybody. My heart goes out to his loved ones and coworkers.

They were teasing a connection between Robert and Anna during the Grant Putnam storyline too- Duke was jealous of their connection and Robert’s attempts to rescue her were going so slowly that he went to the Jerome’s for help- effectively returning to the mob. In the 80’s After Monty, I prefer Wes Kinney’s tenure to Joe Hardy’s. I didn’t know he was so disliked by the cast! I sat through all this when I was very young, and was not that engaged.

It will be fun to see Rena as Lois again. Wonder how long she will be there?

Sad news, I hope he is successful in his treatments.

They have been striking at the View the entire time they have been airing new episodes. WGA contracts are complex, and The Talk, Drew, Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, and the View all have writers that are part of the current striking contract. News writers have a contract that either expires next year or the year after. Other daytime show writers that are not news or on those shows are under a contract similar to the soap actor contract- it is still valid and not expired. As of this morning, only Kelly Clarkson’s show had not announced an intention to resume production, but the others either have or are going to. They will be striking them too if they are not already. The absolute comedy of Ross Matthews and Drew now calling themselves co-anchors. She was incredibly misleading in her statement about resuming her show.

Yeah it’s almost as if the entire strike is just a couple of studio heads having ego issues and Netflix not wanting any kind of transparency. Everybody else seems poised to deal. The attitude of be thankful for the crumbs I give you and tell everybody else how wonderful I am belongs to the egos, like a comically inept King. And Netflix increasingly seems like they are desperately hiding just how much money they make and it’s either way more or way less, and they don’t want anyone to know about it.