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Dex told Joss not to come forward. Dex shot at the Hook and used a gun Sonny gave him. She didn't want Dex to get in trouble for shooting the gun and/or working for Sonny. That was how Dex explained it before Britt died when everyone seemed to be okay. I am not saying that makes a ton of sense, but that was the logic Joss/Dex were using. He also said he got the bullet casing so there was no evidence of a shot. I am not really sure why they aren't coming forward now.

Yes. I mean, technically we don't know for sure, but I am sure something will bring her back.

It would have made sense if someone poisoned Kate's martini and then she died. But she was talking about feeling okay and beating the illness and croaked by episode's end. It was all very unintentionally humorous. Rex worked for about 1 scene to revive her and was like "nope..too late dead. Sorry dad."

I was happy people were laying into Kristen too, but she got Rachel back 5 minutes later so meh...I don't really understand why John/Marlena were acting out their fight beforehand with water lol. It's not like the two of them have never gotten into a fight before over Kristen. Obviously we discuss pacing all the time, but Kate was drinking a martini then died of her illness in the same episode. Talk about taking all the tension out of everything. This episode could have been stretched out for days (except for the stupid Alex/Stephanie stuff)

Wow! Thanks! That was excellent. I have really liked LD in clips I have seen especially relating to her alcoholism. I guess it just didn't translate that well to ABC soaps lol. @KristinI personally never knew how many people used the phrase 'daddy' as adults to their parents or how strongly people felt about it until I mentioned it on here that I didn't like it. I literally thought it was a phrase used on tv way more than in real life until others corrected me and said it was very normal and common. It's still weird Skye said it to Alan for a lot of reasons mostly because it happened so quickly after she found out, but it's not near the top of my list as to why I can't stand her.

Lol! At least I can talk about how much I hate Carly and Crystal Chappell again without fear of several hundred posts telling me why she's amazing! Like I said upthread, I do think RC's a good actress too. I just don't think she had any standout material except for her 2002-2003 stuff on GH.

I can't recall watching either Lorna with LD because I didn't watch much AW either. Only the last few minutes before Days started back in the day, so I have no frame of reference. Through soap mags and propaganda, I just assume RC/LD were great together because ABC made them a mother/daughter duo again. I was surprised to find out that wasn't exactly the case and a lot of people didn't like RC's take on Lorna. Carrie Genzel was my first experience with Skye as well and I liked her a lot. It's a bit difficult to reconcile her portrayal and RC's though.

I have always thought disliking Skye was a minority opinion as well and it probably still is. For years I would go on boards or around the web and hear how robbed RC was of an emmy and how Skye deserved all the stories and how amazing she was lol. This is the first board where I have seen posters articulate the way I feel about Skye and RC. I had never heard RC was a bad fit on AW until this board either. The thing is no matter how lovely or great RC is she didn't work on GH or OLTL. Anyway, now you know you have a safe place to hate Skye here with myself, @Vee and @Darn lol.

The pacing of the show is insane and ridiculous, but technically Kristen overheard him talking to Eric. He said he was going to tell her when he asked for the ransom, so I think Brady was going to come clean pretty fast anyway. He had to. There was no way him/Eric would get away with it for long since Rachel is with Eric. The plan was just very silly in general and Eric/Brady are the world's worst kidnappers.

That researcher who found that blurb about Mac/Dominique deserves a raise lol! It seems so silly to bend all credibility to give Mac/Dom a child. I am pretty sure no one ask for that in the entire current viewing audience (possibly in viewer history)! Just give Mac a kid from some nameless lass in Australia. Didn't Mac meet Dominique before she came to PC or was that all shown on screen too? For some reason I thought she follow him to Port Charles or something.

