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Exactly. Mansi carried Lopez and a good portion of the show, as you stated in your post. Lopez was a cute dayplayer with a role that came in for a very storyline-specific part. And while I appreciate Valentini/the head writing team(s) for giving her a second chance at something new, she did fumble at it. And it did not work as a story. This has been known... for a few weeks... but thanks? It's futile because one will not change their POV and realize other POV's may or may not exist, especially when the bulk of those POV's don't support your one-sided one that you refuse to budge from. Natalia & Olivia do not compare, in any way shape or form, to Allison (a.k.a. Blaze) & Kristina, other than they're two female-relationships. But both held different stakes and life experiences ⏤ which, had it been written differently ⏤ could have been a solid storyline for the latter couple. However, it did not. As a gay man, it's so insulting that this couple, which really did not do much (much like another fan-favourite "couple") and they're hailed as untouchable and unstoppable. They were barely a match. The relationship did not work and was not going to work, especially when the homophobic mother is played as a victim (BY the semi-Legacy character) and is focused on over the character whose POV we actually care about. Their "love story" was not unbreakable, it was not groundbreaking and it wasn't history-making. At all.

Truthfully, she was a character created by "the writer" that held zero value until the end of Brytni Sarpy's run, and then they recast to never use her. Same. I could see if they worked as a couple but they did not. And it's not worth rooting for, nor acting in such a way just because the actress was let go.

They did not work well; the chemistry between Lopez & Mansi was not there, and the characters just did not naturally blend beyond friendship for me. And I think it has to do with the audience wanting a female-female pairing. It reminds me of the unhealthy obsession people had with Kristina & Parker. Like, they want something to they'll take anything that is given, and that isn't cute. The only female-female pairing I felt for Kristina was Valerie.

Yup, but they'll argue LGBTQIA+ couples are "special" and "untouchable", which is bullshït. And the two pairings are not the same: one worked. One did not.

Of course.

SO stunning!

@Maxim

Whether paired with someone else or by himself, so long as Valentini & Varni/Disney ABC were controlling the strings, his vision would've never taken off. He's not a "yes" person, and that's ultimately what they are looking for.

Very interesting; as is seeing Carmen Duncan as Lisa, too.

Same here; it's "local programming," so that will either change or [some] places won't receive the third hour.

Oh, I thought you were all talking about the Chancellor Industries set. Whew. The full Chancellor mansion set got changed in 2012 when Jill Farren Phelps became EP. These scenes aired May 3, 2013 (a.k.a. Jeanne Cooper's final episode as Katherine Chancellor): It's the same general shooting style that we have now, but the furniture is set up differently to more-so mirror the previous set up the set had. If I recall correctly, the arrangement changed sometime in early 2013, around the time the new Newman Ranch set was introduced. @Sapounopera

DM me. I might be able to help. @JAS0N47

It has been described as existing in the Maryland / Washington, D.C. area.

No wonder Braeden stopped defending him.

Under Ainsworth, Kristina described herself as sexually fluid, and maintained that fluidity. It seems, with casting Mansi, they wanted it to be bisexuality (or don't understand that the two are different), and then a script was penned that contradicted this.

YUP! That's always been Twitter etiquette that people cannot comprehend.

She's being tagged in psychotic "Kraze" tweets, some insinuating she has control over storyline / actors who are hired and fired.

Well, known gay characters right off the bat. Santa Barbara had Channing Capwell Jnr.