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Same. But yes, her first year-plus was stone cold psycho buffoonery. Culminating in some (but not all) of the material that helped get Ron fired, Stafford on her hands and knees howling away searching for an invisible baby as evil Ric tricks her with a sound FX app on his phone labeled 'Waahh!'

I agree. Though I think they purely lucked into him with Sarah Brown when he came back. I wonder how long it was before Sonny and Carly went from just an experiment with two combustible actors to something they were actively moving towards. I remember it shocking fans live BITD when the magazine spoilers hit but if you look at stuff now, a lot of the psychosexual, bonding etc. material in that period hinted towards it.

I have talked about it before a bit, but I would create a suave WSB agent related to the Wards to come to town and romance Laura. Entirely possible. Anything after Stafford's first year is a bland blur.

New character, new hire.

They should've mined both the characters' dark psychological history years ago - beyond just Ryan and Laura's instant brothers. Kevin's family history is a veritable haunted house. I get that Genie is happy with him and they have some fans but it is boring. I'll never not want Kevin and Lucy reunited, and never not want a new man on par with Luke's heroic stature for Laura. And yes, Michael and Willow should be long gone.

I would argue she already does that, though - again, Mayor Laura is inserted into virtually any ongoing situation or storyline by virtue of her job which makes her central to the town. It's been like this for several years running.

No way. Laura is the center of PC and enmeshed in so many stories directly because of that role. She shows up as part of so many situations all the time specifically because she is 'Mayor Collins'. It feels totally right to me. Laura doing 'social work' offscreen was what kept her bogged down in the late '90s.

There was never a point beyond getting Michelle Stafford from CBS, letting her go nuts onscreen again, and then (at that time) RC thinking she would soar playing a wacky antiheroine/whatever opposite Roger Howarth which proved unpopular. Everything since then has been flailing, including the recast and the musical chairs with the secret kid(s). Like so many characters currently onscreen, Nina has run far, far longer than she should've on contract simply because FV either didn't want to give up a get from another network or didn't want to invest in new characters or popular returns. It was executive inertia, combined IMO with Maurice Benard taking a shine to Watros and being tired of being paired with LW/Carly. The distaste for the Sonny/Nina pairing has seeped off the screen from the writing team in an unprofessional way IMO, and Mo and Watros do have a smidge of chemistry (certainly more than him and LW) but that's never changed the fact that Nina should not be a 10-year veteran lol. Nor should most of the long-running post-2011 cast. (Ava is a whole other can of worms, but I think she can still run a bit longer.) So many of these people are not needed, especially when you know that Vanessa Marcil among others is out there.

Oh, that's sad. When I heard the details of her case I was wondering if it was something like that.

It is my fondest wish that the NYC actor/soap pipeline resumes in whatever altered way possible. It is a cultural heritage as well as an economic boon. I have bored so many young actors back East with this lol.

Nina has always been apeshit crazy, especially in the Stafford years. She has always been a privileged, unhinged socialite and Watros has never taken her too seriously onscreen IMO, just like Annie. There is always an edge of camp hysteria to the character. (Her performance as Kelly the AA member on Y&R was visceral and wrenching but more grounded IMO, so she is capable of modulating when she wants to and a character warrants it - Nina doesn't.) So yes, what needs to happen is what's needed to happen for years: Let Nina be Nina and go apeshit, stop trying to make her into a heroine or a doormat and let Watros do what she does best before exiting. It has infuriated me for several years now how little he gives to Brook Kerr, who works this show with real dedication like she's been helping to hold it up for 10-20 years as opposed to what, 3 or 4.

If GH is smart they'll lock Gavin Houston down. But I bet it won't happen.

They have been using old cues Frank brought over from OLTL dating back to the 2000s. It's tiring hearing them over and over.

I think it may be a mix of Frank's typical guarantee shuffle and the outgoing team having had no clue what to do with her. I really hope this is the end of Dex.

I think AM started out very strong but has regressed to yowling every day and I find it unbearable. I hope it changes. I do think Robin was pretty clearly just coasting for most of 2012-on tbh. She wasn't doing her finest work, she was just coming to work and having a laugh. But the scripts also generally sucked and Heather's antics were equally OTT even though her volume decibels were lower. Remember when she spent half a year faking Franco's sandwich paintings of the BLTs from Kelly's?

Heather started a killing spree around 2004 and kept it rolling in '12. Robin was just quieter when doing it.

I definitely don't need more Heather in my life, but I can respect PM wanting to keep using a talented actor he worked well with at B&B. If he can find a more subdued use for her I am open to it. If he can't, oh well.

Heather was prepared to murder Diana Taylor 40 years ago. I don't think she's going to reform that much, or at least I wouldn't buy it. She's always been nuts. Can I allow for her turning really psychotic in more recent times, sure. It's not like they didn't turn her into a cartoon starting when she first came back in '04.

What indication is there that they're saying Heather sold Steven Lars because of a hip replacement she almost certainly had afterwards? This whole development is likely only being done to mitigate Heather's more recent history of serial murder.

I really could not care less about making Heather less crazy. I just want less Heather. But if they find a way to do it that makes her more tolerable I am willing to consider it.

That's not what John said. Heather sold her kid long before the LSD trip. But regardless I highly doubt any hip issue is going to magically turn Heather sane nor am I interested in watching a sane Heather (or much Heather at all). I know GH is no B&B but let's try to give the show the benefit of the doubt.

Heather has been apeshit since at least the Carter administration. I don't see that changing.

I was for it but man did Sam treat her like shít for too long.

Diane dresses like one of the overindulgent parents in Willy Wonka. No need! He's dead, leave him there. The memory is enough.

Like I said in the edit above: Alexis would not discuss Sam's father for almost a decade. There is one reason for that and one reason only!