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Yup. Straight to Austin-the notoriously cheap city lol. Listen, all GH had to do is show Sasha's desire to do more than modeling and express her love of cooking more than like once. Say that she's been saving up to move on to school or even have her try her luck at social media cooking and say she became a sensation. It's at least as believable as her being a model IMO. Anything makes Sasha look smarter than well I just quit my very coveted, high paying job with absolutely no life plan or discernable workplace skills...🤷‍♀️

Thomas just gave it back to Konstantin when he asked a few weeks ago. Not really sure the point of Thomas having it in the first place unless Thomas eventually tells someone Konstantin has that card.

Idk. I was going off what Sasha said. I was under the impression Sonny either got some of the money back from Gladys and/or gave Sasha some money to help her out as well. Sasha was also going to pick up and move to Austin where she knew no one, had no job, and had no place to live last year after the Gladys fiasco, so I don't think life planning is a strong suit of hers.

I think Sasha quit her modeling job without any sort of savings and is living month to month, so it was kinda dumb to quit a good paying job when she's generally an awful model that won't get hired anywhere else. But I am going to assume she can't afford culinary school? That doesn't mean she couldn't start working as a line or prep cook, at say the Metro Court. My understanding is that being a chef is rather male dominated anyhow, so I don't get how it's sexist for Sasha to take that job in general. In real life Sasha would try to make a cooking youtube or tiktok channel and make way more than working at the Q's.

I can only speak for myself and what I have seen around, but I think it Olivia is moderately popular. I haven't found too many people that hate her, but I haven't found too many people that love her either. LLC is a likable performer, but I do think it's a shame that the character was just built as Lois-lite. Similar to Laura/Kevin I think Olivia/Ned are just tolerated by most as a couple. They don't really bother anyone, but they certainly aren't setting the world on fire or very polarizing. They work well together and work in their capacity on the show fine. They are just a nice supporting couple. While I think the vast majority of the audience would prefer Ned/Lois, Rena/Wally have stated they don't want to do it. So that means they have to find someone else for Lois.

Thank you so much for your detailed explanations as always. I find out so much from you. In your opinion would you have kept Cheryl and/or Edge? I have never heard much positive about either, but it seems both have potential.

Was there any real reason given by Monty or whoever on why the choice was made to make Julian Lucas's father? Was it to free up Robert? Because from everything I have read and seen it doesn't make a lot of sense and wasn't terribly popular.

From the two paragraph character synopsis I read I think you easily could she was pregnant. Sheryl was either forced to leave town before she could tell Lucas, found out after she left town but couldn't come back because of Kate, or say Kate knew and paid her off to stay away. All these things seem plausible. Or if you are like me you'd believe anything because you still can't recall Jade Harlow/Sheryl ever being on Days of our lives 😂

I don't think Lesli Kay did a bad job exactly although I do think she was miscast. I just hated the writing for her Lois in general. Her being this overbearing stage mother that was smothering Brook Lynn felt off and I don't know if it was the material or LK not knowing how to play it. You can still see the thread line of that overbearing behavior in Rena's Lois now, but it doesn't seem as stifling. And, yeah, I have no idea what anyone was thinking with Alcazar/Lois lol. It seemed very OOC for her to date a mobster although they did make an attractive couple. After that I don't think Alcazar was ever a true main player even if he lasted a few years longer and did some nonsense with Skye. I know you and I were sure they were testing Sonny/Lois and there was a different vibe to the dialogue and the way they played off one another in the 90's. Lois almost seem too invested recently. I never got anything more than friendship from Sonny/Lois back in the day and I don't think it was just because of Ned/Brenda. Anyhow, it doesn't look like PM/EK are taking in that direction so it doesn't matter. I don't really mind Olivia. I don't really care much about her either. I wish the show had done a bit more to differentiate her from Lois years ago. Olivia has carved a decent enough niche on the show and I don't even know if LLC is on contract, so she's not at the top of my list to go or anything.

I really had some thoughts late last year they were going there with them, but I also felt they were going for Sonny/Ava as well. I really don't have any idea where DOC and CVE were going with the Sonny/Nina/Ava/Lois stuff. There are a lot of possibilities of where you can go with Lois. She doesn't even necessarily have a "type". Ned was her only love interest on the show. I am obviously ignoring Lesli Kay's run and excluding Alcazar and pretty much any of Lois's character traits at the time. I do think Lois makes Olivia extremely redundant, but, I agree, I don't know where that would put Ned.

I agree. When she says, 'be a good father, make it worth it." I think she does at the very least understand the choice and is pretty resigned to it because she marries Jax the next day lol. Anyhow, I didn't mind Lucy/Martin. I found it silly and not all that deep though. I can't even imagine Lois/Martin together. I still can't believe GH finally got Rena back and didn't even plan a story, love interest, anything for her outside Brook Lynn's wedding. It makes me wonder if Dan and Chris were thinking about Sonny/Lois and my earlier bad vibes were correct. More OLTL transplants on GH.

I literally had to google who Sheryl was lol. Don't recall this character at all. From what I read she overheard Kate saying she was using Sheryl to get info on Jordan and then Kate transferred Sheryl to another division of Titan out of town to keep her quiet. I think it's unclear how her and Lucas ended. Not bad? She might have just disappeared?

