I love FH, too. But I find the contrast between Anna's warmth with John and Luke versus Duke striking. KW shown far more intense conflicted feelings for JW than FH has summoned in any scene to date with IB. I get nothing from FH/IB scenes, nada. FH acts cold and IB tries too hard.

It's very obvious RC's only interest in Duke was the Faison reveal stuff. Typical RC he doesn't know what to do next.

I agree.

With all due respect, you've been watching for maybe a week. Don't presume to lecture us about how we should treat the show when we've been watching it for a year, or years under this regime on two different shows.

I personally don't think GH is nearly as horrific as others in the thread claim, nor as glorious and fantastic as other sites feel where the show is colossally overrated and equated with the Second Coming. I think the truth here is somewhere in between both extremes. I truly enjoy it everyday, something I have not done since 2000, and I also excoriate it everyday. I love and hate the show in equal measure on a daily basis; there are things I cheer for and then things I could spend pages tearing into. I think it is compulsively watchable with great stuff everyday but it is also profoundly weak and damaged on many other levels which could be helped with just a little TLC, thought and effort beyond just churning out the product according to Frank Valentini's stopwatch and Ron Carlivati's all-encompassing plot beats. I think they are very good at what they do, I think they saved the show, but I also think what they do has become an assembly line. And it doesn't have to be just that kind of fast food. When they're at their best, it's not. They got a lot right during that first day, especially in honoring Jessie Brewer and Nurse Amy. The Spinelli/Ellie number was actually great, as was Jack Wagner singing, and Sam and the DWTS guy. It's the larger macro-structure of the show, how they run it and assemble it, that needs to be fixed. I knew that from OLTL, and I know that here. There needs to be a co-writer, and there needs to be someone saying 'slow down,' and there needs to be someone with another set of eyes and tastes. Preferably a woman.

Well said!

Well said!

+1

Kelly/Sam dancing as bad writing? Who didn't know Sam would learn that dance in 20 minutes? The performance was great, and that had nothing to do with the writing. However, it was a number for the ball and it worked! If I were going to talk about the horrid writing, and I do, this would be at the bottom of the list!

But really, it seems like we can't win for losing. We bitch about the show being sucky, we get scolded for complaining. We praise Kelly/Sam for a scene we found fun and enjoyable, we get scolded for praising bad writing.

I vote that every monthly thread from now on mention a DuckTales character somewhere.

+1.

Why did Lesley and.. I think it's Rick? Get divorced?

I don't know what happened after she was presumed dead, and then when she turned up alive. I guess they never acknowledged the status of their marriage after that.

I don't know what happened after she was presumed dead, and then when she turned up alive. I guess they never acknowledged the status of their marriage after that.

When Rick came back to Port Charles in 2002 for the Luke and Laura wedding that never happened, Lesley talked to him. She said that she was angry. She had come back and everything they had was no more. She did, however, understand that he made the only choice he could at the time which was to move on and she just wanted the chance to express herself so she could move on as well.

When Rick came back to Port Charles in 2002 for the Luke and Laura wedding that never happened, Lesley talked to him. She said that she was angry. She had come back and everything they had was no more. She did, however, understand that he made the only choice he could at the time which was to move on and she just wanted the chance to express herself so she could move on as well.

And now I know. Thank you.

My pleasure.

LOL! Someone said Monica looks like their mother, LOL. Whatever the case, this was some good stuff back then and Leslie was beautiful. On yesterday's show at the Nurse's Ball, I could actually see the full outline of her "pullback" when they showed her from a certain angle. It was as if someone was standing behind her and pulling her skin back as tight as they could to fasten it. Very disturbing.

Which part?

But really, it seems like we can't win for losing. We bitch about the show being sucky, we get scolded for complaining. We praise Kelly/Sam for a scene we found fun and enjoyable, we get scolded for praising bad writing.

That's because it seems contradictory to be attacking things for supposedly not making sense or being rushed, and then praise the most rushed thing of all, that also does little to nothing to advance Sam's character or the plot.

The number was great dancing, and it was entertaining, but it was clearly about "Kelly and DWTS" guy, because the setup for it as Sam made no sense. There's no reason the show had to act like Sam was called in at the last minute. He could have told her even at the beginning of the show his partner had dropped out and it would have made more sense than it did. In contrast, the other numbers and the rest of the episode not only made more sense but also showed something about the characters or advanced story.

If people weren't picking on other things while praising being taken completely out of the fiction in that scene, I probably wouldn't have brought it up. Because yes, I do love the show right now and yes I do think the perfect is not the enemy of the good. But I felt picking on other things while praising that was a contradiction.

Sorry, I'm not telling anyone how to feel or not to post their opinions or analyses. I don't just want to see uniformly positive comments. I'm not calling anyone "deaf" as R Sinclair you wrote about me (LOL). I'm just pointing out what I see as a contradiction and wanting to be clear about my opinion of the strengths and the weaknesses of yesterday's episode and the show.

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jfung I agree what you said, most bash cause it's the names Ron and Frank, heck there are people who don't even watch that bash non stop lol

I think it's Richard Simmons at the end, he so wanted revenge lol. They're doing to Sam what they did to Liz for so long they don't know what to do with her. Sam is too much identified with Jason. She's actually a better character away from him.

Haha, Richard Simmons back for revenge, that would be a WTF moment!

LOL he said he's in two episodes, and has only done 1 so far, but that's just a guess on my part

I do love that a woman over 40 is in a love triangle. If Frons & co saw that they'd jump off the nearest building lol

They'd jump off the highest building in Port Charles. The ELQ building. Poor Tracy would have a mess to clean up.