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I couldn't care less who people preferred; the first couldn't act and I'm not sure the second can either.

I agree with all that. I do think it remains to be seen whether the cast issues will see a sea change, and I do think it's possible.

Neither of them should exist!

I don't think there is any getting rid of Frank in the current situation for daytime, or at least I'd be shocked if there was. It would take an Alarr-level scandal to get him out IMO. So I choose to focus on what can be changed. Watching it daily I think the show has been much improved, but there are still a ton of issues (starting with shows like today) and it remains to be seen whose control or vision will prevail. It is too soon to know about that or about the cast.

I agree erasing Andy and Fred was very stupid.

Frank!

Richard Simmons is talking at length about his GH memories on Twitter. There's several long threads so I recommend just going through the page using either Twitter or a nitter instance like me.

I haven't seen all of today yet but it seems like the perils of Frank - too many obnoxious kids he can't let go of, too many banked guarantees or block-taped stuff all bundled together discordantly which gives you continuity errors, etc. Plus the cost-cutting sensibility where you end up doing a bunch of scenes in whatever set happens to be up (like the barn!). I am very glad they have apparently recast Aiden.

They've had a very solid run, and it sounds like everyone is ready to move on. I'll be glad to catch up on where I left off in S2 on my own time.

It always cracks me up how no matter how bad some of these kids are you always have people on socials whining that the one true Whoever is gone. Paste-eater Wiley is next!

Streets saying they have recast that non-acting child!

If this was the Guza II era she would absolutely be tested with Sonny and then flung aside like Claire, that rando Jordan, Reese, etc. lol. But I don't think the show is really going there at all. I had no idea, you could've fooled me. I just often mean she speaks strangely period lol.

I never saw Sasha as very cosmopolitan lol. She is a slow talker. Y'all know what I'm talking about.

I think the recent scripts are pretty clear on exactly what kind of stealth homophobe and stage mom she is, and it's a compelling portrait in that way for me of a very specific modern type of that kind of character. But this is a soap opera, not Josh Griffith's Y&R, so unless that is backed up with action and actual schemes I don't need to keep watching her going around town conducting the BLQ Inquisition. Act and heat up the story or leave.

It definitely helps! I do think the latest Molly (or as I call her Relative of Cast Member Molly, Contest Winner Molly, etc.) has done better lately with better scripts, especially the other day with T.J. But I still find her to be an awkward Fake Shemp sort of recast, so I'd still dump both T.J. and Molly at the end of this story. You can bring back Molly at some future point far from now if there is an actual real storyline and interest in her vs. the last decade, either with a strong and not slapdash recast or, if Pullos has cleaned up her act, who knows.

I think the character worked at the outset and the chemistry was definitely there, but the scenes often devolved into Cameron scolding and castigating Alexis bc of the show's attitude towards her at the time. Then came the humiliating fake DID and Dobson stories for Alexis which he got caught up in which made it worse (Zander sees Cameron kissing "Dobson" and thinks he's gay, haha!). By the end of that he was just irrelevant. But I never thought LD didn't work on the show or that they couldn't make a good pairing. It was the scripts and stories.

I thought this was a pretty good response to a situation that is impossibly distorted on either end of the spectrum online. What matters is the people (on either side) who badly wanted another Kent State/'68 fantasy are not going to get it.

Typical Frank. And hopefully one of the last of those. It's an experience for us all.

Yes, you may ask me to clarify this point. In the past Brian Frons' regime did scrap an OLTL story about gay teen bullying and made them omit the gay element, much like they quickly disposed of the Kish storyline on that show due to backlash and ratings losses. But that was over a decade ago. Frons is long gone and the network's disposition towards creative control (let alone interest in GH at all) has seemed laissez-faire at best for at least 7-8 years. While they may or may not have recently taken more interest in GH, I really doubt any new management is looking to tamp down a gay bullying subplot in the 2020s, especially as bullying and homophobic bullying has become much more relevant in the last decade-plus. The other issue is FV, and that's that for many years his budget-conscious and preferential approach to block taping actors in bulk, banking material for actor episode guarantees, etc. has caused many stories or subplots to stop and start at strange and abrupt intervals after weeks or months off. That is another key reason I think most of the Aiden thing is offscreen. FV prioritizes other stories and characters, and also clearly considers the Aiden thing a C or D-plot at best. It was clearly never meant to be a major story. And it shouldn't be as long as this kid is in the role. So I say dump it.

The network vetoed a gay bullying story with Shane Morasco on OLTL almost 15 years ago. That was during Frons' tenure though, and I doubt they'd step in on that kind of relevant issue today (I also just don't think they really care enough about that kind of strenuous oversight anymore). I think it's just down to the magic of FV's guarantee/block-tape-based pacing, and also the fact that frankly the kid playing Aiden is very weak. I think there are better LGBT stories to be told on the show, but they won't be told with this kid. So I'd rather scrap the whole thing and send him off for a bit.

There's no evidence yet PM's being told who to write for. And again, Aiden can't act so I see no reason to give him major story. I'd rather just dump the whole thing, send him off to some great school and recast with someone better in a year or two. I don't care about an imaginary offscreen character potentially paired with a non-actor anymore than I cared about Fen's instant one-day boyfriend on Y&R.

I'd junk 'em both when this ends. I think she's passable but not a match for Mansi, who is stronger all the time.

I honestly didn't care at all about what Curtis was doing before and I don't care much now - he's boring. I do think the business stuff with Drew, Nina, etc. roping Curtis and Willow in is a means to a plot end, and that is what I care about because I'm into Drew and Nina. So that aspect is somewhat intriguing to me. Sasha needs to be trampled by Comet, and if Natalia isn't going to start actively causing huge trouble both her and Blaze need to go.

In fairness, what GH often forgets lately is that Anna Devane was top cop in PC and a world-saving '80s hero for a long time well before any recent craziness. Her credibility as a heroic police chief and WSB agent in the '80s and early '90s goes much further than her dark '70s origins with the DVX, IMO. Unlike pit stop rapist E.J.!

Still cannot believe E.J. is the DA when he literally took Sami hostage and raped her at gunpoint in the passenger seat of his car on the side of the road over the holidays. E.J.!