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I would love to see her or Elizabeth get involved in this in someway.

Same. I'm frustrated that Beyond the Gates and General Hospital air simultaneously in my market, but at least daily episode clips of GH easily available online.

I could see Drew getting shot for being an absolute bastard from a mile away. He was clearly being hiped up to get shot or killed. I hope Drew survives this because we need the drama. GH always between an all involved villain (Shiloh, Cyrus, Nelle, Victor Cassedine) now it's Drew and Sidwell's turn.

It was different seeing Jason on a "date" with a random woman, in a white suit none the less! He's been with a lot of women, but I've never seen him as a womanizer, he typically goes for full-blown relationships. Outside of Sam & and Elizabeth how many partners has he had in the last 20 years? That's why seeing him with Britt felt new. this was an unexpected alliance between Kristina, Molly and Alexis. Good to see Ric's karma for locking Carly in the panic room. Where does Elizabeth get off defending Willow? Kristina deserves Elizabeth's wrath and blackmail, but not on behalf of Willow.

From the time I saw Tristan/Robert in his last scene with Sasha, I knew this would be the last time we were seeing him. It was shocking to see that he deteriorated so rapidly from the last time I saw him on the show. RIP. GH has had far too many actor deaths in recent years: Alan, Monica, Ephiphany, Nicolas, Brando, Bobbie, Drew etc.

The Articulettes. I like the beats and the lyrics, Tamara Tunie however can carry a note but she can't saaang. They could've added autotune to their performance.

Yup! As I've said before, to much controversy, it's baffling that this is still the number one soap. I think that number one status has blinded the writers (and the cast) as to how bad the show actually is. Y&R peaked under a single creator's vision and when he died the show went with him. It's sad that no other writing regime post Bill Bell has been able to do the show justice. At this point the writing team just needs to watch pre 2002 episodes and copy that storytelling/presentation technique however they can on the current budget.

Good explanation to her 2002 "death". I forgot where I read it but it said Tylo thought the character was played out and wanted Taylor to be killed off. This sounds more realistic. Totally agree that post 2005 Taylor was a lit more messy. It's like the actresses' unfortunate plastic surgery changed that character. (She was so naturally beautiful, it's a crime that she went under the knife).

Yeah Y&R was in a really bad place in the mid 2010s... well it still is. The Nick in a JT mask mess was the stupidest of the stupid.

Surprised they would kill off Chance, a (sort of) legacy character, the grandson of Phillip Chancellor. And why bring back Cole just to bring kill him off?

While I agree with your assessment that Claudia is not necessarily a Brenda doppelgänger, she does fit look of a typical Sonny love interest. She was perhaps the last new Sonny love interest that I found compelling.

It's been argued that a couple of these women (Hannah, Sam) were Brenda replacements. Drew today brining up Michael talking Willow from Chase? How did that down again?...because it would be karma if Michael cheated with Willow against Chase.

ADA Turner fits the profile of a Sonny live interest. Dark hair, spanish/italian flair, sassy. Examples: Brenda, Sam, Hannah, Reese Marshall, Claudia, Olivia, Natalia. Loved that Portia's mail showed GH's address. Was that established before?

same. it was sad to see him decline so wuickly. They really blew her romance with Jason the first time around. Glad she's back.

I knew this day was coming and it's still a shocker. RIP to Lisa! Speaking of the grandmother clause, did Tom and Margot ever have a child? I forget.

Very late but I loved this exterior shot of GH taken from the 80s opener angle. (Episode from last week)

After a break, I'm glad that I happened to tune into BTG right as the Martin reveal scenes we're on. The situation was not as bad as I thought. Martin killing and injuring racially motivated robbers in defence of his grandfather and then covering it up. I get why he'd be afraid of the justice system but he had a solid defence for the killing. Though the killing is not as convoluted and dramatic as I thought at least it's grounded in something relevant and topical -- racism.

Yes! You explained something I couldn't quite articulate in the past. 90s GH as well as AMC and OLTL had more natural dialogue. Y&R was/is very plot oriented.

Agreed. BTG is very character driven show but since the Ted affair was revealed the show's plotting has slowed down tremendously. I find myself going to GH for the latest on Drew & Willow at 2:00 instead. BTG has good characters and the energy, we just need some good dramatic plots to keep up the intrigue. I think the issue is plotting. BTG's plots are certainly more focused than GH's. It just needs clear progression points and interesting mini complications to fuel filler episodes. Y&R was really good at this in the 90s. Beyond the Gates is down to earth by today's soap standards compared to the larger than life plots on DAYS and GH. No mobsters, explosions, spy agencies, possessions or super villains. Just cheating, music groups, a secret love child and relationships. By the 90s onwards, Y&R and to lesser extent B&B and AMC have had their fair share of over the top plots but they were generally more grounded than OLTL, ATWT, DAYS, GH or GL. Yes the aging is very off. For example it's hard to believe Martin is Ted and Nicole's child when he looks to be in is late 30s and his parents look like their late 40s early 40s. Moreover there's ALOT of Dupree family members.

Soooo ummm could Kristina not have gone though the back door instead of "needing" rescuing? Either it's bad writing or they want us to think Krisitna is dumb. I'm surprised Alexis didn't mention her sister Kristina's death (which occurred in similar fashion ) when she confronted Sonny.

Sorel!! RIP!

My first soap memories were around 2004-2005. GH: Dr Asher Thomas injects Sam in the neck with a syringe while Jason and Sonny fire guns running up a staircase to chase after her. B&B: A young Hope nearly drowns in a swimming pool (both those events happened in the same week) ATWT: an unconscious Parker sees his dad Jack in "heaven" GL: a boy with some kind of "powers" communicating with a snake. AMC: JR driving somewhere -- into a garage perhaps --- on a motorcycle.

Yrah of course this warrants a special report. It's just interesting and a little bit frustrating that breaking news seems to occur during soap hours and rarely during primetime, mornings ir early evenings.

It always seems like world events that warrant a Special Reports always breakout between 12:30 and 4pm ET during soaps.

He's a complete curse. The show is creatively dead. Nothing compelling happens. But this started way before Griffith. Though Y&R has been rotting since 2006 after Bill Bell died, it's been completely stale since JFP took over in 2013. It's only been getting successively worse since then. The only bright spots have been anniversary episodes with classic scenes, rebuilding the Newman Ranch, and classic episodes on holidays.