22 minutes ago, Vee said:

Adam Harrington is doing a very solid job with improved scripts but I still can't past the visual disconnect. If they'd cast Paul Anthony Stewart (a '90s soap hunk almost as big as Sabato), Jordi V. or any number of other non-blonde soap hunks with a little mileage on them I'd be more accepting. In fact PAS could clean up on this show. But I think he's largely retired from daytime for theater and/or other pursuits with his husband.

I am starting to wonder if PM's team is leaving both Carly and Jason solo and uninvolved with anyone for a time, to try to suss them out. That would be very interesting to me because it would indicate a clear intent to reevaluate both characters, both of whom Mulcahey (and Korte) were instrumental in defining with the original actors - especially Carly. (That does not mean I think Sarah is ever taking the role back because I definitely don't and will never get that lucky, but PM was among her biggest fans of all time and it wouldn't shock me if it had crossed his mind. I don't think it could ever get past the network, nor am I sure if Sarah is in a place right now where she'd be open to it.)

I still can't get past the visual disconnect either with Jagger.  I agree AH is doing a good job and I'd probably be praising him up and down as an amazing find if he played anyone but Jagger.  It's still really throwing me off, but I suppose I will get used to it in time.

2 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

And, https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/shocker-general-hospital-fires-sole-black-breakdown-writer/ar-BB1kA7z9

Not really any more information but, wow, what a headline

SHOCKER: General Hospital Fires Sole Black Breakdown Writer

That's just an MSN copy of the DaytimeConfidential article by Jillian Bowe.
It says at the top of the MSN page that it's a copy of that.
This is the original link:
https://daytimeconfidential.com/2024/03/26/shocker-general-hospital-fires-sole-black-breakdown-writer
 

19 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I still can't get past the visual disconnect either with Jagger.  I agree AH is doing a good job and I'd probably be praising him up and down as an amazing find if he played anyone but Jagger.  It's still really throwing me off, but I suppose I will get used to it in time.

Amusingly, when Jason admitted to Anna that he didn't recognize that he had been friends with John Cates as a teenager, I was thinking, “yeah, that's because he's had a head transplant!”

6 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I still can't get past the visual disconnect either with Jagger.  I agree AH is doing a good job and I'd probably be praising him up and down as an amazing find if he played anyone but Jagger.  It's still really throwing me off, but I suppose I will get used to it in time.

The show could have helped by giving him more of a salt and pepper effect than blond and gray. And a haircut.

18 minutes ago, janea4old said:

That's just an MSN copy of the DaytimeConfidential article by Jillian Bowe.
It says at the top of the MSN page that it's a copy of that.
This is the original link:
https://daytimeconfidential.com/2024/03/26/shocker-general-hospital-fires-sole-black-breakdown-writer
 

I knew that. Personally I thought it was interesting that MSN/Bing was carrying it. 

6 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

The show could have helped by giving him more of a salt and pepper effect than blond and gray. And a haircut.

Yeah, the hair is a really bad choice.

7 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

The show could have helped by giving him more of a salt and pepper effect than blond and gray. And a haircut.

I've been bitching & whining about him  needing a haircut since Day 1! 

But, besides that I have no problem with him as John Jacob Whatever ... 

@janea4old Script writers aren’t in the writers room, that’s why Shannon said she was the only POC writer in the room.  

1 hour ago, Toups said:

@janea4old Script writers aren’t in the writers room, that’s why Shannon said she was the only POC writer in the room.  

Thanks!

@Toups  What exactly does that mean?  Does that mean that traditionally HW and breakdown writers are at the studio in a "room" ...  but scriptwriters write from home ...  (even though they probably all write from home nowadays?)   Or does it mean something else entirely such as the "room" being where decisions are made?

Edited March 27, 20241 yr by janea4old

27 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Thanks!

@Toups  What exactly does that mean?  Does that mean that traditionally HW and breakdown writers are at the studio in a "room" ...  but scriptwriters write from home ...  (even though they probably all write from home nowadays?)   Or does it mean something else entirely such as the "room" being where decisions are made?

Room doesn’t always mean physically. They used to do conference calls for writer’s meetings, now I assume they are on zoom several time a week.

Jake's best father figure has been Franco. He was around the most. Jason was "Dead" or hitman for hire and I still dont get WTF is Lucky's issue with being a parent since his 2015 visit. Please answer me that one PM & EK

The only thing I felt was off in the Trina/Joss talk today was that Trina apologized for being "Bitchy" the other day. Trina you werent. You were in your valid feelings. Continue to own them. That is your right.

37 minutes ago, John said:

I still dont get WTF is Lucky's issue with being a parent since his 2015 visit. Please answer me that one PM & EK

I'd like to know that, too.

54 minutes ago, John said:

The only thing I felt was off in the Trina/Joss talk today was that Trina apologized for being "Bitchy" the other day. Trina you werent. You were in your valid feelings. Continue to own them. That is your right.

I didn't find anything off in either day of Joss & Trina. Thank God they are writing her grief. Being numb, stuffing her anger for weeks. It was natural for her to take it out on her safest person. Deep down she knows Joss will forgive her. To me she definitely was being a bitch, which she is entitled to be. Anger is a part of grief. Mutual apologies & hugging it out was perfect. 

Day 9 Mulcahey/Korte So today was weird. It was like we went back to the previous style with shorter scenes & more cuts back & forth instead of the longer scenes we've been having.

Loved the fight between the kids. Hated Sam going all stereotypical. She'd have died if she'd seen Danny's face when she said he can never see Jason again. There's no way he's going to live by that new law. That he can never see his father again.

Sexy Dexy is gonna be a cop?!! Do cops get time off specifically to have their hair done? But, Anna was quite enthused. It's like she's hiding him in plain sight & just daring Sonny to touch him.

 

Team Jason: Jason, Carly, Danny, Michael, Willow, Spinelli & Maxie still p*, Joss, Brook Lynn, Anna, +Molly 
Team Anti-Jason: Sam, Cates, Alexis, Sonny, Drew, p* Lois & Nina, Trina, Chase, Jake, p*Ava, +Kristina 
Conflicted: No One
PWAgendas: no chg. 
 

-- I can't believe how many here are still posting about Jagger's hair color and hairstyle. I don't understand the near-obsession with getting a recast who looks more like Sabato, who left decades ago.

-- Regarding GH firing their Black writer: Why didn't anyone there realize the optics here are horrible? That they needed to announce the addition of a POC at the same time as that firing?

Yes, new head writers should get their own team. But you're telling me they can't find another Black writer??? They're either ignorant, or they just don't care.