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That's sounds like a beautiful dream I would have lol. Except the Gio part. She doesn't need more rando kids. But you could also work in the Bensonhurst connection with Brenda confiding in Lois she was pregnant but in danger because when is Brenda not? Lois found "parents" to take baby Gio in and the Cerullos considered him like family all to protect the child's identity. Anyhow, I wouldn't mind seeing ELR and VM go up against one another......even if it's over Sonny.

Yeah, for sure, there are levels. It's just lately everything I have been excited about has not lived up to my expectations. PM gets cut early, Lois/Lucky's returns haven't been satisfying so far, the stories I enjoyed have petered out or haven't been written well, and characters I did like have been written very unlikable. I mean, I guess at least Sam's dead lol.

I think @Vee used the word passionless (sorry there has been a lot of replies since I last wrote lol) and that's how I feel. It's not the worst soap by a longshot. Days is ridiculous! But at least Ron has passion-even if it's passion to hate his own soap job-and I can watch and laugh at how stupid it is and be angry the writer is such an idiot. Plus, I know there will be a change in staff soon. GH just leaves me feeling nothing these days. Hopeless is too strong of a word, but I just think a lot could be done better and don't have any inkling anything is going to change so why bother?

Basically. The show will have a string of good episodes like Sam's death and then move back to the same weird or tedious things and loss all momentum. I can't even think of a single couple on this show I root for. Maybe Maxie/Spinelli and Mac/Felicia, but they are peripheral at best. It's strange a show with so many good characters and actors on paper can be so thoroughly mismanaged in almost every way.

To me the show feels directionless right now. There is a lot going on, but I personally feel like nothing ever happens and when it does it's unsatisfying. Most of the characters are just aimlessly moving along with no real motivations. Lately, I have just been coming away from watching the show and thinking "well, that happened today" and little else. It's not even enjoyable to make fun of lately.

I feel like PM "got" Nina and Ava more than any writer has and it's probably the only time I enjoyed both characters. I even liked Drew a lot more under PM.

The only reason I remember it is because both Tripp and Melinda have brought it up fairly recently.

I think that's why I get Tripp/JJ confused sometimes because they were both involved with Hayley, but one married her and one didn't and she just died off screen in the time jump. Even though Kristen pushing her and killing her was the most exciting thing Hayley ever did lol

Yeah, you and @Liberty City are correct JJ did have some interesting stories and Moss did good work. I just keep remembering the show losing interest over several writing teams. It's strange because it seems like JJ would be a character that would have a lot of possibilities. I can't really remember liking him and Gabi, but I do remember liking the Theresa/Eve/JJ/Paige mess. Unfortunately, Paige was a huge dud. So were some of his other pairings like Hayley.

Wasn't Moss around pre-Ron and wasted too? I feel like Ron's was writing for so long I can't remember.

Aww. I felt bad for Sophia today. I was really puzzled by her outfit though. Her denim skirt didn't cover her behind so it looked like she had a white shirt tucked into the skirt and that's what was covering her parts with a cropped glittery heart cardigan on top of that lol. So I don't mind this Rafe/Jada story. It's mildly interesting. But Roman is right. What Paulina is doing to Rafe is illegal. I thought that the minute she said she was demoting him. Does Paulina have advisors at all? She makes all these decisions that just truly don't follow the basics of HR. Even if we all know Jada is better than Rafe that's just not how a civil servant job works. Casey Moss is really giving his all the first few days. I don't have much hope it will last, but he's always been a solid actor. It's his character that's mostly boring.

Didn't Chase and Brook Lynn raise one of Maxie's wayward children as an infant for awhile? And just had custody of Violet? Why did they buy a book about having your first baby? They are probably more equipped than 99% of first time parents in Port Charles. And why were Gio and Sasha handling mail not addressed to them? With the small village that lives in the Q house you would think you would look at the recipient before opening the mail. It's honestly been so long since I've seen Lois I don't actually even know what secret Ned is keeping from her. Willow/Drew?

