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Why would Joss tell Brennan that her mom is cheating on him? If there was some sort of smart subtle reason, the Joss actress could not have conveyed it. She is not suited for this material at all. Just compare her performance to the actor playing Ethan. He can pull off smart, charming and manipulative. She can not. It should be Emma getting Joss's material. It would make more sense for the Emma character, and the actress would probably pull it off better. Joss is probably a lost cause at this point. It might be best to ship her out and have her come back in a few years recast, when they have a better handle on the character.

When was the last time Laura felt like Laura, and the last time Luke and Laura felt like Luke and Laura? I'd have to say December 1996. Up until that terrible prime time episode where it was revealed Luke and Lucky had faked her death. In hindsight, given what happened over the next 3 years, I wonder if they would have liked to have that back, if they would have made different choices to wrap up December 1996. Laura faking her death then felt so selfish, something she wouldn't do. Maybe they should have put her in a coma from 1996-1998. It would have made Luke and Lucky blowing up their family more believable, especially if they never thought she'd wake up.

Here's a promo for NBC's new daytime line-up of game shows starting in January 1975. This is Lin Bolen's vision. Gone is Jeopardy and long gone is Concentration. The only winners from the promo are Wheel of Fortune (making its debut!) and Hollywood Squares. Celebrity Sweepstakes and High Rollers did have their moments though.

It was jarring to go from scenes shot on location in NYC, with bad lighting and acoustics, to regular scenes shot at the GH studio, with controlled lighting, etc. I'm thankful they still have a studio to go to and aren't forced to shoot everything on location, like GL did at the end of its run.

Denise Alexander as a celebrity guest on a 1976 episode of the NBC gameshow The Magnificent Marble Machine!

The Gio/Emma NYC scenes were giving me flashbacks of Guiding Light 2009. Thank goodness GH still has a studio with sets and studio lighting. I don't know what they were thinking lighting that scene on the stage all in blue light and going in for close ups. The actors looked awful! They were supposed to be at Aladdin, not reenacting Phantom of the Opera.

I saw an episode of Perry Mason from 1960 with Charles Bateman (CC #3) and he was good! I wonder what happened on Santa Barbara. What was it about the role of CC that caused otherwise solid actors to forget how to act? Peter Mark Richman (the best CC at projecting menace, but he still had some rough moments), Paul Burke (the overall worst CC), Charles Bateman..

I'm going to miss the bro scenes of Nathan and Dante playing inept supercops. Rocco was good in the acting department today, but I didn't think Britt was.. Britt and Rocco look weird together. She considers him her son? The actress is not selling it. I wonder what the actress thinks, having a "son" that tall and old at her age. Sadly, I found Emma and Gio to be boring. Somebody needs an edge there; they are so vanilla.

There is such a big gap between Ruby described on paper and Ruby seen on screen. If you read things like Ruby was a former madam who scheduled dates for her niece, you'd think she was much more sinister and evil than she really was on screen. Ruby is an example of an actor turning a potentially evil character into a character with a heart of gold with her performance, you forget they had any evil in them.

I'm not really sure that grown up Lucky with JJ in the role can ever really work as a character, given how dark they made Luke and how peripheral they made Laura. The happy family we saw JJ grow up in was a total lie. They should have killed off Lucky for real in 1999 or never recast, bringing back JJ's Lucky in 2009 with no history of how his character had been demeaned from 2000-2009. Or never bring back JJ and stay with the demeaned recast. I don't think Ethan ever really worked as a character either. He was rendered superfluous once JJ came back as Lucky. I feel like his whole stint was about Luke telling Ethan how cool he was, but we never really saw it. Maybe we'll finally see it this time? Ethan has no vets to hide behind now.

It's hilarious how they keep upgrading the brick wall set. First it was only bricks, then they hung a sign, and now it's full of graffiti and piping. I hope they are not straining the budget 🤣

The Willow vs Jacinda stuff would have worked better with a stronger actor in the Jacinda role. I noticed they had Jacinda mention spending time in Australia in Friday's episode. I guess that means she was involved with Ethan and that we'll be getting a Michael/Jacinda/Ethan/Kristina mess. Like they have to make Jacinda more important on the canvas.. Ethan has put on a little weight. Not having any vets around to prop up his character anymore (namely Luke and Holly), I wonder how this run will go.

NBC will never bring back a soap if their daily news show is doing acceptable ratings for them. The state of NBC daytime is sad. It's just all news, all the time, which at the end of the day turns out to be just shilling for other entertainment shows.

I guess we've figured out one of Frank's tricks for saving on the budget: pairing contract characters with non-contract recurring players. The writing rarely masks how out of nowhere these pairings are. There are rare times when the chemistry can overcome, but not usually.

Great news! It's hard to create a brand new soap from nothing. They put in the time, and their hard work is paying off!