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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.

A very sweet anecdote from last year's Locher Room with the Cramer women (which KDP indicates she was as sick of hearing forced into the scripts every day as I was, in addition to Robin Strasser always getting them together BTS to 'Cramer-ize' the scripts as she called it): Kristen Alderson, among others, has stayed close with Robin and stayed at her place in NY weekly for a year while doing off-Broadway not long ago. Robin woke her up each morning by singing at the top of her lungs. She also drove Robin across PA and NYC to get her COVID vaccine.

Didn't Austin's adopted family turn out to be deep in the underworld, and he's supposed to be in with them for some criminal shít? If the Gatlins(?) turns out to be like some sort of Ozark backwoods deal that could be interesting or at least give Howarth something more to play besides 'nice doctor on TV show because Frank is still not over Roger slipping through his fingers to CBS 20 years ago'. That being said, it would still be a story centered around Roger Howarth #3 and some recurring players. Unless they reveal Austin Gatlin-Holt is in fact a closet backwoods underworld psychopath and play that out accordingly (leading to his eventual exit), I am not super interested.

The Chase/BLQ storyline is so dumb yet at the same time is giving exactly the same kind of coked-up, neon-drenched energy as dozens of other pop star/singing storylines on soaps in the '80s and '90s. A skeezy producer! A cop or other hero 'forced' to sing! A secret and wholly unnecessary Scooby Gang plan in which a bunch of young people plot like the Goonies to 'get' this recurring bad guy who is just happy to not be waiting tables in Santa Monica anymore! Other assorted hapless recurring players all built around this silly story! It's giving me distinct "Lujack is a pop star, no really" vibes from '80s GL and a bit of the legendary Danny Romalotti and Friends musical capers from Y&R, or Ricky Paull Goldin's silly stuff on AW. It's dumb and I don't really care about Chase or his romance with Brook at all, but I can't be mad at the story bc it's a pretty classic daytime chestnut, however lame the execution. And I do think the Dr. Luke/Kesha/Scooter Braun/T-Swift parallels are very relevant, and could be made use of in a much better storyline.

He does look very good whereas I had gotten used to this very talented actor being styled like a cave troll. I just assumed he always deliberately let his hair look terrible on TV, lol.

Nikolas said awful things to Ava, but Ava has done just as many awful things if not far worse (Connie). They are deeply toxic and made for each other, and I'm not some big shipper. You could let those two and their chaos run for years with the right actor for Nikolas and the right stories. Roger Howarth and Maura have had chemistry since her first days onscreen with her opposite bleach blond Franco where they crackled together despite his idiotic return, but it's too late to put them together now. Dr. Austin is a boring nice guy. We've seen Ava with boring nice men - I sat through some of the Griffin debacle. What are their stories supposed to be? Ava is a villain or at the very least a dark antiheroine. So that's all to say that yes, they should recast Nik sooner than later. As for Spencer, I think he is definitely smug but that's always been part of his personality since Nicolas Bechtel. He is smug and he is absolutely doing the Cassadine thing to his father with this very stupid custody scheme, just as Laura said the other day. He is reveling in it the same way Nikolas sometimes does. He's more sympathetic and more of a 'good' character atm, but he's not all good - this aspect of him is just who he is, too.

Granted I need to catch up on an ep or two, but I did want to chime in on about the recent Nikolas Discourse on various forums (and if you've seen this before forgive my crossposting): Whoever the actor, I think this is who Nik has been for a long time. He's been going down a darker and darker trajectory for the better part of 20 years. He dabbled in Stefan and Stavros' sketchier dealings for a while. He cheated on Emily and then lost her forever, which broke him on a fundamental level IMO. He slept with his beloved brother's wife when they'd all been friends since kids and carried on a torrid affair with her, then had a protracted battle over Elizabeth's pregnancy. He got in too deep with Hayden Barnes and tried to have her killed. Then he fled the country and ended up getting got by Billy Joel Valentin, somehow. I am not some huge Nikolas fan by any means, but there is nuance to some of this. It's been somewhat overwritten by both the show and overzealous fans who just really love to watch Nicholas Chavez do his thing to claim Nik was always a bad father, but based on the show I watched Nikolas was a devoted father to Spencer for a very long time, or at least as devoted as most soap parents in frontburner story get, raising him consistently in PC and then offscreen in Europe - until about 2015, when he skipped town on the Hayden rap and then 'died'. His staying underground, faking his death and diving deeper into the dark to take Valentin down was what changed everything for him and his son IMO. But all this has been a long time coming for Nik's character AFAIC. When he tried to kill Hayden and then fled as Tyler exited the role I bought it, because Nikolas had been cruising downhill morally since he lost not just Emily but before that Stefan, who also lost himself to the same darkness (and very bad writing). There's also the loss of the guiding influence of Laura, who for a long time was catatonic in a long-term facility. And Lucky and his sister both being gone, the sister Nik adored from birth. The affairs, the schemes, etc. all led here - knocking up his son's girlfriend, locking her in a tower, etc. It's all very Cassadine, for good or ill. GH very rarely gets super good these days IMO but some scenes along with great performances really hit for me still. A week or two ago, Ava said "my God, you're so weak. I can't believe there was a time I didn't see it." That really encapsulates a lot of the Nikolas character to me. He wants to be good, he means well but often he is weak, and goes down bad paths. I don't want Nikolas gone for good and I do think Adam Huss has done a surprisingly good job - better than Coloma in recent days - but I hope someday Tyler can return. They don't need to clean Nik up too much for me though. This is just who he is now IMO, a very gray character. On a side note though: If they try to use all this to make Esme a conventional heroine on the show fück that. That character is a lot of fun but is the definition of Shelf Life. Paging Obrecht, Nina, etc.

We all know when another blond under 28 with reasonably trimmed body hair shows up you will roll out the instant fan club. Let these posters live!

I was telling Darn about this earlier, but HBS (who lobbied to get killed off when JFP made Kale Browne's Sam impregnate Nora) and Mark Derwin, an avowed Friend of Jill, both had no problem dunking on Browne with very little anonymity in Jeff Giles' book. And Tim Stickney openly put him on blast in the late '90s/early 2000s in the AOL chat era, I think. I think KB was a good actor in a very forced part, but I don't know of a person at OLTL with a good thing to say about him and he was fired the instant Jill left the studio for GH. Larry Lau, OTOH, seemed well-liked, especially by Hillary and Cat Hickland. He did almost make Sam tolerable. Back then I thought I would've put him and Lindsay back together if he'd had to be around (something the show seemed to sometimes hint was inevitable even with Browne in the role, but never did because it would making JFP's preferred characters expendable), but Cat caught fire with Ty Treadway and the rest is history. It felt very darkly appropriate to me that a psychotic Lindsay ended up killing Sam. Lindsay was one of the original desperate housewives - a woman who had given up her youth and career to make a home and family for a man who never really wanted her and then tossed her aside, who remained driven by her anger against him and the woman who'd taken him from her for years to come. When Mitch came along, put the gun in her hand and pointed it at Sam - even if she thought it was Troy - the fact that it was Lindsay who killed her husband seemed very fitting. Anyway: Way OT!

I mean, Taylor Swift decided to remake her entire catalog bc of a conflict with past management. Then there's the Dr. Luke/Kesha scandal. It's not far-fetched. The execution of the story is the issue.