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I don't know if Ron was as fervent with defending the Frodd/Marty rapemance, but I definitely consider his Twitter defense of The Rapist Robert Ford/Messica to be indefensible. That said, I don't think that Ron should be vilified for embracing camp (especially when other soaps - save for B&B - run far away from it) at all. IMO, the camp and the winks to the viewers is one of the main things that made OLTL entertaining to me and is why I prefer what I saw of his GH regime thus far.

Lord knows too many soaps are stuck up their own ass - especially when they don't deserve to be.

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Natalie and John are married? WTF?!?

OMG, they are actually going to pursue Starr's music career on this show

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UGH! They have her singing over the final montage. Can we get 9 year old Stephen Clay Experience music back?

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Listening to Starr sing makes me wanna blow my gray matter all over the room. ohmy.png

But, Damn. Sam made me sad today. I'm pissed at Jason. Should we really care about his feelings. Over the feelings of his wife. Who just found out she was carrying the child of a sick freak rapist. Sam actually loves Jason. And, IMO. This would be so different if Sam had an affair and got pregnant. But, she didn't. She was RAPED! Why can't Jason just love that child like it was his own anyways? Oh right. Because, he's a stone cold !@#$%^&*].

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I sometimes wonder if those guys would be least likely to watch porn, since they see it all the time.

I wonder if this is just an excuse to drag Austin Peck onto this show for more 'comedy.' Maybe he will force Kristina and Michael to have sex.

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I kinda agree. I dont think Sam keeping this from Jason until she was 100% was sure. She was wrong about opening up to John. To me she was only thinking about Jason and trying to spare him pain. It doesnt matter that it took her a couple of days to tell him bc like you said she was the one that was RAPED, not him. What she has been through the past couple of days tormented over this is secondary to him. She was in limbo not really knowing if Franco did anything to her but she just got confirmation that she was in fact rape so I think her feelings should take precedence over him. I was about to be angry when she asked him to hug her and he stood there as if he wasnt goint to do it. It pissed me off that he had to think about it

The mentioning of Rick today was a way to not get AP on the show

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IA, the material that Carlivati and Valentini produce encourages bad, OTT, and lazy acting. Even good actors like Haskell, VerDorn, and Slezak weren't immune from falling into the trap. It's a little less obvious on GH IMO because the most frequently featured cast members were already pretty bad, OTT, or lazy before they showed up.

I liked Sullivan as Inga in Young Frankenstein the musical. She had a good voice and played the broad comedy well, although I never saw her highly acclaimed predecessor Sutton Foster so I can't compare them. Maybe theatre is just KS's niche or maybe she needs more training and experience in front of a camera but she is way too OTT at the moment.

I can't be too hard on Sullivan because I know that what she's doing right now is exactly what Carlivati and Valentini want from her, which is exactly the same stuff they wanted from Bree Williamson.

I think I might be able to enjoy the shameless awfulness of this if these guys didn't have such a long history of writing such blatantly offensive situations involving women, the mentally ill, and rape victims. God forbid a character happens to be all three.

I can't take anyone who would say such things about these talentless hacks seriously. Those two destroyed OLTL. Their insulting garbage forced me to quit a show I'd been devoted to for over twenty years and I still resent the hell out of them for that, especially since they turned the finale of 40+ year old show into nothing but a testament to their idiotic bs.

I don't dislike camp when done well but there need to be certain boundaries. For example, rape and mental illness are not funny. Don't twist things to try and make them that.

Yeah, that was bad on an epic scale. I think my ears are still bleeding.

It was so pathetic and deeply sad. The promo they aired after the episode pissed me off even more. The brother and paternity reveals are cut together to make it seem like Sam slept with her husband's brother & got pregnant by him, lied about the whole thing, and is getting busted. That's the impression that someone who hasn't seen the whole story would get seeing that ad, not that she was RAPED by a psycho who she's devastated to learn fathered her "miracle child" and it turns out he just happens to be her husband's long lost brother.

To me Jason has no right to judge or be angry about Sam's timing, she is the rape victim here and clearly needed time to process everything and prepare herself to tell him at all. Sorry, Saint Jasus, but you ain't the most important person in this and I'm sick and tired of Sam and everyone walking on eggshells around him.

How I wish this show had the balls to have his brain-damage truly repaired and bring him to a place where he has the decency to be appalled at and ashamed of what he's done as a partner in crime to Sonny and Carly, especially in terms of AJ. Of course, that would require a recast with an actor capable of portraying some manner of human emotion.

I wonder if this Franco is Jason's twin story is supposed to convince us that since Franco was nuts and he and Jason were twins, albeit fraternal, that St. Jasus, the emotionless hitman, is who Jason was always supposed to be and that the decent pre-brain injury Jason was somehow not who he really was.

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