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Madison bothers me a lot more than Beemer. Cook is better, but MM is the problem. Some of its the writing, but MM has no spark or life in her performance. She seems like a nice person and does resemble DH and is serviceable as an actress, but she is dull and has 0 sex appeal. Idk, I have always thought Belle could have been so much more and KS version was slightly better. Plus MM and BB have like no chemistry. John and Marlena seem 100 times hotter for each other than Shawn and Belle and that's just wrong.

Lol. For sure RC is in a different league as far as actual acting skills. RC is just someone I find very cool in her portrayal of Skye, which works better for a character like that than Hope. Anyway, I am not a fan of RC/Skye so moving along lol... KA lost a lot of her initial charm and it was clear she was phoning it in for years. I am fine with her leaving. Outside the Ciara story, I don't miss her at all. My only wish is that she found out Bo was alive and was somewhere off with him. If I had to choose I would take Jen any day over Hope. At least MR and CM act like they care about their children and people they know. I feel like KA physically cringes every time she has to pretend BB is her son lol. She deserved a better send off, but KA made her own bed with that one.

IA she had good chemistry with JM and DHim. They were decent together both pairings. But I would disagree she plays thing exactly on the page. That would require her to be closer to her onscreen children.. And outside of moments with Jason Cook, she has never been maternal at all. She is a very cold actress, similar to RC as Skye, but she becomes so warm with Bo. It's just a shame she never found another good screen partner. And I will give her credit, she was very good with Zack's death.

I just don't think Belle/Shawn are an endgame couple. KS and JC were adorable as young Belle and Shawn, but it became increasingly clear there were better options for both. I wish the show had the courage to move away from Shelle the way they did Roman/Marlena into John/Marlena. Phillip/Belle were where it was at. And Shawn easily could have found a new love interest or maybe even Chloe. They dated for years in real life! I truly get the concept of Belle and Shawn is an amazing thought- Bo/Hope/John/Marlena's children together! But it also limited story for John because clearly at some point they should have just made him real Roman and now its incestuous for Brady/Theresa and Shelle. The show could have saved literally 1000 John retcons to make him Roman in like 2001.

I don't really think KA is a bad actress at all. I think she's on par with AS, MR, or DH. None of them are great. KA is gorgeous and has a likable enough screen presence, but she reminds me of Nadia B. Very pretty, likable, but with out Bo she would have ended up somewhat adrift like Chloe without a true motivation. She has the ability to create chemistry with others but schizo writing keeps her from truly connecting. Clearly Hope connected with an audience, but without Bo she suffered so much in the way that Kayla or Marlena never would have. I also think KA lacked a bond with her on screen kids in the way MB and DH did and I don't think that helped at all. I mean, she seemed to barely tolerate Claire which was very noticeable and very off putting. I get that she was young to be a grandmother, but Ali Sweeney was like 35 when Sami became a grandma and she sold it.

They both should have been more than that especially belle. Because of her birth circumstances. But she was always such a bland good girl who would sometimes whore it up with phillip. Without any of her sisters or mothers depth. While I agree mm always seemed too old and matronly. The endgame shawn/belle pairing hurt her more. The writers are so unwilling to move her away from that. Also why did she have her winter coat on inside all episode today? It was actually bothering me. Take your coat off lol

I get that. But Rafe to me was 1000 times less shoehorned and obnoxious than Daniel, so it didn't bother me as much. Rafe is pretty benign to me. I don't have strong feelings for him one way or another. I liked him and Sami in the beginning, but I have no real investment in him. I think it's odd they tried Kristian/Hope with people like Franco, Jude, John, and Justin while Bo was around, but I think it's due to Kristian's stints. Bo had a chance to explore other options without the albatross of Hope when Hope was presumed "dead". KA always was tied to Bo, basically her entire run and by the time he left it was very hard to invest in a pairing with someone else after all they had been through with children and grandchildren etc. It would be like Marlena taking up with someone brand new if John died again. It's just not believable as a true love even if Hope was obviously much younger. The supercouple cross they bear is still the same, but Marlena had a whole life before John, while Hope has only really been paired with Bo as an adult.

