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Daytime Confidential Interviews Ron Carlivati


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My reaction is based on availability. If they did this and then Andrea and John weren't in the story, I would have been livid. I can understand why they dropped that idea, as I would have hated the story arc ending with Tina in Statesville and Cord back in London alone if at the last minute they couldn't come back to NYC to tape.

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Todd framing Tina would have been awesome if Tina was on contract/strongly recurring. Tina and David really toyed with him before Tina finally confessed to him that he was Victor's real heir, so money has always been a real point of contention for them. Of course this would be Todd characteristically taking it too far.

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I was so wary of Tina returning again...talk about dodging a bullet. Most likely, Tina never would have been mentioned again, and Viki would have had zero reaction, or agreed that Tina had killed Victor. I can also see Cord believing Tina had done it and dumping her. And it sounds like this was mostly dropped because of his view on Todd, nothing to do with what would work for Tina's character.

Everything is about shock value and jokes - that's great if you are writing some type of fun spoof for a soap, but characters like Dorian and Tina are more than just laugh riots - it sounds like even to the end, everything about Dorian was going to be a guffaw, and be all about Tuc Watkins the comedy genius.

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Wow, that whole thing about having Dorian becoming president sounds soooo JER/MAB. I can't wait to see the DC gang joke about this on their next podcast.

I hope the mob is featured less on GH. The way RC talked about it, He made it seem like he still intended to do mob stories.

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Thanks for posting this! With all of the football I watched today, I will probably listen to this in full tomorrow - I'll have more energy, haha. I really want to hear what RC has to say, it sounds pretty good thus far. If there's one person I want writing the last soap opera I feel, I hate to say it, but invested in - it's Ron. I'm crossing my fingers he boots all of those unnecessary characters and storylines (Memphis Maggie, Weird Woman in White, the elusive stripper killer, and FauxKate included), help bring GH back to its roots and sprinkle in some OLTL love. If he's able to do that, I'm happy.

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I think the Tina story would've worked well so long as we continued to see her in prison, and they resolved it, like a classic Tina caper - she's wrongly accused, she's behind bars, now here is the truth and she's free and happy with Cord.

But since they apparently did not have Andrea and John locked down to the end, they didn't do it, and that was smart. The alternate storyline they went on with appropriate, and fun.

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