I never even thought of Sasha becoming the Q's chef as misogyny lol. I just thought she didn't have the experience to do the job, but I am not sure she ever had experience to be a model either, so? I don't ever go on soap twitter though. I like Sasha more than most on here. I just think the character has run it's course. If she ever had a purpose to begin with. She's not in a romance, she's not part of any family, until yesterday she had no job, she basically just has some friends in town. It's the perfect time to let her go. The show *might* want to finish out the Cody story with her, but since nothing has really progressed it would be a great time for Sasha to start over in a new place like she was going to post-Gladys months ago. She gets a lot of airtime for a character without any real story.

I completely forgot he was paired with Adrienne lol. I liked his pairing with Chloe too. I just think the writers lack ideas with Lucas and I think it has a lot to do with the fact he's not a traditional looking leading man. But also he has no children currently on the show. I am not advocating a Sami recast necessarily, but if they can't get Ali I would be okay with it. I genuinely think her presence is missing on the canvas especially with

In regards to Lucas, I think this is when I find the absence of Sami problematic. I feel like the show really has no use for Lucas unless he's in a story with Sami. I know the show tries to explain her absence away with silly excuses a lot, but there is no way I believe Sami would never meet the woman her son married twice and her daughter dated, not meet her twin brothers wife or son, or not try to sabotage EJ/Nicole in some way. I have never been the biggest Ali or Sami fan, but her presence on the canvas is pretty large. At some point I wonder if the show would consider recasting her.

I miss Reginald too. The way Olivia explained the job to Sasha made it sound much easier than I imagine it will be. It still makes no sense for Olivia to ask Sasha when she works at a hotel that has a five star restaurant, kitchen, and room service workers. One of those chefs/cooks would probably much more suited for the job. Whatever. I am really overthinking Sasha's career path. It would be interesting to see where the show is going with Sonny. It's almost comical how everyone turned on him in about a month. In some ways it reminds of the 90's where most people in town thought Sonny was bad news and acknowledged he was a criminal.

Have you all seen what Maxie, Brook Lynn and Sasha wear? The dress wasn't the greatest on Carly, but it was still relatively fashionably. I don't think she looked out of place at the Metro Court or sloppy and I am pretty mean about fashion on Gh

Right? I have not watch the show yet, but I will soon. I would never want to disparage my Brenda's chosen career as I am sure there is a lot of things that go into modeling besides looks and all. And I am not sure Sasha even excelled at that. But....working as a chef for a wealthy family that expects three gourmet meals a day requires some culinary training and technique that probably doesn't work with Sasha's one signature meal she makes. ETA- Watching now, I didn't think Carly's dress was that bad. It wasn't the most flattering, but it wasn't the worst thing she's worn.

I haven't seen the show yet and won't for a few hours, but what a weird trajectory for Sasha to go from a model to a Quartermaine Cook lol. No one would do that in life ever and she mentioned she liked to cook approx. two weeks ago. I feel like she's as good as gone once the Cody/Mac reveal finally plays out.

SoapHub just had an article about Vanessa Marcil returning because Lois made an offhand comment alluding to Brenda the other day. It had no basis in fact and was all for clicks. The entire story was built around that one line of dialogue lol. SoapHub is awful. Esme's story is complete. Sure, Ace is around, but wouldn't Esme get arrested if she ever reappeared? I suppose the door is open for a return later on, but I see no need for her anytime soon. Characters need to continue to leave the canvas. We don't need to bring more back.

The better question is how everyone can get out of prison before Lucas lol.

I swear there was a lot of talk about Kristina's AP studies and her desire to get good grades early on. I think Kristina is supposed to be smart. Managing Julian's bar was not where I thought she would be 15 years after she was aged. It's more of she's wasting her brains and ability. I think I may misjudge young Molly because she was "precocious" and annoying. I think YMMV is the best way to describe it because I don't think either view is wrong. It's also probably not terribly relevant now because the show is painting it as Molly is the smart one and Kristina is the f*ck up.

I remember Kristina really obsessed with going to Yale. Isn't that where she went? But Sonny like bought off the admissions or something and sexyKristina came back after she dropped out to make her Mob Daughter reality show. I assumed she'd figure her life out at some point and actually become a lawyer. Yeah, LA's Kristina was flakey with all the Ethan crap, but I always contrasted her with Michael and she seemed like the "good" girl compared to Michael. I also thought the show might have been long hauling it with Ethan/Kristina like they did with Robin/Jason and were just waiting till Lexi looked more adult. I did think Molly was a mini Spinelli, but in the quirky way. Not exactly in the brains department. That was just my take. Honestly, young Haley Pullos/Molly was pretty obnoxious so I could have missed intelligence cues. Yes, Molly cheated on TJ while he was kidnapped! because she thought he left her. She had sex with Brando, who only looked about 2 decades older than her, and it was creepy. But TJ forgave her. Probably off screen.

Kristina has always pushed Sonny away in some ways, but I always felt it was a front and she only wanted his love and approval. This behavior isn't new. I agree it's in character. To be honest, I always thought it was a weird flip flop to make Kristina the flaky one when in a lot of ways she was so studious and dedicated to being a lawyer early in Lexi's run. Molly was actually the flaky girl with her weird romance novels she wrote and her entirely fantasized version of love. I always questioned why Molly was so pragmatic and didn't want marriage and only a domestic partnership with TJ. But HP's Molly and LA's Kristina didn't get much of a solid POV for years so whatever. OldLadyMolly probably explained it when she was talking to her stuffed horse for 4 days earlier in the year lol. I just don't get Molly/TJ's concern. Even if the Sonny danger stuff is accurate, it's not brand new information. And it's not like Molly isn't blood related to Sonny herself.

I think it was only one issue, but it seemed like Theresa was at least working on a second issue from some of her dialogue, so maybe two.