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I've been meh on Holly for many, many years but if I wasn't before this mess will definitely do it. She's a complete buffoon and her daughter is still another useless character who has been on this show way too long, like most of the cast. The term 'veteran' no longer has meaning on GH when the bulk of the ensemble is just people Frank refuses to let go of. It is deranged that both Willow and Sasha (among others) have been on this show the better part of a decade. Even so, Sonny and Jason now feel more irrelevant than ever. When all you've got for them is Sonny with Eva LaRue's chest or somehow plugging him into the latest jewel-hoarding evil baldo plot with Carlo Rota, and Jason taking a week to get involved with Retiree Robert (please, it's time), Holly and Sasher you can tell they're at a total loss. It feels completely alien to those characters. Meanwhile Carly has her exciting new romance with Dayplayer B. Who cares? Carly is salvageable because you can plug her into various stories, but what are Sonny and Jason going to organically do on this canvas? People love to bang on about Lucky but JJ is out here selling and has a lot of ties. What are the Big Two doing? Why can't someone just give me 50K for being mad at them for no reason? Damn, Cody. Buys a lot of oats!

They did the same thing with Cody re: Mac and Dominique already. Both Dominique and Holly were onscreen the entire length of those tenures. Both women were never pregnant, and Dominique died onscreen. GH does not care and thinks everyone is stupid.

Speaking of the gays, I'd like to officially make this post now so I can quote it on the day: Do not spam BTG weekly threads with just screencaps of The White Guy shirtless. Thanks!

You can tell the press (especially the floundering Post) are desperate to reengage the libs they hate and keep them buying/watching. This ain't 2016. I'm done with that. You folks have fun. Same goes with any number of groups who will soon be experiencing swift consequences after cutting off their noses.

I suspect that's correct, but it's a squeaker. We do know Gottlieb hired Mark Brettschneider and had Jason created.

I remember that site. Interesting if true. Jason Webb of course came in a month before.

I am focusing on taking care of myself and the people I care about in the way I mentioned from the article on the last page or two - focus on the little things, the little issues, the local problems, the things or people you can help in day to day life. That's all I have energy for at this point in the face of both this national situation and my own health concerns. If that means at some point I leave outright for parts elsewhere so be it, but I'm not there yet. I'm just shrinking my world and concerns down to something manageable for now, and tending to that. I suspect a lot of people will. What comes after that on in the further future, we'll see. But I am done giving all my energy and mental headspace to a majority of the electorate that presently has no interest.

Tony Todd was an absolute legend. Candyman has never left my mind and his cameo/return in the (deeply underrated) revival film a few years ago was a big deal for me. His work in Trek is of course also great.

I'm with @Khan. That outlook is the only way I can get through the day. I won't give up on abortion though. That one's not why Trump won, it remains a major weakness.

I don't agree. JJ gave it his all with the Aiden scenes, as he generally always does. It was the overaged twunk in the role I found distracting, though the kid is a decent actor. I fear FV and ABC will become even more conservative with this show going forward, though.

Losing a lot of those guys with FV's arrival did a terrible number on the look of GH since the '90s (Renfroe started in '01 I believe, but he kept up the house aesthetic that preceded him). I know the fog, docks, etc. had its detractors, but I think it held up for many years.

Newsom is an overly manicured California liberal who would fall prey to some of the same attacks as Harris. Insufficiently Midwestern masculine. Whitmer is a woman.

I may be wishcasting, but I know Mulcahey inherited the Jason return when he came in (having to rewrite the planned return storyline that the network apparently rejected from CVE/O'Connor), and I suspect he believed he could make it and possibly a higher production mandate for a renewed Jason/Carly romance work. (I think they were committed to that when Steve came back, until they realized it was again a dud and Korte shifted to this Brennan nonsense.) After all, PM had written some of Steve's most famous and popular material in the '90s with both Kimberly and Sarah Brown; I can see him figuring he could make it happen if that's what they asked for. You saw hints of this in a few good scenes with Steve and Laura - talking to her about his tattoo, moving in above Bobbie's again - but you can't create romantic heat where there isn't any. There was no core there for the writing to uplift. With Lucky's return the show feels possibly even more piecemeal storywise atm than before across the canvas. A sustained focus is what is necessary, but Frank doesn't do that.

