Darn

Thank you for further proving my point with the nightmare fuel that is this image.

As a professional graphic designer all of these logos have been...terrible. I don't understand the point of this thread. "Let's make new versions of existing soap logos but worse?" And now we're doing AI images of sets that exist? Is everyone okay? Has the rise in AI slop melted our collective conscious?

I’m not exaggerating when I say this but almost every episode of GH in which she appears I think to myself “Jane Elliot is *so* beautiful”. And don’t even get me STARTED on Clifton Davis’ 80 year old fine ahh.

Absolutely. The same holds true for people in general, we're living longer than we ever have in human history. Actors in particular are not only living longer but are healthier and have access to cosmetic procedures that will keep them camera ready for decades to come. Nicole Kidman might never be forced to play mother to an adult in her life! But back to soaps, they've come to realize that chasing younger viewers while ignoring older ones is futile and just plain stupid.

I WILL back you up because you are correct. Vanessa and Victoria are the only two daytime stars that could possible move the needle, in ratings or buzz, left. Shemar can get Y&R ink but because he will never return in any substantial way which leaves them as the only two who would and have viewers perk up. And the show not only dumps black talent but it has very intentionally handed the black portion of the show to the most milquetoast, palatable and boring actors possible in Bryton and Christel. We have Devon, first with his invisible long-term black girlfriend followed by his dynamic black wife, who they killed off when her popularity became too much to bear and the actor dared to want to be paid well. He's now married to a white woman the show does not and never will care about despite being the child of one of their most popular pairings. Then of course there's Lily with a parade of white partners, her romances with black men squashed before the audience is reminded that this middle-eastern looking woman is meant to be black or Christel throws a fit. The fact is black actors come in two shades on this show: light and no longer employed. All of them? Soaps have done a complete 180 compared to 20-30 years ago, they give their older actors, vets and newcomers, plenty to play. I don't think it's happenstance that BTG started with the Vernon and Anita as great-grandparents, Nicole as a grandmother or Dani as a mother to adults. The shows are catering to the audience they have left by showcasing actors of a certain age (sometimes to the detriment), that's why they're drowning in vets with a combined couple hundred years of story under their belts.

“And I had me a lil sumthn sumthn of that one right there. Emily. Your NIECE, Ronnie. She was legal! It was fine! Met her when she was 12 though. Anyway, Ron let me show you where I killed your nephew. AJ. He SUCKED!”

I had the same thought! And I don’t think she was for two reasons, I believe she died while still a medical student AND the show wouldn’t want to use Amber or Natalia’s pictures because not only do they flip flop on which Emily is more beloved but they’d have to pay for their usage.

I’ll add it to the list! You only know about Y&R’s Shining Time Station because of ME! GH is wild with all the sets. They’ve gone out for their way to give people their own homes even with a ton of people living at the Quartermaine estate. Lulu could’ve easily continued to live with Laura. Jordan got a brand new penthouse. Other shows just rotate hotel rooms or have billionaires living on top of each other in tiny mansions. Sharon Newman has lived in a cabin for 30 years!

I enjoyed those scenes quite a bit too. James is adorable and Nathan is hot and so far inoffensive (he's completely new to me) other than being one of two back from the dead siblings likely followed by Faison is just plain stupid. Imagine you bury, grieve and somehow survive the death of your children only to have them show up alive. Liesl should be vacillating from joyous to inconsolable in every scene. 100% I don't watch Days but out of the other soaps it's the only one unafraid to have movement and action. And so many sets. Brook Lynn and Lois got a boardwalk set for ONE episode. Y&R built a train set and said "Guess what? You're gonna see this forever". I get it, Maurice and Erika are daytime legends, the faces of their respective shows, OF COURSE you have them share scenes but my god did it have to be Sonny instantly charming her? If someone listed all of the ways in which he hurt her sister's family realistically she'd be repulsed by him so you know that won't happen. Or worse she hears and doesn't care because he was nice to her while Tracy was just so gosh darn mean! It's infuriating, lazy writing. Just like Ronnie's effusive praise for Bobbie's. Girl, it's a diner. She couldn't just say the place was lovely? She just kept going. It was weird! It was nice of Mo to respect ES enough to remember his lines. He read his script more than once that day. Proud of you, Momo. I really do love seeing Erika Slezak again. She's just so effortlessly charismatic and interesting to watch. I'll savor these batch of episodes despite their faults.

There’s nothing fun about Lulu having to watch protect her kids from the literal supervillains who violated her while she’s painted as the difficult one. It’s crazy that they have her in the same STUPID story with both her children.

