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That's because I was asleep!

Oh, that's great. @Darn @DRW50 take a look!

I suspect it's the usual guarantee merry-go-round re: Trina and others atm, plus FV continuing to be gunshy about a Black female lead. I sincerely hope that changes as the new regime's stories continue to take shape. I agree about Lucy and Felicia.

They have been treating her as campy window dressing since she broke up with Kevin. She deserves more than this but she is regularly used as the butt of the joke for far inferior characters (starting with slow-talker Sasha).

It feels like it's always just been an excuse for FV to use Morgan and Susan Batten from OLTL. I'm tired of seeing them and this mess. And yeah, I haven't often liked the use of Lucy since at least 2015 (not that Ron's use of her was exactly stellar, but he did bring her back and highlight her for a good stretch). Lucy is part of a supercouple and is a major beloved character; I know Lynn can sell anything but she needs to be treated with a bit more respect onscreen. Ava is obviously going to keep the truth about the pills to herself. I wouldn't be surprised if she tracks it back to Valentin and cuts into his operation for her own ends.

I'm of two minds. Like I've talked about with Darn, I think GH has a real erudition and intelligence in some of his scenes with Tracy and Alexis (when he isn't there to mansplain their feelings or choices) that clicks with them. He and Jane especially have chemistry. At the same time, do I care about his health story or fate - not very much. Had he come on as a more vital mover and shaker or complex business tycoon figure, a la some of his '80s roles, I might feel differently.

I will never stop suggesting it for AMC and OLTL. And I still think Edge and GL are strong ideas if this goes well for CBS, but I don't expect them to return per se. I also have mixed feelings on an hour slot, but it's what the network has and I think it can work.

All of the above. End it.

I enjoy seeing Deception in a native work setting, but Sasha needs to be trampled by the horse and I never need to see Bootleg QVC or Morgan Fairchild's character/insurance payment again.

Expected, but very welcome.

Suffer:

Years, I'd argue, based on the Marshall closeout stuff and Trina's graveside monologue.

I remember JFP chem testing Ingo and Tamara at the time in 2001 and early '02, yes. I never bought into them at all or into that random club. Whereas the Cellar (a former speakeasy) I thought was at least an interesting idea, even if splashing out for a special 'silent' 1920s flashback episode for even more mob was ludicrous and depressing. (Dylan Cash featured heavily IIRC, which was painful enough.) It took LW and Ingo to make me buy that Jax and Carly would ever go near each other. Strange how that happens. I think Cody is a classic soap archetype - mischievous farmhand himbo - and JK is a lot of fun with anyone else IMO. You could plug him in with Liz, Tracy or anywhere. Wasting him on marzipan Sasha is tiresome. But wasn't Dominique only in a psych ward for less than a month? Not enough time to have had Mac's kid. It's far preferable for him to just be Mac's son with some woman back in Australia. She stole it for awhile. Carly got it back, then dumped it altogether at some point lol.

Yeah, she doesn't like the style of Nina's journalism but she can't deny it's a success. Something Gregory noted a while ago. Not that I think we'll see much of Nina at the Invader/Intruder? either. The Cellar. Got a huge special episode rollout with the old lady from Titanic and then I think we never saw it again lol.

The advantages of watching the show. I mean, in fairness they kind of admitted Carly wasn't when the new regime flushed all of that immediately and said Carly just did it to please Drew lol. They've been going on and on about how brilliant Nina was at Crimson instead. I never got it when she was put there many years ago but it's a decent enough place for her and CW sells it. I do agree it was growth to have her leave the MC, but the location is also a good story harbor for a lot of things so I kind of understand it. Is Nina actually having difficulty running the paper?

I prefer Carly at Bobbie's as well after her years of being wealthy at the MC. But I also understand resetting her with a new regime. It doesn't really make sense for Nina to run the hotel. I hope we'll continue to see Carly running/working at Bobbie's at least, and I expect we will (just as we saw Bobbie both there and the hospital).

I'll have more on the rest of the week in a bit but I will say I think Kate Mansi may be becoming the stealth breakout of the new regime, on top of Watros and (somehow) CM as @titan1978 said. (Not that I don't think there is real value to Cameron when he is used well just as in his best days on AMC, as I've always said; it's just that he hasn't been for most of his tenure and it's made Drew unbearable for so long until very recently.) The question is will the day to day slant on Nina get in CW's way, because it does vary. Yes, Nina is a spoiled, histrionic and delusional heiress; she always has been and that is true to form IMO. The issue is when the writing shows that yet also defaults too much back to The Life of Carly voice that has pervaded the show for so long. You can have one without the other. Anyway, I think Mansi has been very good and is emerging as one of the strongest younger voice on the show. The issue at present is her stories. Blaze is not ready for the big time AFAIC despite some compelling ideas in that story, and the surrogacy needs to end ASAP. I also would rather keep BLQ single and unshackled, and I doubt Chase is going anywhere any time soon. I agree it makes no sense for Chase to be poor given his family lineage. Sasha needs to go, preferably alone. I have zero interest in her saga of finding herself in horse stables, in the kitchen or on Bootleg QVC.

@DRW50 @Faulkner Seems Gibson either is staying or will at least be there for some portion of Series 15/Season 2, which is nice to hear.

A legend in her own right.

And there it is.

Think the movie Women Talking.

It would admittedly be a refreshing change for Donna to put someone else on Ignore vs. the 60-70% of us on here who have already done so. Spamming posts and suffocating threads with random minutiae, OT anecdotes and pointless pedantics are never going to make you the center of a forum or important.

Could not believe they got away with the hardcore nuzzling. Such a horny show!

Like I said in the reboot thread: I'll believe this even happens when I see it lol.

A lot of people have speculated Mystique may be Val. (I don't think it should be tagged for that reason, there's no spoiler there.) She has impersonated her before in the comics. I found it suspicious that they focused on her reaction to Rogue and Magneto, and more importantly that they go out of their way neither to name Mystique nor show her true form in Rogue's flashback when they show Rogue and her "evil mother". So I think it's a real possibility. I don't think we're going to see a quad after this - I think they are going to reaffirm Scott and Jean, which is fine with me. The writing is very good. I love Emma but I don't need Emma to get a big role right now.