I don't think most of what happened in PC is considered cannon on GH except some marriages/divorces and Karen's death. And anything Rex Stanton did shouldn't be because he was awful. Poor Wayne.... How would you have written Cody as a Barrett? Julia could be his mother I guess (he's actually a little old or at least Josh Kelly is), but she didn't hook up with Mac. He could be Bill Eckert, Ned or AJ's son and Ned would really be the only character of relevance currently. It would be much more plausible if he was an unknown Barrett sibling that was out to get the Barrett fortune, but again there's no relevancy without Julia or Brenda and the show already passed up that oppurtunity with the bizarrely unrelated Cooper Barrett 15 or so years ago. Anyhow, that's going down a Barrett family rabbit hole and I was just actually curious how you would see that playing out lol Regardless, I want to know what he and Dante did in his crazy past, but that's all. The show would be better served bringing back established characters that age like Lucky or Zander or even Sly over Cody. Agreed. Mac could have had a son before he appeared in PC that was a con without tying it to Dominique.

I have always had issues with Joss's (and Michael's) Sonny hate. Characters should hate Sonny, but Joss was always one of Sonny's biggest cheerleaders even against her own father. So when she decided to hate Sonny/Nina it also felt hypocritical because there was always a sliding scale of Sonny's crimes especially when Joss benefitted from them.

The show started toning Alex down a bit from being one big giant red flag, but now that Alex is back. Everything about that conversation was so cringe and possessive that I think Alex is one Chad/Stephanie hug away from kidnapping Stephanie and strangling Chad with a necktie.🤣

Insecurities is one thing, but Alex has been nearly obsessed with Stephanie from the jump and it's creepy. They have dating for about 5 min and Alex thinks he has a right to tell Stephanie what to do with her time? Or tell her she was leading Chad on?

I feel like Isabella on Days may own this. I think she was only on for 3 years (maybe 4), but she was relevant for at least a decade after her death. While someone like Carly who ate the show for her 3 years in the same time period was barely spoken about 6 months later (until they brought CC back).

Lol! Whoops. I thought you were okay with Skye being a Q. I got used to it after a while, but if Skye were an independent character I would have liked her with BW's AJ. I thought they had great chemistry and it would have been fun for AJ to get an upper hand and screw over Edward. I actually thought TG suggested RC/Skye as his love interest though. Or he especially enjoyed working with her or some nonsense. I mean, there were four soaps. At least pick one age range. They were plenty of 40 year old characters to choose from. Too easy. Linda Dano would have only needed to go to one soap in that case. Sonny finally found a character more slutty than himself lol.

I would have been fine with keeping Skye a Q too. RC worked the best with members in the family even if it was stupid. I also think it would have been fine if they kept Skye mostly in the Jax/Carly/Sonny orbit. She hated Sonny, played off Carly well, and Jax/Skye were always weirdly unfinished post-Brenda. Once they threw her at Luke I was out. Lila Rae should come back though as a little trouble maker Lol at Guza just leaving her parentage unfinished. It was such a messy story from start to finish. Rae didn't know if her child was male or female or even the right age range lol.

I thought the plan was to pair Austin with Britt, but then they hired Cody for whatever reason and now they are both pointless. Tbh, it would have made more sense to pair RH's Franco with Maxie if FV wanted that pairing because at least they had a romantic history with JF's Franco.

Skye's arc and backstory were just bananas. I don't even know who her actual father is. Someone would have to tell me. Her throughline to me is being a drunk and that's not good, but it's the most consistent thing about her character lol. I think the consensus is she worked best on GH because that's where she still tended to show up after she left acting. Alan adopted her. Like legally adopted a grown woman officially. I am also pretty sure Guza de-Qed her to pair her with Ned for all of ten minutes lol

Will you be my new best friend😂? 100% agree about Skye. I have said my piece about adult women calling their dads 'daddy' and how I don't like it, but I was told it was fairly common and I accept that. It's just not my fave. I feel like it's mostly been unpopular to dislike Skye and I always found RC to be such a cold actress. A great actress, but not a very accessible one. I never thought Skye fit anywhere except the show she started on: AMC. I didn't outright hate the retcon of Alan being her father, but it was all for nothing in the end. I do think RC/Skye had a decent run during the Jax relationship and Brenda's return, but her and Jax never made sense in the first place. And GH just kept cramming her in places she didn't belong-Ric, Ned, Luke, Jax, the Alcazars. None of those pairings worked. Anyhow, it was very weird she was immediately so attached to the Q's and forgot about her old family in Pine Valley even though I did like Skye/AJ together and she had some fun one liners aimed at Jason. The Rae/Skye experiment was an interesting idea that didn't work, but ABC just kept trying to make it happen lol.