I am not being even a little facetious when I say this image was a jumpscare. I fear the Ric plot will fall victim to this bloated canvas. We've seen him, what, once since they tied him up? I wish they had roped Carly into this somehow. In fact I would have replaced Kristina with Carly. Krissy already has an attempted murder charge looming, she doesn't need kidnapping on top it. I don't even like Carly much but these scenes would've had some real bite and earned history with Carly in the mix.

I'm enjoying it largely because of the actors. Maura and Nancy are clearly having a blast and Kate Mansi is also there. No really, she's a good actress but it's like she can't shake playing Kristina as anything but strident and abrasive. If directed I think she could play the humor that MW and NLG are interjecting into the scenes. I love that Drew's been shot but man, I wish the episode itself had been better executed. We've all seen the The Episode of great soap Whodunits, where we get a look at what the suspects were up to right before the act. Watching them stew in their anger, be on the cusp of something wildly out of character for the majority of them. With this it's like they turned on the rain machine and expected that to do the heavy lifting. It sucks because Drew is the first Whodunit victim where the buildup to it was lengthy, organic and earned. I wish he had a home set or something instead of that stupid office. It looks like he works in the TV section of Best Buy. The more they isolate him the more it's clear that Brennan only exists because Carly, as the female lead, has to have a love interest at all times.

Why is the only kinetic energy on this show entirely courtesy of the actors? The directing and blocking are so static and stale. Where’s the MUSIC? My god it’s like every scene takes place in a tomb. And you cannot expect me to believe this young woman in Marla Gibbs cosplay is old enough to be Leslie’s mother.

Rocco latching onto Britt as his “mother” could’ve made more narrative sense if Lulu waking up from her coma and immediately racing off to find Charlotte thus making Rocco feel like an afterthought part of the story. I’ve always thought they should have leaned into that, it was such an obvious story point to explore. Instead the teenage mutant has disappeared and Rocco just looks like a little jerk.

Making Drew a bad father on top of everything else is just lazy writing. The ENTIRE town hates him, there’s no need for him to be an objectively horrible dad. The daily chorus of Britt Was Actually Super Complex & People Really Miss Her Also She Actually Loved Rocco From Afar is some stinky BS. Jason has not mentioned that woman since the first month he came back to town. In fact only about 3 people have talked about since she died. Describe being on the show for a decade or whatever, saving Joss’s life, birthing Rocco and being the last woman Jason allowed to see him without pants on she was a blip in the overall Port Charles ecosystem. They are working overtime to make her seem like she was relevant and it is exhausting. On top of that KT is a WEAK actress. The entirety of the younger cast is more impressive than anything she’s done. I quite enjoyed those scenes of Lulu and Dante not putting up with Liesl’s shite. Dante’s barely contained rage was especially satisfying.

He’d finally interact with more than two black people! Watch out Abby!

Me every time Vaughn is in a scene with Emma or Joss. The man looks like he’s on the other side of 35, why are they pairing him with these girls? It irks me that their primary screen partners are these old(er) men. They’re in college! Tell some fun college stories with age appropriate love interests!

The blueprint. And my birthday twin. RIP queen!

I don’t know that I can suffer through Rikkart and Budig, two actors who I used to enjoy that I now find painful to watch, but they’ve certainly come out swinging with these two legends.

Thanks and you listed all the stuff that interests me (plus Tracy) including Lulu and BLQ screaming at each other lmao

Was last week any good? Any good scenes? Natalia’s death and re-centering Sonny, as well as the laughably bad bar fire episodes, killed all the show’s momentum for me so I didn’t watch.

At one point yes but now I’m so serious, will she ever have a relationship with a black man? Devon at least had something like 5 years with his Invisible Girlfriend.

Hey, quick question, will Lily ever have a black love interest? Thanksn

I’m in a waiting room so I’m not watching on purpose. I looked up and guess what Danny and Christine are doing? Eating a meal in an empty restaurant. Looks like Mariah’s been doing the most because she smothered a man to death. Okay. Who was this guy? Based on Victoria and Claire’s reactions you’d think they underbid on a new house not that a man died and half their family has been missing for days.

This is practically my mantra. Ask @Vee. I talk about Sonny and Mo like they did something to me personally. Sonny is a husk of a character and Maurice is a lazy embarrassment. They are the albatross around the neck of this show slowly, painfully suffocating it yet Frank and/or network think they are the only things keeping it alive.