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We know why the preemptions last year happened. But you're still claiming the production company/BTG is culpable.

Oh God, I forgot that part. I do still suspect the rumors about Ron and Frank wanting to resurrect Lily as a vengeful villain in '13 were correct. The Lily mentions were fast and furious with Juan, Carlos (also related to her) and Sabrina in that period. And Lilly Melgar was close to the show again at the time IIRC. Small favors it did not happen.

I love Anders Hove but Faison should've been Dead dead after 2013. There is no universe in which I believe Robert and Anna would have let him live after what he did to Robin, let alone what he'd already done to them over the years. The Scorpios are trained professionals. They would've finished him then. I am certain Faison is still dead, but I just don't care about this storyline populated largely by dayplayers or deeply annoying or boring characters (Britt, Valentin, Brad, Nathan, etc). It eats half the show and bores me to tears.

I'm just grateful they never resurrected her. Always wanted another ghost appearance from Meredith.

I can't either, but I do remember he popped up around 2013 because he and Miguel were related to Sabrina.

No, I totally get it. BLQ is one of the nominal new heads of the family, and Ned, Lois, A.J., etc. all lived there as adults. It's a common thing on soaps. It also allows the suffocating element to be upped for Chase, if only the show would play that beat.

10 to 1 I would not be shocked if that's what happens someday lol. Miguel's endless tour!

I never did! Sing your little songs and skedaddle out of town, boy!

Did someone mention the lighting change or a new hire? That sunset lighting in last week's shows stood out for me.

Yeah, it's been a very quick slide.

But it is true that BLQ and the Quartermaines emasculate Chase (in his mind). Willow doesn't. He knows she's checked out on having a family now that she has a son, so he in turn checked out the moment they found Gio and began to fixate more on Willow. If they would play the beat of Brook Lynn focusing on the business more (and actually doing it well as opposed to just shaming Lucy) that would also tie into the parallels re: Ned and Tracy. When either BLQ's father or grandmother lock in they are still sharks; Wally has always had that colder, power-hungry side he can bring out, which is part of how Ned and Lois' marriage ended. IMO Chase also misses the days when he used to constantly judge Brook Lynn and shame her for doing shít before they got officially together/married, and back when BLQ used to have actual cockeyed schemes on this show as opposed to being a saintly matriarch in training. Like, he used to lecture and harangue her every week for so much as putting in a good word for him. It was nauseating to watch a few years back and he clearly got off on it. She should bring it up.

I know you have a bone to pick with this show's existence on general principle but finding a way to blame the preemptions on them strains credulity.

No way. She should keep spinning out, rain hell down for a few years to come and go out like Susan Moore. I do agree with @DRW50 on why both men want her. If it was up to me though I also would include the note (as I've mentioned too much before) that the younger Willow is kind of a bizarre reflection for Drew subconsciously of his youthful love, Kim Nero (Tamara Braun), the woman he loved and lost who later had his now-dead son before he went off to war and then lost all semblance of his own life.

Thanks for this '53 ep. Another gem. GL's decades of layered families within families, villains, etc. that then give way entirely to others is another reason it is so modular and mutable for rebirth IMO.

Yep. Cameron is hilariously fun doing the cartoon villainy tbh, but it could be better. Hence the Jake angle where he could be conflicted, or playing some beats with being wistful about Sam, Danny, etc.

I do think your idea re: Drew buying him up as part of an acquisition a la the right-wing Ellisons is great. It's just an issue of how to weave any kind of film or TV job into the main canvas of a soap opera not set in LA or NY. Maybe Dillon makes edgy films or TV locally, like some boutique directors in their cities or hometowns, and you can weave it in and out of story from time to time. OLTL made Fraternity Row work for years and Erica(?) and Tad had their talk shows on AMC, etc. so it's not impossible to do in a deft way. It doesn't need to be a big deal and Dillon wasn't even a favorite of mine; I just would hate to see a unique job whittled down to another disposable hunk working at ELQ or being a photographer or whatever. So it becomes a unique challenge to puzzle out. I think ultimately you'd have to treat it similar to how some soap characters (like Felicia Gallant, etc.) were novelists. Always working on some new thing, mostly in the background but sometimes in key story. ...Hell, maybe Dillon's dream project out in the Far East or wherever went sideways (a la Apocalypse Now), he got in trouble with the wrong shady investors and Drew manages to buttonhole him into writing and directing an ego-boosting biopic about his days as a Navy SEAL: "The Drew Quartermaine Story." Starring Mark Wahlberg, naturally (or David Vickers)

