The fact is that the Kat/Eva audience investment online over the last year already rivals the Jasam/Liason wars at GH BITD. (Those people still ain't over it and Sam is dead as hell.) The engagement is good news for the show overall, but fans are very intense about it and have been basically from the jump. They either love one or hate the other.
I like both sisters, and I like Kat a lot though she's definitely not perfect or blameless. I also like Eva. That being said they've wanted to clumsily straddle the fence with Eva for a long while now. She'll act sad and mope about her lot in life and then turn around and greenlight anything Mawmawww wants to do, or at least not put up much of a fuss over any of it. The show seems to want to avoid getting her too dirty because of her downtrodden status but her kid gloves treatment of Leslie consistently irritates me. I'm over another round of lectures to Kat about poor Eva when Eva doesn't really lift a finger to handle or check her mother in any meaningful way. And I say that as someone who has little problem with Leslie on the show, beyond wanting her to get got for Laura. Which Kat should make happen, and which could reignite the sisters' feud.
The kids TV-level treatment of Eva and Izaiah's romance is also tedious. This should be a hot, volatile couple but Izaiah is softer than Charmin and all they do is sit around talking about how they sure do love each a lot! Izaiah should've gone to model for Dani or ChelseaKat like they toyed with awhile ago, putting him in Kat's orbit. He could easily be a worthy man they fight over with a little more edge to him. Or you can bring on someone else down the road and let Kat play the field with someone new or an entanglement with Jacob. But the lovey-dovey stuff with Izaiah/Eva speaks to a lot of the sanitizing the show consistently does re: many of the core characters, and I continue to seriously doubt that was MVJ's choice. I think they're serving several parties BTS.
It was a real mistake not to let Bill run against Martin in this primary. That could've been a great story, or introducing a young rival for Martin (or rival staffer) who Kat or Eva could've gotten involved with. I'd say you could at the very least introduce an opponent but there is no way the BTG audience is going to get behind what would be a GOP-coded candidate lol. Maybe thread the needle and say someone jumped in as an independent?
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