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He’d love those comic sidekick characters like Pam and Charlie, too, and he’d make Donna wacky again. He also loves rape, so Thomas would totally have had sex with one of Hope’s alters.

He would definitely have gay characters and I fully believe he’d have Quinn fully off her rocker again. Paris would either be killed or in a coma right now and she’d wear a Brooke mask to seduce and screw $Bill.

In the GL thread, several posters speculated about how Nancy Curlee would have written GH had she succeeded Claire Labine in the mid-‘90s as planned. Lots of comments about how well she would have carried the baton with the female characters, the Bobbie/Carly relationship (parallels to Holly/Blake on GL), and navigating Luke’s nefarious history (similar to Roger). That inspired me to start this thread, which is a game we’ve all played over the years in various discussions: imagine how certain HWs would have tackled stories on a soap at any particular point in time. Which characters would they spark with or have trouble with? Which problems would they have solved or potentially made worse? You could, say, envision what Kay Alden would have done with AMC (had she taken over as HW in the mid-2000s). Or, more fantastically, how would a still-living Doug Marland write GH if he were to return to the show today, with the characters currently on the canvas? Which characters would he do well with (certainly Brando might leap out as a classic Hutch-like himbo)? Who would be his Lily or Nola? Joss? Sasha? (God help him if those were his choices.) Trina? Maxie/Brook Lynn? How would he rehabilitate his (now totally gutted) Quartermaine family, especially with the dubious introduction of Austin/RH into the fold? What would a Megan McTavish (shudder) Y&R look like if she were Josh Griffith’s clean-up woman and still had to keep a slim budget? An Agnes Nixon B&B (which I can’t wrap my head around—Jim Reilly, sure)?

Was when Marlena was clinging to life after Kristen shot her the last time this happened?

Duy Hai “Seven” Nguyen, a model from Vietnam 🇻🇳

Way more interesting than anything on the show.

There had been some false reports about his passing a few weeks ago. Sad.

Lordt.

I don’t think LSV is a bad actor, but he doesn’t seem to play anything but smirky “you know want all-of-this” seduction. Who cares when you look like that, I suppose.

Carrie Ann says she’ll share some news about her future with the show soon:

This show had, what, seven months to come up with some conflict for the Abby story, and this is the best they could muster? At least they seem to be making good on a Victor connection to the Amanda story, but they’ve already botched it.

B&B lacks the range to do social-issue stories. Brad should stick to the trashy, outrageous stuff that’s in his wheelhouse. Scandals, sordid affairs, sex under absurd circumstances. The major problem is that Brad fails to give payoffs to even the trashy stuff, certainly not since the Beth story concluded. He doesn’t give us the satisfaction of really good high-carb, empty-calorie TV. He writes little self-contained arcs that deflate and sputter at the end like a whoopee cushion, which perhaps makes the show more digestible to the casuals?

Stefano Mazzoli, a dancer from Italy 🇮🇹

Oh it’s totally unprofessional. But I’ve been so appalled by what I’ve seen on B&B lately that it’s hard for me to get up in arms about his breach in decorum. (SC has said something similar recently; I’ll have to find it.) Part of me feels Brad knows his writing is trash and probably would have a chuckle over MA’s post himself.

LMAO at how these actors know they’re playing dogsh!t. Gotta hand it to him. He never phones it in.

Would Debi Mazar do a soap? Ha.

Robin definitely. They sort of made a clown out of Tracy the last time she was back, but I’d still want to see JE on the canvas.

Got it. You were just sticking up for your girl! No, she is certainly not stupid. Theoretically she’d be GREAT to have back, but on FV’s GH in 2021? Pass.

Brenda was never stupid. Someone that made dumb decisions sometimes? Yes. But they always portrayed Brenda as at least mildly intelligent lol. Same with Carly. She makes stupid choses all the time, but I think she's very savvy still. I think my comment is being taken the wrong way lol. I don’t think Brenda is stupid. I think that FV’s allegiance is clearly with Carly, and I think the show would try to diminish Brenda in comparison to his precious queen, at least storywise. Carly always has to win. Just not something I’d want to see as a longtime Brenda fan.