GH: May 2014 Discussion Thread

[Khan]

Ron believes he learned soap storytelling from the campy, outrageous Paul Rauch era of the mid- and late-'80's on OLTL, but I have news for him: even then, the writers and Rauch were very careful to base the stories in some reality. And this was a show, ladies and gentlemen, that had characters traveling back in time and into lost underground cities.

[Juliajms]

You and your ridiculously high standards.

[dragonflies]

Ric never abused Liz

Liz has forgiven him, he's shown remorse, and has paid many times over

I'd rather her with Ric than Dikolas

[DRW50]

One of the problems with the "camp" on GH is that it's just disconnected moments that don't even match up to what they're intended to be. Like everything with Spencer at the Nurses' Ball. People say oh, he's a true Cassadine, this is so funny and so cute! Yet he's going around doing knee slides like he just got out of an 80's musical. What kind of "true Cassadine" ever did that? They just thought, yet again, that the child who plays him is so hilarious that literally anything he does must be shoved oncamera.

Then you have poor Parry Shen who drowned in the biggest autotunefest I have heard since the last cast member of The Hills released an album. What am I supposed to say to that? Wow, Brad's turning into a robot?

The autotuning reminded me of this (and this would have been a far better song for Obrecht than "Cabaret sponsored by Depends" - thankfully ABBA doesn't allow their songs to be used unless you offer them your first-born children).

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And then there was the whole weird thing with the dummy, where everyone at the hospital applauded Epiphany for destroying property. I will say that JJY and Kristina Wagner salvaged that by playing it straight.

[DRW50]

I will say I liked the moment where Bobbie was watching Lucas and Brad and said, in a somewhat coquettish, lighthearted manner, if she wondered if they were getting back together. It, I don't know, it made me a little wistful, and was a good reminder of how weird the Spencers truly are - that they grew up as or surrounded by teenage prostitutes, and nothing is ever going to be typical USA respectable for them. Moments like that remind me of why I miss Jackie Zeman when she's not on the show.

[Vee]

I love Jackie and Bobbie and I always have, but I honestly have a very difficult time with her face these days. Moreso than ever before. And clearly she does too - she barely seems to know how to speak out of it or act with it, or use her voice anymore. It's done very peculiar things to her performance, especially this time. She's like an animatronic puppet underwater.

The autotune is somehow even worse on Molly and T.J.'s number. They do not sound human.

[DRW50]

I agree with you about Jackie...I guess as she has such limited appearances, it doesn't bother me too much. Small moments like her hugging fake Luke remind me of the show's past and identity in ways that stuff like, "oh that Anne Logan" don't.

I tried to watch a minute of that song with the women about crashing their car into a bridge, or whatever, and I started guffawing when they were all laying on the ground in some sort of horribly lit Busby Berkeley formation. The whole thing was so dated. Kristen Alderson's voice is a very watered down Susanna Hoffs so I took it all as a very very budget Bangles tribute video.

[katie_9918]

Liz got stupid again when her jealousy started her meddling in Brik's relationship.

Not when she started hanging out with Ric, unless she's just doing it to make Nik jealous (which I wouldn't put past her).

[KMan101]

Liz, Nikolas and Ric is all just unappealing. None of them look very good. How soon before Ric is thrown under the bus for Nikolas? I like the chemistry better between Liz and Ric and despise how Nikolas is panting after Liz, but none of these pairings do Liz any favors.

[AlexElizabeth]

Ric's return has been pretty pointless. The thing I was looking forward to the most was scenes of him and Molly and they've done NOTHING with them. 90% of his scenes are just him trying to get with Liz and the other 10% is trying to convince people he's not Julian's boss.

[KMan101]

Yep. Molly who? (really, I'd love to be saying that and forget about her existence, even though I still like Ric). Another thing we SHOULD be seeing but are being told about instead.

[Vee]

That was an Icona Pop song I actually like a lot. Kristen Alderson made it sound like Kidz Bop. And she's no Susanna Hoffs.

[YRBB]

Wednesday:

Lucas was shot in front of a nurse and a doctor and he really couldn't be more screwed. They are completely useless. And Anna runs into the gallery like she stumbled into it, Sam's holding her gun like it's a doll, Julian is trying to squeeze some (any) sympathy out of his performance. My God... HORRIFICALLY acted scenes. And everyone's standing around looking as if they don't know where they should be standing and what they should be saying.

Why the [!@#$%^&*] do Spinelli and Ellie need to leave the apartment? Have Franco and Carly NEVER heard of headphones? Anything to squeeze out a few more seconds of "drama" I can't believe they got all horny because of this. That's literally all there is to their relationship.

Thank God Morgan's yelling loud enough for his eyelids to finally get past that "half-stoned, half-asleep" look he constantly has. I hope Ava doesn't come back pregnant with some relative of Sabrina's that just happened to work at Sonny's hotel.

I liked Shawn telling TJ the truth about Jordan. I like the kid that plays TJ, even if he still is a bit green. And did Shawn really punch a bush?

I was surprised with the drug bust, honestly. I was sure they would pull a switcheroo and it would somehow end up being paintings or whatever. Jordan reactions were hilarious. This lady is making some really shitty stuff work.

Wow, after months and months of people threatening to shoot other people and never doing jackshit about it, FauxLuke shoots someone in cold blood four times. Although I'm sort of confused as to why you would use a silencer after the first shot.

[AlexElizabeth]

lol yes

And I love how when Lucas got shot it was obviously in the shoulder (same exact place Liz got shot I think, I wonder if Nik will invite him to move into Wyndemere), yet everyone is all, "He got shot in the chest! Luckily the bullet missed his heart!" and now he's on a ventilator and unconscious... huh?!?

[YRBB]

Makes ZERO sense. I just can't.

DEAD.