I always forget Bob Hastings (Burt Ramsey) went on to become even more famous to generations of kids by being the voice of Commissioner Gordon on the Batman animated series and assorted spinoffs in the '90s and onward. He's still the voice I hear reading the comics.

You'd have to make Dillon's interests viable on canvas, which is always hard to do with characters involved in film or TV on soaps. No one goes to Hollywood and then resettles in Port Charles, unless he is going independent/arthouse, or is doing something else like TV or some other vocation. There are ways to do it without it being embarrassing but you'd have to be careful. (I think even Johnny DiMera came back to DAYS wanting to make movies and I guess that all went away too)

They also had a dreadful, typical Frank/Ron himbo recast in Rob Watkins. He was pitiful no matter how he looked in his underwear (this is not an invitation). Dillon could potentially come back today and do well, I think. I didn't used to think so. Maybe even be a strong spoiler for Lulu and Dante given that moribund situation and spice things up (something they tried to have him do with the last recast and which flopped massively). But you'd have to make him not too similar to Cody, who I don't want to get rid of (and Josh Kelly could've easily played that role), keep his entertainment/arts background in a viable way yet find an actual clear purpose for him. Him just going to work at ELQ would be a boring waste of the character's idiosyncrasy for me, none of which Watkins had. If you don't do it right Dillon becomes just another hunk standing around, which is what he was last time. And Scott Clifton is never going to leave the comfortable security at B&B.

I'd take LR back on a soap tbh. But I doubt she's interested (and I'd forgotten she is on Fire Country).

If anyone could've elevated Boatman as a Dillon and made him grow into any more talent, it's actors like Jane Elliot and the old GH writing staff. But the latter are gone and CB is also a bit too young to be a contemporary of Maxie, Lulu, Spinelli, etc.

I agree but we're saying the same thing, I think. Good enough!

I agree, I just think you can add nuance and pathos without fully redeeming him or ending his villainous role.

I agree with all of that. But as for Anna and Alexis, well, Nancy has gotten good material lately but the writing has no real investment in their lives in and of themselves. Finola not in quite some time, and it looks like Anna will next be brainwashed and a dupe again or something, which I'm not looking forward to. What she deserves is a love interest on par with her and she hasn't had one since coming back to the show, Finola's obvious adoration for JPS aside. Ian Buchanan is a wonderful actor but they wrote and played the resurrected Duke as a creaky old sadsack til he died. Instead of her simply serving plot functions I would rather see both her and Laura get strong new love interests. Alexis, the same but who knows what to do with her.

Scout is a cipher who probably didn't need to exist played by a typical smiling soap kid. Like most kids on the show. We have no reason to care about her unless they go out and find a really talented young girl and invest, which they could do and I'd be open to it. But for now, I still think Drew's weakness goes back to both Sam, who's gone, and Jake. They were his closest relationships when he was a better man, particularly when he thought he was Jason in the Billy Miller years, a Jason who was divesting himself of the mob, very close with Monica, welcome at the Quartermaines and moving into legitimate enterprise (Aurora). He has lost Curtis, who he used to be close to. Those are things you can explore to add some shading and dimension to him again. It's even hypothetically possible to redeem Drew too - he could go out and save a bunch of kids or characters we like during sweeps or something - but not only would most of the audience likely never be there for it, mostly I simply see no need for that. He's a great villain. Why mess with it? I don't think either Michael nor Drew and Willow add up to a new Alan and Monica. I suppose you could try with Michael and the new Willow but I'm not interested in that. They can have hate sex, they can relentlessly try to destroy each other but ultimately it would end. They should never be in love again.