For me, no one could make Ryan Paevey or Bryan Craig watchable. Neither of them can act and neither have any screen presence. Not that they're alone in that, of course!

FH/Anna reminds me more and more of Florencia Lozano's Tea Delgado every time I watch Anna, no matter how different their characters are. Even the screeching is the exact same. I wonder if it's intentional, since RC loves his winks to "his" OLTL. And since Tea was one of his favorites.

We are not exaggerating either. This guy is hotter than fish grease, but it's quickly offset by how bad he is. Totally wooden, reads his lines like a robot

I love when people call him RoboCop. I swear there's a new nickname for this dude every day and they just keep getting better.

I'm still laughing at Ryan Paving Slab. Hilarious!

Edited March 10, 201411 yr by AlexElizabeth

I really do not care who did or did not attend one of these countless soap star events.

Chit, IIRC Ric pondered smothering Liz after she discovered he had Carly locked up in his panic room. Liz then promptly passed out due to his dosing her with birth control or something. She was hospitalized, Ric visited her at GH, and while she slept he seemed to be considering taking her out. I saw the scenes for the first time in years not long ago, actually, but I can't recall whether he, like, grabbed a pillow or anything. I think it was mostly a foreboding monologue he gave while she was sleeping. This was less than a year after he was first introduced, I believe - other than a piece of scenery to motivate further plot for "evil Ric". Then the couple garnered a fanbase because of the chemistry between the actors. But personally I've never seen the passion or any real writing for them. I just don't understand why she got involved with him.

....they garnered a huge fanbase despite the writing, the dysfunction, Ric's obsession with Sonny to the exclusion of everything else...because Rick Hearst is a hella actor. That plus the couples sheer magnetism drew the fans and the not fans in.

RHe is the kind of actor who does a lot with his eyes, with his face. You totally bought his complete, total love for Liz. He is very intense...at times he looked as though he wanted to devour her. And Liz/BH has a very angelic persona. Ric's dark, twisted obsessive love...Liz, gentle and compassionate, trying with all her might to lead him away from all that...Both RHs played off that very well.

All very Harlequin romance,really. But it worked...

Edited March 10, 201411 yr by BetteBoo

We are not exaggerating either. This guy is hotter than fish grease, but it's quickly offset by how bad he is. Totally wooden, reads his lines like a robot and often looks off to the side, which apparently houses his cue cards.

So who's the one you call "Woodpile West?" I've wanted to ask for the longest time but I figured people would tell me to shut up and watch the show.

So who's the one you call "Woodpile West?" I've wanted to ask for the longest time but I figured people would tell me to shut up and watch the show.

That's who Ryan Pavey plays. Detective West, so we call him Woodpile West because he's no better than a 2 x 4!

I don't see any similarity between Finola and Florencia Lozano beyond the fact that they're both strong actresses with strong characters. Téa is naturally fiery and at times histrionic (and I miss her dearly, among many others from OLTL) and I don't think Anna is. I certainly wouldn't call Anna a screecher. When Anna lets her rage out it's because it's been simmering a long, long time, as it did last year until she finally caught up with Obrecht and Faison.

I don't think Ryan Paevey is the worst I've ever seen or anything - far from it - but he's not a great talent by any stretch of the imagination. He has decent moments but mostly he is very, very green.

Edited March 10, 201411 yr by Vee

Nothing to even comment on today, other than the preview. I can't with someone named Felix Dubois saying "Lucas Jones" sounds like a low-rent porn star name.

I thought the same thing. Felix Dubios sounds like a bad drag name. He has no business throwing shade.

Felix is a jabroni.

18 minutes in and I cant with this show. Was there anything worth watching bc I don't care to suffer

Lucas Jones is a Sean Cody/Corbin Fisher type of name, but it's a silly thing to nitpick about. Felix is a sour old priss. I keep expecting Laura Ingalls to appear and for Felix to chase her out of the hospital.

I have to admit that Paevey doesn't do anything for me. It's something with his face.

Of course someone will say I find all guys unattractive. That's not true (believe me), but it's that "Cartini" casting type. It just repulses me.

Edited March 10, 201411 yr by DRW50

18 minutes in and I cant with this show. Was there anything worth watching bc I don't care to suffer

Wait...Sonny shooting another unarmed man in the chest isn't riveting to you? You just aint trying.

It's time to cross-post my crackpot theory of the week:

Yeah, this is an admittedly insane theory but I'm going to officially call it: Post-Miscavige Institute Luke is in fact the undead Bill Eckert, alive and well and up to no good.

It's a slice of bitter irony for me, as I've been saying for a while now that TG passive-aggressively remolded Luke in the image of the bitter, jaded Eckert throughout the 2000s - Bill was a character he desperately wanted to make work and continuously reinvented until the network brought the axe down and made him resume playing the heroic Luke to secure his career. Since Claire Labine and then Wendy Riche departed TG's been working to deconstruct Luke - something I could understand and support up to a point, as Luke needed a little darkening up after the happy family days of Claire's GH, but in the wake of Laura's departure in 2002 both Geary and GH have gone way too far with it. There's deconstruction and then there's degradation. What's become of Luke screams out as the wail of a frustrated 'artist' who had the character he wanted to play and lost it, so he's been trying to flip Luke ever since.

I've often wanted them to highlight the parallels onscreen between what's become of Luke vs. the fate of his ne'er-do-well cousin - and I think RC has probably wanted to do more with Luke's 'redemption' than he's been able to, such as stopping the drinking, which TG began randomly inserting into scenes regardless of the show's wishes until they were forced to semi-address it and then finally wussed out and let it go ("oh, he's not an alcoholic - it's Helena and the radiation poisoning!"). I wonder if they're going to try to circle around and address it again now, only with an actual, physical doppelganger (Eckert) vs. Our Luke. That's what it's certainly looking like to me here, anyway.

And of course Eckert, if it is really him, will turn out to be yet another member of the evil GH Legion of Doom which has no clear mother brain, no certain goals and no definable motives. And you know, I wouldn't mind tying him to that if they would just start to make sense of this endless [!@#$%^&*] umbrella storyline. Why did they kidnap Robin? It can't really have been just so Faison could capture Anna's heart or they could suck some cash out of the sick Jerry Jacks. Why did Obrecht make Britt pursue Patrick? Why do they have Jason? This story has been going for over two years - just give us some answers and some goals.

I hope everyone's ready for the May sweeps cameo from Glenn Walker Harris as little Sly Eckert, all grown up. I wish I was totally joking about that spec.

And I'm calling that Duke is Jillian's mysterious benefactor.

Poor old Lurchin' Duke can't even tie his shoes!

Notice, "Luke" was looking over Cartullo jewelry. Cartullo is Brenda, Brenda is Barrett Enterprises. Unless I am remembering my pointless trivia wrong which is very possible, Eckert worked with or for Harlan Barrett and Faison in their criminal cartel back in the day.

Edited March 11, 201411 yr by Vee

The sad thing about Ryan Paevey is that he's not looking at cue cards. GH doesn't use them. He's just starting off into space like that during scenes for no particular reason.