Vee

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.

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.

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.

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.

The cancer material is still very good and largely very well-written and acted, a cut above anything else on the show, even if I am annoyed they played the beat of Anita wanting to give up and die only about 3 months into the story. That should've been held back for after some disastrous medical emergency in May sweeps, like at the long-delayed cotillion. It's too soon here. Whoever is playing Dr. Monica is a keeper. Very tough, very authentic. If the Dupree relationships weren't still so new or sacrosanct I would argue she could be a potential temptation for Vernon further down the road. They clearly want to keep Grayson viable, which pleases me. Jordi is doing very well and could play with many women, though he does have chemistry with Jen Jacob.

The other thing about that interview is RP indicates Cassius is just a 'henchman' for Sidwell and Cullum. Which, in addition to being deeply tedious as neither of them are very interesting as villains, marks a change. Last year it was clear Sidwell answered to someone else, and I got the impression Cullum was not that man when he appeared. It makes me think they decided RP could not play the Big Bad (accurate). He also talks about Cassius being humanized, which makes me think FV wants to see if they can keep him. Pass.

I'll credit him when he adds something in future. He didn't today.

I assume it had to do with the Frons regime.

SPOILER

MVJ wished GH a happy 63rd today on IG. She pointedly notes she "spent 10 of the best years of my life there #iykyk". MVJ was there from '93 to 2012. An interesting thing to ponder.

In conclusion:

If Paevey was still playing the eternally boring Nathan he'd be doing the job asked of him. I have never had any use for the character but he had about one speed and it was specifically tailored to Paevey's skill or lack thereof. Nathan's evil twin is not Nathan. He is supposed to be a criminal mastermind who has been puppeteering the canvas for months. As of now RP plays it like Nathan is back and is particularly dedicated to a new gym grindset.

At least Van Hansis chews scenery. Ryan's never been able to even mouth it. Which is what this role requires.

It's definitely not a MAGA thing with Joey. tbqh I think offloading most of the criminal shenanigans onto the white characters might be a note from one of the show's more prominent production partners, in terms of keeping the Dupree core characters more clean out of concerns for representation. Which is a mistake IMO.

RP of all people playing a villain or twin is an idiotic choice only FV would pursue out of his obvious lust for this stud ever since 2014. He's always been a sucker for hiring a hunk and trying to backfill his weaknesses later.

"Cassius Faison" (no comment) is just another iteration of the same story with Peter/Heinrich. I don't care. I've never cared about Faison or Obrecht's secret children. I knew this was a likely explanation and I could not care less. I am just glad Nathan himself is likely still rotting in the ground. I knew it couldn't be Nathan when he looked to Jason upon finding the crime scene on the docks and asked what the play was. Nathan was no brilliant detective but as a lawman he was by the book, and would've taken Rocco in and treated him fairly, not involved the boy or Lulu in a cover-up. Doing that gives him and Sidwell leverage over Lulu (another exciting story where Sidwell has half the cast over a barrel).

Yeah. In my many ideas for a revival over the years, the time-lost Vicki and whatever became of her would be a recurring thread. But I also toyed once with the idea of reinventing something super-obscure for a one-off/Monster of the Week storyline in a pilot, where some new young characters had to unearth the mystery of a ghost butler or his daughter who turns out to be named "Hanscomb." It would all be explained independently in a short new storyline, so only insane obsessives like us would have any clue it was tied to the original bible and those earliest episodes lol.