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I've been saying it for years! And yes, every person under 50 on this show has way too many kids. It's this team's go-to to kill time and fill a year: More babies.

Who on God's cursed earth is that? This looks sadder and weirder than Kristin Minter in the mid-2000s.

The acting is actually pretty bad, lol. JK could only help that role, that guy is one of the worst actors on the show. I do think it's a waste to get rid of Cody, whose promise they keep squandering at every turn. But I'm not terribly surprised if so.

Or they're dumping him slow, like most times anyone is dropped to recurring on a soap opera. Assuming the best of this show at all times is a fool's game.

Supposedly something TG pushed for, and then pushed again when Ron Carlivati tried to reverse it upon arrival in '12 (hence the very quick 180 where Robert briefly believed Ethan to be his son after all before leaving town). I suspect had it been left to Guza II, they would've made Ethan Robert and Holly's in the first place. I do think Cody and Ava could work for awhile, as do Ric and Ava. I also think Elizabeth could use Cody for a fling, but he plugs in a lot of places and with many characters, yes even Tracy. The boring options (Sasha, Molly) seem to be what the show prefers. I didn't hate Nathan Parsons. I think he worked hard despite being limited. But he was an embarrassing spare part once they got Jonathan back, and the blood connection was not necessary. And yeah, his best chemistry was with two non-options (Johnny and underage Kristina) the show wasn't going to go for. If he ever needs money I wouldn't necessarily hate him or a good recast coming back, but I would probably still make him Scorpio's lol.

At this rate we're going to find out Sasha is distantly related to the Hardys too just to keep finding ways to keep her bedded into the deep canvas without having to actually do anything.

It is ridiculous.

They did have major chemistry, which is the only way it could have come off. That stuff was like Cinemax.

I will never get over watching Models Inc where Brian Gaskill played the early-mid 20s fashion exec son of Linda Gray. He gets fired from the show, turns up maybe six months later on AMC at the damn Pine Valley High as Bobby Warner hanging out in a letterman's jacket opening some lockers, looking like Steve Buscemi on 30 Rock. I was about 15 and lost my mind. I was used to soap teens/tweens being Robin, Lucky, Jessica Buchanan, etc. so I'd never seen them try that with 'teens' on soaps at that early viewing age lol

I thought Pam Long at OLTL could've worked solo. But it was JFP's micromanaged show and JFP's favorites being spotlit. After Long's brief tenure (where she did talk about working on the disastrous fake DID story for Roger Howarth), JFP went without a HW for almost a year before being forced to hire McTavish. I will say some of the Edmund/Cassie sex scenes under Conboy(?) were some of the kinkiest I'd ever seen on daytime, then or since. It was crazy seeing DAM of all people moaning onscreen about how Cassie was 'bringing out the bad boy in me.' That period was sort of the apex moment for soaps pushing the envelope, and they backed off after the Super Bowl.

You're not wrong. The SORAS is even more crazy than Tucker, where TSJ had very visibly aged since OLTL.

Billy Flynn does indeed look hot. And looks good with MM. If they'd had Cane swan in with Hilary herself, I could forgive a lot of sins.

It wasn't jokes, it was a legitimate (but clunky and stereotypical, IMO) subplot where the characters (Liz, Serial Killer Franco, etc.) wondered and fretted over little Aiden possibly being gay and teased/bullied for it because of his non-masculine interests and how to talk to him about it, protect him, etc. It fell by the wayside, likely because it was so awkwardly done and the kid in the role was very young (not a tween). IIRC Charlotte bullied him for awhile. Then it resurfaced when they made one of the last teen/tween Aidens gay. They did the coming out scenes with JJ because they'd recast with an actor over 18. The two Aidens in the role previously were teenagers. IIRC the Lucky scenes aired shortly before November.

The rumor was always that the network insisted on an older actor in the role due to anticipating right wing backlash. Hence why they cut the scenes Mulcahey's regime allegedly either wrote or shot with Aiden coming out to Laura. They had been toying with Aiden being gay in the clumsiest way possible for close to ten years now - the whole borderline offensive storyline with him liking baking or 'feminine' things as a small child 5-6 years ago or whatever and getting bullied, which got dropped. I found it really tacky that they were approaching it that way; the angle was 'Aiden likes baking and girl stuff... is he, you know?' Then it went dormant for a year or two. But the interest in baking carried over to the teen versions, and then they finally admitted okay, he's gay in late '23. Yet I don't think they've ever had any real interest in him. And he's honestly a nonentity to me, which is a shame to say about Lucky's son. I find far more potential in Cameron and Jake atm, but that may be because they both have had defined personalities and strong actors in the role long-term. Aiden can wait. Tobias is never going to be a major character on this show - I don't know why people cling to that. It was just an offhand mention and they showed him once to get people to shut up about him. Charlie Besso is also a semi-prominent influencer who I was shocked to see show up on this show, and AFAIK he's made zero mention of GH on his social media vs. happily doing Hallmark movies lol.