It was like Sam tragically dying turned Willow/Drew on and that's the strangest thing ever. Willow has never had a strong enough point of view or personality for me to even give any of her intentions much thought, but she's had a pretty long history of lying and shady behavior so I am not sure why we should like her as a heroine. Dropping Nina out of this story was the biggest mistake of course. I don't mind the mess and I am glad something happened, but they are probably the 4 most boring characters to focus a quad on. BLQ and Chase being added somehow is the only way to make it more dull.

I could get behind that idea. I also agree on the Willow/Drew/Michael et al story being very chaotic. Nothing happens for months and then 3 huge things happen in a week.

Probably. It doesn't seem like JJ is very enthused with the material either. I just get confused with who is mandating what and who's calling the shots. It's no wonder the show is so up and down and disorganized. I was thinking Sasha/Cody might not be related, but either Mac loses his only bio kid or Holly is lying again. Both those options are extremely annoying to me.

Instead of insane blocking taping to save costs perhaps he can look at getting rid of 25% of his cast. I am sure Kelly wasn't cheap and frees up some money, but why pay JJ to do basically nothing when there are multiple stories he could be involved in?

Very true. I was thinking maybe the show clearly wanted to free JK/Cody up for something new and, no, I don't believe it's Tracy. Cody/Sasha could easily had a misunderstanding that led Sasha to get drunk and sleep with Michael and get pregnant. They really didn't have to be blood related lol.

Yeah, I don't think it was a great exit for Robert, but it's acceptable. It all seemed slapped together last minute. I really don't understand why Lucky isn't getting more focus. He returned and then faded into the background. The same thing happened with Jason for awhile when eventually, as you noted, things just went back to the way they were in the past with only the tiniest bit of effort. I don't get this either. It honestly makes no sense. If both Holly/Robert are leaving (for now) the show could have just retconned Ethan to be their son and they had to go off and find him for whatever reason. Sasha seems to be getting a story with the Willow/Michael/Drew mess, so it wasn't even necessary to give her something to do.

I personally think Diane's hair has always looked awful so I can't tell a difference lol. I guess the Holly/Robert ending was nice for their fans. There just seems to be so much damage and lies between them. But at least Diane and Robert broke up.

I don't think Nancy permanently resides in Salem. I think she lives in New York so they don't have a home in town. Nancy mentioned she wanted Joy to live inside her means so that's why she told her about the Pub. If multiple crimes didn't occur at the Pub regularly I would even argue it's safer for a young woman living alone. It's actually bizarre Nancy wants Joy anywhere near Kate after everything she did to Chloe, but whatever.

Fair enough lol. I guess it would be hard to have a job when you spend your entire day wallowing in your own self-pity. Everything is about KRISTINA!! Don't you know? Her next task will be propping her ex-girlfriend's homophobic mom and her own dad's romance. I really think Mansi's Kristina should be leading the younger/30's set, but this material is just dreck. Worse than normal GH dreck. Yeah, I remember but that didn't mean the entire community center had to be scrapped. She could have hired someone competent to run it. So, you know, it would actually help people that needed it out. It just points to more self centeredness on Kristina's part to decide to not follow through if she personally couldn't run it. But I am acting like I care about this minor plot point more than I do lol.

Sam's death? I forgot did Kristina's community center ever open? Is that just dropped?

Well mission accomplished on that lol.

Javi looks cuter today. This hairstyle is much more flattering than how he was wearing it a few days ago. Anyhow, he still is annoying me. He seems ungrateful. Gabi was nice enough to give him a job and he's immediately complaining. Does he really have any qualifications to do anything else currently? And I was confused. Did Gabi imply she's poor now? Leo started texting Javi so I missed what she was saying. Yeah, the Joy/Leo stuff is a no. I wish they cast Joy during the awful Craig/Leo story. I don't feel any connection with her as a Wesley because Craig and Chloe aren't interacting with her and Nancy is written like a joke. I am all for legacy children returning and this will be unpopular, but I feel like JJ, Tripp, and Joey are all the same character and are pretty dull. I like the JJ/Julie scenes though. No comment on the Body & Soul stuff.

Does anyone have any ideas or theories about what the original surrogacy plot was supposed to look like? Do we think Kristina/Blaze were actually going to try to get custody? I can't help think the entire plot was a waste of time and there were supposed to be more long term consequences. Pretty much all this story has done is made Kristina unlikable.