carolineg

Ugh Wally Kurth's singing is not my fave either. Ned and his leather pants were a fun time in the 90's but none of his songs were very good either. I am not sure I truly believe the Idle Rich was a big time band.

Well, JKJ looks hot so that's a win for him. He's not the best at singing even though I think he might have pursued this as a side hustle. Eric Winter/Rex sings too? Did they just let anyone who took a few guitar lessons as a kid sing a song on days? Kyle Lowder has a slightly better voice than I remember. His version of Brady really doesn't seem straight, but whatever.

His Sonny/Jason hate is pretty epic so I would say there are 2 reasons to keep him around.🤣

For sure. Living the life in Europe in fashion circles. Wouldn't it be great to make him Jax's son and have Ingo play that? Reason enough to cast him now.

He can exist I guess. And Joss can fall in love with him. Or they make him Jax's and Trina can fall for him or make him an out gay teen like Vanessa's actual son. It's stupid to have him be out there and not on the canvas even without Vanessa.

I deny that lame kid too. Unless they make it Jax's or something it was just a stupid plot point. VM did not seem that motivated during her return, but I feel like there was a moment a month or so into her return she just realized it was all no good because she started fine and ended fine. They really just needed to invest more in her and Sonny. I know they got a wedding, but she literally had more scenes with Dante and Spinelli. I thought VM was fine when she returned in 2013. Fake sleeping with Michael was not the best story, but VM at least looked like she was enjoying herself.

I think Langan was very obsessed with the teens and the John/Hope thing. I feel like the show just kept trying to push it over and over again. I actually think KA and DH have okay chemistry, but I have never met a John/Hope shipper in my life. I thought JER 1.0 did an awful disservice to Bo/Hope. They had the worst stories. Jack/Jen had an okay story-they were just destroyed by recasts. I thought the J&M stuff was good under JER. I think he transitioned them from a fairly stale love triangle with Roman into some great stuff with Stefano/Kristen. It did securely lock Jarlena in as leads, but I think I am fine with that? You are right though the entire show was triangles with hero/heroine/villian right down to Sami/Austin/Carrie. I think Bo/Hope/Billie was an exception because Billie wasn't really evil. Such a good ad and such a good beginning to that return, but then it gets bogged down by 2 Romans. I actually groan when Wayne appears and I like him, but it was all unnecessary.

I am sure Charles will be just fine, but I 'd rather see him on Days. I don't understand why GH keeps hiring these "big name" stars when Brenda is just more relevant to todays GH. I really don't understand Frank's hate for Vanessa/Brenda because it's clear they are just not interested. I don't know if bomb is the right term for that return. It wasn't a ratings smash or terribly popular with viewers, but I think the expectations were very high. The S&B wedding gave the show very high ratings. I think the best in like 5 years or something. The story was bad, but it's been a decade and I am willing to forgive and forget. All the show had to do was ditch the Balkan story quicker and cut Dante out of it and just focused on Brenda's main relationships (Sonny, Jax, Robin, Jason, Carly) and it would have been fine. It was pretty panned at the time, but I can look back and say it wasn't as bad as I remember.

let's just spend money on cs, who is fine, but we can't have nice things like Brenda F**kin Barrett🥲

I think Isabella holds up as a character in history more than real time. Because she annoyed the crap out of me back in the day. I hated her pressuring RoJohn about the baby (Brady) every single second. Looking back, I hate, hate, hate the Tale of 2 Romans, but Izzy B doesn't bother me as much in hindsight. I just remember her sleeping with John when they were in Mexico and Marlena being super devastated and I thought Isabella was so mean. But I built a bridge after 30 years and got over it lol. I think the Teens could have possibly done a TNBC spinoff. It was just ALOT in the regular show. And I never liked any of those teens much. I liked Mimi and Chloe, but Belle, Shawn D, and Phillip just didn't do it for me. I am OK with them now, but they never inspired fandom for me. I'd rather watch Jarlena or Bope do silly things than Belle/Shawn talk about promise rings.

Isabella had almost more appearances as a ghost than she did as an alive person. They just trotted her out all the time. I guess it's nice of Staci Greason to keep making cameos.

Love Brady being extra by dressing up 3 days late. Like he literally threatened Marlena with a sword. WTH? And John's like he might have aggression problems. Watch the next 10 mins. No idea why lol He was so mean to Marlena for no reason. I would have kicked Brady out of the house months before. He was just chillin at Marlena's penthouse the whole time? Brady did rip off his mask in the spirt of the fight. I am pretty sure Kirsten was filming the sequel then and it seemed very intentional. Best work KS ever did was Zenon. Although I do like Johnny Tsunami as well.

