carolineg

Good point about Laura. Due to Laura being off screen she missed the Felica/Anna era for the most part. I suppose someone like Tiffany should have been a better friend to her when Laura returned, but Tiffany had tons of other friends. I wouldn't say Laura was completely isolated in her return. She was friends with mostly everyone in the 90's but never developed a super close friendship with another female on canvas. To be honest, did Laura ever really have a close female friend? It seems like Laura builds better friendships with men.

I agree there is a point there about female rivalries being a go to on soaps and are sometimes very flimsy and petty. For example, 75% of Carly's issues and rivalries with women. Conflicts like Brook Lynn vs. Lulu and Emma vs. Joss work given the history and the fact they both need rivals. Otherwise, everyone in town would just be saying how awesome and brave the both of them are. The Gio reveal would have lacked the punch if Lulu wasn't the person who exposed it. Joss's WSB Alias adventure would be duller than it is without Emma always being in the mix. I agree friendships are harder to write and execute well, but there is a time and place for a good old fashion female rivalry.

Today was the 5th or 6th Friday in a row where there was no cliffhanger. The Friday shows are usually decent in content, but Rocco writing an email and Kai/Trina breaking up isn't going to make people tune in on Monday. Is the show behind a day or something? Because besides last week when Rocco went to confront Lulu all these Friday shows these last few weeks would have been better as mid-week episodes.

Morgan died and she didn't come around. At least when Michael got shot Carly was with Jax and he was telling how suicidally stupid she was being. Jax was still the 'heavy' in the triangle, but it wasn't a super villain preaching how awful was. Jax was coming from a realistic place with good intentions. Every character on the show now that hates Sonny is obviously wrong.

Immediately jumped into help Sonny cover a murder by saying she slept with him! So she's not against covering up a murder but also willing to embarrass herself publicly by claiming to have sex with Sonny. Well, if you only saw Brenda's last return I can see you not coming around. It wasn't my favorite. 90's and her 2002 return are excellent.

I can't believe it took you years to come around on Brenda!!😂 Anyway, I can actually see why Brenda and even early Carly would know better, but still have hope. They probably thought Sonny would get out long before he was 60 and had kids and grandkids. It may have been naive, but I never really thought Sonny made it clear this was his life's business forever back then. More of means to an end. Current Carly should know her raging and pleading will do nothing. Her own son died and she still chose to procreate with him and marry him again. So she can claim how upset she is and how awful it's been and whatever, but last year she just helped Sonny cover up Jagger's murder so this is on her too. She's always been a willing accomplice. It's only when she decides it directly affects her she cares. Carly will be back on Team Sonny in a few weeks. I know Brenda would probably be co-signing Sonny's crap if she was still on the canvas. At least she got the truth out of Sonny and realized she needed to leave for herself and her child.

The only time I can ever recall Sonny being truly transparent was when he and Brenda divorced and he told her he craved power and was never leaving the mob. 15 years later it's the same old BS now with more children and grandchildren while acting like everything is under control and he might give power up. It's tired. It's boring. And Carly and Sonny have had the conversation 1000's of times. Carly was better off just sending Sonny a voice note with her concerns. It would have had the exact same effect.

Yes lol! I thought Sweet Bits had cameras after the whole Talia thing and Chanel went to finish Paul/Andrew's wedding cake after visiting EJ. That doesn't completely rule her out because normal people wear clothes more than once, but it could be a start.

I thought MB was okay in the scene with Gio too, but it's a rehash of scenes he's had with his children/family members/girlfriends etc. The whole it's too dangerous to be around me nonsense.

I was just thinking how easy it would be for Chanel to know it's altered because she would have remembered when she wore that outfit.

MB and LW might as well have used an old script. Would have saved both of them some time lol.

I wonder if you counted how many times Sonny and Carly have had a version of this same conversation over the years what it would add up to? 200? 300 times? And yet, very little has ever changed lol.

You know, I honestly don't even remember where I heard the Ava being killed off rumor. I just remember hearing it around the time Sonny kicked her out and all the Kristina then Natalia nonsense happened. This is probably pure fanfiction so don't take my word. I thought both Maura and KeMo were on the chopping block and Maura had much more favor with Frank and we know how it ended up lol. Nina and Ava's backstories are so wild I just ignore it all and enjoy the two together. The actors do present a believable friendship.

Yes, I believe you are correct that he was coming and going to a point. From the 90's retelling though Mike didn't come back after Adella married Deke. That's why he didn't know Sonny or Adella were being abused and Sonny hadn't seen Mike since he was a child when Ron Hale's version appeared. Perhaps he could have been in and out of town while Sonny was older, so it's not a huge deal and the story had more flaws than that minor point so whatever.

If I were Willow I would have told Carly-"Fine! I'll just join a nice country club with an adult size pool and a real bar!!" And secretly spy on Wiley and Amelia while moving Daisy around the Q mansion lol.

He looks really good. On a different note, I was laughing at Carly threatening to ban Willow from the Metro Court pool like that's the worst thing that could possibly happen to someone.

Who knows? I think I heard rumors Ava was eventually going to be killed off. No idea if that would have been the endgame if all the Sonny stuff played out.

Probably. It's not the worst idea in the world though-or maybe it is lol. It would make Carly and Sonny's heads explode which would be funny. Yes. They had some moments with spark. I doubt a full-on romance would ever work for them, but when Steve first returned in the clinic with Ava (the return before this one-I can't remember the year) I did think the show was maybe considering it.

Lol! Yeah, I think Ric/Ava are a good match. I just can't imagine what fans think she had other amazing pairings. Tyler/Maura were the best match, but I have also contemplated Jason/Ava in the past.

Oh, whatever. Take Maura and Gina and I'll keep Vanessa. 😂

I was just quoting @DRW50's post above mine. Some of her fans think that.

I don't really get the Ava hype nor have I ever. I just don't know what pairings she had on this show that were great and why Ric or even Cody would be beneath her. Maybe some early Ava/Nik was decent? Sure, some of the stories she's had have been questionable but, IMO, Ava could have been killed off years ago. I know, I know Maura West and all that.

I guess it depends where GH takes the story. If Willow/Drew stay schemers it's fine. If they redeem them and call them a great love in 6 months-I'd ditch them quick. I was a more casual viewer in that era, but I was so confused why Mike was even around to dig up the body. I thought he left Sonny when he was a kid. I am sure the show vaguely explained it, but it seemed to make no timeline sense outside of being dumb.

I can't really recall this, but I assume I wasn't interested. I hated the cult story after the strong-ish beginning. I do remember Sonny killing her dad years before and Mike moving the body for some reason though lol. I wouldn't mind keeping Willow for awhile, but I wouldn't be sad at all if they killed her off after this story arc concludes either.

Seriously. Why even try to redeem her lol? Let her go out as a looney villain. It's the most exciting thing she's done ever.