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Gia should be back (presumably recast lol), but that's a whole other topic. For the life of me I do not remember how or why Nik and Gia broke up.

I've seen some of Gordon on TD and a fair bit of him on GH and I've never seen or read anything of his GH stint that suggests they ever had a substantive plan for the character beyond 'hire rival network soap star'. This business doesn't change that much.

I've said it many times, but I started looking in on GL for rubberneck value: Cynthia Watros as Annie, the clone and later several of my beloved OLTL alumni who moved to the show for the San Cristobel story (Chappell, Thom Christopher). The insanely overly-lit sets, OTT performances, peroxide blonde stylings and general air of sheer tackiness turned me right off, but the biggest issue was San Cristobel. I did not understand how or why so much of a supposedly down to earth show centered around a clearly fake and silly fairy tale island kingdom, and I've made it clear how ludicrous I felt the aging Reva being presented as the unattainable sex goddess of the show was during this. It's as ridiculous a story now as it was then.

Nobody is asking you to do that.

It is tomfoolery of the highest order to pretend Luke and Laura and their saga was not the central draw for GH in that era. Yes, Scott, Laura, the David Hamilton mystery and the Alan/Monica/Rick/Lesley quad started the job. L&L finished it. I have plenty of strong opinions about Tony Geary's attitude or the rape of Laura. Doesn't mean I am going to pretend Luke was an afterthought lol. People acting like she is some capable actress desperately in need of more story are embarrassing themselves. Just hire better people of color!

Cannot believe it's taken me this long to realize Liz and the boys live in THEE Brownstone, dating back to the '80s and '90s. I remember Ron and Frank tried to bring it back in the mid-2010s by having Michael turn it into new housing where Morgan and Kiki briefly lived, but the set was unrecognizable and looked like a Lego playset. Then it vanished for years, I guess until Liz and Franco moved in. it still doesn't look much like the original to me (I think the kitchenette and stairs are sort of where they should be from semi-recent iterations) but I'm glad it's back. I remember when Gregory Harrison was supposed to be a sex god 30-35 years ago. I remember hearing about how he dominated Falcon Crest near the end too. He's an attractive man for his age but it must be said he also, in profile, looks like George Washington. They need to bring on a woman or a scandalously young dude for Alexis though, bc these two are like watching paint dry together.

I like Heinle's delivery on '...again' lol. Like even Victoria's not buying this story for the umpteenth time.

This relates to the Moonves/CBS revelations about Janet in this thread a few years ago, so it might as well go here. Grain of salt given the source, but:

People love L&L and that's fine. People hate L&L and that's fine. I still love L&L while being very conscious of their very ugly side and that's fine. But they will always be the signature couple of GH, both in their romance and in their ugliness. That's just the way it is. I think Genie hates the rape storyline, which I can understand. I think most people hate that it exists or hate how it was handled in the era. I don't believe her comments have ever translated to 'I hate Luke and Laura'. She was the one clearly trying to bring TG on sides before he left. Her final video message to him as all the cast did their farewells was very candid about hoping he could 'find his way' to appreciating their story together again after what was clearly years of bitterness and frustration about his legacy as an actor being Luke and Laura and this show.

I could not tolerate Stafford's work on the show. Watros is a completely different character in many ways and the role is still pointless and a waste of her talent, but she at least puts out good work.

The full stream.

Ava will never be out. She married Nikolas and took his family's name for a reason. She loves the power.

Which is why it looks so good to me! Bradford May's work seriously elevated the show IMO.

Ava murdered Connie in cold blood in her first few months on the show. She left her bleeding to death on her office floor which is where Sonny found her as Connie died choking on her own blood. Whatever the show intends for Ava, plausible deniability is long past. That said I doubt Nik is dead for good.

Lord, no! She was pure camp! I can't imagine her doing a serious role, I'm sorry lol.

S3 is getting pretty good reviews both from hardcore fans and straight journalists. I'm pleased.

We gonna hire Uncle Zeke on contract immediately? Asking for a friend.

I've not followed you from anywhere. You came here to us. I'm telling you what you already know. You've been disciplined for your posting habits before here. I don't report people except in extreme circumstances and I'm not going to report you; I don't need to. Your behavior is all out in public. You can listen to people or continue to ignore every good faith plea for you to change. You can either adapt to what most of the board has been asking you to do or you can roll the dice. It's up to you.

This is a joy: Kristen and her ex Chad Duell from GH appear to be back on good terms; according to her Twitch page, he guested on her Dead by Daylight stream a couple months ago. Kristen's bio says her brother Eddie may turn up, so I'll have to keep an eye on it. (I take that back - he is in one of her recent streams, and he looks fine although I'm not sure about that mustache.)

Donna, that's simply not true. You have been disciplined by the administration for your posting habits and their problems. Countless posters, many people who don't know you and have nothing against you, have begged you to stop treating these threads as your personal blogroll and dumping ground of random detritus you found all over the Net. Often your facts are very wrong as well. You have been banned from boards for this behavior before; I wasn't there, but like many other people I heard the story when you came here. You are now courting it here on a board where the administration does not like to permanently ban anyone. You need to either learn to modulate how you post and the content of those posts, or face the consequences of what continuing may bring upon you. I am fairly certain your last extended hiatus was not by choice. Ask yourself if you really want another, or a permanent one. You can feel however you want to feel, but don't claim a board full of mostly exhausted strangers all have it out for you. And don't lie and pretend you've never been officially told to stop.

Please be serious. This is giving flashbacks to your month-long "Steve Burton is not fired, you gullible ignorant sheeple" campaign, and we know how that turned out. j, you have often made decent contributions to this board and at times I enjoy conversing with you. You are also often arrogant and/or loudly wrong on basic key facts in public. This is the fundamental difference between us: I am often arrogant, loud and an [!@#$%^&*], but when I am clearly wrong on facts or have no basis I rarely do that in public and if so will retract my statement. I'm not going to call you an [!@#$%^&*] but I am going to call you wrong, again. I understand you think you are smarter than most people here, but as someone who has worked in marketing I can tell you now there is absolutely no way People just picked from a random grab-bag of images. They made choices, just like any print publication has made specific choices for their covers for the past century or more. You may not like how posters on this board react to those choices, you may find their behavior declasse or stupid. But unfortunately that has nothing to do with how the images were chosen, and it's not anyone's problem but yours. Let it go.

Been meaning to get back to these but I've been working. I did note that per the Dallas thread, it's apparently already starting to go up on platforms in HD as we speak. If it's true about Knots too I wonder what that timeline looks like.

She's been told not to do this or spam many times and seems to have been repeatedly shadowbanned or barred from posting for long stretches as a result. She doesn't learn and eventually something will have to be done.

That is pretty huge for a couple the show is still scared shitless of. Probably, but it's far from the first time contrivances have prevented that with similar characters in similar stories on soaps. I do think the entire Chase vortex is boring as hell.