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They mentioned it explicitly on his first or second day, when he met Leo, Olivia and Carly. He discussed Stone's whereabouts.

I should finally revisit NS2. The episodes on YT are so poor quality though. I would be more than happy with Jordi V. or any number of other dark hunks as NuJagger to play out the duration of this story and then probably leave. With the current recast it's just so awkward and annoying, on top of this already being a very shopworn story and scenario for Sonny vs. a fed that we've seen a dozen times. Carly probably doesn't recall the last fed named John who came to town gunning for Sonny was her own father. (Another wasted character, I might add)

Dex is not anyone's secret child, certainly not Jason's or Wagger's. He's not Stone II. That reminds me of when people kept insisting Dev was Brenda's kid. And I agree, both he and Drew are toast not long after Steve's return. It's just a matter of time.

I find it highly unlikely Dex is Jason's son lol. That sounds like out of control spec. I have never heard anyone opine that Morgan will never be back. I do think he's not coming back any time soon and people always over-assume that he's back anyday because his death was so anticlimactic. People jump to it constantly and there's no real sign of that.

I honestly found the Passanante era unwatchable. Same as her AMC. There might have been good episodes occasionally, but no, I'll pass. D&C were a marginal improvement.

It is truly weird how they brutally dumped Decker and Dawn so fast after so much build-up, even for Monty.

Sir, most of us are just clowning the bad photo, not being serious. This sweeping passive-aggressive flourish you enjoy doing whenever you descend upon a thread is neither subtle nor warranted.

Yep.

I liked the Port Charles Karens. I've never been very fond of Cari Shayne.

Tabyana Ali is also struggling lol. This is such an odd shot.

Look at poor T.J. and Maxie doing a full Where's Waldo. And Willow! Try to find her, I did!

I never was interested in Nurse Amy II, but I could almost sort of get behind Mac rechristening Jake's the Floating Rib per the 50th anniversary. That said, you look at the Jake's that various characters populated in the '90s and 2000s and the new Floating Rib came off real cheesy by comparison. In its day Jake's was a real dive and the atmosphere was thick. So no, I don't mind that change either. What I wouldn't mind but what will never happen: Someone in the family reopening Luke's Club, in honor of the somehow apparently-actually-dead Luke.

He was also an international sex symbol, lol. He was in every ad and in a ton of magazines, music videos, whatever from here to Mars for much of the '90s. People who did not watch GH knew his face. I don't even like ASJ but if you're going to recast a presence like that, get a guy who at least vaguely resembles the original performer. But yes, character-wise how long can anyone talk about Karen and Stone over and over? As a return on paper, Jagger is a lead balloon to me unless he was coming in for a brief arc and leaving again. This guy, I doubt very much they are committed to him but I think FV and C&D were just throwing shít at the wall again and seeing what stuck.

Exactly. Ron especially used to drop this shít into dialogue clumsily and expect me to clap like a trained seal. I'm not that easy. Wagger is the same issue. He's utterly miscast, the character has no reason to return and the story is the same tired business we've watched with Sonny and other adversaries for decades.

Or, alternately: Why should Jagger be back? We are allowed to critique this show because it's pretty clear most of us care a lot about it. "Using history" doesn't matter to me when it is just about sprinkling in fanservice brownie points in dialogue like RC used to do a lot; he didn't understand that I don't feel satisfied with the current show if they happen to randomly mention some Wikipedia data point from a story that aired 30 years ago. And I also don't have to support what I feel is a very bad recast of a needless old character who doesn't need to be on the show anymore, especially when the canvas is already stuffed full of way too many characters as is. If you feel differently, fine. But none of us are required to be big fans of Wagger or his storyline or these brief, plot-driven scenes talking about Sonny and Karen just because they mentioned the Paradise Lounge, or because he or any other new actor seems to be a nice person IRL. That doesn't mean Wagger should be on the show or that his story is any good. You might see someone on Twitter or something but none of us actually know these people. If you can't tell the difference between that critique and blanket hate, that's your issue, it's not ours.

The Dex/Joss makeout scene looked crazily stilted and awkward to me this time. They usually don't exactly have that problem lol. It felt very very choreographed and awkward, she was clumsily turning away from him then back much less organically than you usually see actors (particularly ones who give the vibe they're fúcking) on these shows pull off. I guffawed BTW when he just poked his head out from behind that shed or whatever. Joss is on a desperate quest to find Dex only to find him the first place she goes. I thought it was a dumb fantasy sequence at first, like it can't be that easy. But it typifies the dramatic inertia this show has often had for years. The less said about BLQ's latest Blofeld/Chairmao Mao floral ensemble the better. This mess with Setton can't go on forever.

They were playing those sounds for years even at the docks set in the '90s and 2000s IIRC. I miss that set.

Michael needs a long break IMO. LA is also too young for Lucky. And Dex can go. Nor do I need a reason for Wagger to hang around. But if Days somehow left him unemployed in a few years, sure, I suppose Adams would be a decent choice for Michael in a pinch. I'd rather we just cull the dozen of unnecessary characters.

He really is. He might be a decent Michael recast I suppose, but I frankly don't need the Days threads ethos coming in here. He and Dex also look like twins, and I don't need one of Dex let alone two.

I just question the wisdom of getting into the weeds about a TV news interview re: whether or not Eva LaRue thinks her character is homophobic and should be cancelled for it or not, when she's been on for exactly two days. This is not that serious.

The first step is admitting that Wagger and his Manson-like gaze are not real and cannot hurt you.

I'd like to put in a veto for more Wagger or Wagger-related subsidiaries.

No, he was doing it to goad Wagger.

I've never seen that promo. Top quality work from them as always. IIRC the talented Sarah Phelps wrote those scenes though I may be wrong. Den's return had such promise early on, it's a shame it got torpedoed mostly by outside factors IMO. I still miss him and think fondly of that story.