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The people behind GH's YouTube page apparently don't know what day it is because they posted a poignant 4-minute Alexis/Kristina/Molly clip a few hours before it aired on TV. I put it in the Spoilers thread in case any of you want to watch it now.

The people behind GH's YouTube page apparently don't know what day it is because they posted a nice 4-minute Alexis/Kristina/Molly clip a few hours before it aired on TV:

It might not quite be the "dressing down" you're looking for, but we did just have a week where like 5 or 6 different characters stopped by Carly's hospital room to tell her that she was an idiot to continue dating the man who nearly got her killed from polonium poisoning. So it's not like she's being portrayed as completely unflawed.

Objectively, I think they each have some valid points, but Laura Wright is a much stronger actress than Kaitlyn MacMullen, so I'm on Team Carly.

I had the same thought, along with wondering just how bad Daniel Goddard must have been in his audition to have lost that part to Chris McKenna.

Okay, a break-up in the sense that about 90% of Eva La Rue's scenes have been with Maurice Benard, and it seems like after today, that will no longer be the case.

Just watched yesterday's break-up scenes with Sonny and Natalia. When Sonny said, "Brick ran a background check on you a while ago. How the hell would he miss that you were married to Sidwell?" I would have given anything for Natalia to respond, "Sonny, there's no easy way to tell you this, but Brick... Brick is very stupid."

I just hope that Natalia gets equally upset when Marco officially starts dating Lucas. "Really!? You're a lawyer dating a doctor!? I thought I raised you better than that! You were supposed to be a rockstar sleeping with a different groupie every night!"

I just hope his backing band was called The Morlocks.

You see, I think this is still the writers trying to do damage control on that first impression they gave us of Natalia as a raging homophobe: "Naw, naw, the reason she can't accept her kids' homosexuality isn't because she's homophobic. It's because she's a controlling shrew who wants to micromanage every aspect of their lives. There, isn't that better?"

Man, no wonder Natalia's kids want nothing to do with her! That judgmental reaction to Marco explains so much about what an overbearing momager she is.

If they're looking for someone who can play a nice guy but also demonstrate a bit of my-wife-cheated-on-me-with-my-uncle-and-all-I-got-were-these-3rd-degree-burns edge, then Lucas Adams (Tripp on DOOL) might not be a bad choice.

Works for me! I never bought Jacob Young or Greg Vaughn as Lucky; it just seemed like an Invasion of the Body Snatchers scenario where this distinctive young character actor woke up one day replaced by a bland generic soap hunk. And I wasn't watching the trashy storyline Guza cooked up during JJ's last return. You're right though that he doesn't seem well-integrated into the canvas at this point. JJ's relatively low episode count might be part of the culprit here.

I have to disagree here, as I think JJ is about the only male actor in his age group who I find compelling to watch, aside from Van Hansis' Lucas. Meanwhile, the men on this show who are traditional "leading man material" are boring as [!@#$%^&*]. Dante and Chase were on today, giving me lots of FF material.

I wouldn't go quite that far. And I still think that the details of Joss getting recruited by the WSB and finishing her spy training in 2 weeks are laughable. But I do think this storyline is playing to Eden McCoy's strengths--her ability to portray toughness and tenacity--unlike earlier storylines that concentrated on Joss's love life and cast her in a young ingenue role she never really fit.

Exactly--I totally believe that Sonny would raise a narcissistic little princess like Kristina, and I can totally believe that Alexis would enable her behavior, given her own neuroses and guilt complexes. So Kristina is high on my list of "love to hate" characters on GH, and I find her much more compelling to watch than characters like Brook Lynn or Portia, who I don't hate but don't really care about one way or the other.

I really like how Ric and Ava are putting together the pieces so quickly about what Kristina did. If they can use this as leverage against despicable Kristina and Sonny, all the better. I liked the Lucky-Kristina scenes, although I think his softheartedness will backfire big time (and maybe spark some conflict with Elizabeth). I don't recall Liz and Lucas ever having a very close friendship, but their scenes discussing their dating lives were very cute today.

I recently watched the climax of the Rebecca/Mona storyline, where she takes Amanda, Mark, and Quint hostage, and I thought those scenes were fantastic. They seem to be from the very brief period when Gary Tomlin and the Cullitons were headwriting, and I like them a lot more than the touches of Gothic storytelling I've seen from Marland:

Same here. That and the Anna/Duke/Faison stuff got me back watching the show for several months, though I tuned out again once it seemed to be returning to its status quo.

While I agree that Rick often seemed to be just one of several sad-sack men hovering around the canvas in the show's final years, I also think that MOL could be excellent when given the right material. I actually thought both he and Yvonna Kopasz were riveting in this 2006 Inside the Light episode about the state of Rick and Mel's marriage. The problem is that they should have played these scenes over months, rather than just cramming them into a single Wednesday episode that many viewers probably missed.

I always assumed that Frank/ABC must have some audience research showing that a significant number of viewers tune in specifically for Sonny. He just shows up in so many more episodes than anyone else--on average, he appeared in more than 3 episodes a week last year! I doubt that they're researching the equally important question--how many lapsed GH viewers are staying away from the show because of the intense focus on Sonny? (Until a few months ago, I was one of those lapsed viewers; I didn't come back until they killed off Sam, another albatross character). Maybe they could just compromise and just cut his episode count in half; even then he'd still be showing up in 80 episodes a year!

The only time I've found Sidwell interesting is when he had some scenes with Lucas a few weeks ago where Sidwell was clearly flirting with him. So if they plan to make Sidwell bisexual, that would give the character some layers. And it would also be hilarious if homophobic Natalia ended up with a daughter, a son, and an ex-husband who are all part of the LGBTQ community.

Don't get me wrong, I really like today's special anniversary episode. But I do find it utterly bizarre how it's in a time continuum of its own, with no connection to yesterday's episode. We get Anna on the phone to Robin, but it's just to tell her about the new Cardiac Center at GH and not about the fact that Robin's daughter was arrested yesterday. And no one mentions that GH's head nurse was just in a serious car accident or that Sonny's brother and Alexis' ex-husband is currently fighting for his life in the ER.

That is something they might try, but god, I hope they don't go there. Although honestly, if the roles were reversed and they killed off Sonny to give one of his organs to Ric, I wouldn't mind. Sonny's been on for over 5000 episodes in the past 30 years, and they've just run out of storylines for him (and Maurice's acting skills have visibly degraded over the years). On the other hand, Ric is still a vital character, the best of the various "amoral lawyer" characters they have scattered around the canvas, and Rick Hearst has real chemistry with his costars.

I thought today had a nice mix of plot-driven scenes (with the car crash aftermath, Kristina's inadvertent confession to Lucky, and Lucky's reaction) and intimate character moments. I love when the show remembers its own history, and those scenes with Emma and Anna helped to establish Emma's motivations and showcased Braedyn Bruner's best acting to date.