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Certainly none in the 2010s. IIRC he literally fled the Q mansion on foot like a bat out of hell after being found out as being in league with Fluke. I thought it was too bad as I felt there was a real spark there with Jane. But of course they have so much bad history.

The same could've held for Richard Burgi's Paul Hornsby recast as Burgi is a very accomplished actor, but he was wasted by turning out to be serial killer. And the show passed on Jane's major chemistry with Michael Easton when Finn first came on, and seems to have no appetite for pairing her with Cody. So castoff recurring player MEK it is.

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Burgi was wasted on GH. He worked with opposite Jane Elliot, Robert Palmer Watkins & Maura West. Even the brief interactions/teasing with Finola Hughes' Anna Devane held some kind of promise. The whole Paul return storyline turned out to be such a damn dud.

Hell, even Grayson McCouch's recasting into the role of Kyle Sloane was wasted, too!

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Thanks.

Paul was such an empty character, but with someone as dynamic as Burgi they could have done more. 

They still could with Larry but I guess they won't.

I know Tracy/Cody was never going to happen, but I'd rather Tracy have another turn on the day player wheel than being with MEK in his non-part. 

At least it's not Cyrus...

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You really do not. Trust me. Anyone who has watched this show 30 years or more knows they both literally cannot exist. (They're alleged to have been born in 1991-92, respectively.)

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Thank you! Just confused on when Dominique had time to hide a baby from Mac since we all saw her onscreen constantly and all I ever remember her doing was hanging out with Scott and Lucy and then dying! 

Sasha seems harmless enough, but the timeline is...tough.

I'll never understand GH's constantly bringing on randos instead of using literally any of the multitude of characters they have offscreen that could be used.

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Literally not possible in either case. And Holly tossed off a line about her and Robert sleeping together in early '92 to make Sasha which seems implausible at best under those story circumstances at the time, but the worst part is she was onscreen for the next 18 months. 

This is the shít that always pisses me off, especially when you still have people on staff who have been there long enough to know better (Korte). I can handle retcon kids even when I find some totally unnecessary (Gio), but I can't tolerate when it's physically impossible. The only message to the audience is that they think we're that fuckin' stupid.

I do like Cody, and I like him as Mac's son. There's no need (and no way) for him to be Dominique's. Sasha I barely tolerate, and the insulting Scorpio thing makes it worse.

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Mac had a very full life of adventuring before he hit Port Charles and that should have been enough to build Cody around. It has barely been mined at all. The use of Dominique was another one of those throwing an older character’s name into the current show without any basis in history we watched or any connection to today. See Jackie Templeton, Jagger, Paul Hornsby, Jimmy Lee Holt for Todd Manning part 3, etc.

Especially egregious was trying to create moments between Holly and Robert by using flashbacks from her 1991 return where they were not together. I think one of them originally aired when Anna was missing and Robert was going after her, shortly before TR left. I thought Holly and Sasha did have good scenes and had good chemistry. I don’t hate Sasha as a Scorpio. I hate how they got there when logical windows exist.

To me the issue is that they have no intention of writing a meaningful story for Holly, Robert, or Mac. So they went the easy route to try to make the people they do want to write for have ties (Sasha and Cody).

Korte was there when Guza/Riche used Genie’s idea that Laura had a child while she was kidnapped by the Cassadines. As we all keep saying, she should know better.

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I actually think they thought this was their way of giving a kind of love letter sendoff to Robert and Holly - it's clear someone there is a big fan. I just think it was done in the worst, most lazy way imaginable, and also to shore up Sasha who almost got cut last year (and probably should've been). But hey, their fanbase seems happy.

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If it was to shore up Sasha it is counterproductive as her parents are barely on and all they did was end a decent enough relationship she had. If they still wanted to have her get pregnant with Michael's child there were other ways to break her and Cody up. 

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Yes, but they now have two excuses not to cut her - she's Robert and Holly's daughter (and we know Emma Samms at least will recur soon) and related to a zillion people, and she is having Michael's child. Much more of a buffer than she had a year ago.

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