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I wouldn't say Dex doesn't need family on this show - although, it's no skin off my hide either way! - but I definitely wouldn't want him to turn out to be related to someone who's on the show already, like Kevin or Scotty. I get enough tangled, incestuous relations from DAYS, lol.

I'm sure many actors do, but they know that what they do for a living beats doing what a lot of us do everyday, so they just learn to come to work, do the work, and then collect their pay and go home. That's why I don't feel bad about ragging on Joshua Morrow, for instance. Because, why the [!@#$%^&*] should he care what I or anyone else has to say online about his acting skills (or lack thereof, lol)? At the end of the day, he's the one who gets to go home to a nice house in a nice neighborhood while many of us...? Don't.

Guess what? We still don't!

This is not directed toward you, @Wendy, but I don't know why anyone thought that the debate WOULD move the needle, unless pollsters and others still hope (against hope) that more voters will come around to voting for Trump. Frankly, I think the majority of voters in this country are in firmly entrenched camps by this point. To say it another way, if you've been a Biden or Trump supporter all this time, nothing that the other camp will say or do between now and November will likely change your mind. IOW, the debate was a total [!@#$%^&*] waste of time. Biden and/or Trump could be diagnosed tomorrow with Alzheimer's or Lewy Body or some other form of dementia. It won't make you switch sides or look for third parties. Exactly. Like @Wendy says, people are overlooking the fact that Biden has surrounded himself with people who would be able to carry out his agenda should he suddenly be unable to for whatever reason. AFAIC, that's enough for me to vote again for Biden, come November, regardless of his cognitive issues. Frankly, I suspect those who are "undecided" are, in actuality, people who still hope for someone like Bernie Sanders or...whoever is the GOP equivalent to come (back) in. It isn't that they can't choose between Biden and Trump; they just don't want to. Already, I've come across friends on FB who've declared that they're so disappointed in Biden that they're either gonna vote for some third party or not vote at all. If they're true to their word, then I think it just proves my point: namely, that white people in this country have the luxury of being able to vote for someone other than Biden, because another Trump or third-party administration really won't affect them as negatively as it will BIPOC.

I've always said that Dex's backstory is hogwash, but you're right: he doesn't need to be tied to anyone currently on the canvas.

IDK who keeps fighting the Shick reunion, but they need to STFU, because there's literally nothing else you could do with Nick OR with Sharon at this point.

It's sad when Charles and Caroline Ingalls are friskier than Chase and Brook Lynn.

Either that, or they don't know what to do with him, but they've gotta fulfill his episode guarantee regardless. Seriously, Sasha is but one of maybe 30 characters (on-contract and off-) that could stop appearing TODAY with no explanation(s) and it would not affect the storytelling whatsoever.

ICAM!!

Emma Scorpio-Drake is a character with significant ties to the Port Charles community. At the moment, however, there are more people in the cast of GH than there were in the lost tribes of Israel. So, if you're gonna talk about SORAS'ing her and adding her (or anyone else) to the canvas, I'm gonna need to see Frank cut at least another half-dozen or so from the roster.

When has that ever stopped Frank?

And I would be one of "some people," lol.

Because Frank won't let go of his secret ambition to produce "America's Got (No) Talent."

I agree - but as usual, I don't blame Marland for that. I just think Dolan and Holmes weren't as capable of playing that kind of material as were Colin and Deas or Marx and Bailey Smith. Mr. Big, the supervillain, who was a little person and had an outsized henchman named Bruno. I'm sure someone at ATWT thought that was cute. But, you know, as silly as that whole storyline was, there's still something that I love in the "Hart to Hart"-ness of Tom and Margo using clues from classic literature in order to survive his castle.

It's stupid how actors like Cherrill, Simon and Taggart had to use pseudonyms when starting out as writers. I mean, what were the networks and sponsors afraid of?

Director Whitney J. Leblanc went on to work on several shows, including "Good Times," "227," "Benson" and GENERATIONS and Y&R. And I'm wondering if that was the same Frances Foster who played Alexandra's maid, Vera, on GL, as well as the infamous "Gertie Vinson" on "Good Times."

Can you blame them? If she were my child, I'd drop her off with the first pack of gypsies or wolves that I could find!

I'd probably feel the same way if I thought there was a chance that Jason could retrieve his pre-Jason Morgan memories and regain some measure of his humanity, but it's clear that SB isn't interested in that, so therefore, I think he can go, too, Q ties or no Q ties.

On the other hand, at least it's the white girl who's pushing the mop this time, lol.

And that's exactly why I have no hope anymore for GH. Characters like Sonny Corinthos and Jason Morgan should not be on ANY show in 2024, and certainly not as heroes or even anti-heroes either. If I were HW'ing this show, you better believe the Pikeman storyline would end either with a massacre - I'm talking shootings and bombings galore! - or with Sonny, Jason and their families forced into exile as members of the Federal Witness Relocation Program, hopefully never to be seen or heard from again.

"Carson Boatman still can't act" should be DAYS' answer to "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead".

Bringing back Brenda/VM (and reuniting her with Sonny) is just part of it. The bigger part is accepting that the "Carly/Jason/Sonny & Friends" contingent has finally played itself out and that the mafia needs to be deemphasized, if not eliminated entirely. (And I ain't just sayin' that, because I happen to despise those characters and everything they stand for. Facts are facts: Jason/SB came back and the ratings actually fell. That ALONE should have been a wake-up call to TPTB.)

And it looks kinda sudden, too! You see DAYS' ratings improving one week, then kind of retreating a bit the second week, then another little bump in the third, and then - BAM! - it's number-two!

Out of context, it's like TA's facial expression and body language are saying, "Really???". Meanwhile, I give it 'til the end of the day before people on Twitter start spreading a rumor that EM instructed the director to have TA stand far, far away on account of her being Black and "smelly."

I think so. I've said once before that I think it was the writers who were there between Pam Long's two stints that made GL more Reva-centric than Long herself. When Long returned, she just more-or-less continued the pattern, probably because that's what P&G or CBS (or both) wanted.