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Because they're three months ahead and know what's coming up for the character. I liked Maurice, but it's not a huge loss. I feel that at this point he's played Ted very sympathetic and they might've wanted more layers so that we could easier see Silkpress's point of view, so maybe he couldn't deliver. Or maybe he was unprepared/flubbed his lines when he came on set and that became an issue with holding up production. Again, Tamara said she had to send out an e-mail about "professionalism"...

Galen is 54 years old, lol. Rafe probably should've had a kid by now considering how long he's been on the show, but I suspect the fact that he never seems to really spark in any romantic pairing has kept that from happening. So maybe a secret child is the way to go with him.

You're right. We needed at least 36 episodes of Dougie.

Considering Ben Gavin apparently bought a house in Atlanta indicates he's there for the long haul.

She's basically his aunt and were around when Nicole and Ted took him after his parents died. It's gross. I want Nicole to tear into her when this gets out.

Welp, next week looks dreadful again. Oh well.

Yeah, I've said it before, but unless they manage to straighten out the Derek / Ashley / Andre storyline, it'd be just better to write Derek and Ashley off as riding into the sunset. No need for recasts. With the Duprées I feel like they sort of need to do recasts if someone is not working out. I'm not surprised to hear about a recast (most of us expected it to happen with the 13 week cycle), but surprising that it's Ted. Either Maurice couldn't handle the workload or he didn't fit what MVJ had planned - it wouldn't surprise me if Maurice just made Ted too likeable and he's meant to have been a real ass towards Silkpress Sheila to motivate her behavior.

I *think* it was when Lughead carried her home after their drinks with Naomi and Jacob. I'm probably wrong though.

Catching up and is it just me, or did they enter Ashley's apartment at the other side of the door previously where they had a corridor? Now it seems like she lives on the bottom floor with a door directly out to a courtyard (?).

Sounds like they just wanted to force people over to D+ or to buy it, but I guess both Knots and Falcon Crest must be performing moderately well on Prime if they put it back on.

Recast Hope with Lisa Rinna!

Yes, I was pretty shocked when they mentioned that they'd hired a professional interior decorator to do it lol. I guess as other people have mentioned it's somewhat meant to mirror Dani's style in some ways, but it's by far the worst set so to explain it by Hayley doing it herself would've been good.

"Pornographic art pieces" - I admittingly haven't seen any of her "art pieces" and have no desire to do so, but let me press x for doubt 🫠

Random, but it looks like they did a minor revamp on the set by adding a kitchen island:

To be fair, they have no other option as they have nothing in development. It's cheap and they can try retooling it, but it's obvious they're not happy with its performance. I said it in another thread that I don't think it's General Hospital's performance (which at least has the backend of streaming) they're worried for at the moment - it's GMA3's which rely entirely on its linear performance.

Kat is being described as Nicole and Ted's "miracle baby" in the descriptions, yet we don't know the reason why since they already have a kid. That they had a child that "died" in the hospital and then got pregnant again would explain why they'd consider her a "miracle".

Well, the fact that they're basically trying to retool GMA3 behind the scenes shows that its performance is a concern for ABC: https://deadline.com/2025/03/abc-news-gma3-restructuring-1236330083/ General Hospital has the benefit of streaming and having that backend attached to it. That we're not hearing rumblings about them doing stuff backstage makes me think they're not overly concerned with GH's performance as of now. If they "fix" GMA3 that might change though, but then again, CBS kept endlessly retooling The Talk...

I agree, but I'm talking about if Martin was Anita and Vernon's instead of Nicole and Ted's child.

I mean, I'd place Naomi in her late 20s as Dani would've gotten a kid pretty soon after marriage and Martin around Claybon's real age (37), so late 30s. So not exactly the same age.

A small error there, but Jessica Klein didn't co-create Beverly Hills 90210.

Well, yes. I've said previously that I think the headwriter is just a part of the problem, but not the whole issue. Before Ron really went off rails I even pointed this out that it might be better with a devil you know, rather than one you don't. However, the Body & Soul story eating up the show for months really solidified that he had to go, but if I had to choose... so would several other people too. Then there's the fact that they're trying to do big stories on a shoestring budget... I think the reason why the EJ raped Sami reveal is good because it's a story that doesn't require a big budget (even if we'd all prefer to have certain people back for it, ie Sami and Allie, but soaps produced on shoe-string budget have had to make do in the past and so can DAYS). I will say that I think DAYS have good breakdown writers who usually do the best they can with what they're given to work with.

That might be correct? Not sure where I got writer from if that's the case lol

I think they mentioned that she's a writer/author in her first episodes.

This seems like something they obviously rewrote when they cast Cady as Pamela. I'm not sure we'll get more scenes from Vanessa / Nicole until we get to the point where they didn't reshoot (which we don't know when that happened). I suspect that the lunch they had to establish their friendship was one of those scenes they inserted.

To be fair, headwriters do not make all decisions. They sometimes get rather clear instructions from TPTB above them. He has abs. That's about it.