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Those Will and Freddie goodbye scenes were about as unemotional as you can get. Just nothing special about any of them. 
 

A weak exit for two important characters because the actors portraying them didn’t give a damn.

12 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

So when do you all think Nelle is coming back?

She will return. Frank never kills off anyone.

7 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Chad kissing Will on the forehead will never get old.

 

It's little things like that, that not only establish character but also build relationships between characters and build chemistry between actors.

You’re right about that, but did you notice how Chandler and Freddie grinned through those scenes, including when they talked about Ari being in danger? Once again, their pathetic, selfish acting ruined the scenes. 
 

If they ever bring back these characters, I hope both are recast.

4 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

Those scenes with Ridge only hearing half a conversation between $Bill and Brooke while eavesdropping were shades of the worst of James E. Reilly’s writing. The only thing missing was Ridge talking to himself in his head and screaming “NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!” in his at the part when Brooke told Bill she always remember she loved him or whatever the hell she said to make Ridge upset.

All true. And in what world would a guy walk away in the middle of a conversation like that? It was just ridiculous.

7 hours ago, Faulkner said:

What was that song?!?! Totally tuneless. It was like cats being tortured. 

It was SO horrible. To showcase those 4 nurses with a song like that? My God. The entire thing was pretentious to a fault, as if they were saving their country from evil. That could not have been more embarrassing.

Why not make the fundraiser joyous at its close, concentrating on the positives? Instead, it was doom and gloom and I wanted to kill myself.

12 hours ago, Michele Soap Writer said:

 

yes lets stop all ways of life for a virus with an more than 99% recovery rate

Are you writing hot sex scenes for your soap? And where can we see your soap? I miss all the hot writhing sex.

Ned and Olivia did the worst lip sync I’ve seen in a long time, and that song was bad. Valentin was good, as were the 3 teens. Nina and Jax were laughable.

Of course, it’s hard to expect much when the cast is wearing $7.99 t-shirts.

11 hours ago, carolineg said:

Didn't they used to connect it to actual AIDS research?  I am pretty sure in the 90's you could buy a Nurses Ball tee shirt for like 30 dollars.  Clearly more than they spent on these tees lol

I can't get over how cheap those t shirts look. 

11 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Gotta say, William Lipton was quite a find for GH. The kid is very talented and I think he's got the potential to be a leading man in the future.

 

I'm going to feel so bad for Anna and Maxie when their Peter bubble gets burst. 

 

And Brook Kerr still looks amazing. Seriously, did she leave Passions 13 years ago or 13 days ago? She looks exactly the same.

Agree about William Lipton. Good songwriter, good performer. The Nina song was bad, and Ingo made it worse.

11 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

GOD!! The Will/Sonny exit storyline is so [!@#$%^&*] lame!

So true. Just Sooooooo awful. They grinned even more than usual. I was embarrassed for the entire show.

3 hours ago, Fevuh said:

I saw pictures of him.  Can't the guys even shave?  Shave your face and wash your hair and use a 4 comb on the trimmer and some Pomade.    It's not like COVID keeps you from shaving at home.  I just don't think he's hot at all.  He looks like butthead or beavis - can't remember which one.  But then again maybe I take that back.  Ridge/Thorsten has never been able to shave.  He must have really bad skin from acne as a teen or something.  At some point you'd think he could find a razor.  

Highly disagree. This suckfest of a show is worth watching only because of Thomas. He's walking sex.

It’s all so bad. Seeing Eric lecture Ridge is cringeworthy, and Quinn just repeats the same lines day after day.

Shauna is embarrassing — all star struck in love when she knows Ridge doesn’t even want her. We just went through that with Sally embarrassing herself over Wyatt. Then there’s Steffy looking like a dreg every day.

The only thing worth looking at was Thomas in the tight jersey and pants.

I’m glad COVID isn’t a part of GH storylines. It wouldn’t be done properly, so why do it? You really think they’d wear masks at appropriate times? They wouldn’t. Then you’d expect explanations about that. I just don’t want to see that part of real life on the soaps. This is all hard enough to get through without COVID soaps.

i thought the Nurses Ball looked cheap as hell. Those t shirts looked wrinkled and not really high quality. Everything was underwhelming.

Part of the problem was just replaying past Nurses Balls for weeks. We needed another one this soon? One that’s a lesser version of itself? Just no.

KeMo looks to me like she got new botoxed lips and that it caused an infection. I thought she looked awful.

If calling Sharon a therapist gets her back with Adam, I’m all for it.

That dress on Maxie.

Just no.

6 hours ago, Antoyne said:

Still don’t like any-Claire. I know it’s somewhat rare to have instant chemistry with new costars when you step into a role, but I just don’t see Claire even with her now interacting with the cast. She kept zero essence of Olivia’s Claire. She so far just comes off as a boring bland pretty blonde girl.

