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I could see Karen fitting in fine in the Grey's Anatomy era especially with her previous bond to Robin. I guess it's more I can't see a long-term Karen/Jagger pairing on screen. I agree Mo probably doesn't want to delve into Sonny's character flaws that deeply. With the timing of Jagger/Karen's departure and then recast Karen's return there wasn't much of chance. Sonny/Brenda were just beginning and CS and ASJ were out the door. Then when Karen came back she was on PC, obviously, but Mo/Vanessa (at the time) were leaving, so forgiveness in a few scenes was the easiest way to tie it all up. FakeJagger coming back avenging Karen didn't help. Karen, as far as we knew, had long forgiven Sonny and Jagger bringing it up felt like he was projecting his own flaws and regrets on to Sonny. I think there might be a greater story for Sonny if someone like Brenda acknowledged the way Sonny mistreated her and started dating her so young and blah, blah. To me, at this point or any point past like 2005 lol, Sonny's actions towards Karen aren't terribly relevant for the show to deep dive. It's not condoning his behavior, but there isn't the fallout that Lucky and Lulu learning about their mother/father had.

I can't say I like Leo/Javi individually or as a couple, but I have been able to tolerate them since they fostered Baby T. Some of their scenes are really sweet. I like Sonny/Will too. I think they got a bit stale towards the end of Freddie Smith's (run, runs?) and I don't think Tinker and Massey have ever truly established an amazing connection-even if I think Tinker is a good recast. They just appear too sporadically.

I don't think the show would have continued the Karen/Sonny arc too far. I guess if Sonny never met Brenda? But I don't think Sonny would have been long for the show if he didn't. In a hypothetical world where ASJ stayed on as Jagger I could see a Sonny/Brenda/Karen/Jagger quad, I suppose. Jagger/Karen getting a happy ending and leaving made it much easier to sweep under the rug. I obviously don't condone Sonny's behavior, but I really struggle seeing a long term place for Karen or Jagger post-Stone's death. With Sonny talking care of Stone in the way he did I would assume both Karen and Jagger would have come around to him eventually.

I'd probably take an episode from 2012 right now lol. I have to assume Frank would pick them because I don't know who else would. I suppose we will never know, but it's very strange GH won't show an episode before his run.

I've heard the music rights excuse before, but Soapnet used to play the reruns without the original music. The Amazing Grace episode, for example, didn't use Amazing Grace for the ending but stock music. I am sure GH could still do that today or use an episode without popular music. I can understand it being an issue for an entire season or multiple episodes of a show, but not for just one. I wonder who chooses these episodes. Is it Frank? Even Days with it's teeny, tiny shoestring budget pulled out never before seen flashbacks for the 60th with characters no longer on the show.

To this day I still believe she was a placeholder to make things smoother for Martha Madison. There is no way even Days was serious about Charity Rahmer. I still laugh remembering Rahmer practically flirting with John, her father.

I am sure this has been answered already, but is budget the reason GH shows reruns from 6 months ago only? Is it that expensive to shell out money to the actors for an older episode? Times have changed for ABC Daytime obviously, but they did briefly show reruns in 2010 in lieu of new episodes and showed old episodes on Soapnet all the time. I would actually watch an old Q Thanksgiving episode but have no desire to watch an episode that just happened. It's hard for me to imagine the budget is that bad. And if it is at least go back 5 years to a Thanksgiving theme episode or something. Frank never fires anyone except KeMo, so I am positive they could find an episode from the last decade with most of the current cast lol.

I feel like even that's a disservice to Bill Eckert lol. DT has made the "Black Luke Spencer" comments before. It's obvious he wants to be paired with Genie. Tony Geary was probably being nice to him lol. Most likely DT just thinks highly of himself or somehow thinks that's how his character is actually perceived. The thing is Curtis is nothing like Luke. Even if Curtis was a good character, which he's not, he doesn't have anything in common with the Luke character or even the Robert character. He's not some action/adventure hero-or at least he's not anymore. He has almost no layers or depth, and DT lacks charisma and barely tries. Curtis is mostly a business man that has waffled between two women his entire run. It's almost criminal Curtis has lingered on this show for an entire decade. But, anyway, Happy Thanksgiving everyone lol!!

Yes! That's a big problem. I also go back and forth with the issue that a lot of characters I care about are being dragged into plots I don't care about if that makes sense?

I really like Cynthia Watros's new haircut. Very flattering. I think the show was good today and has been good all week, but I am somehow bored and I am not sure why.

She is. It's like Emma's entire plot got lost and she basically gets no resolution except that Gio and Rocco are getting yelled at lol.

I think those are both good examples. I do believe JB was popular as Vicky. Although I don't know if she got really lucky or was actually good. Her role as Melissa on GH and her off screen antics make me think it was the former.

