carolineg

Why has no one told me about this false RC/Skye love? I have spent years barely saying I disliked Skye because of this. And I know, I know, Vanessa stole her emmy**** and so on and so forth, but like if she was that awesome wouldn't she have won another? It's not like her career was brief.. ****don't want to incite an argument about Vanessa's emmy win. I get it....

I think the botching of the casting of that was more at fault than anything. Leslie Horan always looked bored. It wasn't a bad idea but Miranda never felt like a legit rival against Vanessa marcil's 1996 energy. Even Lilly Melgar had more fire. LH didn't have the chem with Ingo and it just didn't take. They had a ton of ideas for Miranda that were immediately cancelled. I am surprised they never recast and brought her back though. Again, with the LInda Dano IDEA it was poor form to build another huge arc on a great character on a cancelled soap. Just saying that doesn't make a great deal of sense on ANOTHER network

Brenda agrees with you lol. ABC could have used about a million different people across age ranges to make this happen without being gimmicky? Robin Scorpio, anyone? This was just a bizarre choice with an actress popular on a defunct soap on another network. Weird.. Genie feels perfect for me as well.... It's a cool idea that was executed with the worst possible choices. The thing is Brenda/Sonny made him, but no one really wanted to develop on that? I don't think Ingo is a bad actor or Jax is a bad character from the outside. Personality of the actor aside. He's just someone who desperately needs a good female lead to keep him going and it's the shows fault that he kept being put in with women in Sonny's orbit. It's cute once, but it shouldn't be a weird, stalker pattern

I wish I knew you back then when everyone was like poor, poor Skye. She had a decent trajectory going with the Brenda returns story until she became completely unlikeable and actually evil. But I will always love this The amount of words skye uses to call Brenda a whore is fantastic!!

Damn! Can you @Khan and I unite in our anti-Skye feelings? I always thought RC/Skye was loved everywhere and deserved all the stories and all the emmys and was wasted on every show from what I heard online. She's very good, but she's not the be all and end of soaps and was given a lot of oppurtunity to be.

I think Skye fit on AMC fine, but the weird parade on all soaps only to land on GH was a poor choice. If they were going to do this weird experiment across all ABC soaps they should have chosen characters that had a stronger fan base. The idea of Linda dano/Rae running across states and soap towns to find her daughter and the father of her daughter is just not a good plan. The idea is interesting, but the execution was not. I don't know I still stand by RC being a strong supporting actress, but never a lead.

I cannot stand the psychic connection crap between 'soulmates'. It sounds like they are characters from Twighlight lol. And before anyone says it I know John/Marlena use it all the time, but it doesn't make it less stupid. I believe twins would have that. They shared a womb. The fact the show brought in Susan to solve this shows a lack of urgency from everyone. I know Marlena was calling John, but are we just waiting for him to get back before we call in Eric, Rafe, the police, like anyone else that can help?

But I would argue did she deserve much more? Skye wasn't ever a good fit on GH, she didn't exude a lot of warmth or romantic chemistry, and she was lucky she even got those opportunities. RC seems lovely. She's very pretty, does good work as a schemer, is a great actress and plays well off women as an adversary. She's just not leading lady material, IMO. She got many, many chances to make something work. I am not arguing others haven't, but they really tried with Skye until they didn't.

I was a little confused why no one made more effort to get her into the bathroom. But then she would have accused everyone of manhandling her or something.

@TaoboiLiterally the first thing I think about when I hear Vermont is Fitz and Olivia making jam there lol. So I think Julie is awful. I am actually confused what she is doing. When talking to her husband was she admitting to leaning in hard to her worst tendencies for good tv or was that her bizarre way of excusing her ridiculousness? Either way she is so awful I can't believe people go on television and act that way with no self awareness at all. She's literally been on this tv show before-does she not understand she looks like the most clueless Karen in the world? @SoapsudsI feel like I still know more about Matt than about Jamie and his life currently. I loved how useless Matt was when Julie threw up everywhere and he just gave Tokyo one single paper towel lol.

Today was ok. I do appreciate Paulina continues to be the only one with a normal human reaction to the Devil stuff. Just telling Chanel to stay away which is what I would do as well. It's nice to have a character making sense.

You are probably right re: Ned/Alexis. Ned just called her sweetheart in one of the scenes so I assumed they were still together. I remember that lull of 'oh he's so sad he's seeing a bunch of hookers" stuff lol. It was directly after he dumped Skye then Brenda at her wedding and tried to pay her to leave town. It was when his popularity was already taking major hits, so, sure, let's have him now start seeing sex workers as well. That's what we all want in a romantic lead! I see what you're saying though in regards to his other stories. I do think the show made a HUGE effort with him and Sam and when that tanked he moved more to the background. I guess I just never considered Jax a lead like Sonny or Jason or Luke. He was only a lead when he was paired with women that were major leads. Jax never really stood on his own with his own stories of much worth. Skye was truly a character that had some of the most random romances on Gh and so many! Jax, Luis Alcazar, Luke, Ric, Ned, Lorenzo Alcazar, Coleman!. JFP was trying to make something stick. I can add a character that ate the show on GH-The Balkan. He didn't appear until 4 months into Brenda's run, but I can safely say he was named dropped 10000 times by all characters before they even found an actor or even came up with a vague idea for a plot. I don't think I have ever heard a name mentioned by more people in every situation on a soap lol

