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Obviously I know such apartments exist, but I'll admit I never quite understood the whole garage situation with the grandparents. I just imagine them driving the family Buick into Nancy one night while she's sleeping.

That was about 6-7 years later. And it did pass, and she ended up getting much better treatment creatively before the end. I think even in the worst of times Nora fared far better than Margo Hughes in the '90s and onward. Margo became a dour afterthought; except for a grim period in the Higley era, Nora was never really that.

Hillary made the right choice by a country mile.

Wonderful news. Marc Elias is the best.

Let us know what you think! Discovering it over the last few years has been an experience for me. I'll be diving back into Season 7 tomorrow night, though I'll only be able to watch a few eps since we can't record or watch on demand yet.

Yep! I was just so tired of the same old 'this person stole X's identity!' cliche that especially overpopulated (appropriately enough) primetime soaps in that era and the late '90s. I believe Pratt even did something like it with Peter Burns or another character on Melrose Place. It's always the same: Nothing really changes about the core character but it is needless complication. Like, the secret of Carly/Charlotte and Caroline? Who cares?

Whereas despite the very annoying surrogacy story Mansi is the first person to make me give a shít about Kristina in years. I'm just glad it's over. As for Stephanie, I remain a Shayna Rose race car drivin' truther.

Yikes!

A few random reaction channels don't count for much. The fact remains she's been one of the few longtime fan favorites for decades in a franchise not exactly known for compelling characters. I'm not going to pretend her work on GL was compelling, but it's a different medium and a different type of role. Nobody was exactly checking for Scott Reeves, Kevin Spirtas or Lar Park Lincoln (among others) in their slasher roles either.

This is news to me - I had no idea the season cliffhanger was supposed to be Gary's fake death at the hands of Wolfbridge.

It doesn't surprise me! They both have chemistry with lots of people. But no that should not happen, lol.

I don't think Reese was ever going to work. On paper it was nonsense as is. It was just another attempt by the show to prop up with Sonny with an overhyped, prefabricated female lead ever since S&C imploded onscreen and off and Carly/Lorenzo took off more than they'd intended. They spent several years after that trying to keep Sonny romantically relevant, and nothing clicked til Kate Howard (RIP). I remember the Carly backstory and it was a slapdash retcon that made no sense. I do think Wuhrer's hiring was definitely a Pratt thing. She had a background in the Spelling soaps and the cheap imprimatur of '90s-2000s cable, etc. I do hope Bransford is well. I will say it cracks me up that Kelly Monaco still complains about their catfight at Jake's to this day lol. She says JB really went for her, and while the recast never worked for me I'll admit it was a very OG Carly throwdown when I watched it live.

I've always said I would keep Cody and have him play the field as the mischievous himbo stable stud (or experiment with him and Tracy after all, which I think PM and co. were/are heavily hinting at). I think after a very rough intro Kelly has found his niche at the show with the Q stables and the larger Quartermaine family, Mac and that whole setup. Maybe if you want something more lasting for him down the road he can become a cop or something, or maybe he just goes when it's the right time. But Sasha gotta dip now. I think Spixie are fine in their current form, in large part bc the writing for them heavily improved in the spring months under Mulcahey and reminded me a lot of what I first liked about them in the 2000s. But given how much Kirsten has come back from the abyss of late I would seriously consider a stronger pairing for her with someone else (like a recast, single Michael) down the road.

@DRW50

The irony is Jennifer Cooke ended up being one of the most well-loved heroines of the Friday the 13th franchise a few years later, where she played a wisecracking spitfire in the more comic Part 6 (Jason Lives, naturally). I assume they just didn't write anything terribly good for her, plus she did not have the peculiar vibe Vigard did.

Both articles above are worth a read (for Politico), but the Walz coaching football games in select states pitch in the second piece is particularly amusing.

These Sun Belt polls vary above but I still think we'll take GA, again.

Heard Rebecca Budig talk about 'my grandchildren' onscreen and just about passed out.

Since I usually only see Donna's posts when they're quoted by people I don't have blocked (as in this thread), I would say again Mansi has been carrying a good portion of the show for months. I don't think she is mediocre at all. Lopez is another story. She was always a dayplayer who got a bit of a come-up because FV had no interest in hiring someone new for LGBT story.

What Ukraine has done is really remarkable.

I think they had some chemistry, but again I just didn't think Blaze was much of a character and I don't think JGL was that impressive. She had improved, but I still didn't buy their insta-love relationship that has been cemented at this point. What is the conflict? She was there to be an accessory to Kristina. But failure goes for any attempt to pair Kristina with a woman so far. I found Kristina and Valerie so forgettable and painful to think about tbh lol. Maybe Brytni Sarpy could've made it more.

Donna wants "Kraze" to be a much bigger thing than it is. It's not, because the bulk of the audience is just not super attached to Blaze or to Lopez. Twitter and FB are not real life, and even there the response to her firing was mixed at best. She was a dayplayer I knew they'd try to make work with Kristina simply because FV was never going to invest in a major star or someone even more mildly more expensive for a LGBT pairing - she's had some good moments, but I still didn't care much. I'm as disgusted as anyone with FV seemingly tossing the gays overboard and keeping Eva LaRue's bigot character, but Kristina can always get a new, much more interesting girlfriend. It's keeping ELR/Natalia that offends me far more than losing Lopez/Blaze. I have no smoke for Kate Mansi, who may have gotten too involved talking to these lunatics than a soap star should but when they're calling you names for not standing up for a castmember you clearly did not have a close relationship with and whose firing you could not control, oh well. And she's right: Kristina is bisexual, no matter the random retcon the show pulled a couple weeks ago. I don't have a lot of sympathy for psycho fans attacking her. The pairing just was not that interesting, it was never even at the level of Olivia/Natalia from GL (which I didn't like either), and that's why at least half the audience is just shrugging at it. Hopefully the next time Kristina gets a girlfriend (if she gets another one, oy) these people won't overinvest too quickly to the point that they think they're the authority. Again.