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He'll be fine after he pushes an elderly woman down some stairs in her wheelchair and feeds a blind man some dog food after telling him it's beef stew.

Anytime I hear Faison is back in any form, that's my cue to "exit, stage left."

You're probably right, lol! And, in a way, that's part of my issue with how Drew's evolution has been handled. I'm not entirely clear on how he (and we) have gotten to this point. Was it one event, or a conflagration of events, or what? Alls I knows is, something's wrong when Yosemite Sam has more depth to him than Drew Cain does, lol. There are only four Oscars I acknowledge: Oscar Madison, Oscar Mayer, Oscar, the Academy Award; and Oscar the Grouch. All other Oscars do not exist in my world.

I think I've said this before, but as impactful as that storyline was on GL, it also feels too convoluted, for lack of a better word, and probably explains why Douglas Marland simply never addressed it during his time with the show. (Remember, he felt the same way about Peter and Diana Taylor conveniently being adoptive parents to Jeff and Heather Webber's baby on GH).

I wish I could care more about this show right now. I really do. It's more grounded than anything that Ron Carlivati devised, yet it also feels so "holding pattern" to me, as if they're just setting up stuff for the next HW to work with.

Let me say, however, that what I would do is figure out some way to put Drew and Jason in a love triangle with a female character who they both spark with. It could be Willow, it could be Britt, it could be someone entirely new, but I think it'd be classic soap opera, if it were done right.

ICAM! You know, I'm not even sure how or why Drew changed. To me, it's like he was so traumatized from going to prison for insider training - which was ridiculous to me, because, after all he'd been through, THAT was traumatizing? - that he just said, "[!@#$%^&*] all y'all!," and now here we are.

Whenever I think of Bob Hastings, I think of his work on "McHale's Navy" and "All in the Family."

No, I definitely agree with everything you're saying. There's nothing WRONG with Drew's evolution. If anything, it's helped to define him as something other than a retcon twin (er, "twin"). I just think the show needs to provide more shading to his character, or else Drew's gonna wind up in the dustbin with Peter August and Dodge- er, Cyrus.

That, as they say, is the $64 question. Frankly, I don't think they can. Or, if they can, they're afraid it'll be too complex for their audience. I agree!

Because, all Drew is at this point is Snidely Whiplash with a six-pack. That's okay in the short-term, but the longer he goes on without any redeeming qualities or psychological layers, the less interesting he becomes even as an antagonist. To paraphrase the late Hank Williams Sr., he's gotta change or I'm gonna leave.* (*Well, not really, lol).

ICAM.

That's okay. I totally believed that her name was Candy Love. Like I said, this is the same show that had a character named Bambi, lol.

Or her giving up the child for adoption. Sarah Shayne wouldn't have done that either.

The truth is, I don't feel anything toward anyone on this show anymore. IMO, DAYS has been running on less than fumes since the last boy band era, under folks who refuse to do anything about it.

It's sad how only two of the five soaps currently on the air hold my attention even a little bit these days. And I keep up with GH, only because I hate to be left out entirely from @carolineg and @Vee 's amazing conversations.

Oh, God, I hope it isn't. After all, this is the same LOL that also had a character named "Bambi."

Wait, you mean to tell me the world's about to [!@#$%^&*] implode over GREENLAND!?!? I guess Erik the Red will have his revenge after all.

In order to understand how I felt about GR and Leo when they first arrived, how I still feel about them today, and how I'll probably feel about them 'til the day they're gone from this show for good, you'll need to watch this clip. (Trigger warning: Bill Cosby!)

Thanks for all the Jen Lilley intel...I think, lol. When it comes to VM and MB, I'll just say this: he definitely needs her, but does she really need him? I'd be down with Drew and Willow essentially becoming the new Alan and Monica if I thought the acting and writing were stronger. Even with that better writing, however, Katelyn MacMullen is not Leslie Charleson, and Cameron Mathison is sure af not Stuart Damon. Believe it or not, I'm fine with forgetting Jagger's murder. Hell, I'm even for pretending he never returned. Bringing that s.o.b. back as a blue-eyed, blonde-haired fed with an inexplicable grudge against Sonny (who deserves all the hate and then some, but still...) was lame from the jump. Now, do I still think Willow needs to go to prison for shooting Drew? Yes, and no. (I mean, she SHOULD, but I'm just a silly fool who thinks letting individuals get away with their crimes is morally irresponsible storytelling, lol). Regardless, I don't wanna see that mess with her and Drew and Michael dragged on any further. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: Drew is not dead, and he hasn't seen the light either. So, what was the [!@#$%^&*] point of shooting him? So, we could see that Willow, the one-time cult member who was ripped from her comatose mother's womb and who (probably) faked her cancer, has a dark side? That's great. I still don't care about the bitch.

I can't, I just can't, lol.

The only show that I remember that has talked about that subject was the original "Law & Order," in an episode about an American husband and father who killed the Egyptian doctor hired by his mother-in-law to perform the procedure on his half-Egyptian daughter. IIRC, he agreed to plead guilty to the charges in exchange for his parents being granted custody of his daughter, because he did not trust his weak-willed to stop HER mother (who said we raise our children to be no better than dogs) from having the daughter circumcised. It's a barbaric custom that persists in many countries; yet, I don't know whether that episode painted Egyptians in an all-too-objective light, lol. IMO, it's as if the writer of that article is saying Linda Gray isn't qualified to speak on behalf of the U.N. and international women's rights BECAUSE she was just an actress, or an actress on a soap opera. But, you know, the idea of hiring an actor from a series that was popular all over the globe to speak out on such causes isn't necessarily a bad one. I just wish they had asked an actress from a series that hadn't marginalized and objectified women at every opportunity.

IOW, Maurice Benard and Sonny Corinthos have become albatrosses around GH's neck. What happened to Jen Lilley that made working at GH so unpleasant for her?

It's ironic how the U.N. chose someone who became famous for playing J.R. Ewing's long-suffering wife to promote women's rights. That's like asking Tony Geary or Roger Howarth to speak on behalf of RAINN.