It almost makes sense if Martin wanted to demonstrate within the party that he's consolidated support from big donors. Although if the fundraiser was the night before(?) the primary, it was too late. And I think Martin would have had to go to Genoa City...he and Vernon could have stumped for a swing district WI candidate while they were there.
Also, given what we can infer about Martin's politics, I don't think he would want to flaunt corporate dollars to the general public. It would have been a closed-door fundraiser. And it's safe to assume the "upstart" challenger (who should have been a character on the show - Izaiah?) would have been vehemently opposed to big money in politics, and called Martin out for it. Not that the show would have been able to go there on CBS now.
Or, if they had run with the dropped thread of Bill challenging Martin, Bill could have been old friends/frenemies with Victor.
I wouldn't mind a half hour show, and it would be much easier to keep up. Of course, that would depend on which half of the show (roughly) would be distilled to30 minutes...
I had stopped watching GH regularly by some point in the late '90s, but for me the pacing on BTG is no worse than what I remember by that point. And what little I saw of Guza's work in the aughts was mostly the splashy and/or violent events; I would tune out soon afterward because everything seemed to grind to a halt in short order. If nothing else, I like BTG's events better - not least because no core family members die (although the way they focused on that precarious chandelier and the inevitable crash, arguably it should have fallen on somebody).
As for BTG, for me, the first major issue with pacing/momentum (unless there was something else even earlier that I'm forgetting) was after Dana/Leslie was exposed, when nothing came of the investigation into her attempt(s) on Laura's life and her violent tendencies just vanished. Wasn't Guza still around long after that? Bill and Hayley also were adrift for much of last year, again until the audience learned that she had been conning him the whole time.
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