Why can't I find this on you tube? Lol I literally searched JKJ singing and Phillip singing and it did not populate results lol Please, please do.

Okay. I haven't seen this since it aired, but WTF is going on? I have so many questions and need to break this down. 1. Is it even Halloween? 2. Brady thought it was a good idea to wear Gay Zorro costume and threaten Marlena with a sword in a public place? And actually makes death threats lol? 3. John thinks it's a good idea to assault multiple cops? Even if one is Roman and he deserves it because he's trying to get with Marlena? 4. Sami's dumb ass misses the entire thing while outside the restaurant and didn't hear the restaurant being destroyed? 5. Marlena thinks sobbing and wailing is going to solve this? 6. I am not sure John is in mercenary mode? I think he's just being psychotic as is Brady. 7. Why is John not in jail and Brady is? Is it because of Belle's accident? 8. Is Kirsten Storms filming a Zenon movie or something? They are going out of their way not to show her. There is a lot to unpack with all this as is the fun with the restaurant patrons like OG Hattie, Faye, Dr. Rolf in disguise and I think Vivian and the girl that marries Robbie Williams.

I mean, me too. I like a good musical number. It was just strange. Never before or after have people broken into song like that. And it wasn't in the General Hospital 90's way where they were performing at Luke's or something. It was just let's start singing outdated music that no one our age would possibly be into lol* I remember thinking at the time Langan was awful, but I guess the show wasn't that bad. I was a teenager at the time and didn't want to see the teens. I would rather watch the older adults. But I don't remember ever liking teen scenes on soaps. I really only liked Brenda/Robin/Stone/Jagger et all on GH and some of Carrie/Austin/Sami/Lucas, so I may just be weird. *And I stand by the fact KL is not a good singer. I would just assume he is a better singer than JKJ or else Chloe/Phillip would have re-enacted West Side Story or something.

I actually dont think that was the worst idea. Kirsten had a pretty solid disney following. John's Maggie hate cracks me up. It came out of nowhere.

Lol. It was so funny that it was normal behavior for them to just breakout "16 going on 17" midday at a park. That menace to society Brady, who learned show tunes at his horrible prison like boarding school Marlena sent him to.🤣 Such a weird time. An no offense to Kyle Lowder, but he's not even that good of a singer. Did she? She looks like a perfect WB character. I think you are right about her wanting to leave not vice versa. But again, Cassie really didn't do anything. Rex at least had the fairly interesting Mimi pairing.

Yes, Sami was pretending to date Tony or something? I remember that but I have no idea why. I liked Cassie and I liked the actress. It doesn't look like Alexis Thorpe acts anymore though. I do think Cassie just got shoved aside, but she was another character who was related to pretty much her entire peer set so she had no love interest. But didn't her and Jack have a thing or a moment? Cassie and Greta are similar to me. They drove a ton of story for a hot minute, never to be spoken of again. We still don't know who Greta's father is lol

The Gemini twins stuff. Now it's coming back to me. Again, it's been so long, but there had to be regime/writing changes during that because that story started one way and ended in a completely different way. Why would Stefano even do that lol? You would think he would have spent those five years brainwashing Marlena to become his mistress or something. Or Marlena was pregnant by John in 1986 and Stefano raised that child to be evil, but no. Marlena just carried Kate/Roman's kids while in a coma lol. If Rex didn't come back recently, I would have just assumed those kids were retconned out of existence. Am I crazy or were they vaguely teasing Tony/Marlena as a couple then just dropped it at the time too? No wonder I look back at Aremid so fondly. That was Shakespeare compared to the early 2000's. So many teen stories. So much of Kyle Lowder and Nadja Bjorlin singing the Sound of Music.

That was on Jarlena's honeymoon. Brady and Belle were aged after the wedding. Brady maybe a year after Belle. I think during this period of time John was lying about being JT's (presumed) dad or maybe just Marlena knew and things were tense. Honestly, after the Brady stuff was resolved I can't remember what John or Marlena did until the Salem Serial Killer stuff. I think most of it was the Zack/JT stuff and Bo being retconned into the father and the baby switch. Idk, it's been so long and that era is pretty hard to find on you tube.

