Darn

Fücking Spinelli.

Shocked the lack of comments regarding the return of the Quartermaine mansion! It's not exactly as it was but WOOD PANELING, no more of that blue/gray NONSENSE. I literally have no else to say about this episode, it was dullsville. Jane did what she could to save her portions but the woman can only carry a show on her back so far.

9 minutes ago, Khan said:

Maybe something's inside or underneath that garage that only Mrs. Hammond knows about?

I hope that's what this is all about, would make it more interesting than what they're dishing out.

You would never guess that Billy, with the sliding scale of soap opera time, is 30 years younger than Jack and Ashley. Peter Bergman looks more fresh faced than JT!

4 minutes ago, Khan said:

As long as Ms. Wu doesn't end up being like Ms. Swan or Mrs. Noh Nang Ning, I think we'll be okay, lol.

She's on the cusp!

Is she supposed to be a mob boss like Sonny? Why is she spending SO much time with small potatoes like Gladys? It's giving obsessed. All this so she can own a garage...

Can someone explain how and why Sasha has enough money to need a conservator? Was Brando wealthy? Is Sasha wealthy? I know she's a spokesmodel for Deception but is she making conservatorship money?

Just now, Vee said:

I still cannot get over how disinterested Genie looked in him lol. And DT deserves it!

LMAO not deserves it!

And yeah I could buy Taggert changing to that degree over 20+ years but at the same time I needed a hint of "Deep inside I hate this" from his dialogue. But instead he felt like a generic voice of reason.

4 hours ago, carolineg said:

Fixed it for you!

Lmao! I know we joke but I'm telling you that man was more engaged watching Laura exposit about her memories of the Ice Princess than he was about the implosion of his marriage! 

*Laura slumped over in her airplane seat discussing the end of the Cassadines* and Curtis is there all *heart eyes.

3 hours ago, carolineg said:

I don't remember a lot about Shawn's story and I am still confused how he went from kidnapping Brenda to Sonny/Jason's employee.   I'd take him back in a heartbeat.  I feel like Curtis is a Shawn replacement in a lot of ways.

I didn't watch this show for a number of years so if you had told me Shawn and Curtis were the same person I would have believed you. The ebony to Sasha and Willow's ivory if you will.

Speaking of race-based jokes, Selina Wu's Dragon Lady act isn't just bordering on offensive anymore, it just is. She literally slithers into scenes. Such a bizarre character played by, as @Vee said, a one-note actress.

And they explained but now try and make it make sense, WHY would she care or know about Trina possible being Curtis' daughter? Enough to mess with the DNA results? That's so lame, just so we can have the billionth DNA test result switch in daytime.

Not only should she not care, WE don't care! Because Curtis is a vessel without a purpose, absolutely nothing will change in Trina's life and Taggert has been stripped of his personality. The Taggert I remember would have been right there with Portia in trying to get Spencer away from Trina, he was an eyewitness to Nikolas and Gia! Which they refuse to bring up in any substantial way which is a huge glaring omission since this is history literally repeating itself.

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

I don't think it's strange at all that Portia objects to Spencer/Trina.  Most mothers would.  I do think it's strange she cares more about Sprina than her own failing marriage though.   All the handwringing and guilt she had before the wedding has seem to disappear and I don't think Portia even cares about Curtis anymore lol.

Well he sure doesn't care about HER! He was ready to fück Jordan in the broom closet of The Savoy.

@Vee I'd be all for the abortion story, too bad daytime will never tackle abortion ever again.

We've had characters in their 70s trying to control the love lives of their children in their 50s, I think we'll live with Portia concerned about her barely out of her teens daughter dating a man with a checkered past and clear anger issues. And she hasn't actually done anything yet BUT talk. 

They're in a real precarious place with this because they can't have her do anything too overt because her relationship with Trina isn't on solid ground but they also shouldn't have her do anything too underhanded because it would compromise the integrity of the character (I know we don't know her well but I like to put her in the "good person" category on this show).

Portia truly needs a story of her own, some character defining related to her job and a love interest that isn't Curtis. Brook Kerr deserves something to sink her teeth into, the poor woman suffered through almost a decade of Passions! And she's proved herself to be more than capable, certainly better than a lot of actors on this show who get a ton of bull to play out.

24 minutes ago, carolineg said:

Did she audition?  Was she the only one who went to the call?  Or was Mark Teschner on vacation that day and some assistant just looked at her picture and was like that's the one?   I am sure Tanisha Harper is a lovely person, but there are at least 20 soap actresses I can think of off the top of my head that could do a better job than her. 

I don’t think much thought was put into her casting beyond “she’s very pretty”.

And they’ve used her twice on the show’s key art used on twitter and Hulu since she joined a year ago despite having an insignificant role on the show. It’s weird.

And yeah DT clearly sees that the only way he’s going to fulfill his dream of becoming the black Luke Spencer is by bedding Laura. 

16 minutes ago, Vee said:

Imma leave this one to @Darn! He's got a lot to say.

LMAO 

10 minutes ago, carolineg said:

It's seems like a Laura/Curtis pairing lives largely in his mind lol

Oh he'd give it all up all these other options for just one shot at making Laurus a reality.