 

Kassie is literally the only saving grace of this storyline. Speaking of, I still can't believe they've made Eve the bad guy for wanting revenge on the guy who killed her daughter less than a decade ago and got released because therapy somehow cured him in a few years, and gets to have a happy life like none of it happened.

Agree with all of this.

The actress playing Claire is attractive, yet I don’t like her looks. LOL Maybe it’s the way her hair is styled. She just doesn’t belong in Salem, and she definitely isn’t Claire.

It’s just pathetic to have Eve return even angrier and more evil than before, and it does look worse because of the constant Ben rehab.

There’s also a danger of these Ben/Ciara scenes getting tired. I think they’re already repetitive.

The stuff on this show is much worse than the lack of story on Y&R.

Brooke crying like an idiot in the dark — as if she hasn’t been through worse a dozen times...Ridge acting helpless and defenseless as Shauna walks into his bedroom... Shauna portraying another embarrassing Brad Bell female who throws herself at a guy and is ready to do her wifely duties. Is this 1957? 
 

The Steffy in pain story is no better. My God, the writing is wretched.

Eve in that dark wig is a hard pass.

10 hours ago, prefab1 said:

First impressions of nu-Claire: she seems like a pretty good actress, but she also seems to have retained almost none of the original Claire's personality traits. Which is pretty jarring since we just saw ORK onscreen two days ago.

I agree. Completely different— too different. Every aspect of original Claire’s personality was missing. Not a fan. 

10 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

They could have encouraged her to do that, but then again they could also encourage her to make the character her own.  Look at Kate Mansi and Marci Miller, sometimes it felt like they were two different characters too.

I can’t explain it. Mansi and Miller approached Abby differently, but I still knew it was Abby. nuClaire just doesn’t feel like Claire.

13 hours ago, dragonflies said:

LOL

 

 

The 4-quadrant blocking had me HOWLING! Just so awkward and so damn bad.

13 hours ago, Fevuh said:

I only tuned in once in a while before COVID because everything was so boring and there were no "stories" on the story as my Granny used to say - we called thme the "Stories". and when I tuned in today for a couple of minutes today, there isn't anything I want to watch.  There's just nothing interesting.  I watched several of the classic episodes and it made me sad for the show that I knew.   Won't be coming back, it's too late for me.  The characters are just so boring.  There's just no fire.  This will be hard for people to stomach and it's just my opinion but the actors and characters and show are so much far worse than when Guiding Light was cancelled.  Far worse.  There was something likeable about that cast and people.  There is just nothing going on in Genoa City and no one I want to see.    

I get it that you hate the show and think it’s too boring and that you’re not coming back.

Still, I’m betting we haven’t heard the last from you. You’ll be back to tell us how you watched 4 minutes of an episode, got bored, and turned it off. I do admit that throwing in that it’s worse than GL was at the end is something new, so you’re keeping your posts interesting.

i also enjoy posts from many others — who want to pretty much change all the characters and all the actors. Yeah, that’ll happen. Can’t wait to see it.

I absolutely despise the entire Cyrus Renault storyline. The guy does not seem dangerous enough and he’s not believable as an horrific killer, either. I don’t care about anyone he’s dealing with, including Jordan. If she dies, she dies.

It’s also tiresome with Nelle calling the shots over all these people who hate her, and I do not want to see even more scenes of Sonny at his dying father’s bedside. Kill me now.

I thought the first show back was pretty decent, mixing newly shot scenes with flashback catch ups. The wig on MTS was a mistake, but Mark Grossman’s new hairstyle made up for it, and he looks hot.

Y&R isn’t what it used to be, but none of the soaps is. I think it needs work, but I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as people here are making it out to be. 

1 hour ago, AlexElizabeth said:

Maxie's hair is TRAGIC. How did they let her go on camera looking like that?

 

Same for Julian He looks awful in those pics.

 

I'd be okay if we kept Lindsay Hartley and never had to watch KeMo sleepwalk through scenes again.

Agree with all of that.

Julian looked much better with a buzz cut.

The camera work on this show is horrible, and so is the blocking. I understand distancing, but shots look like they’re 10 yards away from each other.

Kissing the doll is bad enough — so damn fake — but did they lay off all their wardrobe and hair people, too? No one looks styled or stylish. Liam and Thomas have facial hair that isn’t trimmed.

And Quinn is buried in a winter wig that has way too much hair,  bad bangs, and weighs about 20 lbs.

This show returned too soon.

4 hours ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

They did some creative music editing in today's classic. I normally don't mind them but this is one instance I wish they didn't switch it out for an inferior cue (I always thought the one used in 2020 was too schmaltzy haha).

 

 

The 2020 music isn’t bad, but the original cue is SO much better. Completely different atmosphere to the entire scene, and I have no idea why they’d even touch it.

BTW, I thought Christel Khalil was just terrific in this episode.