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I refuse to subject that poor boy to the hybrid. He's been through enough on Cassadine Island and under Luke's tires!

I've said many a time before I'd bring Jake home and probably keep Aiden a visible support player for awhile (with an actor younger than 25 and not jacked up from the gym). Cameron I might wait on. But they clearly do not give half a fúck about Liz or them boys lol. It's too bad, but OTOH if Jake were here they might try him with that mutant again.

Thanks so much!

Yeah, I had a look. It's Box 49 in there.

I've been hoping someone will just go in there and surreptitiously copy it and put it on archive.org for years lol. It ain't gonna be me, sadly.

He did, and a copy of the pilot on tape or film is apparently in his papers/archives at his alma mater university. I don't recall which school. Duke University! I've mentioned it here before though and it is findable on Google. I loved Lonette McKee in Coppola's Cotton Club. I will be going back to writing about late '91 shortly and did namecheck you again in it - watch out for it lol.

I remember Alec and Arlene. Those bumper intvs, etc. sound lovely. America's gotta get this channel!

I highly doubt Joss is going anywhere lol. Certainly not into the ground. I am a day or two behind but anyone who thinks uniform beat cop Chase, who already got demoted off this chick, showing up at Willow's work (on duty!) with a bouquet the size of James is purely innocent and that he's not into her is delulu to me. Don't let Trump lie to you like this!

I still don't really care about what happened with Cameron. I never liked Dex or Dex/Joss, but the situation was pretty simple to me. Joss made a youthful mistake with one man one time, she wasn't sleeping around on him for months or even days. She broke up with Cam immediately after sleeping with Dex because of that guilt, within a few hours. My only problem was the show painting him as in the wrong for being upset or wanting an apology from them later. But Dex is dead, Joss has no man, it's not that serious. My issues with Joss are much more systemic to the larger show.

I don't either. I also don't think it can possibly happen this soon, so I think Joss is in for a rougher time. Hence, send her off for a few years to recover from whatever is coming down.

Joss needs a long break for a couple years and I think both Eden and the show are increasingly over it. I would bring her back as a scheming comic socialite, having 180'ed her life after this hellacious experience. I haven't seen today yet but I've said it before and I'll say it again: LW and JPS have serious chemistry, and are both old daytime pros who know how to bring the kind of sexual heat and nuance in performance and dialogue that FV's GH is not generally known for. The problem for me here is and always will be Valentin the character, a weepy creep who looks and behaves like he should be sitting down with Chris Hansen on To Catch a Predator. It's too bad because they are working very hard.

Quoting this for @DRW50 when they come around, who we all miss terribly.

It's absolutely true, but it doesn't have to be that way. IMO MW can still tear the roof off the place with Ava. I'll say it til the cows come home (and already have), but I really don't care if Ava goes after 10+ years so much as I care that she gets good story while doing it. Do I think Ava can continue indefinitely while resuming a more dangerous role? Yes, if you handle it right. But CVE seems content to just renew her little friendships, keep her in these light sideplots etc. all just so he can keep perpetually having Ava on the show and queen out about her. It's the same personal preference IMO that guided him and others to bring back all the Obrecht clan and Brad, in addition to the larger necessity of Jason needing an emergency love interest (Britt). All of that is a waste of time to me. Commit to more or rest the character. It's not like DAYS or Y&R are going to pony up for Maura (or that Y&R would ever go near her again).

I thought they got Martin's shirt off during one or two of his and Smitty's love scenes.

They keep her in these minor, embarrassing plot roles all the time just so CVE can keep her around IMO. Notice her having any major effect on story, however treacherous the waters, went out with Mulcahey as Chris rushed back in to fix all her happy relationships and she hit the backburner. Now Ava's B/C-tier again but CVE still has her having her kikis with her friends (and Laura??) like Britt/Brad so he can kvell over them. It doesn't have to be an either/or situation to me, but I like Maura myself. I just want better for her. Too much of this stuff is beneath her and the character.

I'm pretty sure we have. I would love for Timon to get naked but I think he's done it maybe once onscreen. He's hot as hell.

lol in fairness, I wanted her gone almost 20 years ago.

I thought we'd seen Ted shirtless. I suspect Timon doesn't want to get the shirt off, which is a shame.

Yeah, Chad has been played out for a hot minute.

The Aladdin ordeal was really pretty 1996-97. I was waiting for Keith Hamilton Cobb to pop out in his Disney prince wedding costume looking ready to eat a gun.

Michael trying to subtly drive Chase and Willow into bed is pretty classic Quartermaine stuff. I'm all for anything that gets Rory's Michael dirtier and gives him more agency. This is something they've been guiding him towards (and away from Sonny/Carly/Jason's approval) since the recast. And this kind of mess was light work for his grandparents and Edward in their prime.

I thought Kristina totally abandoned the center. I knew we'd never see it. A handful of people were like 'oh it'll be a big story.' Please!

I barely survived last week's scenes with Justine and Jordan together. It's like listening to an AI-voiced audiobook (my roommate's current favorite midlife crisis activity, without earbuds). Not looking forward to this.

I do write for a living (what's left of it). But I don't work in soaps and I almost certainly never will, and I'm good with that. I have many issues with the industry as is, but I know most of these writers have their own unique backgrounds. Even HWs I have dragged to the ends of the earth, like Jean Passanante, had very specific skill sets many cast and crew have praised them for (with JP it was breakdowns and her character work in some day to day material, a good 25+ years ago). It's almost never a binary thing of 'these people are all trash'.

Yeah, I really don't know how we're getting to the idea that the BTG writing staff don't read prose, or that the Black members of the writing staff don't read Black publications. Neither of those statements are based in much evidence. BTG is certainly worthy of regular criticism, and there's plenty of things I know we'd all do differently if we wrote these soaps, especially a new one with plenty of flaws. But we don't, and I've never felt the need to take those kind of leaps. I can rail against the writing on modern GH til the cows come home, but I've never doubted some of those writers read books.