GH: December 2023 Discussion Thread

[DRW50]

I only keep up with the show through here but I had to watch the Monica clips. It was nice to see her. I tend to agree that the chair was a bad choice.

Since we keep having temp recasts on the soaps, while we still have any soaps, is there any way the temp recasts thread could be reopened? @Toups @Errol 

Here's an interview with temp Joss from a few years ago.

 

[Contessa Donatella]

I'm just going to try to respectfully suggest that they went to a helluva lot of effort to get Lesley back onscreen. I would bet that the high-backed chair was by intent, to add more support. If I am right, it would be the difference between her possibly looking too upright compared to her maybe falling over. Now I have found that the support people on staff & crew pay a great deal of attention to detail for the benefit of the actors they serve. Probably that is not true of everyone who works on crew or staff at every show. 

[Toups]

Just two episodes back and it looks like Chris and Dan are moving quick on things: ending Pikeman, and Esme is finally starting to remember her past.  I like both of these developments. 

[Liberty City]

Hate to say it, but I feel like this is just the beginning of Pikeman, as it seemed like the interim team ended up, and then they got word that the writing team wanted it back, so they worked it back into place.

[Toups]

We found out who the head of Pikeman is and now he's been arrested.  There's more to do?  LOL 

[Liberty City]

Considering they're been teasing a potential romantic entanglement with Laura Wright's Carly... my guess is Brennan will get out and try to prove to her he's one of the good guys. 

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[j swift]

It feels anticlimactic to end the Pikeman story with an arrest on a Tuesday episode.

If I were a citizen of Port Charles I would start a campaign to defund the WSB.  They can't seem to hire people in upper management who aren't corrupt.  Sean Donely, Victor Cassadine, and now this Brennon guy.  How are they going to maintain the world's security, when their HR department is so lax?

Edited December 20, 2023 by j swift

[Taoboi]

Thanks for the info about C and D being back.

 

I knew it was coming, but I've enjoyed them being gone with stories having more structure. And endings or turns.

12-5

 

Awwwww. I always wanted Blaze brought back. I hated that Linc storyline, but I thought she had potential and reminded me of old school BrookLynn with her style. So I have loved having her back. And I've loved the growing relationship with Kristina. But I've enjoyed having MORE Kristina. So you know I LOVED that kiss. Side note...they gave Kristina an apartment? 

 

And Chase proposed? Swoons.

 

I can't believe that the writers found an organic way to break up Anna and Valentin. I don't see them coming back from this. 

 

I continue to like Charles Mesure.

[Aragorn]

Maxie expressed sorrow that Austin died, but it took a month!

Marshall and Stella together? Ugh!

[Contessa Donatella]

Loving Kraze! 

 

It is so funny. The scuttlebutt is that Dan & Chris couldn't think of anything to do with Chase & Brook Lynn, ... so they had him drop to one knee. Marriage proposal by default? Maybe they should make more of their decisions this way? I mean this seems pretty darn successful!! 

 

Nope. They've had it. And, it's all Valentin's fault. 

I have no opinion but most people seem to be quite taken with him. 

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[Vee]

As much as I think these kids are too old and there are too many of them, it's nice to see them finally pull the trigger on Aiden being LGBT. The scene with Liz was well-played - that's the kind of thing soaps can and should do. I'm not sure that kid can act and I expect we won't see him for another six months though lol, which is why I still prefer they do a more low-key element of the same story with Jake and free him from that mutant.

Violet must die.

[TEdgeofNight]

The temporary Joss is much better than old Joss. Take all the time you need Eden McCoy. Don’t hurry back. 

[Taoboi]

It's probably from all the genre shows he's been on. I even had to go back online and was amazed at everything he's been in. Just good casting...cuz he can be romantic lead (hmmm him with Carly), a threat a la action hero like he was on V, cunningly dangerous like he was on The Magicians, and anything in between.

[Contessa Donatella]

I did not realize he was on V. Now I like him. 

[j swift]

Has anything happened with the ghost of Harmony? 

Or does anyone else suspect that thread will be dropped by the non-scab writers?

It might be interesting to list any of the scab stories that we predict will never be referenced again, or quickly resolved and forgotten.