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It's 'hear, hear.' But thanks for not just posting 'same' for the 500th time.

I get that. We're all gonna get there eventually. Unfortunately, GH and most remaining soaps seem to be explicitly modeling their show and content largely for what they perceive as their biggest senior audience - racist GOP voters. They know they have a sizeable Black, etc. and LGBT audience, but in the lean, lean times of the 2010s-onward they have decided to try to preserve what they believe is their biggest audience bloc: Older whites who are conservative and prefer relatively chaste or moralizing stories about babies, families, etc. and more fantastical soap stunts. I don't agree with those motives or that that's their biggest remaining audience, but that's the thinking as far as I see it. I think Ron still tries at DAYS sometimes, but I think once again he's been given too much power and too little oversight, plus there's very little budget. Taste and good ideas rarely win out there, just the excess on a shoestring. It's amazing to me that GH now often looks better than it did in his and Frank's joint tenure.

For me right now, the feeling is frustration. The show has somehow crawled out of the hole of being completely boring or unwatchable on the daily in the Passanante/Altman twilight years; it has many engaging actors, a few promising couples and even a couple potentially decent stories. I think it has fits and starts of real improvement that make me see a future for GH again. A lot of it is better lately, both production and potential-wise, than it's been in many years. And it's better than Y&R. But FV's personal choices and I suspect network oversight are still choking most of the life out of it. I'm watching for the moment out of boredom, but I tune out the at least 60-70% lame stuff. I'm not holding my breath on sex or a committed romance. I think they will slow-walk Spencer and Trina for as long as humanly possible, semi-hoping one of them will leave. I think they are very conflicted about this being their new star couple and very frightened of it. GH never used to be that way.

I'm glad it's happened, but I'll be more invested if the show actually leans in hard on the pairing now. Not just doing the minimum out of fear of the senior audience and only showing them intimate once in a blue moon.

I remember this scene. It was great, but hits differently with the wealth of late '70s/early '80s material now available where Bobbie was an absolute hellraiser and made Laura's life agony.

I like how she clearly has no idea who some of the more serious documentary, etc. or local nominees are but just hurls vague rah-rah platitudes at them anyway. From the hilarious Guardian piece: Also: "Good luck to you, Katy Brand!"

The full verse is, somehow, even worse:

Nine months til the next one!

I don't have a problem with the sequence's execution, or the concept of a soap doing a time jump in theory - I like a time jump well-executed. I just feel like EE keeps chasing stunts when it doesn't need them. This feels like another.

Oh lord. The latest in trending topics and meme fodder:

Maggie's death scene is incredibly disturbing and well done for a non-viewer. I can't imagine what it would feel like for a longtime fan.

This wouldn't shock me at all. They've been bleeding this show's wallet for years and COVID could've slashed it further.

Legend after legend this month. The great Leiji Matsumoto did many very famous anime, but is perhaps best known to Westerners for his work with Daft Punk:

More evidence for the "Conspiracy" parasite theory above in a preview clip from the next ep:

It's a very somber, downbeat and candid series of scenes - a C-storyline, but very honest and sad about the slow death of their relationship. But I avoid that account tbh because the owner seems like an opportunist [!@#$%^&*]-talking in the comments, and I suspect some of the content is appropriated from other people and re-titled to make it look like exclusives. There are a fair amount of Carla eps from the '80s floating around online, including I think a couple featuring the quad with her, Ed, Phylicia Rashad's character and Roger Hill's football player, who Holly apparently was involved with IRL. She didn't think much of that 'silly little' storyline in her book. There's also a couple '78 or '80 ones with her and Jack Scott.

Again, paternity/maternity crap is one of the only stories easily greenlit these days. And they're almost always boring now.

They may have mentioned that more recently, I wouldn't know. My best recollection of Taggert's (offscreen) exit in the 2000s was Scott or someone saying he'd been reassigned to Alaska or something after being the squeaky wheel against Sonny and Jason (and maybe sticking it to Scott's corruption) once too often.

The Nikolas reveal and its timeline were meticulously plotted out. The scenes where Laura tells Luke all about exactly where, how and when she learned her mother was 'dead' in the '80s and that it had been attributed to the Cassadines to silence her re: her other son were intricately done.

Which ironically is also what broke up Curtis and Jordan IIRC, even if I frankly find all of Curtis' relationships very bland and interchangeable.

The mention of Taggert's past in the main thread got me thinking of the great Vanita Harbour as long-suffering ADA Dara Jensen, and this hilarious scene I have never forgotten from summer '98, in which Helena reveals that Katherine is alive after all after the fall off the Wyndemere parapet (a now common death or near-death location of choice, as Esme and Brad can attest). Even in poor quality the face journeys Dara, Alexis, Stefan, Nikolas, etc. go on as Helena gleefully lays her insane story out below (timestamped appropriately at the link) are hysterical. I would embed if I could, but you can see it here.

Taggert was involved with several women during his time on the show, including Dara and Hannah Scott, Roy's daughter and Sonny's FBI sidepiece (and Mrs. Jonathan Jackson). Anything with Portia has to have happened after he left town/was reassigned to a remote location, IIRC how they framed it onscreen.

@DRW50 A worthwhile thread on the commentary recording for POTD.

Zach Tinker appears to have at the very least a recurring role in the Dick Wolf procedural complex. It is unlikely he will come back if he gets a regular contract there. Those shows run and run.

Stunning! @Faulkner

Some, but not in years. I will watch them, but currently I've been sort of splitting my GL focus between Agnes Nixon eps from the '60s, the Dobsons and the mid-'80s.