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I’m enjoying the show aside from this Only Fans stalker with Stacey but now Freddie’s maybe killed him so hopefully the stalking bits almost over. The UK soaps always have to have at least one predator story and way underage pregnancy plot going at all times and its my only real annoyance with them

Love Cindy being back and her new black daughters and ex are decent new characters I really picked the show back up for them. Shame they’re attached to Linda (her Mick and Shirley and the two daughters drove me away from the show way back) but at least they run The Vic. I’ve never been an Ian fan either and Bobby is just as much of an insufferable loser his entitlement to the one daughter is gross I hope they ship him off eventually and just keep Peter around.

I like Ravi but the writings on the wall. He better not be the Christmas death cause it’d be really lackluster. Suki and Denise are two other characters who really grate for me I wanted them to leave him and Chelsea and his kid alone

I like Kat with Phil, him cheating was pretty dumb but I enjoyed Alfie, Sharon and Keanu’s involvement.

Add Sonia and Ben to characters I dislike list but thankfully the pace of the show is so quick and they aren’t being played heavy so they don’t really bother me I just zone out when they pop up. 
 

I really wish Janine and Sam were still around when I tuned back in they are my favorite UK vixens. Hopefully Sam pops back in soon

GH should definitely dump their current head writers and keep the scab team. Pacing has been much improved and this is the first time in a decade I actually can sit through whole episodes without fast forwarding

Yeah this Molly is god awful. Frank’s penchant for bland blondish brunette low talent white women needs to be investigated. The actresses playing Esme, Sascha and the one who was Nelle have the same vibe at varying degrees of talent level and its such a bad casting type for soap operas, I don’t understand it.

YR - Fetus in the fireplace with Ashley and Adam drove me away for a while, didn’t come back until JFP became EP. Didn’t miss an episode again until Mishael Morgan was killed off as Hilary and have only sparingly tuned back in since.

GH - I never missed an episode until shortly after Garrin Wolf took over. When Frank and Ron joined I stopped watching full episodes for a few years its only been recently that I’ve kind of gotten back into it.

Days - When EJ raped Sami I took my first break. Now I’ll randomly watch for a few months when characters I like pop in for visits.

AMC - Was never the same when production moved to LA. When it got cancelled I felt guilty for abandoning the show

Passions - When they made Whitney and Chad brother and sister it was just too much lol, couldn’t do it. 
 

Guiding Light - Somewhere around Peapack I just had to give it up

She actually reminded me of the original Chanel actress. Very boring character but that current 20 something set all are.

Melissa Ordway is so dry as Abby I would have taken her back as a recast tbh

She was too old for the role in the first place. I’ll never forget one day Charity Rahmer was walking around in a bad wig and the next here was Grandma Belle looking older than Sami. It was sad to see a legacy character dismantled by poor casting decisions.

I agree with her that Belle should be a more important role on canvas but a big reason for why she isn’t has been the fact MM has never been a good candidate as a leading actress. They tried for years to make her work and it never really clicked until the Chloe/Phillip/Belle/Shawn quad back in 08 before they let her go the first time. Corday should have dumped her and let Kristen Storms come back when she asked right before she went to GH.  I hope they recast with a more interesting actress.

Watching season 7, the storylines are pretty decent and stronger than the previous season but I think the casting for Katherine Wentworth was a complete miss and hinders so much of the potential. She’s not mysterious subtle or intriguing, she’s just blah!

I have a hard time buying Bobbie and Pam wouldn’t have seen right thru her already and it makes the relationship angst less believable even with Mark and Jenna as interlopers.

Sue Ellen and the pool boy was also pretty gross but I think that story has wrapped where I’m at.

I’m glad Alarr’s been fired but him getting away with this behavior for damn near 20 years and being allowed to take over the entire production indicates a need for bigger changes. He can’t be the only one exhibiting that kind of behavior BTS. More heads need to roll and a deeper look at how the cast and crew are treated and (over) worked. If the show was ever do for one of Ken’s “Plans to save DAYS” this is the time.

