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The angle with his sons was interesting but barely made it onscreen. What did make it onscreen was a lot of very faint dancing around LW's Carly (who Frank and Korte had tried before, and who they quickly realized again Steve has no chemistry with) and mostly just Jason puttering around that warehouse. That was it, there was nothing going on, and that's why it flopped. Followed by teasing him and Anna/Sasha after PM's exit/firing, which also flopped. That's why they broke the emergency glass and rehired KT.

Sonny could pay for some of his crimes in some real way, for once. He could lose his empire and have to struggle to rebuild something. That's a story he has never done. Unlike all the boring shít he does everyday. There's a reason Steve's return flopped until he was put back with the Qs. It's because the mob trio stories where they're all the heroes are washed and everyone involved looks old and tired. It's not 2003. I don't care about Jagger but it's idiotic that they did the story where Sonny murders a federal agent and then abandoned it. Meanwhile Sonny is old, tired and incredibly boring. I'm sure they'll bring it up again in another year or two when they need some other plot point and pretend they planned it all along.

I am idly curious how Tamara and work out together. But woof, those names.

Bro, we've been here for two decades and have talked many of these shows to death. You have had an account here for almost a decade and a serious portion of your posting history (until your recent, nonetheless highly passive-aggressive charm initiative) has been taken up with crashing out over posters and having meltdowns over them not liking the same elements of this old show you do. It's an defunct soap opera with viewers who go back decades. The show itself has been off the air for 15 years. If you don't expect or want to read granular detail and highly subjective individual critique at this point, the problem is you.

I talked a lot about this story when I was watching that season. I do think it's still very topical today, and well done (I think the great Bill Duke shot a few of those eps). But I wonder who was gunning for Baldwin and why they wanted him out so fast. I think it was the Dallas team coming in the following year who said their first marching orders from above were to kill Joshua and end the Empire Valley saga.

A key example would be not just Wagger but Austin/Roger Howarth, lol. Over a year later after the story was long since abandoned they tossed in a few lines that Cyrus killed him.

I hate it too. Michael briefly changed his name in 2014-15 after finding out about A.J.'s murder but tbh he should do it again. (Drew should also take back the name, for the power and influence.) Another great reason to bring A.J. back again - and have Michael having known for some time, allowing resentment to fester again - and open up al this stuff for drama. I am pragmatic about MB/Sonny. The fact is the show would take a hit to lose him, something several of us have discussed before. But there are ways to humble the character and mitigate his presence but keep him in story, in a modified role that gives him less heavy lifting and makes Mo less obviously struggling and lethargic everyday. That solution goes back to Brenda and VM but I'm pretty sure you've heard us all do this show in our heads dance before lol. And yes, they need to explore Drew's estrangements. To me that still goes back to the kids, or Sam. He raised Danny as his son for several years. He adored Jake and vice versa. That would at least add some layers to what should stay a clear villain.

Until they invest in actual all-new contract characters for Michael, they're not taking him seriously as a major lead. A second dayplayer hooker is embarrassing. All because Frank doesn't want to fire more people he likes or rock the boat.

And equally pointless to me.

A waste, but hey, at least we have another dayplayer sex worker for Michael to romance for the low low contract price of $9.95.

I think it was absolutely a firing they allowed her to play off as a 'mutual decision'/her choice. That's very common. I don't need to see Sasha for anything but a plot-oriented visit ever again.

I assume we'll be seeing Donnell again sooner than later. They have a find in that kid and likely know it by now.

I lived through the first month or two of Passions in real time. This show's first year has been light work by comparison.

It really doesn't matter. This show has brought back far more dead people.

That would've been wild.

I think Hayley is freaking out because she can see what's going down with Bill and Dani and realizes she may have a narrowing window.

OLTL of course was the vanguard (and I am still so proud of them) but I think DAYS is the only US soap that has gone this far with it, for better or worse re: their character choice. I do love it.

Leave me all the way out of this. I am not your problem round here.

Between this stuff and the Kat/Tomas strip scene last week this show really is making GH look like a nunnery convention. That show used to let people fúck for sport.

I seriously fear Frank will go all in and try to make Valentin and Carly happen next. Anything to keep JPS on the show. As I've said elsewhere, there aren't enough strap-ons in Port Charles to cover the overhead.

Not if Josh Kelly can help it, lol. Dude has been going almost as hard as me for Cody/Tracy at every press availability he gets in the last year.

I mean, I do think the recent Martin/Smitty, etc. content is getting pretty edgy for daytime as is. Only DOOL has rode the line more with two men onscreen. As for cross-orientation I remember the BJ implication with Dorian and David on OLTL, but the Colby/Pete scene on AMC 2.0 went even harder. This is somewhere between. I will add I think BC and MM are really charming and fun together these days. Claybon has hit a good groove and they clearly enjoy writing for them.

Oh lord. I forgot about that.

Kristen had to be at least 55 lol.

Come on now! But I have always maintained that this horrific living room was supposed to be a reflection of second wife Hayley's chintzy taste and I feel my view has now been redeemed.