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I loved Lena!

I've never had any login issues (on up to date Chrome), but I am getting a lot of the above Error 500 screen lately.

I think FV has actively pulled his punches with this SL for awhile. He seems hesitant about having Chase actually cheat (or at least is slow walking it) and at this point I won't be shocked if he pulls another Sonny/Carly/Jason situation like in 2021, where Sonny came back from Nixon Falls moments before the newly-married Jason and Carly went to bed and the whole thing was inexplicably immediately forgotten lmao. That was so insane I remember even @Errol turning up to complain about it! (Hi Errol) It took Patrick Mulcahey's arrival for Sonny to dare to bring that situation up again and invoke Carly's lust for Jason while he was off his meds. And we all know what happened to PM. Frank seems to have an aversion to heavy interpersonal drama with the veteran characters that he never used to earlier on GH or at OLTL. There's now usually a Sidwell or Cyrus or Victor or Cullum for people to rally against instead. The open warfare between Michael, Chase, etc. has not gotten as heated as it could yet. I hope it will, and I am waiting for the affair between Chase and Willow. I also did not think BLQ wanted to adopt after finding Gio. But here we are. @DRW50 I hope you'll check out Michael's read of Chase from yesterday(?). It was spot on IMO.

The steel Setton showed here (and can show as a Quartermaine businesswoman and the breadwinner for her husband) is what should be helping to drive a wedge in her marriage and push the emasculated, self-pitying Chase more towards Willow. But FV hates Brook being even remotely nuanced or controversial as a character, sigh. It's a messy situation because she's limiting herself despite still being a great actress and we know FV will not challenge her unless she agrees to be. Michael's searing assessment of BLQ and Chase's marriage and how she has diminished herself for him was 100% right BTW IMO. I've always felt that way about how Chase treats her. Michael's motives are self-serving and Quartermaine manipulative, yes, but he's correct. Pure facts. I don't know why anyone would say otherwise.

Same here.

Brendan Fraser tested for Brian Bodine on AMC with Kelly Ripa. Not sure why it's not loading.

Black characters are often allowed to sing and not much else. I remember Tim Stickney talking about how he deliberately sang poorly on the show to avoid this trap at OLTL lol.

What a waste! Yet not surprising.

Today is wild shít. Van Etten going for broke! Don't get me started on the Molly/Kristina stuff. Yeah, you committed to that baby, Kris. More like should've been committed. At least Emma is still on one. We've both hated Britt from Jump Street!

I still wonder what exactly happened with Sheri Anderson when she came back to DAYS with Carlivati a few years ago.

EW interview. Interesting that (like The Pitt) they have apparently committed to a yearly release schedule.

Thanks for this. I'm looking forward to it far more than I look fwd to anything Marvel these days. Season 1 was lightning in a bottle and as we've all said, very soap-coded in many ways. It also got away with a lot in terms of dialogue and subtext that most American animated shows wouldn't, particularly in the Genosha episode (probably the best filmed piece of X-Men media ever) and in the intimate stuff, as well as in Xavier's final scorching speech to the Shi'ar. I just hope that danger and anger isn't gone with Beau DeMayo, who obviously needed to be let go and can't come back.

Jesus Christ.

I think what helps Laura in the '80s as she has a wealth of history and a real character POV. From what I've seen Luke is extremely paternalistic with her during their early whirlwind romance which would be gross even without the rape angle, but which was unfortunately just a sign of the times and how they handled those gender roles. But what sets her apart and makes it still work for is that she still has a voice and viewpoint, and more importantly she still gets into a lot of her own trouble and makes a lot of her own choices. She also unavoidably gets under Luke's skin on a primal level, and pushes that advantage a number of times when they're at odds after the Left Handed Boy. You understand she is his Achilles heel that makes him not a superman, and that she knows it. And both Tony and Genie play that angle heavily, and it's something Tony repeatedly returned to how Laura was the key to Luke's existence for decades after. Until he stopped doing that. I would assume that's partly down to both of them having PFS and Thom Racina at various times, unless I'm wrong? Analyzing Racina's past work at OLTL in 2013 was a ride, in part because he was clearly shaping up to build some sort of intricate Ice Princess-style arc with the conspiracy left over from 2011 on the network, and which was of course unfinished.

Obrecht first appeared in 2012. She was part of the team holding Robin prisoner. She was Faison's longtime henchwoman and lover, who we later learned had given birth to Britt and several of his other children.

Obrecht is an ex-terrorist and mad scientist who used to be locked up in Steinmauer. She pulled corrupt strings to get released after being an accomplice to Faison and Helena's scheme to kidnap and torture Robin, and take Rocco from Lulu and Dante. I think she either shot Liz or threw her over a parapet at Wyndemere or both, among the other insane things she's done to countless people. It is crazy to me anyone at GH or in most of town tolerates her presence, let alone accepts being on first name basis with her (particularly Liz or Anna). I like Kathleen Gati, I have since day 1 when I took keen notice of her and was not surprised she took off. I think Obrecht makes a good villain. But Obrecht should be used in doses and limited stints off and on, not reduced to a cuddly comic character domesticated and hanging around indefinitely because Ron and later his proteges (Van Etten, etc.) fell in love with her. Her current gleeful insistence that Rocco is Britt's child is just another grating example of behavior folks shouldn't tolerate. It's not cute.

LMAO I love that sorry ol' Van came out of hiding just to whine that the show didn't get cancelled. See you in 2028!

The one realistic thing about Kristina's life is she is in fact a total flake. She always has been. Sonny has subsidized all of her pointless fly by night ventures, from reality show to doing nothing at Yale to the bar to the stupid LGBT center I knew we would never, ever see onscreen and I am openly laughing now at the people who told me we would lol. Kristina could return in a year as a mime or a chef or graduating from clown college, or saying she wants to go to space camp. I'd buy them all.

Kristina suddenly going off to med school is up there with Stu's wife leaving with the cook or whoever on Search for Tomorrow.

Only because FV doesn't care about Dante, and definitely doesn't care about Lulu lol.

I've said it before - I like JP as a person who I've never heard a bad thing about but he's always been limited, particularly in a more straight down to the middle role. He is a very odd choice for Phillip to me. And I agree seeing him in dress army uniform is comical.

To this day it would be easy enough to introduce a secret male twin for Sam. Someone who comes to town with a vengeful agenda, like many Cassadines. Or kids of their own. But I still believe Stavros is Sam's father, so what do I know.

Man, y'all weren't kidding about this Catalina filler. This locale said we need the tourist dollars and you are going to promote this island! I know it's been discussed before but I am curious if we do have any press from Finola or the brass at the time or since then about how she became the de facto action lead for GH for the better part of a year with Tristan gone, after only arriving the past spring. That was unheard of for a woman at that time or even now at times on soaps. And she remained that prominent. It's something else. I remember reading something a few years ago that Frank Valentini was uncomfortable with Anna's more cutthroat history, but I don't know if that's true.

I never heard that one but it doesn't surprise me. Those No Ordinary Love people were insane, and while I enjoyed couples on my soaps I was never involved with those hardcore fanbases online.