Young hot doctor wife? Young hot police commissioner?

60 year old (hot) grandmother?

33 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I haven't seen Jordan have chemistry with anyone.  TH has anti-chemistry with everyone and Donell isn't exactly a chemistry machine either lol.  

She barely passes as human so my expectations for her are very low. Donnell seems checked out of the role completely to me. I don't get the feeling he likes any of this story. Brook Kerry is giving her all plus 10% and he's just . Taggert is more engaged in the desolation of Portia's marriage than Curtis is.

Jordan and Curtis have anti-chemistry. I've never seen two actors want to kiss each other less.

Lexi looks younger than her age which clearly doesn't fit the show's view of the character.

Trust me, if Eden McCoy hadn't developed into a beautiful young woman she'd be gone too. Look at Robyn Richards. And if KM hadn't grown up to be so pretty and wasn't so beloved she would have gotten the axe.

I think LA is a great actress, better than most of her peers. In fact she's the only actor that gave a remotely realistic reaction to Sonny's return from the dead, everyone else was lukewarm and dead-eyed.

11 minutes ago, Broderick said:

And one day a memo went out in Genoa City stating "From now on, Daddy's little princess shall be known as Christine or Chris.  No more Cricket, please!"  

Nina missed the memo.  

That at least makes sense! Suddenly at the age of 25 everyone in Vicki's life stopped calling her Vicki!

16 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Eh. I don't think she was ever in the league that Kim was (and I wasn't a Kim devotee). It seems like the show gave up on her a long time ago but never cared enough to recast the way they did with Robyn.

Yeah she's just been on the show forever, she's not like Kim or Camryn Grimes where the idea of recasting is inconceivable. Molly is easily re-castable.

Related to the Kay/Katherine discussion, sometime in the mid-2000s the show stopped having characters call her Vicki and exclusively had everyone call her Victoria. The same with Nick versus Nicholas, though I think he's still called Nick sometimes.

It's also an everyday job, it's not like they made a movie for 3 months. It's so much information to retain that if they don't dump half of what they learn they'd go crazy. What's more important, remembering Eva and John's names or Maria and Edmund's?

HP effed up big time and yeah she should suffer the consequences, all of them beyond losing her job. Hopefully the person she injured doesn't die.

Does the show even realize how sick it is that a television producer would pump in baby sounds into the earpiece of a woman who had a stillborn child and resulting mental breakdown? That's downright evil. And they treated it so casually.

Curtis' club is quite the happening place for Port Charles' middle-aged white women. Carly and Nina are going schedule their next endless argument on the dancefloor.

My least favorite affairs are the ones they write in to have had happened off-screen because one half of a couple who got their happily ever after is returning to the show solo. See: Harley and Mallet on GL, Andi and Antonio on OLTL

7 minutes ago, Vee said:

I would love to see him, but I struggle to think of how it would work unless it's a visitation to Lucas or one of their friends like Felicia, Lucy, etc. Also it would be slightly awkward for me, because what is Ghost Tony gonna say about where Bobbie's spirit is along with his own? "Yeah, I got her in the car?" "She's on line with the Bureau of the Recently Deceased?"

I don't know. If you can bring back the other Carlys you can bring back Tony. Make it work, Frank.

5 hours ago, AMCHistory said:

Lucy is finally back, and no one has mentioned how happy to have her alive again. No emotional reunions. What a wasted opportunity.

She returns from the dead and then disappears for almost 2 months. What was the point of this again?

4 hours ago, Khan said:

It's taken me so long to get to a place where I don't hate Felicia.  Please don't undo all that for me now.

I don't hate Felicia but Kristina Wagner's voice drives me absolutely nuts. She can't maintain an inflection or consistent emotion to save her life. She plays the part like a child pretending to be an adult.

Is this lady supposed to be related to Luna Moody? I guess anyway to assure Susan Batten has health insurance. They really need to add some flashbacks to this Sasha story, it was a year ago and I've never seen this allegedly meltdown although they talk about it ad nauseam.

Cameron Mathison has Drew talk to everyone like they're idiots. He's so artificial, I can't stand it.

Dex in every scene:

"I have to go Joss! I'm sorry! I am nothing and will be nothing without you because I have no personality outside of being good in bed! I miss you Joss!"

Not bringing back Brad Maule would be an egregious mistake. If anyone should lead Bobbie to heaven (if we go that corny route) it's Tony, the man who was her best friend and husband of almost ten years.

They should bring back Sam Behrens as Jake and AJ Martinez as Roy. And there's no good reason JJ shouldn't return as Lucky. Frank's ego is not a good reason.

I will never understand Sarah Buxton's appeal. She always looked like a series of bad plastic surgeries and affected acting to me. 

It's funny to think of the soaps that were in some of their more notable eras in their 35th year: GH was in arguably it's golden era with the Labines and Riche at the helm, AMC was coming out of a mini-resurgence in popularity with Bianca's baby switch, ATWT was smackdab in the middle of Marland's heyday and...B&B is running on fumes with Sheila terrorizing this cavalcade of idiots and Brooke and Ridge are reuniting for the umpteenth time this decade.