GH50: Discussion for the month of July...

[ChitHappens]

Damn! I seriously apologize for calling the clown Kate! I will make it up to everyone and fix that post.

[KMan101]

Not counting the two new girls, and including everyone on that list, they regularly use *50* people! How insane is that?

[OldGHFan]

It is insane. Especially for a show that is financially strapped. Meanwhile, we get our favored vets on air once or twice a month if we're lucky.

[ChitHappens]

It's positively insane!!!!!!! But watch Crappy's pets work at least 15 eppies/month!

[KMan101]

Sigh. Yep.

At least Maura West seems to have finally been given a day or two off. Sheesh.

The balance is just so awful. You get overloaded on people and then don't see them for weeks. It was the same way with his OLTL.

[alexisfan07]

I've been asking that for a year. It seems to be who they deem worthy enough to include and who they can squeeze into two versions of the ten second opening.

[ChitHappens]

You see certain GH characters a few days and then they disappear for a few weeks. The Livers and MW are off for a day or 2 and then on for 3 consecutive weeks. FrankenTodd is only off screen because Roger gets an extended vacation and outs for whatever projects he wants (Californication). Shameful to shackle Carly to this!

[Cheap21]

Livers? WTH lol

[EricMontreal22]

So little of this show makes sense to me. Why is Connie now responsible for circulation of the paper--and where is the staff of this paper anyway, and wasn't the paper Todd's Sun--was that ever explained when he left? not that I care... ANd it's nice to see that Connie seems more concerned about her magazine suddenly than she ever has about sorting out her rape. You have a show about a dying baby and yet there is ZERO emotional investment or emotional stakes in ANYTHING going on for me.

[Vee]

Oh, the whole paper thing exists in its super-special new reality.

When Todd came to town, he bought out the parent company that owned Crimson as well as the Port Charles Press. He made the Press over into the Port Charles branch of the Sun and took a firmer hand over Kate/Connie. Putting aside the fact that they are now pretending the OLTLers did not exist on GH, we can assume Todd dropped his interest in the larger conglomerate and sold it off when he left town. We saw workers taking down the "Manning Enterprises" sign in the Crimson offices.

I don't remember any point at which Kate or Connie was in control of either the Press or the Sun, but it may have happened briefly when Todd was incarcerated. Obviously they're now trying to pretend Connie is a hard journalist and should also be in charge of the local paper, which is just ridiculous and awkward IMO. But apparently we're to assume William deVry's character, Wells, took over the conglomerate from Todd.

[ChitHappens]

Vee, Connie appointed herself the editor of the paper while Todd was incarcerated. She did the story on Tracy funneling mob money thru ELQ. This was the time where she and Tracy were friends for a second.

When is this bitch gonna die, already?!

[Vee]

That's when I figured it would have happened.

Still, Connie suddenly becoming a full-time newspaper reporter is ridiculous.

[AlexElizabeth]

I'm ready for Dylan Cash to make his triumphant return and give us the Tale of Two Michael's.

[ChitHappens]

It's beyond ridiculous! Not sure why TIIC [on any soap] believe exit stories are not important. I want Connie gone like yesterday, but a bullshit story of her big journalist story going awry? She was a major character who ate the show whole for a good 14 months and the exit is for the damn birds? Absolutely ridiculous. A reporter overnight when she's really been off screen quite a bit. Same with Johnny. The man kills 3 people, slithers back into Carly's bed as means of an alibi, gets an attack of conscience, spills all and is escorted off so that Todd can get the remainder of his story.

Remember when exits and reveals kept us glued?

[alexisfan07]

OMG. Gurl, have you seen his recent commercials? I assure you, you're not ready.