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I'll probably always mourn what I think he was doing with Drew and Nina as a real, viable couple further down the road, despite their previously being two characters I couldn't care less for. His Drew (which the current one was birthed from) was a more nuanced, still increasingly gray character who could launch schemes and be a cad, but there was still rooting value for the two of them there. Now, as you say, Nina is a total afterthought. But PM clearly relished writing for Watros (I can't recall if he ever had before).

I just find her to have all the screen presence of a dish towel. But who knows?

Like I said, close but no! I think I made it a month-plus tops, after the first 3-4 weeks it kind of blends together into a mobius loop of horror. I know I got past Sheridan's near-death visitation by the ghost of Princess Diana.

Like any soap I am lapsed with, I'll watch in spurts of daily viewing depending on how the quality flows. I can watch everyday for weeks or months at a time and have this year, but I also have no problem dropping a few days or weeks (or months) if it goes south, which GH has regularly done in 2025 lol. There's peaks and valleys with any show. With GH I am a couple days behind but is there anything deeply demanding my attention now given the Obrecht/Faison influx? Nope! Ergo, skip to the stand. The only one I'm 100% daily with atm is BTG, and that's something I give any show I'm committed to in its first year unless it turns out to be Passions where I didn't last 3 months.

Gurl that is not worth it to me. There is nothing pressing on this show currently worth wading through a major backlog of episodes for. Just skip to the stand! It's what I'm doing from the couple days I'm behind.

Contrary to popular belief, responding to every single thread and post will not cancel the show for you sooner and free up more airtime for barely legal twinks.

I think he came by it with age. I just found him loud and obnoxious on GL. As an older man (no longer a target for horny viewers stalking his family's Facebook pages) he grew into his talent and stature for me and had a lot more authority. He's at least 10-15 years too old to play Tomas and be paired with Kat or Eva at their current status - they'd need a little more mileague and come-up for that to look right - but I'll be glad to have him.

Susan Haskell and Marty become pretty much the central heroine of the show later in '93, and stayed that way for a long while. I know different people felt all sorts of ways about that (and they didn't find a viable romantic partner to match her for another 2 years), but she was popular, it worked for me and she always kept that visceral fire and grit. As a kid she was my favorite character on the show, period. (Nora was a close second)

Jordi can be Tomas' brother or something and Tomas can die in a horrific Zamboni accident. I don't care. Anything.

I don't really have a problem with Ava keeping those popular friend relationships as I think the contrast with saintly Trina is especially interesting, and reminds me of how transgressive Robin's relationships with Sonny and Jason still were in the '90s. (And I wouldn't keep Nina around for much longer anyway, though I love Watros and think she's worked very hard.) But I also didn't have a problem with her losing them, especially breaking with Nina because of their insane history. I do agree Ava needs to be off the leash, and I think Van Etten at least actively avoids that and softens her (as Passanante and Altman often did) because he's scared of losing the character. Whereas I don't think Korte or FV care where she slot in. I think if it was up to Korte Ava would be dogmeat.

Him with Jen Jacob is the last thing I want tbh, but I like Jordi and I'm just happy to have a hot, talented Latino dude coming onboard. Alegria is dreadful.

Nice to have it confirmed. Jordi is an actor who I found intolerable when he was the hot young thing on GL but who I grew to really respect in what was largely a thankless role on AMC, where he had developed real gravitas and was intensely earnest and engaging in addition to sexy. I don't think he's ever gotten enough strong material. BTG has its growing pains but one thing I don't think they'll do is take him for granted.

Because someone clearly does not want her to be. As soon as PM was dumped the Svengali story with Sonny ended and Ava's relationships with Nina and Trina were instantly repaired. I think there are two cross-purposes involved in this stuff. While popular with fans I also think Ava's friendships are favorites of the prior team (CVE/O'Connor), who historically seemed to prefer keeping Ava in a softer and lighter antiheroine role, weeping over Nikolas and fretting with Austin, friendlier with Sonny, etc. which also enabled them to keep her around. I think that is unnecessary to keep Ava and is a major tonal mistake. OTOH I suspect Korte can take or leave Ava at best, hence her overall secondary status again today. The instant PM was gone she began being dragged and embarrassed all over town for a month or two and any semblance of a cozy relationship with Sonny was shattered. So I suspect you've got one writer who doesn't care about Ava and another who just wants to see Maura be fierce and keep her around as long as possible, and both these opposing drives enable the worst or least use of the character today.

I like Jordi! I'm for it, but not with fúckin' Ashley.

It's crazy. Ric also should run for DA or Mayor again, maybe usurp Laura (for a while, not forever) while married to Ava.