I have never been super impressed with Eden aside from the fact she looks like she would literally be Jax and LW's Carly's child. After the Oscar story they probably should have recast. To be fair to her though, I am not sure Joss was ever written to have nuances lol. Joss is always right. I am not sure she is written or directed to be wrong. Obviously EM could rise above the material, but Joss in general is very one note.

Exactly. Sonny did not need to make any more logical points because his point was already valid in Ron's mind. Will/Sonny have such a rich history and I wish the show would touch more on why Will/Sonny have such insecurity issues and what not, but Ron won't. LG was very good as Sarah today with Maggie and Xander. She's clearly capable. It still makes me wonder her thought process during that Sarah/Renee mess and what she was going for lol. Back to Leo, I would buy him trying to change if he did something to change. He spends all day hanging out with Gwen. He's not actively looking for a job or trying to figure anything out. Does he plan on living at Victor's forever?

I feel like Chase always gets the short end of the stick story wise to be honest. Kind of like Cam, he tends to be an afterthought. I thought Willow/Chase were actually a cute pairing before Michael had to be the designated winner. Chase/Brooklyn had some fans until the pairing moved at a snails pace. I agree that the popstar story is a dud and I do think Chase is very similar to Griffin and Nathan as a character as well. Believe me, I would question Chase getting a week long send off with montages too lol. I can only speak for myself, but I don't think the show is making Chase into a character he's not the way it does with Britt or Joss. I don't think you are taking it personally. It's not a good look for a character that is supposed to be our young female lead especially when the Cam/Joss pairing had such a build up for so long. Joss is 'supposed' to be a good person and nothing about her behavior suggests she's thinking of anyone but herself in this. She's not feeling guilty or taking responsibility and it's a weird way to have Joss/Dex start a romance to root for.

Everyone has had good ideas about how the Sonny/Will conversation should have gone. I just don't think the writers want to bring up Ben's past or consider that friendship 'wrong' or 'strange'. I also think the fact Ben isn't gay makes him less of a 'threat' to Sonny/Will's marriage. While at least 75% of you in this thread would be better writers than Ron, I would almost guarantee that Sonny bringing up Will's friendship to Ben in this wasn't even a thought to any writer from Ron on down to script writers because Ben's changed. Ron is pushing this Leo agenda and I don't even think we are supposed to think Sonny is in the wrong here. He doesn't need to defend his point more to Will because Will is already in the wrong. Leo has changed. Now he's unwittingly screwing up or getting involved in bad things. Leo's not outright evil anymore, so Will is just being a meanie because Leo would be on the streets.

I don't understand why Joss just doesn't take a few minutes to BREAK UP with her boyfriend. Yeah, it's sucks to have to break up with someone, but this story would be a lot better if she wasn't a fickle cheater. I could understand more if Joss was torn or the stakes were higher and they were in a more serious relationship, but she's not torn and they are just teenage sweethearts. Cam will get over this lol. And I still don't think it's written like Joss is doing anything wrong or that she is an ungrateful whore, but she is. I don't think Britt is the worst character, I just don't get the fanfare. I have liked her at different points and I did like her with Jason for that brief period, but I don't think she's that special to have such a long send off with montages and a party that lasts for days. Perhaps if people knew she was dying, but she's just a 40 something girl having a birthday party🤣 To me it's like Gabi on Days getting a sendoff like this. Gabi is a marginally important character and has gotten a lot of story, but she's not that important in the scheme of things. That's how I feel about Britt. Well, now I know Cam is not the hook, but I had a moment thinking it was possible before the Heather reveal. He was a firestarter as a child....😂