Darn

Heterosexual actor Shemar Moore is having his first child at 52. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnM0srUqCuC/ It won't embed. Anyway, his girlfriend is having a girl.

I think the intention was to just make conflict for Britt and Jason. Jason and Carly were never going to be an actual thing, they were just playing with the audience.

Speaking of that dude, whoever that actor is was horrible in the scenes last week with Maxie and Nina after Britt's death. They were all pretty bad actually. It felt super shallow. Lots of "crying" voice but no tears. And the dialogue was pretty atrocious.

That opening shot of the hospital sign and the voiceover intoning "On General Hospital..." at least gives a sense of *something* happening. If I didn't know any better I'd think the hospital was going to blowup. Y&R's ads read like a musical greeting card.

She would have stayed if Steve hadn't left. Clearly she was enamored with being with one of the stars of the show and the pairing had fans. They show was prepared to go full throttle with them. They tried to give the character something to do and keep Kelly around after her Emmy by bringing on a love interest just for her (Rebecca Herbst meanwhile solely gets everyone else's leftovers) but FoF Josh Kelly didn't click with her and she was just understandably ready to go.

Will anything that Sheila did last year matter? Finn is alive. Li is alive. She's alive. And they all still hate her and keep her at an arm's distance. What was the point?

It's telling that the other soaps don't look nearly this bad. Are the executives and talent just paid that much more?

You don't even need all those sets to tell a good story. They just don't care.

Yeah @Vee stop reviewing Knots Landing and watch your show.

Two things can be true, dear. Note the use of "some".

It's wild to me that you guys argue about characters on this show like it's still 2002 and fandoms matter. Nostalgia!

Not to get off topic but they're amazing together. Sure, it's normal if you've called him that you're whole life. It's not normal when you're 40 and met him only a few months ago and also already have a father.

Gia was "black". Honestly I thought Taggert and Gia were Afro-Latino , I didn't know they were supposed to be black black. This show needs new psycho blood. A pair of crazy sexagenarians should not be running circles around everyone in town.

I never saw AW when it aired but in watching scenes between Linda Dano and Alicia Coppola's Lorna versus LD and RC's Lorna it's immediately apparent how bad of a fit she was. LD and AC just had something electric. Lightning in a bottle type of chemistry.

No, no I'm glad that for once the impassioned white man got through to someone. Anyway, 25+ years ago Jason and Keesha lost their virginities to each other. That makeout session was pretty hot for daytime.

Happy Black History Month! That's how I feel about Ava (who I don't necessarily like but Maura West, like LW, she brings her A game every scene). There are a lot of characters who've stuck around for the last decade that had no business on the canvas after their initial arc. They've all done such insane shít.

When Lily first showed up as Christel Khalil sounding like a Valley girl I recall people online saying "it's because she was raised in Europe!" Yeah, in EUROPE!

Were they perhaps desperate for a teen audience? Because his looks completely fit into that surfer/boy band look of the 90s. He looks fresh off an episode of Saved By The Bell or California Dreams. I started watching long after his debut and even I questioned why this bland doofus was Victor and Nikki's son.

No thanks!

The usage of history on this show feels very "We skimmed the wiki too!". All they seem to care is that a reference to someone like Dominique and her family will make longtime viewers ears perk and give longstanding cast members something to do even if it makes no sense. That's an issue I've mentioned before. Trina, Willow and Cody all have a paternity/maternity story playing out in drips right now. How many different ways can you write that within a 6 month period? It's such an easy story to tell (just like the ridiculous amount of baby switches that have happened on soaps the last 20 years) so I get why they keep going back to that same uncreative well but it's gotta stop.

Sadly none of that matters to these shows anymore. We'll find out that secretly gave birth to a baby during the time she was in the institution. Timelines be damned. Reminds me of Nikki from Y&R somehow having a secret child during a storyline viewers saw play out in full onscreen (someone correct me if I'm wrong).

Lmao But yeah it was really bizarre how long he lasted. Sometimes I think a lot of characters last on shows past their sell-by dates because the actor is nice to work with or a good employee who doesn't make waves.

Why are you coming for me like this? I could never remember if the actor or character had the e in his name.

It's funny, the same thing happened with his son. Technically Phillip was on the show for over a decade but only had real impact on story the three years he was an adult Thom Bierdz. And his death resonated for 20 years (until they stupid retconned it). Some short term female characters that loomed large after their deaths (it's almost like a theme, dying beatifically and tragically young): Gillian (4 years) and Cindy (2 years) on AMC. Dominique on GH (her death is generating (bad) story at this very moment). This topic makes me think about people who stayed on for nearly a decade or more who didn't manage one solid storyline or pairing. Re: Aiden Devane on AMC. Or lowkey half the cast on GH right now.

I love that we both used Sophia and Max as examples. Anyone more than 5 years younger than Linda Dano was a possibility! From undead Megan Buchanan to RJ Gannon. Endless possibilities!