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Phelps/Guza were more exciting overall.  Yes, it was at the overall detriment to the show and yes, there were periods of sheer boringness where nothing happened, but they could do a big, splashy sweeps event.  Guza just paced his big events better.  It's not like he paced the overall show better: I can think of a several stories that drug on and on, but he in general produced a show where stuff was happening.  I get what you are saying.  Something is missing on current GH.  It may be the cast too.  There are a lot of duds and characters I don't care about on the show.

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I know exactly what you mean.
 

I have an observation about Dev and Dustin's deaths. In old school classic GH. When someone died. It was felt by the whole Port Charles community. Since everyone crossed over and interacted. With Dev and Dustin i don't remember. Either one really interacting with other characters. Outside their stories. So their deaths don't have any real dramatic gut punch.

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I will add something else to that- the dramatic weight also used to be added by having characters like Dr. Hardy, Tony, Alan, Monica, Lesley, etc be the ones to tell their loved ones.  Even Guza and Phelps knew this was important- if they wanted you to care about the death at all, even if it was more about the mourning characters than who died, they had an important character from the hospital involved.  Noah Drake, Patrick, Robin, and even sometimes they would still trot Monica out.

 

I love Brooke Kerr, but other characters with more ties should also have been there.  They are missing out on the classic soap drama of a person being wheeled in to the ER is a loved one of a doc or nurse on duty. Come on GH!

 

And yes, Guza during JFP had a lot of padding between events.  But there was so much more focus on character.  The problem was it was the same 6 to 8 characters for close to a decade, while they faded everyone else out and or killed them off.  And the Sonny propping above all others.

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lol. Dev was such a throwaway, sadly. They aren't even trying.

 

I do think Dev and Cam had potential. Dev should have been scheming to keep Joss and Trina away from Cam because HE wanted Cam. Definitely missed potential but we'd never get that kind of story. 

 

Exactly. 

 

Portia is fine but it's exactly like you say. There's no one there to have those reactions. They're just missing the point. They're handling some of it well, some of it not so much. 

 

And now we have a recast Lucas so the impact remains lost. Lucas feels like a stranger. He finally gets to play doctor and interact with people he long should have been and it's a recast. Sigh.

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Dev was a throwaway because they never settled on who he was. Every time he appeared in an episode, he had a different personality.

 

NuLucas seems to have a lot of fans, but I miss Ryan Carnes because he made that Brucas relationship believable. I really saw those two together, and the actors went out of their way with touching and affection and looks that went beyond their dialogue.

 

I don’t see any chemistry between this recast and Parry Shen.

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Actually, while most of the remaining legacy GH characters are barely seen (Scotty, Bobbie, Monica, etc.), we get a huge number of unimportant newbies coming and going all the time. And a focus on a few repugnant characters like Sonny, Carly, Franco, Jason and Sam, all of whom need to be de-emphasized or written out. I'd say 75% of the current, bloated cast needs to be axed.

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I saw on Twitter that Mo Bernard got annoyed at a fan for condemning GH's criminal characters never getting punished and being treated as romantic leads by TPTB. He replied with a picture proclaiming, "I WON!"

 

Okay, I'll grant that he has won by still being employed and receiving a pay check, but the ratings for GH have been in the toilet for many years. With all the disgusting, unpunished characters endlessly hogging up air-time, has THE AUDIENCE or even THE SHOW won?

 

I'd say no.

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