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Michael Easton is beloved? By who???

Love Maura. Don't quite get her gush about hair and wardrobe, because I find most of the dresses butt ugly and the hair in general on this show is atrocious...but I guess that's JMO.

Sigh...just the thought of Michael on this show makes me happy. In spite of the boring piece of crap this show is.

It is kind of weird that Geary and Easton presented her her Emmys.

If nothing else, I'm happy she's happy there. I do think Y&R was an uncomfortable place for her to work, given the writing for her character. Or lack thereof.

Maura is great, and no shade, but not them trying to act like Ave is some 'game changer' type OG (Sarah Brown) Carly character. LOL Ava is basically like every 'villain' female lead GH has had since the likes of Katherine Bell.

Maura is great, and no shade, but not them trying to act like Ave is some 'game changer' type OG (Sarah Brown) Carly character. LOL Ava is basically like every 'villain' female lead GH has had since the likes of Katherine Bell.

GH hasn't really had any since Katherine. An unfortunate by-product of having Sonny and Jason as the heroes is the villains had to be ever more depraved and violent. Simple schemers had no place on the show during the Guza era.

Ava is no Faitch Roscoe but she is the best female villian since.

Ava is no Faitch Roscoe but she is the best female villian since.

I'd take Claudia Zacchara anyday over Ava Jerome!

I'd take Claudia Zacchara anyday over Ava Jerome!

Oh !@#$%^&*] I forgot about her. So would I.

Is Ava even a villain? She mostly cries about her brain dead walking hard on of a boyfriend, cries about Horton-Hears-a-Kukla, and occasionally hisses at people.

The only fans I see of her are people who go on about what a victim she is and why can't she and her dildo be happy.

I don't see any "love to hate" or "what will she do next" fans. Any of that.

I just see people who want to see her strip Morgan.

Edited January 24, 201411 yr by DRW50

Well, I read the full interview, and it was OK, other than the bizarre part about Easton. Not too gushy, not too many leading questions, and Maura had great responses.

4 for you, Michael Fairman.

I enjoy Ava as a villain. I don't enjoy the schmaltz with Morgan.

It's tough for me to remember she ever was a villain.

Despite the crazy writing, the hyperbole of some of the questions, all of that, I love this actress and the way she plays Ava. And, as she indicates in the interview, she is "here to serve the script." Her answers to the questions were very thoughtful and direct. She seems like a very centered lady.

And I can't fault her response to the Y&R question. It totally reminds me of how MM fans tried to pull her into the drama about Eric Braeden having got her fired, and she just came on Twitter and said "Absolutely NOT. NOt in any way, shape or form. Have no idea why my name is involved in ANY of it." Very succinct.

Despite the crazy writing, the hyperbole of some of the questions, all of that, I love this actress and the way she plays Ava. And, as she indicates in the interview, she is "here to serve the script." Her answers to the questions were very thoughtful and direct. She seems like a very centered lady.

And I can't fault her response to the Y&R question. It totally reminds me of how MM fans tried to pull her into the drama about Eric Braeden having got her fired, and she just came on Twitter and said "Absolutely NOT. NOt in any way, shape or form. Have no idea why my name is involved in ANY of it." Very succinct.

While I think The Jerome Sisters are laughable, I would have Ava kill Jillian. Ava would work for me so much better under a better writer. As for MW, she's always been a class act and she as well as a few others "serve the script" and make no demands no matter how bad the writing for the character may be. These are the kind of actors you work hard to keep, IMHO!

I absolutely loved how she quickly removed herself from MM's trash.

It's tough for me to remember she ever was a villain.

The character is only a villain because she tells us so. Nothing has transpired onscreen to convince me that she is menacing in any way shape or form!

I enjoy Ava as a villain. I don't enjoy the schmaltz with Morgan.

Absolutely agree!

Ava is no Faitch Roscoe but she is the best female villian since.

When Ava becomes a villain, that would be great!

I'd take Claudia Zacchara anyday over Ava Jerome!

I'm torn! Ava is very poorly written and CZ was destroyed once she fell for Sonny's magic peen. Never cared for Faith or her portrayer. If written well, Ava would be a total bad ass and not just on paper. They need to remove Morgan from her life or have her using him against his father. Falling for him is such a joke. And if Ava were written better, she'd need the people she played off of to be written better as well [the entire canvas]. No one is clever and bad ass when everyone else is completely stupid. The remaining "writers" need to realize this.

Edited January 24, 201411 yr by ChitHappens

i preferred Connie over Ava and I mean the scheming trouble making version, not the integrated Kate with her old name

i preferred Connie over Ava and I mean the scheming trouble making version, not the integrated Kate with her old name

Lawd! I have died and gone to a place far worse than hell