Vee

I heard it might be her health but I really don't know. I hope not. I just am tired of her being gone.

I don't have a problem with her cutting loose and being a single sexually active woman. I do have a problem with her acting aggrieved like the guys are the problem in this triangle, when she is the one actively pitting them against each other every week and gleeful about it. Then she 180s and lectures them about not vying for her attention.

40 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

I have plenty of complaints about FV, but this team has consistently honored folks that passed away, even if they were not on the show for a very long time like Lee and Gail.

Exactly. I absolutely do not believe GH is making any choice to not honor Tristan let alone Denise Alexander.

1 minute ago, titan1978 said:

This whole situation is just strange. Burton I get because he asked for the break before his new contract term starts, so of course he is off contract. But wasn’t KS popping off when she left that this wasn’t like Chad Duell, that she was staying on the show, etc. She ended up gone longer than the original plan by all accounts, and she’s only been back a few weeks. Everything about this story has been impacted by bts stuff showing onscreen.

And then Finola is gone who knows where. I don't get it.

Like, I would not be mad if Kial gets involved with someone else on canvas for a minute and Nicole has to win him back. Let Nicole have to work for something as opposed to having another round of Dupree Speeches about how the sun shines out of the ass of Dr. Nicole Dupree Richardson.

They have typically overcorrected on Nicole being seen as a too chaste, saintly character last year by letting her take her hair down and have sexy fun. There's nothing wrong with that, except it is now April and Nicole is still bouncing between these guys from week to week, openly setting them against each other and then acting shocked when they decide to compete for her attention. That and the constant mentions of "Nikki" like it's a real thing when it's clearly become an annoying BTS meme are dumb. Nicole needs to have some more reflection on her own behavior.

William Lipton's Amazon show has also (unsurprisingly) been cancelled. I doubt they'll bother bringing back Cam rn but it's worth noting. I wouldn't pass it up if he became available.

Is Kirsten Storms really out of the contract credits? Oy vey.

1 minute ago, Khan said:

I know I'm gonna kick myself for throwing this out there, but I had suggested that Ryan Gosling appear to an ill Marlena as an adult version of D.J. Craig - Don and Marlena's child, who died from SIDS - with messages from his dad and John, while Marlena is battling a relapse of her Lyme Disease.

I still think it's a good idea!

Peaches and Eva are almost the same age except this woman is wearing a muskrat on her head smdh. I like "ol'" Peaches as a character actually but I'm not over this lol

I always keep an eye on this thread tbh, but thank you @Franko !

@DRW50

13 minutes ago, Khan said:

For me, it's gotta be that twink who played Shayne (or "Gayne," as many called him at the time) on GL. You know, the Shayne who wanted to play baseball and whose bare ass basically got John Conboy fired?

Softcore gay oil wrestler Marty West!

1 hour ago, kalbir said:

Alex Alegria is the worst actor that ever graced CBS daytime, and I've seen some pretty bad acting on the CBS soaps.

It's a deathmatch between him and Garren Stitt (Dead Oscar) on GH for me.

Let's just accept that the idea of recasting Nicole with SM was a poster's preferred (bad) fancasting and move on.

20 minutes ago, carolineg said:

Is all this Pascal stuff even worth the effort or time? I genuinely don't care about him at all and that was ridiculous.

No. The show needs to accept we don't find this all as charming or relatable as CVE clearly does.

There is no reason to kill off Kevin.

Also please, for Christ's sake. It's been 20+ years. Some of y'all gotta learn to multi-quote. This is not a blog.

1 hour ago, Antoyne said:

I unfortunately in the scenes still just see Valentin, the most dangerous Cassadine, being a wimpy creep.

I totally agree. But I do think the actors have chemistry and are working hard. I just can never get behind it. Valentin is so gross.

On an unrelated note: Laura Wright and JPS do have real chemistry and are working real hard in these recent scenes, I will give them that.* They've had some legitimately good scenes together the last couple weeks, performed very well. But I just will never like or care about Valentin, he's too much of a creep. Maybe if he played somebody else who cried less. Also, it's insane how down bad he already is for her after they fúcked once. It's giving FV desperate to make sure nothing endangers Valentin for another 5 years.

(*LW also had excellent scenes with Chris McKenna a week or two ago, maybe their best in the history of that entire forgettable relationship, when she was basically goading him to tell her the truth about Joss and he had to leave. They were doing a lot of it with just their eyes and delivery and they were both very very good.)

I think Vanessa will play him when she inevitably learns the truth. But I don't think she is now or has been.

Van's worst moment still can't match this hilarity for me. One take?!

All it needs is a safe and a scarf for him to pull out and cry into like Walter Curtin on Another World.

5 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I really liked Carnes and thought Van wasn't great at first, but I have come around. Van makes Lucas seem much more alive and fun than Carnes did although Carnes would have probably been better today lol. Again, Van isn't anywhere near my list of people that GH should get rid of.

I think Carnes was good, but Van gives a uniquely authentic performance as a gay man which just hits different as a viewer. Even when he overhams it's entertaining, and he has excellent rapport with LW, Kirsten and Becky. So for now i'm pretty good with VH.

I named a character "Cassian" once so maybe I shouldn't talk, but I never named a white dude "Cassius" lol. It just sounds goofy on Ryan Paevey in particular.

Ol' Doug turning up alive would put me on the floor. They should do it.

Yeah, I will take OTT soap ham Van over a lot of these folks. He's always a good time as Lucas, he's genuinely presenting a gay male onscreen, and he often does good work. When he doesn't I'm still having fun lol

I liked when they changed Eva's hairstyle last summer not long after the big reveal. Then it went back to this and I'm not a fan.

The statistics/education element has been an issue for the show from the beginning. I think soaps can and should educate, they always have, but the execution is often stilted on BTG. The way they do it here again feels like an NAACP note or something, literally just rattling stuff off. The dialogue is rarely organic.