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He did that. I have found Nina useless since she first appeared, but Watros has made her much more entertaining. I would still rather watch Cynthia Watros than over half the canvas. YMMV.

A bit redundant to post now I guess as everyone knows, but Port Charles' own Demi Moore (Jackie Templeton) won Best Actress at the Golden Globes the other night. Lovely speech.

That's my thing. It just felt like pure gimmickry, which used to be beneath EE. And yet I agree she and Adam Woodyatt still have considerable chemistry.

They look amazing. Clifton Davis is a silver fox but I'll admit I'm surprised if he can handle the pace of daytime these days. I think Mosley (who I never rated well in heroine roles) may have the juice as a bad girl. And I'll forever be a little wistful Daphnee Duplaix didn't get to be the young matriarch of a new OLTL as Rachel Gannon Buchanan opposite Dan Gauthier's Kevin, but I'm so happy for her.

Colette the French dayplayer will be the way they attempt to salvage Brennan the slightly higher-ranking dayplayer. She'll be the secret true Pikeman or something, even though Brennan and Valentin were both very clearly Pikeman last spring-summer. I'm just waiting for them to make some other big hire so Brennan the stop-gap male can finally get broomed off the show too. What a waste of time. I will say Joss or Emma going WSB would be more interesting than most of the show.

She did. That doesn't mean Michael and Marcie needed to happen. Keeping it Al would've kept it simple.

I was livid when she was put on contract in late '02 while needlessly appearing at that time only as Jen's scheming helper and shrill Mini-Me, but she did become very popular with Al in the otherwise insane Malone II era of 2003 when they softened the character tremendously while having her gaga over the mysterious 'Voice of the Night' (Al). It was not a pairing Brian Frons was expecting to become popular, so he was forced to rehire Nathaniel Marston and then the Michael/Marcie mess began, when they should've just undone Al's death. I get that a little of Kathy Brier can go a long way. And I do think Marcie stayed a bit too long in later years, but her high points (the early Marcie/Al story, the hostage standoff with Viki in Paris, Texas in Carlivati's early days) were strong for me and she was popular with the audience.

She also only exists to tie him in further to the show - with Luke and Laura's alleged grandchild.

According to Warlock himself a year or two ago, he was cast at the last minute when a chosen actor couldn't hack it after several days of taping.

Valentin is a pervy piano-playing arms dealer and crime kingpin who absconded with his mutant child against the other side of the family's wishes while facing federal and likely international prosecution. The show is trying to shine him up here because FV and Korte have always been overly fond of him and JPS and want to keep him around at all costs.

No.

Agreed. It would take a serious effort to make me take Kristina seriously in the business.

Marston was always horribly miscast as Al IMO. Tipps was very green but NM was a total 180. They brought him in to be the heavy and turn Al into a psycho stalker/heel for Cristian and Jen. It was the pairing with Marcie that saved NM and made him work as Al despite his having been wrong for the role, and then they stupidly killed the character which should never have happened.

IIRC he's not a scriptwriter on the show, he's on breakdowns.

Same lol. But I think Kristina has been a flake for over a decade.

I wonder. Most of the Robert/Holly fans on social media seem over the moon about the Sasha retcon debacle and their tawdry exit - it's their ultimate fanfic fantasy - while the general audience just seems pissed. But Emma sounds thrilled, and says the show has been very kind about both using her often and accommodating her re: her health with giving her less physically strenuous scenes as needed. I'm happy for her, but it's Holly I can no longer stand. I have always been one of the Robert/Anna fans, though I was obviously not watching live in their heyday. I will always be a fan of theirs and I'm still sad it didn't get a proper redo when Tristan was more able. I do think Jax was also LW's best pairing as Carly, with the exception of her too-brief time with Sean Kanan's A.J. That could've been one for the books.

I think he (and the network) feel compelled to use them in the very sort of lackadaisical way they have since the early 2010s. When Frank and Ron tried to mostly phase the mob out they got backlash from MB who incited his fans, and since then they've allowed the mob to still have a role. But it's never had the stakes or weight it had in the Guza years (which got very repetitious and tired themselves), and Maurice's performances have seriously degraded as well. DZ and Alexa are great together and their clashes are clearly meant to reintroduce Lulu's brash personality from the old days, without the hardness and coldness JMB often had. But I wish it wasn't all over that mutant child.

Very sad.

All I know is the stuff in spring-summer '91 is interminable, and that's without even mentioning Kevin and Stephanie. NuMax and Lee Ann is just gross, and the business with Alex faking a pregnancy and early Bo/Cassie is pretty lame.

A great deal of classic GH is MVJ's work. Stone's death, the Wards, Liz's rape, you name it.

They really ought to, but I bet Frank won't out of loyalty to Chad. It's also clearly a bizarre quick change, since they had set up Michael being vengeful over Willow and Drew, then dropped it all for him moping around lovelorn and boom, burnt to a crisp. I wonder just how bad off Chad is IRL.

That is ridiculous lol. Sonny has been grievously injured or lost his mind a dozen times.

Nina as a character has never needed to exist and still doesn't need to be around. Watros is the only one who's made her appealing to me at times, and that's largely on the strength of her own personality. But I would still probably cut her (not immediately, but soon) if it was up to me. She had a moment where Drew and Nina could've gone the distance for me under Patrick Mulcahey, but that's gone.

I think Ava was going to go to Valentin after puzzling out that he screwed with Sonny's meds (her discovery of which was done very clumsily, I agree) and they were going to collude for awhile. But who knows.

I think the Ava B/C-story with Ric (because that's what it is at present, though I enjoy them together) is more about marginalizing her again vs. her being bone-dry as a character. Ava can still almost always get up to shít IMO. But someone didn't like her having one over on Sonny, etc. and as soon as the writers changed she was out his door and into a meandering court subplot, and now this. I can sooner see Alexis having a casual fling with Sonny again (as we've discussed before) than Ric tbh. But yes, Rick and Nancy have always had chemistry. That pairing was really torpedoed.