I thought the scenes between Britt and Jason were well done, so I'll give KT props for that at least. I agree it felt like she was asking too much of him. It's unrealistic to think Jason, of all people, would be 100% committed to anyone at this point and he actually shouldn't have to be when he's just offering help? Britt also has family that would be happy to help her, so it's not as if she's all alone in the world. The whole Dalton murder and Britt/Sidwell connection is fine I suppose, but it feels like the show just scrapped Emma's only story. All the months she spent trying to get in good with Dalton yet she never cracked the case and now he's dead.

Cherie Jimenez as Gabi on Days. I am not sure if Camila Banus was ever super popular, but she led storyline and was on the show for years. Not to veer off topic, but I am also quite fascinated by the Carly situation on GH. I know TB wasn't immediately accepted, while Laura was due to the Bransford situation, but it has to be rare to have such longevity and success with three separate actors in the role. Are there other roles/actors that have achieved that?

I have seen some clips of Catherine Mary Stewart and she seems likeable, if forgettable. I don't think the writing was very strong for Kayla at the time. CMS/Kayla seem to get lost in the shuffle, but she isn't horrible. I don't think Anne Howard ever did have the role. I don't believe the show ever really wanted to give up on Pease and let her take her time and breaks. It eventually became just too much to work around. In the late 90's when PP was making more frequent, short appearances I did think they might bring Kim back more permanently.

Bo went missing during the Raffi Torres story and popped up as RKK. I believe Rinna started in the same year (1992) but they didn't share story for a year or so. I was going to mention MBE as Kayla, but I wasn't sure the first Kayla was popular enough. With Kim, I think Patsy Pease's issues made recasting more an emergency situation than truly taking time to find an acceptable Kim. I did like Ariana Munker as Kim though.

Yeah, I personally liked Drew and I know others did as well. To me it was more of a mystery as to why he was fired rather than Chad being bad. And at least the soap press seemed to pump Duell up from the start. I absolutely hated Carly in general, but I thought Reckell did a good job selling the romance. It got convoluted so early on and by the end Crystal seemed to just sell her scenes with Lawrence/MS for obvious reasons. RKK's Bo was of course fabulous with Billie, I also thought he did really well interacting with his family.

Speaking of Gh's Michael, wasn't Chad Duell pretty much universally accepted right away? I know people were sad about Garrett getting canned, but CD stepped into heavy material right off the bat and did well and was praised. Obviously, things went downhill lol. On the Days side of things RKK as Bo and I suppose you can count Drake as Roman 2 even if that was retconned back.

Diane being a dummy with a wig in the office would be the greatest contribution the character has ever made.

I didn't pay much attention, but I thought it was a Lorenzo fake out. So, yes, Alcazar was mentioned, but it was always Tomas and the whole thing was quickly scuttled and never brought to a conclusion? I didn't watch enough OLTL to know if that even makes sense though.

My first thought would be Joss's age range, but the show can barely find anything for Trina or Emma to do. She would probably be closer to the Molly age range if we are going off the sequential timing of her birth. Her relevancy would be an issue, but I do think that was something the show always would have had to deal with if they decided to bring her back. Once Ted left, Alcazar was never mentioned again so I have a hard time believing King was ever considering coming back. You either make Lila Rae more important to the Q's than she is and throw her into that group or have her back with a grudge against Jason/Sonny for killing her father. But, hey, if we are bringing back long forgotten kids, I'd still vote for Alec, who would immediately somehow become Joss's boyfriend because Brenda vs. Carly lol.

I don't think anyone in the GH viewing audience would blink if someone off handedly mentioned Skye found out Adam was her dad. Or if she just dumped her daughter Lila Rae off in PC and Skye wasn't actually involved in story.

Yes, the familiarity of it all was so obnoxious. There was never an adjustment period, which even characters like Emily and Drew had. She just sidled up to the living room acting like she knew the whole family her entire life and deserved a place at the top of ELQ. I don't even think Skye is an awful character. I hated her being forced down my throat.

I think the most concise explanation, and believe me it's not a concise story, is that Edward paid someone off to make baby Skye disappear, Alan and Rae thought the baby was dead and Adam and his first wife (don't recall her name) adopted Skye illegally. Eventually it was revealed Skye was Rae's daughter but Rae didn't know who the father was....and that's where it was left. I don't believe Adam could even be in the race to be Skye's bio dad, but not positive.

Meh. Skye was a grown ass woman when she was adopted by Alan after Rae still couldn't figure out who her father was. I don't think we even know now. It was more of an ABC/JFP experiment than a true Q tie and it was retconned shortly after. Emily was a child who lost her single mom to cancer and both Monica and Alan adopted her as a young girl, willingly. They are two very different scenarios. Skye couldn't have cared less about Monica but would be quoted as saying things like, "lol, we know how Grandfather is and so on..." Do you Skye, really? Everyone to this day considers Emily a Q while no one ever even mentions Skye. Hoping she found out Adam was her real dad off screen or something. Sorry, I have a lot of pent up Skye hate lol