I forgot Jax was involved with Angel as well. That is a character GH really tried to make happen and was tied to quite a few people for no reason. I wouldn't say she ate the show, but McTavish and JFP sure wanted to make her work. 2001 was such an odd year for the show, but it was solidly back by 2002. I think Jax still had story consistently. He went from Skye to Brenda to Sam to Courtney to Carly without much lull in between. I don't think any story between Brenda to Carly was good, but he had a solid B story almost always. I think half the reason Guza kept him around though is because he loved playing the Sonny vs. Jax/whatever woman angle. And Ingo was popular enough to stay at the time. Jax just never got a full characterization beyond 'white knight'. Luke/Skye were very odd. I don't remember hating them just wondering how it came to be. lol

I think it was violently killing off a character that didn't need to be killed in mob violence that was unpopular. She was an innocent bystander with only peripheral ties to Sonny/Jason/et all. It was all very senseless and just a plot point to move the Sonny/Alexis baby saga forward. Don't get me started on Skye and being a Q-something later retconned so she could be paired with Ned!! I think part of the reason Skye survived was because they needed an obstacle for Jax/Brenda. Which is a shame because they moved Jax/Skye at lightning speed to accommodate VM's return and Skye/Jax weren't half bad. They just weren't anywhere near an organic place to get married at the time. I think RC and Skye are popular and Skye perhaps seemed popular on GH, but she was never a good fit really. Interesting. Chloe is another really senseless death. It's so odd Jax was involved. I don't understand exactly how Jax's quest to find non dead Brenda led to Alexis's sister and I don't think the show it explains it that well. Jax was like, "nope, didn't find Brenda, but found this instead". I never really understood Jax's weird forays into Cassadine stories. I didn't realize Ned was still with Alexis at the time Kristina appeared. lol

I don't recall Kristina being popular, but I think the way she was killed off was unpopular. I think pairing her with Ned so soon after Alexis was a poor choice for the character. I never thought Kristina was very well developed, but I actually thought she would have been better with Jax than Skye was. She got killed off in an explosion set by Luis Alcazar meant for Sonny while she was going to tell Sonny Alexis was pregnant with his baby. My favorite Alexis scene ever is her screaming and throwing the ashes at Sonny at the funeral. It was such a good speech! Lol! I just said pairing her with Ned was unpopular. Her introduction was weird. Jax went to find a presumed dead Brenda when IR left the show and came back with Alexis's never before heard of sister lol. Random. JRN did have a likable screen presence. Listen, I don't think she was popular, but I think there were some really unpopular actresses that had more hate at the time (Angel, the Sarah recast, the Maxie recast, etc.)

Of course not! And then they gave Sonny a brother like a year later. I have to say I could deal with Skipper being Sonny's sister if I didn't have to deal with Jason/Courtney as well. She was good with AJ. That era of the 4 of them Carly/Sonny/Jason/Courtney was absolutely dreadful and the pinnacle (IMO) of all the characters airtime.

I thought it was Frons that loved Courtney, but then moved on to KeMo and that gave Guza the room to get rid of Courtney. I do remember he (supposedly) hated her. Courtney still had that story with Jax and Nik after. Wasn't JFP the EP the entire time?

And the Jerry Jax stuff was very abruptly ended. Jerry just left her right at their wedding? Right before? She had that story with Roy Dilucca and Melissa IIRC and some stuff with Carly's bio dad. That's the last time I remember her being decently featured as far as appearances (not storywise because those were awful)

Ron would ruin a story like that, but I would absolutely love that story for them even if it's lame for Will/Sonny. I think the bigger problem is figuring out Chandler's schedule to then working out what to do with ZT and Sonny. Is BD on contract? Is that recent? He really hasn't been on in ages, but I do think he's coming back soon. Maybe even before Sami, which would make sense with what's happening with his daughter.

Again, I don't think any child has ever driven as much story with as many characters as Michael. Tony wasn't irredeemable and deserved an arc recovering from his breakdown that we saw. But Guza pivoted the Michael story to more 'important' characters and literally seemingly forgot about Tony because the Bobbie/Carly story was over. It's a shame, but at the same time it did revitalize Tony as a character for a bit.

So I don't think that's a crazy idea. I don't know if a soap would ever do that, but that's sort of how I felt about how Chad/Sonny were playing the scenes. Both were getting really mad about things that don't really matter much and they were being intense with one another.

To be fair to the soon to be ex Mrs. Burton they could have been separated for awhile. It is a choice to put this business out there starting with a pregnancy announcement on her part though. That's just weird. All of it. She has to know Steve is famous enough people would notice this lol. Idk what I would have said if I was Steve. Maybe something slightly better worded than it's not my baby lol.

Is he still thinking about taking over Titan? I can't remember if he gave Victor an answer lol. I would definitely say something weird is going on with the Chad, Leo, Will, Sonny group, but I am not sure what yet. I think Chad would be supporting his wife at this time and not shooting the sh*t with Sonny about petty things that don't include the murder of your wife's grandma but that's me.

Why did Gwen tell Abby that about Laura? What did she think Abby would do with that information? Gwen is just creating more stupid trouble for herself at this point. Chad is really worked up over this Leo story lol. It seems a little out of character for him to care that much. It's not like Abigail wasn't in on it. Who cares? It's a little embarrassing, but on the scale of embarrassing things that have happen to Chad/Abigail this is no big deal.

I believe people have mentioned or thought they were separated for awhile, but you would think Sheree would have given Steve the heads up she was announcing her pregnancy and let him make a statement before lol. Awkward.....lol.