There was never, ever any indication on screen that Brady wasn't treated well by Marlena. He called her mom as a kid. Most of the time he was living with Marlena even when her and John weren't together. I could understand if Brady had any memories of Isabella or Isabella and Marlena didn't get along, but Marlena was literally the only mother Brady ever knew (except for the time Kristen told Brady she was his new mommy and now they have a kid together lol) Although Marlena thinking Brady was evil and pleading to Roman about what a danger he was to Belle was obnoxious. I still chuckle when I think about a man who dressed up as Gay Zorro being a danger to society and Marlena was convinced her idiot daughter was tied to the train tracks by Brady like he was Wile E. Coyote or something lol. I think there was an interview back then where John was supposed to hit Marlena in mercenary mode. Great Idea show! I think Drake actually stepped in and refused, which I appreciate because that would not have gone over well. I don't even remember the resolution of the Mercenary stuff. Did he just stop having flashbacks lol?

I don't understand why Brady was so aggro and also just weird. Marlena raised you or at least she took you along with her golden child Belle. You had a nanny Brady. Shut up. Wasn't Roman in this scene too? And then Belle got caught on the train tracks? And Marlena was convinced Brady pushed her lol.? And then the entire fiasco was just resolved with Marlena finding a grey hulk toy Brady once lost? So stupid. Me typing that out was painful. Ugh I forgot how obnoxious the entire family was at the time. I wanted to punch them all in the face. For anyone asking that my have been the nadir in my Days watching lol

Tony/Andre's plan is so good. If he didn't write it down he would have gotten away with everything. The gun hidden in the book that shoots lol. Too much!! It's so perfect JER camp. I actually thought Peter thinking John was guilty made sense. Peter was still pretty good back then and he just got caught in a weird situation, where he liked John fine, but had to prosecute him. The only person who truly believed John was innocent was Marlena, which of course. I don't even remember Carrie or Sami caring much at all about the Aremid stuff either lol. To answer your question, I don't think the show ran dry, but all the stories ended basically at the same time. And Days invested so much in the Eileen Davidson show, but they ended up wasting her the last six months. I think the show could have done something different with Jarlena. The show weirdly invested in John/Hope as a thing which I think was the bigger mistake. Bo/Hope/Billie was not good either and Jack/Jen was killed by the recasts. Carrie/Austin/Sami/Mike was the only thing I remember really working. I also think Stefano went from a menacing villian to a caricature at this time. As far as SORASing Belle, Phillip, Brady-I think it was a huge mistake. Belle, Sami, Eric, and Brady should just not be the same age. They should be closer to Will's age. And now Belle has an adult child. Shawn D is hard to say because he wasn't really aged much. Maybe a year or two. I think Belle/Brady should be Abby and Will's contemporaries and they could have built a teen scene around Shawn D with Mimis and Jans and maybe aged Stephanie, Theresa ,or Andrew earlier or one of Adrienne and Justin's kids. I actually don't love the Shelle pairing because it closes the door on John being Roman. And to me that's actually the endgame situation. Yes I know Tate does too but he barely exists. It doesn't matter in the scheme of things now, but I seriously thought John would eventually end up as Roman after Wayne left. Yup. Belle/Brady went from like 5 to obnoxious overnight. My hatred for Belle is well known and Brady is whatever. Phillip is just a bit of a non entity so I don't have a huge opinion on that. I just think the show had a wealth of 80's babies to choose from and didn't, but then they age EJ and my head explodes so I guess it's not the worst.

I dont think Roman in theory was a bad idea. Josh Taylor was lol. I think WN still could have brought something to the table but Jarlena were so endgame at that point it was a "why bother?" situation. and Eileen was clearly bored just waiting for her contract to expire. On the flip side the carrie/sami/Austin stuff finally climaxed. The jungle stuff with john/ hope was just bad

Aremid is my favorite JER arc. It's not as wacky as the Possession or Paris, but everyone's story moves. And I personally think Tony/Andre's plan is low key brilliant. The John/Marlena/Kristen stuff finally kicks into high gear as does Bo/Hope and Peter/Jennifer were in their prime hotness (make of that what you will lol). There is a lot of good Stefano stuff as well with him faking his amnesia leading to his obsession with Marlena. I love the whole atmosphere of the town and I even like the quirky Aremid town folk. I love when Marlena is trying to seduce Stefano to free John while he's writing that love letter to her and everyone is trying to exonerate John before it's too late. And let's be real, Kristen was super lame before she becomes evil so it's win win. I would say Maison Blanche and Aremid are my two favorite arcs of that period. But it all seamlessly flows Maison Blanche, to the Possession, to Aremid, to Paris, on to the Secret Room. That entire time period was really good and it basically comes to a screeching halt once they recast Roman, but there was a solid 4 years of decent storytelling before that.