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Exactly. As I said upthread, if they can provide definition and purpose to Drew and to John Caleb Silas Finn (among others!), they will have won half the battle.

I won't ask/expect too much from Mulcahey/Korte, especially at the start. Just better pacing and clearer objectives for characters and storylines.

And here we are, in the year of our Lord 2024, complaining that GH is Carly's world and the rest just live in it. The more things change, lol.

ICAM, @BetterForgotten. On the very slim chance that you peruse these boards, Mr. Mulcahey, and are at a loss over what to write for JE/Tracy, here is my advice, pitch, plea, suggestion, etc.: please coax TPTB into bringing Justin Deas on as Tracy's new love interest. Not only because I'm aware of your mutual admiration society, but also because I know in my gut that he and Ms. Elliot would make an incredible older couple on any show, not just on GH. (You'll thank me later.)

I was back for Jane Elliot, ready to leave again because of we-know-who, but now I'll be sticking around indefinitely.

I'd love to see "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" tie for Best Picture, lol.

I'd love to ask those younger voters why they think Trump will be different from Biden on Israel/Palestine, lol. If anything, I think Trump would be even more gung ho about Bibi and Israel.

Why is it that every time I think I can walk away from these soaps for good, they up and do something to pull me back in?

He did. And he seemed to be satisfied with his (well-earned) retirement, too. So, what did it take to lure him back, ABCD? Creative autonomy, Bob Iger's spare yacht loaded down with cash, or both?

If Biden is in danger of losing the "youth vote," then it's because the youth in this country are too damn busy griping about the trees and not paying any attention to the rest of the forest. They are stuck on this concept that "both sides are equally bad," which, to me, only proves just how easy life has been for many of them (and probably will continue to be, even if/when Trump is re-elected). They are too narcissistic and too coddled to understand that societies cannot function without some compromises. Sigh. Once again, it's gonna be up to us black folks to save the rest of y'all from yourselves. SMDH. The other GOP candidates were easier to pick off this time around for one simple reason: they weren't Donald Trump. Even Ron DeWhatshisface, who is literally just Trump in red boots, was overlooked, because what the GOP base wants is not someone who agrees with Trump, but rather, they want Trump himself; and they will continue to want him until he finally croaks. IOW, they're a cult.

It wouldn't shock me either, @Vee. I mean, how many ONS can you write for Brooke Logan, anyway? But, I think that's part of the allure of writing for a show like B&B. Because they basically have used the same long-term document since 1996, there isn't much heavy lifting to do on that show. Even much of the dialogue sounds like stuff MVJ could toss off while prepping her ingredients for her gumbo. It's literally being paid well to do absolutely nothing, lol. I've attempted several times to watch that Locher Room interview with Patrick Mulcahey, but the technical issues drive me nuts. Do they improve as the interview goes on, or do Locher and Mulcahey fight them all the way through? I wish I had an answer for why ABCD cares again about GH all of a sudden. I really do. No way do I see this as a sign that ABCD is reinvesting in soaps in any significant way. Maybe they're gearing up to transition the show over to Hulu with Disney Plus Costco? Or maybe they just want GH to go out on top? Again, I wish I had the answer.

Same. Between this news and , I get the impression that ABCD knows that GH is in trouble and is doing what they can BTS to fix it. Not because they love GH so much, but probably because they don't have anything ready to replace it at the moment. IMO, Chris Van Etten and Dan O'Connor wanted to be like Bill Bell, telling big storylines with a "slow burn," but the problem was that their characters weren't complex enough to sustain the pacing. In turn, much of their run became exercises in tedium. (In a way, I'm glad Frank Valentini keeps the scenes under 90 seconds, because that helps create tension and suspense where there clearly is none. If they ran any longer, I think viewers would be ready to commit mass suicide). Obviously, I'm pleased that Patrick Mulcahey is returning to GH as Co-HW. Next to Douglas Marland, he's my all-time favorite soap scribe (and part of my "dream writing staff" for my hypothetical soap, along with Victor Miller, Frank Salisbury and Wisner Washam). And I'm sure ABCD and FV had to make certain concessions in order to get him to sign on, too. Otherwise, why would he return to this industry at all, let alone as a Co-HW, let alone to GH? So, for now, I'm adopting a wait-and-see attitude. If he and Elizabeth Korte can turn the ship around and not brook any interference from FV or from the network, then fantastic. If they can't...? Well, knowing what I know about how TPTB operate to this day, I'll be disappointed, but I won't hold it against them, lol. Listen, if Korte and Mulcahey can make the likes of Esme, Cancer Girl, Billy Joel Cassadine, Game Show Host Drew Cain and whichever character Michael Easton is playing these days even a little bit interesting, they will have won half the battle!

I wish I could be thrilled about this news, but until Frank Valentini is gone as well.... Okay, why, lol?

Believe it or not, I'm a fan of James Read's, so it's hard for me to agree with everyone that Clyde needs to be killed off.

Finding the right words to say about someone who has touched you deeply is always easy to do. Sadly, I never met Bill Hayes, but Doug and Julie's original love story is just so good to me, because it embodies so much of what DAYS and all other soaps used to be, and still could be if TPTB would try. If only I could write a love story as good as Doug and Julie's.

My favorites were "Pyramid" and "Press Your Luck." "Pyramid," because it was an opportunity to see B- and C-level celebrities pretend to care about helping "common folk" win money; and PYL, because it always cracked me up to see contestants take ten frigging minutes, hoping to get "nowhammynowhammynowhammynowhammy," only to press their button and - you guessed it - get whammied.

I dunno, I think Mack and Karen coping with a "change of life" pregnancy and the risks that would pose to them might have made for a nice change of pace, lol.

"My olfactory nerve was destroyed years ago. That's why all my men wear English Leather. Because they can smell lousy and get away with it."

I agree. I don't even know why he bothered running at all, since we all knew how it would end. Okay, Nikki, now it's your turn to throw in the old towel!

The same could be said for their actors' wardrobe. Gone are the days when we had a Lee Smith or Greg York, who dressed these actors for their characters, rather than put them in boring clothes that everyone else on the shows would wear.

I mean, we also call him "Cliff Abbott" and "Jack Warner" for a reason, lol.

If both "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" score Oscar nominations, then I hope whoever writes and produces the Oscars this year will do a sketch imagining what it would be like if "Barbie" had been filmed like "Oppenheimer" and vice versa.

IIRC, viewers' reactions to the Two Romans saga were rather lukewarm. They didn't hate the revelation that Roman was alive and that John was an impostor, but it didn't excite them either. (Wink-wink, lol). So, I wonder if the fact that there was little to no immediate fallout was because TPTB, disappointed that the storyline didn't garner a more enthusiastic reception from the audience, just chose to move on, rather than continue with the next part of the story.

That's what made an already preposterous storyline even moreso, IMO. There was a lot about Tom Langan's work on DAYS that left me absolutely baffled. And I think we all would be remiss not to mention the mother of all bad "evil twin" storylines: the Rachel/Justine saga on AW. I think Carolyn Culliton, who was the show's HW for most of that storyline, is a fine lady and writer, but I think that particular story got away from her. It made the Natalie/Janet story on AMC look Shakespearean in comparison.

I'm sorry, but as much as I love and miss Bobbie/JZ, I really don't understand naming Kelly's after her, especially when her occupation was as nurse. Couldn't they have dedicated a room or wing of the hospital to her instead?