I'm just tired of Todd's OTT comedy routine every day. How many times did he mess up AJ's name this past week? It would've been fine if he did it once but they had to overdo it and have him mess it up like 6 times. DJ, BJ, OJ, TJ, LL uncool J, RJ. Oh wow, so funny. I think I just peed myself a little bit. And then we have Frank tweeting about how Todd with the donuts was so hysterical. This fool can't leave soon enough for me. I bet his exit will be leaving PC to go to clown college.

LOL.

IMO, (some of) this stuff worked on OLTL, and yeah GH has been "campy" in the past, but some of this sh-t I have been seeing and hearing has been ridiculous. I am glad I have been MIA for the relish storyline.

Well, that's been proven it can't be done under this "writing" staff. None of these relationships can be taken seriously even when they're attempting to write them that way. Carly/Johnny, Sonny/Konnie, Kristina/Trey, Sam/McBain, Maxie/Uterus... etc.

Maxie/Uterus. Snort.

Those scenes with Sonny and Connie at his place on Thursday(?) were probably the best either of them have had in this entire horrible storyline, I think. And they both did really well and it was actually very well-written, IMO. Because it was honest, none of the other bullshit or camp or jokes. Even Tess and Jessica on OLTL never really had those scenes where someone told her/them/it to cut the [!@#$%^&*] - Natalie and Brody did that once or twice but it was almost always pitched at a different level, where one character was the victim or both were caricatures. Sonny is a very damaged person with a history of mental illness. He should have had this conversation months ago. It's the most I've liked Sonny in years.

The problem is that those scenes should've happened months ago, and they existed in a vacuum. Virtually nothing else in this horrible story, from the beginning to now, has been treated that way. And it's pretty much too late to make Connie fleshed out, in this current form at least - they never even showed the supposed therapy where she 'learned' she was the host personality. On any other show at any other time we'd have seen those scenes, as we did for Viki on OLTL years ago. That's unacceptable. And that's why they need to promote whoever wrote the other day's scenes to a more powerful position.

Edited March 16, 201312 yr by Vee

See Carl, I think they are "writing" Tarly very serious. The problem is Todd when he is not with Carly. He's a complete clown and I can't stand the sight of him. This is the second time Todd has separated a child from its mother, and the best they can do is have him slurping Chinese food so that we can laugh? Granted the second child stealing wasn't as heinous as the first, but this should have changed this character. Todd has not yet reflected on any of his wrong doings, but when FRon need for us to sympathize with Todd, we have to hear about his horrible childhood. It's just awful! In the process of trying to win back Carly, I'd like to see this man ask himself a few questions. Nothing Todd has done has affected him one bit and that is absolute garbage!

I think all of it is a problem. RH and LW play the hell out of their scenes and I think they put a lot into it, but - putting aside the fact that the scenes are extremely redundant re: his stories with Blair and Tea in the 90s - the material is written for characters who, like Todd and Blair/Tea on OLTL, have been together for at least a year or five years, ten years and have a wealth of experience with each other. In reality, Todd and Carly had sex and were 'together' for maybe eight hours; as you say, they barely talk about each other's lives or histories. They have never honestly discussed the Blair, Jax, etc. issues - or Sonny, for that matter, who was a constant stumbling block in Carly's long relationship with Jax, and who her bond with ultimately tore them apart. But regardless, Todd/Carly treat each other like they're Barbra and Robert Redford in The Way We Were. That's why it's false. To use horrible geek video gamer parlance, RC's team basically wants to import a save game - they want to apply all that history and just slap it onto Todd and Carly.

I could be actually torn re: these two, given the halfway-decent chemistry (which I still don't think is as hot as Laura's with Sean Kanan, but that's another story) if they wrote something new for them, some new way of relating to each other and reacting that wasn't just replaying Todd's best vintages with no actual background to draw from. Take crossovers in general: I was re-reading Harding Lemay's book, and I'm fairly convinced that when they moved the character of Robert Delaney from spinoff Somerset to Lemay's Another World and put him with AW fan favorite Lenore (Susan Sullivan) they didn't just reheat either character's popular material from their much-beloved prior pairings on their respective shows. They made something new, for the then and there, the here and now. GH is not doing that with Todd and Carly, and due to that weakness as well as having A.J. on the scene, they make Todd and Carly into the 'boring' option for Carly. That should not be possible with Todd Manning. That's why it fails. It's redundant, it's bland, and the rehash and the laziness insults my intelligence. It's not the actors. I don't mind Roger Howarth doing comedy - he's always done some of that. It's that there's nothing else the rest of the time but vanilla.

I feel terrible, I have no idea who the guy is. Tom Baldwin?

JMB only has a few days left to air guys. Feels so anticlimactic.

JMB only has a few days left to air guys. Feels so anticlimactic.

Much like JMB herself.

JMB only has a few days left to air guys. Feels so anticlimactic.

Yep. Here's what happens (some details may not be 100% accurate but this is what I've pieced together from a few reliable sources- and it involves my Bobbie! YAY!):

The family receives a package that they believe is from Bobbie. Later, Dante finds Lulu unconscious. Before he can get help, he is knocked out by someone not seen. When he wakes up, Lulu is gone. Later they realize that there are two packages, one from Bobbie and one from someone else. The one they originally thought to be from Bobbie is actually from someone else and contains a hidden warning for Lulu. This sets off the search for Lulu as well as Bobbie's return.

Edited March 16, 201312 yr by Mr. Vixen

JMB only has a few days left to air guys. Feels so anticlimactic.

Well. She was never a FrankenRon pet.

Much like JMB herself.

I disagree. Love Julie. She hasnt been written for since the hacktini arrived. But I totally see Marcy/Emme whatever being the new focal point. Ron and Frank are the biggest fangurls ever. It's how they roll. Let's see. It wont be the wonder that is pickle relish. Maybe Wolfe will make another appearance.

I feel terrible, I have no idea who the guy is. Tom Baldwin?

Dan Rooney, maybe? (Totally guessing here)

Dan Rooney, maybe? (Totally guessing here)

Oh, I think you might be right.

Dan Rooney, maybe? (Totally guessing here)

It is. I was just about to respond but you beat me to it.

It is. I was just about to respond but you beat me to it.

So much disco.

- the material is written for characters who, like Todd and Blair/Tea on OLTL, have been together for at least a year or five years, ten years and have a wealth of experience with each other. In reality, Todd and Carly had sex and were 'together' for maybe eight hours; as you say, they barely talk about each other's lives or histories. They have never honestly discussed the Blair, Jax, etc. issues - or Sonny, for that matter, who was a constant stumbling block in Carly's long relationship with Jax, .

And yet you think the same writing works for John and Sam. John doesn't know Sam screwed both her sister's fathers. John knows nothing of Sam's history of sleeping with men to con them. Sam doesn't know that John's father died when he was a teen Rafe's age. Sam doesnt know that john has a history of rescuing damsels then ditching hem. But you accept that.

Edited March 17, 201312 yr by rhinohide