6 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

Oy, these shows just make such a mess of their timelines through SORAS and incompetence. You really have to turn your brain off and roll with it or  tune out like so many have. I can only imagine how messy many primetime/streaming series would be if they ran for 50-60 years. At least soaps aren’t rerun 24/7, with history thrown in viewers’ faces all the time.

True. I do actually think that GH unwittingly has the least messed up timeline, partly due to not retaining many of its vets and not using certain legacy characters and partly because of a lack of what I like to call compound SORASing - i.e SORASed characters on GH tend not to have kids straight away, meaning the generational gaps are at least for the most part still plausible (for example, AJ, Michael and Wiley are all roughly two decades apart, meaning Monica is still plausible as Wiley's great-grandmother).

Where GH does seem to fall down though is in not taking account of events in relativity to one another, like the situation we have now with Willow and Nelle being twins makes Willow older than Michael because of all the things previously established with Nelle and Carly.

1 hour ago, AbcNbc247 said:

And what is this crap about Spencer wanting custody of Esme’s spawn? If I was Spencer, I wouldn’t want anything to do with it.

The child is Spencer's sibling.

31 minutes ago, janea4old said:

The child is Spencer's sibling.

I know. But after everything that happened, I don’t think I would want anything to do with it.

Now, if Trina becomes a part of this storyline, it would be much better 

On 1/9/2023 at 7:40 AM, Darn said:

She would have stayed if Steve hadn't left. Clearly she was enamored with being with one of the stars of the show and the pairing had fans. They show was prepared to go full throttle with them.

Confirmed, not that we needed it. From SOD (we can quote part of the article, right?):

This has been something I knew [was inevitable]. My return to the show [in 2020] was only supposed to be temporary and to be quite frank, it was only because of my relationship with Steve [Burton, ex-Jason] and our characters falling in love with each other and having something really magical happen between us that made me want to stay, so I agreed to stay longer. I was very clear with the writers and Frank [Valentini, executive producer] about that. We were all really excited to go on this journey, and then the whole bomb dropped [with Burton departing the show in 2021] and I was really disappointed about that. It was like, “What just happened? I stayed on the show for this storyline!” But it was always going to be a temporary thing for me because I really want to do films and theater and all sorts of other things.

That just makes me look forward to reading the rest of the article.

 

They totally fumbled the football that was Britt/Jason. 

29 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

That just makes me look forward to reading the rest of the article.

Here's the whole thing
https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/kelly-thiebaud-gh-exit-interview/

2 hours ago, Dion said:

True. I do actually think that GH unwittingly has the least messed up timeline, partly due to not retaining many of its vets and not using certain legacy characters and partly because of a lack of what I like to call compound SORASing - i.e SORASed characters on GH tend not to have kids straight away, meaning the generational gaps are at least for the most part still plausible (for example, AJ, Michael and Wiley are all roughly two decades apart, meaning Monica is still plausible as Wiley's great-grandmother).

The number of kids who have aged almost in real time is nice. There aren't any 5 year olds who are suddenly 20. Cameron has aged completely in real time, mostly because Becky looks so young and Liz had him so early.

The SORAs-ing on the show hasn't been so bad thankfully. I always think soaps can get away with aging kids a bit more when the parents are older. So Kristina going from 8 to 16 or Josslyn going from 4 to 9 was nothing to me. The other soaps have much messier timelines. 

1 hour ago, Vee said:

Confirmed, not that we needed it. From SOD (we can quote part of the article, right?):

My powers of deduction prove me right once more!

1 hour ago, janea4old said:

Here's the whole thing
https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/kelly-thiebaud-gh-exit-interview/

Thank you, but I have a copy. I just haven't had time to read it. Yet.

Oh sorry,  I got excited because it's such an interesting interview.

No worries.

 

Sounds like it.

8 hours ago, NothinButAttitude said:

Nina would've gained my upmost respect had she told Weeping Willow to simply drop dead after Willow told her that nothing changes between them. You expect me to donate to save your life and you still act like a twat in return? Chile, bye. To the afterlife you shall go. 

 

Yes, I'm that petty.

Agreed!

I enjoyed Friday's episode and Monday's episode was okay. Still trying to figure out who's who, but I had no idea that Laura was the mayor of Port Charles. Genie Francis glowed yesterday. Is the show hiding her pregnancy? I noticed that Laura and Esme didn't really seem to talk about each other's pregnancies. Rather, it was just Esme. I think Esme is trying to pull a Sami Brady with her amnesia, but that's just me.

I wanted more Nina and Carly drama and felt a little deprived. What would make this storyline more explosive is Willow dying. I swear, I'd laugh and laugh. Nina being so horrified at the death of her daughter and the fact that Carly kept if from her all this time would be even more explosive. Instead, it's going to be the same ol' storyline. Maybe Willow will die. I dunno. I'd like it if she did. I want to see Cynthia channel her inner Annie Dutton and have a faceoff with Carly. Get her, Annie! Get her! Sic her!

I mean, get her, Nina! Get her! Rip her face off!

14 minutes ago, Noel said:

I enjoyed Friday's episode and Monday's episode was okay. Still trying to figure out who's who, but I had no idea that Laura was the mayor of Port Charles. Genie Francis glowed yesterday. Is the show hiding her pregnancy? I noticed that Laura and Esme didn't really seem to talk about each other's pregnancies.

Genie Francis is 60 years old.

That she is.

 

Sounds like I have some good Nina v Carly scenes coming up regardless of the abruptness of their story turn. So...niiice. 

5 minutes ago, Vee said:

Genie Francis is 60 years old.

Oh, is she? Now come to think of it, the math would add up if Luke and Laura were like the 'IT' soapdom couple during the 80's. Oh my god, duh.

But damn! Laura was dressed in black and everything.