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Exactly. The hospital vs. the cops is one thing, but putting Sonny into it is ridiculous. But it goes back to Frank and his regime being fundamentally uncomfortable with this kind of mob stuff (which would be a good thing, If not for how they mishandle it onscreen) and with Sonny not just being another beloved vet patriarch. Guza would be turning over in his grave if he were dead lol.

I suspect it was a family emergency or his wife's apparent pregnancy from what has been floating around. But yes, there was no need for this.

Yeah. I had a feeling this was how it was going to go and I'm baffled they bothered. The softball scenes, stagebound or outside, are always mortifying and lame. Why is the PCPD playing softball with Sonny Corinthos' organization? Everyone looks silly in the outfits too.

Gina allegedly was pursued by BTG for Heather Armstrong, the role that ended up going to Ashley Jones. I think she's out of daytime period for the time being, sadly.

Samara Weaving is a great actress and a perfect choice for Emma, even if I am pretty much totally checked out on the MCU at this point. X-Men '97 is enough for my X-fix right now, but I will go see BND and see how things go in future.

I care much more about Lucy than I do Scott tbqh. I do think she has a good rapport with Lynn.

I am not going to dismiss Kruger out of hand just yet. She was decent. I do think Frank might've held onto her name due to her current influencer status. She's already more compelling than Jacinda lol

That's what annoys me. It seems like they finally broke the glass on bringing back a character people have asked for just because of the Maxie disaster, and Frank just said pick this soap vet. Like, can we audition folks? I think she's fine so far, but I am neither sold nor dejected yet and would've been more intrigued by a newcomer.

At a first glance I think Kelly Kruger is fine. It's the hair and lighting that need work, as ever with this show. Her face work isn't helped by that, but I don't think she is as frozen or hard as I'd feared (yet). The issue will be how the character is handled. If it's just another nice white woman (not that I want Serena to be a nasty, scheming bitch) I fail to see what will be added, but those are the bland characters FV often prefers. I am annoyed that Serena is apparently broke. Whatever.

That's crazy. I had no idea.

It would work for this mess.

I did tell Khan that the "reformed" Matt should marry her... only for her to find his Sharon shrine in his closet, just in time for him to snap her neck. In fairness, we pooled ideas!

If I know Jamey (and he is well-versed in both the Guza relaunch and in Sussman's first week back at Y&R which he wrote about at length for DC, as well as Ron's start/reset at OLTL with Asa's death) I suspect he will try for it. OLTL in 2003 with Malone and Griffith also had them very notably reshaping and ghostwriting scripts for at least a month ahead of their credited names, and you could tell onscreen. Roger Howarth came to work again for the first time in years (just in time to quit for nearly a decade, lol). I don't know if that's possible here but I wouldn't hate it.

Woof. That reminds me of when Jamey used to talk about how desperately GH needed to do a quick turnaround a la Gloria Monty, scrap material/episodes and get in there ASAP to tape new stuff for air. Of course this was like 10-15 years ago. Would likely not be possible today, if it even was then (doubtful). Y&R having to wait til November to make headway is an ugly thought for its daily viewers. I hope it's sooner.

I highly doubt it. Jamey knows full well who Matt Clark is and DOC had to write for Roger at GH practically at gunpoint for Uncle Frank.