I think everyone still had hope PR would be back. It was a weird limbo for awhile. DC is fairly charming he just always is the death knell for any soap, but I liked them. KA isn't without her charms but she is so much tied to Bo in a way I just don't think other Days supercouples are. She never was not tied to Bo and never really had her own story in the way Marlena did. Even Jack and Jen exist okay on their own, even though I think Jack is way too tied to Jen. I again don't think Rafe/Hope are bad on paper. I don't think the actors had the worst chemistry either, but they had the worst stories. And Hope was basically fighting her own nieces for his attention. Gross.

It's weird Hope suffered so much without Bo, but she was basically tied to Bo her entire run. I thought her and Aiden were good until that was ruined. I do think out of DAYS big supercouples Marlena, Steve, Kayla, Bo, and Shane could stand on their own. John and Kim not so much. Even with GH's big supercouples, Laura and Luke stood okay without each other. Anna, Robert, Holly, Sonny, Brenda were fine on their own. Duke and Frisco never wowed me that much on their own though, but they never really ventured out much of their original pairings.

I like MM and think he's a find as Charlie and at least as charismatic as RSW, but I do think it's Charlie's time to go. I totally get what your saying though. Why kill Charlie, but keep Ben, Kristen, Ava and so on and so forth. I do find it odd they throw Nicole into the mix of suspects, but not Lucas, at least not yet. It's not exactly rushed either. It's like they started the story, then dropped it, then come back to it, but it played out for awhile. It's the pacing that's off. I almost wish they go back to JER pacing: A stories MWF, and B stories TTH. Because certain stories play out over several days then are completely dropped for weeks.

I thought the episode was okay. There are just major issues with the Charlie story. Or I guess maybe it's holes in John's story? What ever happened with the Jan thing? Is John getting treatment for his anger issues? Or is Marlena just cooing at him to calm down? And Tripp worrying about things like Charlie getting custody of Henry? That would never, ever happen under any circumstance. This Allie/Claire/Charlie stuff and eventual fallout seems good on paper, but the execution is poor. It makes sense Charlie has all these people after him, but everyone built up to "I am going to murder Charlie" in basically an episode lol. The Ava/Rafe/Nicole stuff was silly though. And sadly, both Ava and Kristen were brought back not be villains but weak victims.

I actually agree on Brady/Kristen with ED in the beginning. They were hot, but the story relied on Brady being a clueless idiot a lot-which is fine. It's just a decade later I would hope he wouldn't be as clueless and EM and SH don't have the same chemistry. I actually really enjoyed the Kristen/Brady/John/Marlena stuff back then until it completely fell off the rails with John/Marlena acting super out of character. John still being into Kristen? Marlena being accused of being ridiculous for hating Kristen? Lol the story ended poorly and it messed up Jarlena for awhile, but ED was such a breath of fresh air for the show back then. I just think it negatively effected John, Marlena, and Brady for awhile.

Is it bad still to this day when I see Brady/Kristen together I vividly remember the scene where Kristen tells little Brady I am going to be your new mommy? And he was all upset and told John and Marlena? Lol, I don't remember much else about little Brady and Kristen, but I will never forget that scene and never get over it. Brady has always been a dim bulb, but I wish he grasped the depths that woman went to for his father. It will never not be skeevy. I love Paul. Even if he is an awful retcon that literally had John impregnating 3 woman in the span of like 3 years. I think Christopher Sean made the role though. Let's face it, he was much more interesting than Sonny/Will always. I like Carrie too because of her interesting dynamics with Roman/Anna/John/Marlena. It was nice to watch CC grow up and have such a bond with her parents and step parents and not be so nutso crazy about John like Sami was/is. Although I do sorta of love Sami will never let John/Marlena live down an affair they had almost 30 years ago even though they are married and have been for decades. Never stop holding a grudge Sami! I know Carrie/Austin and Shawn/Belle are "whitebread" couples, but Belle and Carrie were both pretty scandalous with their affairs. Idk, I thought Carrie/Sami/Austin/Mike/Lucas were really interesting throughout the 90's. Less so in the 2000's. The show needs more young heroes for sure. John and Steve aren't going to be around forever and they are clearly too old to be in the action/adventure stories they are in now. I often have felt bad for NB/Chloe. It's clear a lot of writers had no idea what to do with Chloe, so they wrote her out or made her character so unrecognizable she was a hooker? I think I easily forgave her because I knew it was just awful writing and she seems like a real team player.

