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I like Adam on the canvas.

Scott Clifton seems to have forgotten that it’s possible to be subtle when showing emotion. I like the guy, but wow.

Stephen A is a decent actor. The writing is ruining Cam. Now he’s holding guns on the police? The kid needs intensive therapy.

Susan/Kristen are great characters -- and they've been run into the ground by Ron Carlivati. I cannot believe how much repetition we're getting with masks, kidnappings, and even entire scenes.

GH relies WAY too much on music to tell us characters are in trouble or there's a sense of foreboding. They need to give that file titled CYRUS MUSIC CUES a rest.

I think the writing for Cyrus is bad, but I also blame Jeff Kober. Because he was scary and creepy on other roles doesn’t mean he’s a failure on GH only because of the writing. Was he successful on those other shows only due to the writing? No. So the truth is the writing onGH is lousy and so is he. He’s not just a meh villain, he’s terrible. And Michael E Knight can leave tomorrow. His Southern charm is wretched to watch. These two are Laura’s siblings? My God.

Maxie spends more time in cemeteries talking to tombstones than any soap character in history. Gag me.

i don’t see a bright side here. Lipton’s acting choices are bad, and he’s really regressed as a performer. I don’t know what the hell he’s doing, honestly.

I don’t think directors on any of these soaps are giving notes to ANYONE. It’s all about getting one scene after the other taped as quickly as possible. Wes Ramsey could literally hiss for 20 seconds and the director would yell “That’s a wrap.”

Please rethink this.

i have to disagree. I think NLG is a daytime superstar who excels whether the writing is good or bad and who has been great on every show she’s appeared on. Supporting? No. I think she’s a lead. I also think she’s earned this special episode.

William Lipton needs a director. Period. He has talent and he’s done good work — and I think that’s been delivered to him too many times. Now he’s either trying too hard to be an ACTOR or thinks more (that walk, those scrunched up faces) is always better. The past couple weeks have been a “WTF is that???” for me, and the producers at GH are doing that kid no favors.

I don't know if the rumors or true, but regardless, I don't think the music has anything to do with those rumors. I don't believe JFP is making changes because she knows Ed Scott and Kay Alden are returning.

There's no question; Y&R has definitely been using pre-JFP music. In addition, some of the recently-written music sounds more like the Y&R stuff we liked from the past. Yes, for a time, the old Y&R music cues completely disappeared, and the new music was awful. But that's changed, and I wish people would stop parroting what they said a year ago. The music has improved dramatically from what we heard a year back.

I'm not buying that article. It was written by someone who obviously has an ax to grind, and it all comes across as ridiculous. I'm no defender of JFP, but hyperbole and drama like that doesn't help anything....it's impossible to know what the truth is. Josh Griffith is having meltdowns? WTF? Any confirmation of this? Does anyone know what it even MEANS? I actually think the music has improved in the past couple months. The modern stuff isn't getting in the way and is used sparingly, and the old, classic cues are being used to good effect.

Anyone remember "Bright Promise"? It aired on NBC at 3:30 pm from Sept. 1969-March 1972, and centered on young people in a university town. I was in high school at the time, and remember falling for Susan Brown, who played BP's heroine Martha Ferguson -- whose college professor husband cheated on her with a student. I write to Susan numerous times during the show's run, as well as afterwards when she joined GH and PC, and she responded every time with nice notes, BP scripts, and more... what a classy lady. "Bright Promise" was a terrific soap, I thought, ahead of its time -- no doubt aided by Gloria Monty's leadership. A young Tony Geary was in the cast, and I remember his making an indelible impression as a young man of seemingly "limited capacity" taken in by Martha (Susan Brown) who turned out to be a creative, artistic type. Geary sang on the show, strumming a guitar, and I can still hear one of those songs in my head, "Hello, Rainbow," that played in one of the show's last episodes.