Tony did do that at GH, and he probably wasn't the only one. Another classic example of It Was a Different Time.

Tracy, do not expect me to buy that BLQ can eviscerate Erica Kane.

Watching Mia Korf today (assuming the uploads ever resume, I hope to watch her from the beginning) is a very different experience from little clips over the years, because of how the culture has changed around visibility. It is shocking to see how prominent they made an AAPI character 30+ years ago, and it frankly hasn't happened on American daytime since to that scale. Which is so shameful. I loved Kassie's Blair as much as she aggravated me and you can't go back, but it's a drag what happened when Korf chose to leave. I've always thought there was a very specific, clever way you also could reincorporate Mia Korf into OLTL were it still around and honor that past. She's still beautiful, too. (She and Kassie posed for pix together IIRC at an OLTL reunion several years ago.)

It's funny you mention that. I always liked what I've seen of Alexandria in 1981, she's a hoot. Seeing as she was (IIRC) a replacement character for Jane who dipped out on Monty's GH, I always thought it would be a good idea to introduce an illegitimate child or even grandchild of hers from Europe - Alex was a globetrotting debutante - maybe an awkward fish out of water type who could do a comic romance with someone like spoiled (recast) Joss, etc. I remember the Howarth fans trying to boost the idea of him playing the son of Alex and Tony Cassadine in 2013, and that tangled bloodline is an option for some other actor as well although I think it's a bit much. I don't know how much Drew needs to be toned down, but I do think he could be again if you wanted to eventually turn some portion of the audience to him. And introduce that he does still genuinely care about some things and people. Most won't accept him because of the whole obnoxious Carly interregnum even before Willow but some could. I just wouldn't get rid of him any time soon. I think Cameron plays this stuff to the hilt, and he's not another lame attempt at a supervillain (yet). I also think someone needs to mention to Tracy that Drew in many ways mirrors a lot of her past - which is probably why she hates him so much, in addition to his previously-close relationship with Monica. (That's another interesting thing re: Tracy that put the Gio drama over with me for Lois - pitting them against each other again after all these years. In the end Lois has the same hypocritical monomania about the Qs that she did in '96-'97, and that is why she hid Gio away.)

If they wanted to it wouldn't be difficult. Go into his brainwashing, etc. trauma and have him explain his shift, have him reconnect with people he was close to like Jake. Save a few lives, etc. I wouldn't soften him up too much because Cameron plays a very good scheming cad. But I also don't think it would be that difficult to get him closer to the place Mulcahey had him in last spring. But realistically I don't think the show cares, and I think a lot of the audience will always hate him. You never know though! For now he gives very good organic villain, and I think he should stay an antagonist even if he got more dimension back.

I think Newman and LW could've actually made Josh/Cassie work as a forbidden romance sort of thing. I do think it was a mistake to seriously commit to it like they were a supercouple, beyond just an affair or ONS or something (especially with a recast), and it's always been said to be one of the reasons Laura got out while the getting was good in addition to the larger systemic issues at the show - she's generally very canny and I think she knew it wouldn't go over well with the audience.

I should add that given the Britt angle being introduced, Britt and her deranged mother literally stole that baby in vitro or whatever, then whined and connived about it! Fúck Britt.

Also true lol. I have a hard time focusing on the performance when she rolls up in another outfit from the Biggie Smalls Memorial Collection.

I think Setton's acting in this story has been on point. It's the overall longtime handling of the character vis a vis her BTS preferences I have an issue with, and the obvious focus on her as FV's old friend and therefore Handmaid Tale's-esque heroine of the show vs. Alexa Havins' Lulu. You can have both without dragging the other into the mud, but Frank evidently wants everyone to know sensibly-dressed Amanda Setton is the star of General Hospital.

I agree that in her current form she definitely is. I just think it didn't (and doesn't) have to be this way. She could do great work on the show without being Granny Moses before her time. If she can't get past that she should go. And yes, I absolutely agree Havins is exceptional. But it seems clear the show is using her as more the heavy opposite what Frank sees as the new key heroine, namely his OLTL star Amanda Setton as BLQ. It's an bizarre fit given the total reversal from how both characters were treated for most of the last 20 years lol. And yes, Alexa should be leading the show. But I said that about Becky and JJ too, and here we are. In a better world we should be able to have both Lulu and BLQ well-treated and performed. But Frank spins the show around Frank's faves. And it's very obvious and weird given this particular favorite is sexless.

LMAOOOO @carolineg this one's for you.