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Agreed. It's really hard to invest in Adam when he only interacts with Joss. This seems like it's going to be a heavy story and I find it hard to get into it when I don't really know much about the character or how he would fit on the canvas. It's just an excuse to make Joss the hero and the show already knocks us over the head with how awesome Joss is. I know I am going to regret saying this, but even if he became Esme's friend somehow thus interacting with Spencer and Trina even Kevin/Laura and everyone starts to see signs he was acting erratically it would help.

I have the same feeling, but it could just be an overall mental health story without suicidal issues. I also am unclear if he's taking prescribed medicine or drugs. I'll be honest sometimes I tune out a little to this story especially if Joss is around.

I don't mind how the show pivoted Alexis to the newspaper, but I prefer her as a lawyer. And one more lawyer in town means maybe we can possibly get rid of Diane? I think Mo's son is okay, but this is too much of a story for him. Plus, Joss doesn't need MORE to do. Trina, Joss, Spencer already have plenty to do. This is just a weird side story. Adam is just not that close to Joss (thanks for his name lol). If he was, say, Cameron's roomate and Cameron was in this story it would make more sense. This reeks of nepotism if you ask me and I honestly don't think Mo's son is awful or anything. There just really isn't a good reason for this story.

I haven't watched today's show and have to watch later, but I'll give my thoughts then. @j swiftSpoilers for next week indicate Stephanie/Jada will hang out. I wish they would add Sarah to the group. She's in serious need of friends too.

I always got the impression BB was pissed and thought she was ungrateful. I can't recall if I have ever heard Deidre talk about it one way or the other.

Since Jack and Jenn lost the Spectator in such an awful way I am happy to believe they are living their best lives in Boston with a successful paper.

I think Marlena served a few purposes-one of course being a love interest to Don which started right at the jump. I do think her similarities to Laura on paper make me think there was an ulterior plan. But I am no expert and have only seen Marlena's entry scenes edits so I could be entirely off. It could have absolutely been just a plot point for Mickey and it became bigger in hindsight because Marlena became the new leading lady. I appreciate your perspective. Thanks! I was just saying I don't think a story like that would have been entirely off for that time period on Days. I don't know if it would have been popular with the audience. I could just see it working.

Also a very valid point lol.

Yeah, that definitely could have worked if Corday put the effort in. I just think JER liked the idea, history, and relationships Laura had, but wanted to mold an entirely different character. I also think it was purposeful to go younger especially with the Jack story. I would have love to see SF plays those scenes though.

I mean, Mickey was presumed dead in the early 80's and the Brooke/Stephanie story also happen in the late 70's/early 80's. I don't think it's out of the box for Days to do a story where Laura was presumed dead and came back a few years later. That probably would have spoiled us though for any recast in the future.

Interesting. I am sure you're right, but was there ever talks of replacing Marlena when Deidre left in 86? I am curious if anyone knows if that was thrown out there. They teased her coming back so much. Sorry slightly off the topic being discussed.

Probably and they could have always brought Laura back if they found the right recast because......it's Days.

I trust Eric more than Sloan lol. Plus, I doubt Eric's pictures of the African Wilderness bring in the bucks like Sloan's job.

Lol, yeah. At least Stefan buying the Bistro is a round about way to help Gabi, so he has a minor excuse.

Yeah, but I thought he hasn't worked as one since he left Basic Black. Maybe he is doing his own shows-I totally missed that. He doesn't reference it often. Where does he develop and store these photos though? Unless they are all old ones. Honestly, if the show did say that-it works for me. At least it's something. Even if the show just said Eric wanted to be a stay at home dad that would be interesting. I know no one really works on soaps, but most of the characters at least reference the jobs they have.

I think Sloan's switch from a career minded women not looking for commitment to marriage and a baby was lightning fast. I think the appeal of Eric is that he is just a nice, honest, basically normal guy. I don't Sloan ever had that in a romantic partner. She's had a lot of trauma, she has no family, I can see her clinging to Eric as the only stability in her life. I know that hasn't exactly been expressed on screen and I am giving it more thought than the writers have, but it's how connected the dots here. Eric does seriously need to get a job though. Even if it just helping Roman manage the pub. I need to pretend he makes some money here.

I think Tiffany was more difficult to ground and find a place for. Sean has a few more options for me just with the nature of his job. Once the show reunited Tiffany/Sean I think they were written into a corner. It really seems easier to give them their happy ending than to go back down the road of more angst and cheating. I could see them lasting through Labine, but I could never imagine Sean/Tiffany in a Guza world. I'll have to check out some clips of Jessica and see what I think. I do agree with those that say TR hasn't aged well. On the other hand I always thought Finola looked much younger than him so it doesn't phase me. I also enjoyed Olivia/Robert so obviously the age difference didn't bother me. Tristian does come off as a grumpy grandpa sometimes, I just don't think it would hinder Anna's viability.

Yeah, it's been years and I only saw DH/Marlena's edit but there were a lot of mentioned parallels at the time about her looks/personality compared to Laura. Marlena even said she wasn't a natural blonde so she didn't worry about Mickey trying to hurt her. Her children probably prove otherwise with the blonde thing lol. But it's interesting to the think about the behind the scenes acts to make Marlena low key the new Laura and how it grew. But pivoting her to Don instead of the Hortons.

This all makes sense. I just thought Anna/Robert had some lovely scenes in Nightshift 2 that made me think the romance was still workable. Again I know it's more Luke/Laura, Holly/Robert, Duke/Anna, Frisco/Felicia and Sonny/Brenda as the top 5 considered supercouples of GH across the internet, but I still think TR/FH work quite well together. I guess my point is the separate pairings they are doing right now work way worse than Anna/Robert.

I am not a great historian on this but it seems like it was a bridge between Oliver and Forsyth. I know DH was "temporary" or recurring for awhile and she herself said she was just a 6 week character. I think it was more of a device to help Mickey with a new blonde shrink while they figured out what to do with Laura. I personally think it's one of those things were a character took off while Laura burned through a lot of story and suffered from recasts.

Like I said it actually doesn't feel unrealistic. Just dated and done before. Nothing thus far has been "bad" about the story-it's just not bringing anything new to the table. GH goes with baby stories 90% of the time so it's not shocking to me.

It's really hard for me to say about Flannery vs. JLB. I can only go off of clips I have seen years ago. That really don't exist anymore. I think part of the issue with this in the 90's is that Marlena/Laura are built on a very similar characterization. Marlena came in to 'replace' Laura basically, so it was probably way too redundant to cast someone to close to Flannery just based on the fact 90's Days was built around Marlena. I don't think it was right, but I can see the logic behind it. They already had 2 Romans

I don't really get the Anna/Robert hate. I can see why Holly/Robert have more love, but I also don't find A/R that bad? It's obviously all on clips and not a whole show context so I could be missing a lot. They just seem decent to me. I am open to hear anyone's thoughts about it though.

Haha! Sometimes a derailment of the thread is the only way to get people talking on here. I do think there is something relevant about talking about how Robert could have fit in the 90's and how he fits now. I actually think it would work better than it does today because I don't think the show has any clue what to do with him and he has Anna, but he's without a lot of his contemporaries and his daughter which makes a huge difference IMO.

Yeah, I am not against Anna/Robert as much as some people because I can't stand Anna/Valentin either. I think there should have been more with Robert/Olivia and think this Ned/Eddie stuff should have brought them closer with Lois arriving and making it an interesting quad. But I get real life stuff is in the way. And I will gladly go back to talking about 1993 GH lol.