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That's a Frank thing and will likely never change as long as he is there. As for dropping viewers, I frankly just expect all the soaps to keep doing so good or bad on network at this point, whoever the writers are. I barely pay attention at this point without some massive crash.

That's just a nice statement to quiet the crazy fans claiming NAC is ungrateful to the show, etc. I highly doubt he'll be back any time soon. A recast is the most likely option down the road.

They just don't want to be bothered with the show period. Too bad. Perhaps The Gates will light a fire under them, if it goes well.

I just don't think they are interested in bibles at the networks anymore, tbh. Many times it's just been 'hop in!' and work with all sorts of constraints. I hope that changes here, and I'll be curious to see how The Gates turns out.

It is indeed. And it would be nice to see that kind of speed applied with so many other things on the show. I'll admit I am waiting for an inevitable Sonny/Nina scene again sometime, just to see how the new team handles that dynamic. Which never made much sense to me beyond "Maurice enjoys Cynthia's company". What I'll be amazed by is if they let it get as far as Sonny having another foolish mob wedding to Ava Jerome. And they should tbh. A fatal mistake he made with Claudia before and is completely inclined to repeat, because in the years since he has learned very little and he proved that many times, starting with letting Brenda walk out. And Ava is a lot smarter than Claudia.

I ain't updated it either lol.

I think OG Kate came closest to something bigger - no one was more surprised than me that that worked. Then Guza (or someone) killed it in the crib to advance the Dante saga with Olivia in Kate's place, needlessly IMO.

I just couldn't care less about this phantom subplot right now. The show has enough to deal with before they can find an Aiden who can act.

That's because they're mostly Sonny/Nina fans. And stupid!

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.