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I'm officially re-pitching my serial killer/hurricane/Lassa Fever II epidemic idea WITH the addition of Nina perishing as she sets fire to the hospital.

Nah, if he were to join TG for a three-month arc, I'd want it to be as a new character. Perhaps, as a successful businessman with a cool-sounding name like (sorry, Eddie Murphy) "Dexter St. Jacques," lol.

I guess he's just afraid he'll no longer be the kind of man that Laura Portia deserves.

I don't! I watched him yesterday. Even the under-five who played his physical therapist gave more to his scene than DT did. I literally screamed at my desktop screen: "You're paralyzed, n*ggro, not dead!" I'd set mine to "All I Need," since that was the only time I tolerated Jack Wagner even a little.

Not only does he set his alarm to it, but it's also his ringtone, his doorbell, his password on all his accounts, and five will get you ten, it's the song he's requested to be played at his homegoing, too (along with "Rise" and "Fascination").

Yes!!

I don't recall their being announced as HW's, but that was such a messy time backstage for GH, lol.

Just as I'm sure this song lives rent-free all the time in Donnell Turner's head:

If I were Ava, I would pretend to help Nina gain access to Sonny; then, after Sonny inevitably rages at Nina (with Ava present) and throws her out, I would pretend to Sonny not to know what Nina was talking about and warn him to protect himself from his wife, who is clearly becoming unglued.

Thanks, @Liberty City! So, I watched today. For sure, this "poisoned hip" business w/ Heather feels like Korte/Mulcahey justifying at least some of her craziest actions. Of course, it can't justify everything she's ever done - I'm still waiting for Heather's "origins story" that does, GH! - but as long as she doesn't morph into GH's answer to Myrtle Fargate, I'm okay with it. As a matter of fact, parts of today's episode felt like course correction time to me. You had Heather and her evil hip, you had Diane offering Alexis a way out of the (dying) newspaper business and back into the law game, you had Marshall, Curtis and Stella learning that he'd been misdiagnosed on account of being Black? Even Finn's phone call to whomever to look into Gregory's ALS and pull a metaphorical rabbit out of their hat feels like we're about to take a turn there (although, God knows where). And that little bombshell that Nina's about to drop on Joss? That definitely feels someone pulling the old plug on Joss and Dex's relationship ASAP. It's only Day 1, so I didn't expect any miracles. After all, there's a ton of stuff left behind by Chris and Dan that Korte and Mulcahey have to work through, and that's gonna take awhile. Already, though, I do feel like the pacing of scenes is catching up to the editing - we're not just taking a long, five-to-six-minute scene, breaking it up into 30-second bits to be sprinkled throughout the episode and then calling it a day - and that the dialogue isn't there just to recap stuff but to glean a little insight into motivations as well.

When did Heather receive her first hip replacement?

IMO, there's more drama and conflict to be had with Liz, as a single mom of three boys/young men, finding love with someone who isn't already one of her baby daddies. Someone who's solid and reliable - possibly, working as a doctor at the hospital - and who isn't played by Michael Easton, lol.

I'd sooner see Jason knockin' boots with Audrey! IMO, LW's best chemistry was with Amelia Heinle on LOVING/THE CITY and Kim Zimmer and Cynthia Watros on GL. No, I'm not kidding.

I mean, did she call Margaret Reed and ask her for that hideous wig she wore on ATWT when Shannon came back from the dead? Because, that's what came to my mind when I saw CZ, as Jordan, literally snatch that mess out of the dumpster. (Me: "B*tch, put that back where it belongs!") Look, I don't want to beat up too much on Josh Griffith, because I do think he has talent, and I know he's probably working under an enormous amount of pressure from the folks at CBSD and Sony, too. But even Jean Dadario Burke, the most vision-less EP I have ever encountered in all my years of soap viewing, would look at everything that's happening (or, to be more precise, NOT happening) right now on Y&R and say, "Dude, WTF?". So much that should be happening on-screen, isn't; and what IS happening is either dull and meaningless, or it's borderline psychotic. (Ashley Abbott has D.I.D. now!? [!@#$%^&*] all the way off, Y&R!) Eric Braeden seems especially more checked out than usual these days. I watched the scene where he coaxes Jordan into meeting one-on-one with him via cell, and I was like, "OMG, I'll be damned if the son of a bitch isn't literally phoning this in!".

Poor Abby, lol. She's an Abbott and a Newman; yet, for whatever reason, I don't believe she's ever fit all that well into either family. The opportunity was there to have someone come in, exploit her unofficial "outsider" status and use it, potentially, to bring both families down, or at least make all their lives hell. Instead, we get "The Two Faces of Ashley" and Colleen Zenk hamming it up in shitty wigs that you'd find in the back of an Ashro catalog.

My fear, though, is that B&B's ratings might suffer without the Y&R lead-in.

They doth protest too much, methinks.

ICAM! All I can say is, this better not end with John Abbott being exposed as a pedophile.

I agree, lol!

LOL!! But seriously. If anyone should have a hoarding problem, it should be Traci. And we should totally see every minute of it on-screen, too.

I'll bet she'll look fabulous in it when he flips out/shows his true colors, abducts her and stashes her away someplace.

Yep.

Was JER on GH's writing staff at that point? Because, that storyline has his fingerprints all over it, lol. Well, that's only because Mulcahey is an optimist.

It might be due to my being a small child at the time and not watching GH as much as GL or even SaBa, but all I can remember about Terry Brock was that she cried a lot. There are a TON of actors/characters that Korte and Mulcahey could cut loose without any impact to the show, but I suspect they'll hold off at least for awhile to see who and what works for their vision for GH. On the other hand, I could be totally wrong and @Errol is putting the finishing touches on his "BREAKING: 42 ACTORS CUT FROM GH!" story even as we speak.

Oh, man. I feel for her sister as well. RIP.