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— Another Genoa City restaurant with tiny tables that could never hold a full course meal for 2 people.

— That kitchen area off the main restaurant room: what the hell is that? It’s cramped and ridiculous. Maybe Abby should scream about that instead of yelling at Marco.

— Lola opens boxes of food in the dining area? Ok. Meanwhile, Tessa — who’s had 42 jobs in town — tries to calm her. I’m glad Lola’s makeup and lipstick are perfect, though. 

— Society holds a half dozen tables only, yet the entranceway is long and spacious with a red carpet. Uh...ok.

— No food, electrical problems, fire alarms, no crowd, blah blah blah. Haven’t we seen these “everything goes wrong” stories a million times???

7 hours ago, John said:

Loving Garren Stitt as Oscar as of late

Huh? He’s terrible. One of daytime’s worst actors.

3 hours ago, pdm1974 said:

I'm still disappointed that they gave Dina Alzheimer's. While I applaud exploring such a serious story, she added some great conflict to the show with the relationship with her children and sort of took some of the place that Katherine left behind after her passing. But now she's completely out of the story for the most part. That and Marla Adams was really knocking it out of the park when she returned.

For a minute I was hoping the writers were bringing back Dina to some normalcy in that scene with Jack. Instead it was an excuse for a Jack to AGAIN yell at Dina and reflect on his pathetic life.

The scene in Jack’s office where he dreamed of talking with young Dina was just an Emmy bait scene for PB. I think Jack should frickin grow up. A 65 year old man should have long ago stopped asking “Why’d you do me wrong, ma?”

Some of the writing is just awful.

— Cane can step down as Chancellor CEO just like that? No transition, no looking for a new leader, no nothing? This show pretends to care about business stories. This is a fail.

— Jack’s argument with Dina was RIDICULOUS. For MONTHS she’s been out of it, and in one conversation, Hack is back to SCREAMING at her. Just a pathetic writing decision so Jack could AGAIN reflect on his life.  The discussion with Traci was no better.

— I didn’t like Tessa’s song. Would I want to hear it again let alone buy it? No.

— Mariah closed Crimson Lights early so that Tessa could play her guitar and sing for an audience of one? Yeah, that makes sense. Who cares if a customer shows up and sees the plac3 is closed, out of the blue.

P. S.  All of a sudden the twins are in favor of a divorce??? Huh???

It is nice to have Victor’s office back, although I did notice that Victoria’s house underwent ANOTHER renovation. Sorry, that place now looks cramped and isn’t worthy of an heiress.

Tony Marina has improved the show’s look, but little things get to me — like all the green in the park scenes with Traci and Cane. It’s frickin WISCONSIN, and they’re pushing it.

Speaking of Traci and Cane, please tell me those two aren’t going to have a romance. I love Beth Maitland, but that’s just not believable.

I know a lot of people cheered when Sally and Kay were fired, but I wasn’t one of them. I loved so much of what Sally brought back to the show, and while I did feel the need for more pop on occasion, that could have been accomplished without canning her.

Intead we got Mal, not only as HW, but as EP — too much for one person to do and too much power in one person’s hands. Any good that he did was SURROUNDED by and SUFFOCATED by his mess.

7 hours ago, dragonflies said:

YES! He literally said on twitter that Cynthia was going to continue Nina's LEGACY. Seriously like WTF??

Frank and GH have closed ears when it comes to fans. NO ONE at GH listens or cares. Nina is a hated character. Does Frank care? No. 

NO ONE at GH thinks Maxie has chemistry with Peter. Does Frank care? No.

The same goes for whether Oscar lives or dies, Sonny and Jason saving everyone, and a dozen more things. 

I’m seeing things that bother me, too — stuff I didn’t expect from a new writer stepping in.

Why was that P.I. that Phyllis hired using the biggest camera ever? Why didn’t anyone else notice it?

Why was Summer running all over town looking for Kyle? She eventually tried calling him, but she ran around for a long time before texting or phoning him.

Why was Summer going away on a vacation so soon after missing work for her transplant? Didn’t Victor have trouble with her planned honeymoon?

Why did Lola leave Kyle’s bed at the GCAC and go to the coffee shop by herself?

With Jabot in such disarray, why was Billy in Vegas? Why has Kyle done nothing but arrange transplants and sex meetings with Lola?

Why did Jack act like he won some huge business battle with Ashley and smile like a Cheshire cat? Ashley got $4M out of the idiot.

Why are we getting a COMPLETELY different explanation for Lola’s virginity? Even if we buy it, why is she so blasé about Summer, who just gave her a frickin organ?

What was the point of the montage with shirtless bored Nick with the dad bod?

Do better, Josh Griffith.

Stafford  was bad in those classroom scenes, and she looked bad, too.

The whole thing was absurd. No school operates that way. The kid would b3 moved to another classroom or her rich parents would private school the little witch.

The principal warning Willow was laughable.

Incredibly ridiculous and useless anniversary episode.

A tribute to Gail without even one clip? Instead we got a stupid letter mystery and a 10 second shot of Gail’s picture on the wall. A clip with Scotty, Lee, and Gail would have helped so much instead of 20 people standing around the nurses’ station. 

Is the budget so low so low they can’t even pay someone to research for good flashback clips? Half of the episode had characters who didn’t belong there, and while it was good to see Denise Alexander, they could have avoided the walk down the hospital hall that highlighted how much weight she gained and that she hobbles around.

The whole thing was a shi_tshow.

1 hour ago, dio said:

behind the scenes gossip  aside, hopefully her return will wake SC, JM, and MST up because they've been phoning it in for years. And if JV is still on the show when she returns I wonder how long until they screw?  Is that why they're bringing Adam back, to resurrect Adam/Sharon? 

 

"the much more talented actress who succeeded her" 

 

so messy. 

SC, JM, and MST have NOT been phoning it in for years. That is just not true, and I hate it when fans throw that phrase around and hit almost everyone in the cast with it. 

You our may not like their acting styles, but they’re always prepared and they are always invested.

Kristoff’s death has just hit me so hard — harder than I would have ever expected. These tributes show just how much he was loved...really loved.

His pain must have been unbearable, and part of my sadness is knowing a good man suffered so much. Just imagine being in so much pain that having other children doesn’t stop you from ending it all. I am so sorry for what he lived through, and for anyone who loved or cared about him.

Life can be cruel, but a good man like a Kristoff St. John deserves peace. Peace be with you, KSJ. 

The assistant who killed himself was decent until that last scene -- then he wass all kinds of awful.

The whole stock broker storyline ended lamely. Just a mess of a story with two supposedly brilliant brokers becoming morons when police asked them questions.

The Twitterverse was going nuts over the show, the ending, Viola removing her makeup, and those last 9 words. People are falling all over themselves to praise this show, and while it's decent, it's not THAT good.

Do you believe the Ed Scott/Kay Alden rumors?

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.

I have been hearing that Y&R has been using pre-JFP music. Is that true? I do wonder if JFP is getting fired if it is true.

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.