GH50: December 2013 Discussion

[miche]

So when will the Ben is Lulu and Dante child secret come out?

[KMan101]

It's more or less coming out. Ellie discovered the eggs were missing just as Britt was going to tell Nik.

[Cheap21]

Ugh at my browser restarting and me losing all I had written

Spencer is like the most adorable thing ever. That boy is such a good little actor too. I had written that I wish they would acknowledge that Sonny is Spencer's uncle and literally after I did, they had Lesly mention taking him over to see his Uncle. Courtney was all but erased from the GH record books so it was a shock to hear her remembered today. I could go for Carly seeing that kid bc she was best friends with his mother.

Ewww to that hair

Ewww to these two. They are still on the show? Wasn't this fake romance like 2-3 months ago. I cant believe it all happened offscreen not that Im complaining, but big eye rolling to them picking it up as if its been a thing all along. I cant with their silly immature nonsense

Mac and Felicia STILL ignore their grandchild. Connie leaves town and NEITHER goes to see her.

[cassadine1991]

yeah they dragged Rafe and Taylor back from where they came, now if they can go back, though I'm indifferent toward Rafe, without the Barrington side of him being mentioned, I don't see the point of his character

I hate how these soaps don't know how to write for their teens anymore, and when they try they are stuck in the olden days..

I also like the kid playing Spencer.. He's so adorable...

Mac, Felicia, Robert, Anna and Robin not having scenes with baby Connie/Georgie, I don't get why..

[AlexElizabeth]

This is basically what all I was going to say too. I can't with them acting like this story has been going on all along when they haven't been on in over a month. Terrible scenes.

Britt and Nik Spencer

[Nate4]

I'm writing this on my phone because my wifi isn't working.

I actually enjoyed Fridays episode. BYE spinelli and ellie. Maybe there air plane crashes and that's how Maxie gets DID! 😑

The episode was made by Spencer going to see Sonny. I'm glad they finally remember that spencer is related to sonny. And im so glad Leslie got to take him.

The Lulu / Dante scenes were good! Carly is annoying AF lately.

[Vee]

Ron and Frank decided a while back that they can just pretend stories are still active no matter how long they drop them.

I understand the budgetary impetus behind that kind of story rotation, but it's gone way beyond the pale both on GH and in the last couple of years they had on OLTL. When they started their regime at OL you would go a week or two without a couple people being featured much and it was a healthy system - they also stockpiled a lot of vet guarantees, like Erika Slezak, Hillary Smith, etc. so that they could bring them on great guns during key sweeps material while parceling them out carefully when they needed to. In the meantime the characters who were being downshifted for a couple weeks would get a day or two in that timeframe. But for a long time, it never felt imbalanced. Until it eventually tipped over, and they've never recovered from that.

I'm sure a big part of it is budget, but an equal part of it at this point IMO is the way Ron's work is structured. He can no longer manage that many characters and stories, so he just shuttles them off indefinitely and expects a day or a line or two here or there to be enough for the audience to believe there is still some sort of "arc" in play for the characters that are getting short shrifted. And it's not as though these kids are fascinating or anything, this story's all crap - but to keep it, or any storyline, going as though no time has passed and pick it up like it's nothing, it's ridiculous.

[ChitHappens]

Amen! Praise Jesus!

Viewers were squawkin about how great the Spencer/Sonny scenes were, but I was scratching my head because there was no prior relationship outside of being blood related. He drops people in scenes and fans say "thank you Ron for giving us something Guza didn't". Thank God Guza never told stories like this! Thursday's show was the first time I really appreciated what Craptini has done. There were spots here and there before this, but Thursday seemed like someone actually cared and knew how to write a soap.

[Vee]

BTW, wasn't Shawn some sort of teacher or science professor or something at one point? Doesn't he have those credentials under his belt? And yet all he does for a living is run Kelly's and not kill people for Sonny as "The Black Guy I Had To Hire When Jason Died".

It's not that I can't understand Shawn doing this kind of wetwork - he has a background in that. But he was also supposedly tormented by those years. While I believe what he told Alexis when they split - about needing the rush - it should be something he struggles against, that he tries to better himself past; it should be an ongoing thread as he tries to go back into his civilian line of work that he's passionate about. Instead they've got the one contract(?) black male on the show raising a young man while they both know he makes his money as a mob enforcer, and they act like it's no big thing. It's such a lousy use of Sean Blakemore.

[ChitHappens]

Yes, Shawn has college degree with a concentration in Chemistry. He teaches, but since no one goes to school, I don't see how they can use this.

He could have been at GH playing a key role in the poisoning SL last year.

[cassadine1991]

Guess we need to find out who's breakdown and script writers.for Thursday

[Vee]

They could have him teaching at PCU. Or at the high school. They have enough young people. Even if they didn't you could just show him with a briefcase, I don't care. But to make it where he's running the greasy spoon and killing folks and him and T.J. are just shrugging it out - I think it's a shitty message and a really shady use of the two black dudes on the show.

I mean, there's got to be some sort of better medium between that and the incredibly boring tokens on Y&R. Yes, I find all of them boring, every last one.

Hell, he could have done some work at Deception for Lucy and Laura. That was all cosmetics or perfumes or something.

[DRW50]

Do Molly and Rafe have any fans?

[cassadine1991]

Believe it or not, they do have a following

[John]

I did like the Jerry/Bobbie scenes and was glad they finally adressed that sonce Guza totally had amnesia of that from 2007-11 however the drop in scenes are getting stupid

It was nice to see Lesley but how come we were told of her lunch with Monica and didnt see it???

That woukd have meant more to me. Just sayin