The general shoulder shrugging this story has gotten from Corday, SAG/AFTRA and the industry as a whole is really disgusting. I figured with this production model the show had to be pretty nasty BTS but this is insane. The fact Alarr has been able to get away with this crap for years even post Me Too era is ridiculous. Ken, Sony and NBC Universal should be ashamed of themselves, SOD as well for their lack of coverage. Very proud of Ari Zurker and the entire cast and crew that have spoken out and hope they not only fire him but reroute the hr, pr and production issues.

10 hours ago, Vee said:

That's 100% what's happened to a segment of their audience and it's why they now write Carly the way they do, long after the Guza team is largely gone. They are both afraid to do anything else and don't want to.

But most of the Guza team (minus Liz Korte, who's still there) knew how to write Carly ugly and go for the throat, right to the end. As I've said before, they were not averse to writing Laura's Carly as hard, cold and ugly to the wrong people/heroic protagonists - and Laura played it very, very well. When Carly had a vendetta, even in her later dotage with Jax and the kids, the money and the beautiful yellow house, you knew LW's Carly could still make it her mission in life for all the wrong reasons. Yes, she's been overpropped and over-indulged since at least near the end of Sarah's run but they didn't have to lay out nearly as many hosannas to Carly's kindness and greatness until this show became Frank's house and only Frank's. Until I'd say the mid-2010s they were still able to allow Carly to sometimes be two things.

The biggest tragedy of losing Guza was the dismantling of that writers room and their consistency when it came to character voices and dynamics. Whenever I tune back in now the way Carly interacts with and is pleasantly received by so many characters is so jarring for me. I do wonder how Laura Wright feels about it because she used to relish in playing Carly’s unreserved vitriol.

4 hours ago, Jeff said:

Personally, I have never warmed up to Allison Lanier, I mean she's okay.  I prefer/miss Hunter King.  Unpopular opinion...?

Lanier is fine but I miss Hunter King as well. A lot of the material AL is struggling with currently HK would’ve had an easier time playing, she could knock out those bratty whiny freakout moments with little effort. AL’s Summer should be written as icier and more indignant.

Noah and Kyle should be carrying on the Newman vs Abbot legacy, ridiculous he isn’t on canvas and that we wasted so many years with RA in the role. Allie should have came on looking for vengeance and stirring the pot, they killed Keemo for no damn reason.

I didn’t like the original Cameron story when it aired and this one seems like its going to be an uneventful speed rush.

I gotta say I really dig Tucker and Ashley together. The show is merely background noise until I see them on, ED and TSJ are very fun cause they’re playing with their chemistry instead of doing the run of the meal standard speed thru soap acting. 

On 5/8/2023 at 3:25 PM, Liberty City said:

Kate Mansi – REVAMP MAGAZINE

Last question is a preview of what's to come with Kristina.

So she’s just gonna be Molly’s surrogate, boring

She would’ve been a better Lulu recast.

I’ve always liked LA but its clear they were never going to invest in her and the first born daughter of Sonny and Alexis should be a series lead.

I despise the color scheme (the white red and gold used for the new mid show bumpers is much better) and the font choice for the actor names is horrible but I love everything else about it. I noticed as they’ve been modifying it daily the shot choices for the actors have gotten more dramatic and sleek which is good. I also like how they fade the actors in and out instead of just throwing a bunch of random shots at the screen like the last opening. Makes me miss editing

What a creep, hopefully we get a good replacement cause the show stinks

Where is Emma? Carly and Robin's daughters on canvas together practically writes itself

I like them but they've failed at positioning these two as the young leads due to clunky boring writing. The Lola triangle was a fail and so is this Tara Ashland nonsense.

7 hours ago, Chris B said:

Seeing them side by side is incredible. I hadn't realized how much they do look a like. If it works out I'd hope at one point they pull an Another World with Vicky/Marley and bring Hilary back (who people prefer Mishael as anyway) and they could have Karla play Amanda. Either way I will be tuning in to see how Karla does.

I'd be here for this just for the fact we could have 5 black women on the show at once

This bullying story only worked because of Alyvia so I'm sorry to see her go but she's much too good an actress to stick around for this show.

I missed most of the beginning of her run but I really love her and Xander together so I'm sad. They'll probably swap her out for another round of Melanie if the actress ain't busy

Mishael Morgan lowered her stock value not wanting to come back as Hilary. I haven't cared about anything going on with Amanda long enough to sit through more than a few weeks before tuning out again