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At least Van and Adrian acted the hell out of those scenes today. I totally believed that Marco loves Lucas deeply and thinks he can change, but is probably in too deep with Sidwell's plans and his own lust for revenge.

That is honestly a little shocking though. I wonder what they'll do with Britt while he's gone, because they've been pushing the Britt/Jason romance pretty hard.

I guess that when you don't know how to write any interesting organic conflicts for your main characters, "Psycho from the past comes back to terrorize them" is just about the only way to generate some temporary excitement.

Really interesting interview! I loved hearing about his close relationship with his mom and the family business he opened with her after the last time he got fired from GH. It honestly sounded like he'd had some rough experiences with GH over the years, including being asked to screentest after he'd already been offered the role of Ric in 2002.

I might be the only one around here who's really enjoying the Carly/Valentin scenes, but even I'm dubious about whether they have romantic chemistry. It feels more like Carly's hanging out with her pissy gay friend.

Even though I'm mostly enjoying the show right now, I feel like all the BTS dramas and contract issues are really impeding its ability to give us hot romantic pairings we might root for. I know not everyone on this board will miss Vaughn, but I will, because he's one of the very few guys on this show who was sexy while having a more dangerous, roguish edge. (Some of the other guys on the show in his age range have good bodies but are not sexy at all, unless you have a fetish for self-righteous overgrown Boy Scouts). Similarly, they tanked Brennan/Carly when Charles Mesure left and they replaced him with a friend-of-Frank who might as well have been playing a totally different character. Chris McKenna might be a nice guy, but he lacks the twinkle Mesure had in his eyes, his Antipodean accent, and his chemistry with Laura Wright. And don't get me started on how Ric Hearst, who has amazing chemistry with several different actresses on the show, has been MIA for several weeks.

So is Vaughn gone for good now? He would be the logical person for Joss to call if she wants help breaking into Wyndemere, not Brick. If Vaughn is off the show for good, it's a shame, because he had palpable chemistry with Joss, and the show invested a lot of time in building them up as a couple.

I was just about to make the comparison to bad community theatre Shakespeare too! Wasn't there a director around to tell Wes Ramsey to tone his performance down? The scene actually might have been effectively creepy if he wasn't shouting all his lines. Those scenes were probably shot during the Biden adminstration, so there's nothing stopping him from appearing long-term on GH as well.

I thought Monday's episode was dropping some pretty heavy hints that Willow would be cheating on Drew with Chase sooner rather than later. And if she gets to humiliate Drew in the process, all the better!

While I'm listing sex scenes I'd like to see on this show... I hope that they continue to go full femme fatale with Willow and we'll get a February sweeps scene where she and Chase bone at Drew's house as a paralyzed Drew helplessly watches in horror.

I'd still love to see him have hate sex with Nina, though I doubt that would work as a long-time pairing. I thought Rory and Cynthia Watros had a lot of chemistry together in their Aurora scenes.

I loved Monday's episode, and today was a great follow-up. I thought Cam Mathison did a wonderful job of playing Drew's barely-masked frustration and disappointment when Willow wanted to celebrate her acquittal with Nina, Chase, anyone but him. And of course the twist with Willow and the syringe was very well played. I loved how today she fooled Elizabeth and everyone else with her story about Drew's stroke symptoms, then smugly threw away the syringe when she got a moment alone. I also have to praise the show for finally finding a good role for Kai. I enjoyed his reaction shots as he realized that Drew's "stroke" was no coincidence.

I don't think the writers need to "redeem" Drew. They just need to keep him three-dimensional by reminding us how, in Drew's head, he's the hero, the white knight who's protecting his lady love from the corrupt and powerful Quartermaine family. But it might be a good idea for them to pull back from the scenes of Drew being hurtful towards children, like his vendetta against Danny or treatment of Scout, which aren't quite as well-motivated and do seem to tip him over into Snidely Whiplash territory, where he only exists to antagonize the show's "heroes."

He'd be about the right age to play a recast Dillon, and he might be a decent fit for that role.

Both the character and actor are lousy. I can't believe he's been on and off the show for over 12 years now.

As I said, intellectually, I know all of this. I just don't care very much. I don't especially like Britt, but the character is at least sometimes entertaining. Which is more than I can say for Lulu these days.

So I understand intellectually why Lulu doesn't want her teenage daughter to have any contact with her father or her teenage son to have any contact with his surrogate mother. But watching both stories play out at the same time is exhausting. I used to feel like she was just smothering her kids, but now as she keeps playing the same scenes over and over again 2-3 times a week, I feel like she's smothering me.

Oh god. Many of us predicted Brad's return, but I never guessed it was coming so soon!

Elizabeth's big "eyelid mites" storyline, which was set up and resolved in under 5 minutes, was completely baffling to me. Who was this for? Was it some kind of bizarre product placement? Probably not, since the eyelid mite medication she received at the end was never named. I'd love for a show to post a BTS video about this, like they did recently for those scenes with Emma and Gio's rescue dogs.

So Anna the police commisioner is being held in a secret room somewhere within or underneath Wyndemere, and when Chase and his band of PCPD cops scoured the premises for Valentin earlier in the week, they just completely missed it? That... sounds about right actually.

In which case, Marco will have my eternal gratitude!

You're absolutely right. They've suddenly written Marco as his dad's enforcer (as in today's scene with Britt) and active co-conspirator, even treating creepy Pascal as a friend of the family. It's a shame because Marco and Lucas still have great chemistry, and from the little we've seen with Van Hansis in the role, Lucas/Brad do not. (It doesn't help that the Brad actor still can't really act). My only hope is that the success of Heated Rivalry shows TPTB that there's a huge audience for hot gay romances with more conventionally masc characters like Marco--and that they pull back from their plans to tank the Lucas/Marco romance.

JPS's Valentin has always seemed more like a "comfy blanket" kind of guy than a "dangerous escaped fugitive who just jumped out of a plane" kind of guy. So I've been finding the hysteria around Valentin's escape kind of ridiculous, but honestly the Valentin scenes have been a highlight of this week for me. His banter with Carly has generally been well-written and well-acted. Laura Wright has been stuck in chemistry-free scenes with Chris McKenna for so long, I'd almost forgotten what a magnetic actress she can be when she really sparks with her scene partner. And I appreciate that when Carly snarls at him, Valentin just snarls right back.

I had to reread that last sentence to see who you meant by "Today she's a schoolmarm," because I think at this point it could apply to both BLQ and Lulu. They really need to give Lulu something better to do than fretting over the safety of her kids, because it's making her look hysterical. Have her fall into bed with robot cop Nathan or something, because anything would be more interesting than fretting housefrau Lulu.

I think if Michael has hate sex with anyone, it needs to be Nina. Not just because it will make Willow's head explode once she finds out, but also because Rory Gibson and Cynthia Watros had some hot antagonistic chemistry in their most recent scenes together.