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Anything that gets June and her Popeye-style acting offscreen sooner works for me.

Same. Ridiculous I had to rack my brain on several of them.

Way too many, as we've said all along. Which is why I would send away a number of them or kill others off. Charlotte would be de-Spencered, Donna would be nuked and you wouldn't see Avery, Scout, Amelia, Ace, or Bailey til 2035 for all I care lol. Aiden would have a smaller role, James and Wiley would stay little kids and please God can we rename Wiley some nickname or something.

I think the moment to make Esme star of the show has luckily passed. I don't mind her as a recurring villain should that ever happen and Avery Pohl was very talented, but there was a clear period IMO in '23 where the show was hoping to rehab her via amnesia and test the waters with NAC. Any white girl in a storm! Anyway, it's not happening. I do think you can rebuild the Cassadines with Spencer and new people (like the young characters Guza II allegedly intended to introduce before the Franco mess took over), but that would take time. It would also require IMO recommitting to Laura and her family, which FV clearly has no use for. And I would kill off Nikolas. No more.

Hudson's worst day is better than a lot of the cast AFAIC. But that's why I said I'm not resuming this Discourse!

I don't think it's propping when IMO the endgame from the beginning of the show was always going to lead back to Bill and Dani. There's a reason Hayley has barely been a cipher since Day 1. There could be a real character there but there just isn't and hasn't been outside of the show in people's heads, and KM and TD have real heat IMO. But they both have chemistry with so many people. I've said more than once that they might want to recast Hayley if they want to make more of her, but I'm not sure it would make a difference in the current situation. They give Goings very little to work with, Hayley shows up to work dressed like Nomi Malone in Showgirls, and all of that is not her fault. I enjoy a lot of the show warts and all, but the lack of dimension to Hayley (among others) has always been a weak point for me. And I say that as someone who much prefers Dani.

I would send Avery to boarding school for like 10-15 years. Bye! I'd kill Donna and let that be part of the crucible that breaks Carly down again (and opens the door to my crowbarring Sarah Brown back onto the show against the wishes of the audience that has watched Laura for 20+ years). And yeah you don't need Spixie to use Georgie. Though I would bring them back and marry them off ASAP as a big event (and then eventually break them up again).

We know why! I would bring Hudson West back tomorrow but I'm not going to go another round with the haters on him, I think he's great, so there! Aiden I would probably de-SORAS a bit to a much younger teen and play up some more eccentricity re: his culinary prodigy stuff to make him different, a la Molly as a kid. Then I would keep him just a recurring player longer, simply because I have other young people in that range or older I would want to frontburner. I would recast Georgie II as a wallflower (a la her namesake) and play her with charming rebel Danny and shy Rocco and another girl, probably from the Asian Quarter. This is all simple teen stuff soaps used to do in their sleep, but GH doesn't because it has too many characters and also wants to keep playing Sonny, Jason, Carly, etc. like they're 35. Charlotte can be written off with a tearstained letter and a warning that if she ever comes back to town her non-Spencer mutant blood will combust. I may be kidding on that last part. Sort of.

Trina (and initially, probably hedging their bets hoping Chavez might flop in pilot season and come back) is why. At some level of GH they've always been uncomfortable with that pairing and its popularity. As several of us have said, the instant Tabyana Ali goes off-contract or quits they'll start recasting. They didn't do it right away when they could've (with GM, IMO) so as of now I wouldn't bring him back immediately, simply because I think it needs the right actor and story to compete with Chavez. But I would introduce another strong character for her as I mentioned, viable competition, and also mix her up romantically with Gio, Emma, etc. Spencer would come later.

I've said it before, but Trina should be mixing it up with Emma, Gio and another strong young lead of color, a schemer who can offset her purity the same way Spencer did (or Robin opposite young enforcer Jason). I kept insisting it could be Justus and Faith's kid so I won't go back into that chapter and verse. Anyway, then you could mix and match the couples a bit too since Emma also has a scheming instinct. That quartet can be that older youth scene, and you can add to it or build it out incrementally. They won't do any of that for the same reason GH is keeping Spencer gone: To keep Trina in her prescribed C-tier role that FV has been most comfortable keeping the Black cast in. The Trina/Kai, Ashford, etc. stuff most resembles his last few years at OLTL or his earliest under Paul Rauch, where all Black folks were 'safely' islanded off together.

He may not yet be exactly Tony Geary, but I thought Mazza did very well with anger during the reveal fallout after the Nurses Ball. I think he's quite good overall. The kids are fine but I have yet to see Danny convey an emotional scene without grinning his way through it. We complained about it last year. I think AA has raw charisma which helps his weaknesses and he has a good rapport with Finn Carr and Steve, so I'd keep him for now. He plays the roguish, mischievous and overcompensating Danny as well. Swickard is passable but both he and the atrocious Harper fall under the category of nice people who should not still be employed here, which still covers almost half the cast. Their characters are pointless to me. Chase is BLQ's purseholder/audience fantasy husband and not much else. He has the depth of a puddle.

Tom Pelphrey (Jonathan, GL) is costarring with Mark Ruffalo in the HBO miniseries Task.

Jordan has never had any personality. The little that was there was Vinessa Antoine's talent. Jordan continues to exist solely because FV does not want to have to come up with new Black characters that might require more effort or take up larger space on the show he is uncomfortable giving to non-white characters. It's never lost on me that whenever Jordan's small, inexplicable fanbase pops up on Twitter or wherever insisting she needs major story, the primary rationale given for why is 'she's so beautiful!'

He's no Tanisha Harper!

He's quite good, but there's certain bait I don't respond to.

Tanisha Harper is, has been and will remain the worst actor on the show now that Oscar is rotting in hell.

Representation aside, it would be a tremendous error to make Kat asexual when she's one of the most/few? charismatic young leads on the show. So I highly doubt that is happening.

It would not shock me if they're trying to write out these overly old kids, lol.

LOL.

I think tying Leslie into Barbara is actually a great move. It elevates her role to something tied deeper into the core and more mythic. I'm also just here for Lady Boss Vanessa re: that story tbh. As soon as she kicked into high Guza gear so did Lindstrom IMO. She helped make him more credible in that role, though I go back and forth on Joey.

Yes. I don't know why anyone is surprised. This is the same blind, hard sell they tried to pull with both Mansi's Kristina re: the baby, etc. and with Natalia last year. When Frank doesn't get traction on something he wants to make work he just keeps pushing, then eventually dumps it altogether for something shiny and new. Which will happen here, too.

So ridiculous. And even getting Patrick began as part of the master plan to destroy the Scorpios and Spencers, from Britt's parents. She was not implanting that embryo inside her out of desperate love.

I'm into Outback.

Oh God.

Which is nice to hear as is this quote which warms both my and @DRW50's hearts: "I will not leave the show until they allow Cody to date Tracy." Hopefully when his movie finishes he can go back on contract, but GH has accommodated many regular recurring players over the years.