I loved Carrie. I would love if she came back. She is such a perfect counterpart to Sami, a role Belle, IMO, can't fill. I want to like Belle and Belle/Shawn so bad because she's John/Marlena's daughter, but Carrie is just a better character. Let's face it, Belle was a child for most of Sami's best scheming years and Belle/Sami never really had much of a rivalry over the years except for a few spats here and there. As far as Carrie/Austin, I like them just fine and I think I prefer AP in the role. The thing about Carrie/Austin is a lot of major events for them occur off screen (the birth of their baby, their break up, the affairs, the make up) so I am not sure they have to be endgame. I think they could easily recast Mike and stick Carrie with him. Or (don't hate me), pair her with Rafe. I thought they were okay. I am not sure CC's available though, and like KMC's Robin on GH, I don't think you can recast. I would prioritize bringing Carrie back over dullsville Eric any day of the week. Honestly, out of all Jarlena's brood I'd dump Eric and Brady and bring Paul back and keep Carrie, Sami, and Belle.

I thought Cady looked embarrassed by the nod to it on days. It really didn't fit the scene I can't really speak about her AMC death. I am not a huge Dixie fan, but it was insulting. I can't say I was much of an AMC watcher at the time. She returned in the end, so CM probably got over much of her bad feelings about it.

It does seem like a very pointless death. With Jen gone, the fallout isnt going to be good either. I know JLB's Laura isnt everyone's favorite but I liked her. And it's a shame they killed her off with little to no fanfare much like they did with Bill.

Right? It's not even something he wrote. And it could have been done anytime during Cadys run. Like the morning after the Jack/Kate reveal. Not in the middle of her mother's funeral. It took you completely out of the scene. Agreed. Although Sonnys funeral was lame. I know there are budgets and guarantees and things but Marlenas scenes with Allie could have aired next week and Marlena could have attended the pre funeral or whatever they were doing at the Horton house. Lucas should have been there as well for his sister.

Aren't Marlena and Laura bffs? They were in the 90s. Does Marlena know Laura is dead? And if so why wasn't she at the funeral? If you are going to kill someone like Laura off at least have more than 5 people at her funeral.

GH Facebook rarely lines up with any of my opinions and I am not really a Carly fan, but Nina is very hard to sympathize with. I really dont care about nelle or nina at all. The only person I sorta care about in all this is Jax. Not because he has done anything noteworthy in 20 years but because I liked Jax in the 90s.

Serial killer trying to kill Babe on AMC instead and Dixie ate the banana peanut butter pancakes meant for babe. I thought cady seemed embarrassed by it more than annoyed

Same. While it was a "clever" shout out. It was completely ill timed and inappropriate. Everyone involved looked embarrassed. Maybe they could have left it at Julie offering as a wink, wink to the audience but they didn't need to continue with it.

Ugh. I think everyone would understand if he sat this one out. Did the show mention why Robin or Luke weren't there? I just assume no one informed Brenda so that's why shes not there lol.

Haha! Jax and sasha just look bored. Why is jax even there?

In both the case of Georgie and Emily, the show killed off the most rootable heroine in their age ranges and left a big hole in both age groups. And it's not like Georgie or Emily had no place to go story wise. They could have drove story for years. Plus killing off all Monica's kids and husband in a span of a few years is excessive.

That was the rumor but I think he and his ex wife got their marriage annulled which i thought was weird. They were only married a few months but were together for a few years before that. I remember seeing a picture of his ex wife and she was very pretty. Certainly better looking than ka...