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It picks any topic you all will respond to (JFP, Ellen Parker, Passanante, beloved vets, Daniel Goddard, livestreams) and transparently pushes to get attention. You don't have to reply to every thing it says just to let people know how you feel for the umpteenth time. This is an old game with a slightly more roundabout approach.

IIRC they did emergency surgery on Audrey Hardy with a power drill, so...

They have no stakes. It's just another angle. Starve it and when it gets desperate enough to show out more, that will be the end. But you can be rid of it now by cutting it out of your presence.

Don't feed the troll just because it's belatedly attempting to change up its play style. It's about finding a topic, any topic which will inflame users and make people respond. Same as the Y&R threads a few years ago. Memes and GIFs only feed it. Block or ignore. I'd say report, but....

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Don't feed it.

Yes, he didn't start the revisionist myth on L&L until after that (bad) story in '05. During promotion of that anniversary he remained very complimentary. I think he realized the pairing with Tracy was actually working (for awhile at least) and went off the spool.

David and Angie, AMC 2.0. They were going to do it too. I lived for that.

I think the darker Luke of '96-'98 was very compelling. I felt some moments went too far but overall the core of the character remained. You could believe he was reacting to his family disintegrating. Further, at that time Tony still spoke publicly with passion about Luke's deep love and commitment to his family. He didn't fully abandon that line or his stance on Laura until around the late 2000s - he used to call himself the proud guardian of Luke and Laura's love with Genie gone. But he's been revising his own beliefs ever since.

Luke did have a wonderful moment early in the Cassadine revival story when they broke the news about Nikolas to Lucky, where he sternly told Lucky his mother went through hell years ago on the island, had lived with her secret for years, and they needed to support and not judge her. I've never forgotten that.

On 5/1/2020 at 6:12 PM, Darn said:

Also he's the reason Luke wasn't a particularly good father or husband, he fought to not be a good father.

Which is bullshit, because until 1999 or so he fought very hard for the opposite, and was very passionate when discussing it in public. What changed BTS is debatable, but not confirmed public record. He proceeded to do a slow 180 over the next fifteen years.

The bottom line IMO is Tony never got over losing the darker Bill Eckert character, and other career opportunities for different types of roles. So he began to channel that concept of Eckert (which he used to expound on a lot - go back and look) and those other energies into the latter-day Luke, regardless of how inconsistent that was with his past work, the role or his dedication to character integrity. He kept claiming it was just being 'honest' about who Luke was, but he couldn't even be honest with himself about his own prior take on Luke or the character he'd spent his career defining and protecting. The darkness in Luke and in his upbringing had coexisted with his dedication to a better life for his wife and children. It existed in tandem, but never eclipsed one half of him until 2003-onward.

That being said: Tony and JJ clearly rewrote all their scenes a few years ago during his exit storyline, and it was the first time GH had felt like its true self in a long, long time. The dialogue was so far beyond the rest of Frank and Ron's show it was jarring.

I watched some of the "Hadley" mess on YT. It was one of the most insanely stupid things Malone has ever done, the worst of his pop psych tendencies executed very, very immaturely.

He was also clearly intent on pairing Moss' Amanda with reporter co-worker Jake. I don't know enough about Malone's AW run to know when he abandoned his pairing of his character (I think) Bobby Reno/Shane with Vicky to going back to Jake/Vicky. I assumed that was the network responding to his stories bombing.

2/10

18 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

The lockdowns are ending

Some are. Many/most are not. Some will resume, IMO.

I know lots of folks feel differently, but I do think Block had some solid work in the role, even if Craig was very different in a lot of ways; I ultimately feel Bryce was superior and more versatile, as he did end up playing the same darker (and more two-dimensional) Sheffer model of Craig himself later. I did think there was a strange, taboo chemistry with Block and Byrne and their characters from different present-day spheres that interested me, but at that time I was largely unaware of just how close young Lily and Bryce's Craig had been; most of my Marland viewing came later. So while it interested me, I can see why that disgusted Byrne and many fans. It could never have happened with Scott Bryce.

Are there any serialized Marland-era playlists on YT? I remember devouring a huge portion of the Doug Cummings story unedited, many episodes in a row, a couple years ago.

Thanks!

2 hours ago, Kimmy said:

But I've often wonder if she's oblivious to these boards and gossip sites.  Is she ok with misinformation about her career and love/family life being spread consistently.

What is the misinformation being spread and how can you personally corroborate clearing it up?

Oh God, poor Debbi. I can't even deal with that.

So is it airing on CBS/streaming on CBS.com in the U.S. on Monday? Are they all on there?

1 hour ago, Kimmy said:

Do you need a background check or my ss#? 

Not necessary, no. Until yesterday your only other post was an overly long attack on someone for criticizing Beth Ehlers. All your posts since are overly long defenses of Beth Ehlers. All your prior screen name's posts were overly long defenses of/attacks on behalf of Beth Ehlers. The style, length and vitriol are identical. It's not particularly upsetting or offensive to me, it's just boring. But you do you, girl.

4 minutes ago, Khan said:

 

Which I can't see, for some reason.  In fact, I can't see anyone's sigs.

Check your board settings. Long story short: "TV4Me" called my buddy a 'low-life dirtbag' for slandering Ehlers. It amused me tremendously.