I don't think it's that at all. They heavily promoted him. Frank is just nickel and diming on guarantees and playing his classic inconsistent character/story shuffle as usual to keep the budget low. That leaves Lucky and half the cast perpetually in and out of limbo in unacceptable ways.

IIRC Renfroe came over from the Guza GH crew with JFP. I may be wrong. The Guza production staff kept things atmospheric in those years even as the writing sank.

I hope you're wrong, but here we are. We got a long way to go. Now all that's left to do is survive and take care of each other in incremental ways, wherever we choose to live or stay. I am grateful for the community here, the ideals we can still value and the interests outside of politics we share. I think it will have to be them or someone like them. Newsom, Buttigieg and Whitmer are now all non-starters. I do wonder if Pritzker has any juice nationally. His strong statement the other day re: standing for his people got play.

Not happening, possibly not in my lifetime.

I feel for the innocent citizens in Gaza. But anyone pro-Palestine in this country or any minority who sat this one out or voted for Trump (often for the same reasons as Latinos and white working class males, apparently) have bought and paid for exactly what they will get. Take a good look. And I am as progressive as the next person, but there needs to be a real hard line going forward about how we let academic language and concepts dictate how we talk about policy or issues. I'm also beyond done with the casual antisemitism of the far left (which predates the latest Palestinian crisis, to be clear) being coddled and tolerated. Jews showed up.

This quote above, from Timothy Snyder, is pretty smart and probably the best I can do with my remaining energy any time soon. Small things.

Nope. Pass. The majority of the country wants Roe. They're just stupid as shít about other things.

The answer is clear and it's nothing that any of us would like.

I'll admit it has crossed my mind that CBS will be concerned they have backed the wrong horse. But if it makes money, and gives CBS points with enough key demographics, who knows. I choose to remain optimistic about this show as a business, if not about the country.

My despair comes and goes. History is cyclical, which is what I've always told people in low times like these before. Things come around again. What concerns me most is the damage that will be done to not only people but our fundamental system and institutions in the next 2-4 years, and beyond that how we can begin to combat and counter what is now in place in terms of the media/information war. As I've said, Democrats should've countered Fox long ago with a real media push vs. constantly going begging to the Times or CNN for fair treatment they won't get - too many of them still think the Beltway press are their friends. It's going to take a generation at least to reeducate the youth, and it may take longer to untangle what this crew can do to our government, if it survives. If it only takes a cycle or two and they don't then immediately flip red again the next time folks get bored, I'll call that a miracle. I don't expect all of it to get better in my lifetime at this point, though it sure would be nice to have some of it back. I have to believe it will for the future generations. Maybe I'm being too defeatist for the short term; I hope so. I believe in the spirit of the country when it's at its best, in the ideals. I don't need to believe in the country as it is today to still believe in those things. I'm just so ashamed that my mother is probably living out her last years with it having disgraced her service and hard work and her father's service like this. That's what I can't stomach. I'll probably try to stay for a long while assuming she remains in good health. I'm not ruling out just leaving. I will keep an eye on things in a detached way but I can't engage in the same way right now, at least not atm. Maybe that will change if things change. But that's how I square things in my mind. I believe in what I can and I leave the rest, and I hope down the road we get better. In the meantime the people that asked for this can choke on what they bought. And if there is a female president in my lifetime, I'll remember Kamala maybe even more than Hillary. Because boy did she deserve it. I think the 'what could I have done' question will haunt her to the end of her days and that's just awful, because she did it all.

That's not what I meant. I just don't need any more of this period. I didn't watch Kamala concede and I don't need to watch Joe choke out this loss.

I'll pass.