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What? That's awful (and unsurprising for Reilly tbh).

That is a good idea. I do think they could always tie it into Sonny finally getting some kind of takedown and a move into white collar crime/business a la Victor Newman, which is inevitable if you want to re-pair him with Brenda for good and change that paradigm and downshift from stories centered around Maurice (which I do). Sonny could end up on the streets/MIA for a number of months after a blowout with Ava or whoever else - it would be six or more if it were up to me - before resurfacing, but Carly could get hit with RICO violations again as part of that. And/or her businesses get tied up or stolen out from under her by whatever villain of the moment, her own latest rash actions to protect herself/Sonny alienate her from people after blowing up in her face, or maybe Michael and ELQ are unable to help her due to the scandal (possibly Tracy forbidding it). Carly goes to ground and maybe gets away from town a little herself for awhile, maybe takes an offscreen break too like caroline said. Refuses to take help from more people partly out of pride or from alienating some of them, or not wanting to get Michael in deep further or maybe they're not speaking. Maybe he's had some other setback/trauma that makes that situation worse (since he clearly has PTSD onscreen from the fire), or maybe the whole A.J. thing has already reared its head again with him back, and that old resentment over his (then real) death and the cover-up Carly was involved in at the time. When she comes back, still in a bad way (maybe drinking), it's Sarah. If there's any way the network would go for that it's that she's probably cheaper than Laura now, lol. I would let Carly get at least some of her money and trappings back eventually - I don't think the money or her being nouveau riche is the problem so much as the entire town being wired to be Carly's friends and family these days. She's on good terms with almost everyone and is just a heroine in staid story. That has to change. But it would all probably inevitably lead back to another marriage of convenience for her and A.J., only this time they do fall in love.

It's not that hard to figure out for me. I'd take away some of her money/support system for a time somehow (there's always a way, relatives aside) and bring back A.J. I'd also bring back Sarah Brown if I could get away with it, though probably not. Laura does a good job.

Very difficult to have been born and raised in DC (and MD) today.

And it's a fatal oversight too because I am pretty sure CVE is among the big Britt stans BTS that tried to push her as some faux gay icon, lol. Someone there will not get it til it's too late. On paper I think Carly should be the least played out of the whole tired trio, but Carly has been cruising in bad stories and dead or afterthought pairings for years and while Laura always works hard she can't elevate true mediocrity BTS to greatness. If A.J. was back it'd be another story and could change the game for her, but they don't want to do that. Or if Sarah or Tamara came back, but neither is happening. I think Jason will always be something to merely tolerate for me, but the Q family stuff is where he excels now. Sonny at least could have Brenda potentially change his paradigm. But the only one I'd have a real investment in again with the right material is Carly. She's just so adrift and is being dragged down by the same stuff as the other two.

They need to justify Burton's salary and airtime to themselves and presumably the network. Frontburner-wise, it's been a bust and each attempt at a romance has flopped. (Something I could not have conceived of ten years ago, despite my hatred for Jason.) Hence, Britt is back to try to make him the star again. Letting Jason continue to have merely a supporting role is unthinkable to the show at present. I do think he works best currently with the Qs in this unlikely, surprising role he should've been in decades ago, and I think there are ways to give him key and prominent new story around that as I said a few posts back. But they won't do that.

Totally disagree, I think DZ is excellent and Dante should be leading the show again. But YMMV, that's fine.

Gross. No. Dante and Lulu are where it's at. Jason is the problem with Jason. But as I keep saying, I'd just bring someone new/old on, like Keesha Ward. Then probably wait Steve out til he can be removed again. As it is, his current support role at the Q mansion is a good one and you can do more there with him as the family protector/counsel as the show is frankly running out of ways to use the mob centrally. If they had the balls they'd remove him from Sonny's organization completely, draft him into working for the local WSB office (minus any of its actual current staff lol) or private security for ELQ, and there you go.

I think on paper Hayley might've made an interesting Erica Kane analog. In reality she's always been a cipher to me, and I don't think MG has elevated the character much. Dani fills that role and has done so well for me. YMMV.

Pine Valley's own Sarah Michelle Gellar looks pretty stunning reprising her Buffy the Vampire Slayer role for this revival I'm still very skeptical about. But this is mostly me posting because she looks amazing:

It really was a very stupid choice on their part. Yes, the history with Rocco, etc. exists but it didn't need to become a huge story arc - if you absolutely have to go back there, maybe cover it in a scene where he meets her and she gives her regrets. Doing all this turns a portion of the general audience against Britt that might never have had major issues with her before. (That's not even getting to her return putting her in the Liason fans' crosshairs, who will never give up.) And then there's me, who has hated Britt for over a decade lol. Don't forget LW's Carly. The whole reason any of these failed options happened, or Britt now, is because someone at the show (likely Korte) tried twice in the last five years to put Jason and Carly over again. That was the intent when he first returned last year, and it fell apart immediately because they just don't work with these actors. It tanked both times, left Jason utterly adrift last year casting about for a new pairing, and now here we are. (Sorry to our latest banned user, but it's never going to happen.)

Honestly Devon crossing over for good would not be the worst idea. I don't want to hear it @Darn!

That's typical of GH and this creative team though, tbh. Like so many of us have said in the past, I don't think that story ever had a huge amount of heft beyond the big reveal - both Dante and BLQ are decent people. I think the performances around the reveal were excellent, I think Mazza is a star as is Braedyn Bruner and they're very good together, and I think they should definitely be featured more in central story, instead of this noxious redemption tour for Britt and Obrecht the Mengele fangurl. But GH and FV's priorities have clearly shifted to saving Jason's role on the show and justifying his presence, and that means going all in on Britt. I don't think it'll last, though. One unintended side effect of all this for them is that while I may have hated Britt for over a decade, viewers who were previously lukewarm on her are turning on her hard over this hard sell and how Dante, Lulu, etc. are being treated.

I would be surprised if Frank is that enamored of Kelly T. at this point tbh given her many BTS antics. From my memory he has a limited tolerance for that, and I don't think she's one of his most treasured friends. He also had no trouble cutting Gati when Obrecht became irrelevant a couple years ago. I think they're just bound and determined to put Jason over again and justify Steve's contract and make him a primary player once more vs. hanging around the Quartermaine mansion supporting the family (where, oddly enough, he fits like a glove and has done his best work this time), and Britt is the Last Chance Saloon to make that happen. As I've said recently though, I think their chemistry and the allure of the path not taken with Jason/Britt a few years ago has a limited shelf life. KT is not strong enough for A-story with Steve, she's not a star player like most of his past love interests, and I think the bloom will come off the rose and she'll go again eventually, possibly under the wheels of some other preferred partner. On a side note: Hearing from Steve's podcast that KT has, once again, left most of her IRL belongings in London after moving there in a huff when she quit last time and still hasn't found a place in L.A. makes me just think 'yikes.'

Thanks for this.

I didn't know you wanted that - do tell. A few years ago, when Setton was relatively new and Lulu was in her coma and the whole Mormon look hadn't fully set in, I definitely wanted to pair up BLQ and Dante for kind of screwball Nick and Nora/Thin Man-style mystery-solving romance (in the vein of stuff like A Simple Favor with Anna Kendrick), with Brook getting into capers and Dante helping her out of it. Then Lulu would wake up and that would be the obvious triangle. Today BLQ is so much more of a matronly wet blanket and Alexa Havins is here, so it's different.

I do think Willow could con Michael into almost going for a reunion, but I would have her fúck with his mental state which has already been indicated to be on edge again since the bombing. Michael is at his most unpredictable and volatile these days since his teen years. Through that torture of Michael (and possibly by leveraging Chase's PCPD connections to do so) she would get a shot at the kids. There's just so many options. Gaslighting Michael and wrecking Chase and BLQ would be just the beginning. But ultimately I would probably have her shotgun marry Drew Q after all for awhile, purely out of convenience/power. And before she finally got her endgame comeuppance at some point, she would absolutely fake her cancer returning lol. I would play the long game and she when she does finally exit for good in a few years she goes out hard like Susan Moore, Heather in the '70s, etc. There's so much to play when the right good girl breaks bad. Probably too far afield and campy, but you could even have her do a turn as a wellness influencer, trading on her tragic cult past and reinventing herself with her 'new beginning' after she claims to have been used and abused by Drew and Michael to become a kind of online/social media cult maven unto herself like the Apple Cider Vinegar, tradmoms, etc. scene to gain fame and fortune lol. Not unlike the cult she came from in a way.

I'd honestly just have her crash out and ruin their marriage spitefully because she could after what the Qs have done to her, lol. It's not that deep. But you make a fair point. Maybe she can work some angle where cop Chase frames up Michael in some way, or she gets access to the mansion in order to drug Michael or something or mess with his PTSD. idk, I'm flexible!

Oh, I wouldn't let her actually have it. I'd just do an affair and maybe a fake or quickly miscarried baby.

The closest that came to sticking IMO was Cady Huffman's Paige, who the show breathlessly touted as 'Broadway star Cady Huffman' while trying to play her heavily as a screwball, fun Blonde Nora as HBS/Nora lingered in a long contract coma that very nearly got her killed off before she intervened via the network. Those were grim times. Alexandra Neil lasted the longest but she was a dishrag and was never going to be a hit.

I've been pushing this for months! It's okay, GH, I don't need a royalty.

What a waste of the last year-plus. I wonder if it's her own choice per this IG post, but I'd still try to get her back as much as humanly possible.

That's a real turn on the gun on myself moment. I would argue Paige by a nose.

She also has a role in the disastrous new Amazon War of the Worlds film with Ice Cube (held back from release for several years), which is rapidly becoming a new midnight movie classic. Good for the kid. I am seeing Weapons this weekend and pretty excited.

Demonic that he is still there for Christmas.