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I’m a biased Guza era GH fan so I’m thrilled he’s on staff. He and Michele understand the importance of layered characters, big story climaxes and strong daily dialogue which are things the current soaps routinely miss.

Absolutely love that all of the script writers are black, that is how you pay things forward.

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I watched the show too. I didn't have to go back and watch Labine to learn after the fact, I was there in the first place. Guza has plenty of sins but no one helped erode Luke (during and after Guza) more than Tony Geary.

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Thanks. So I guess Guza just went off on his own plans for Jason deification after they left.

I do agree with what you and others have said about that aspect of GH, although it must have been in the '00s I didn't watch as much. Beyond some strong moments around the time of the rape revisitation and Bobbie lying to Luke that Lucky had died, I don't remember many standout individual scenes from Guza's 98-00 run.

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I remember a lot. But I have more patience for the Sonny/Carly saga (or later Robin, or Brenda and Jax and Jax/Alexis/Ned/Chloe) that unfolded than you do. I still think some of those scenes between Maurice and Sarah are immortal. Even the messy stuff where Guza and Riche were feuding over bus advertisement couples had a lot of standout material day to day. It was Stefan and Laura's early promise from '96 that they really fumbled later, but I think there were a lot of reasons for that.

I said it when Mulcahey was back (as he wrote a lot of it) but it's the earlier stuff in '96 I think GH would be terrified to touch today - the casual, very candid sex between Jason and Carly when they first met, and IIRC the initial lack of understanding by the neophyte, brain-damaged Jason that sleeping with Carly would invalidate his budding romance with Robin where they couldn't be sexually intimate. Maybe I am misremembering it but I think that was the dynamic I recall early on.

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I'm starting to think he doesn't GAF, he is still writing nonsense. He's got gold with the Luna stuff and focuses on bland and boring dumb and dumber Hope and Carter

 

Anywho he'll be scrambling cause I can see BTG doing great numbers when it debuts lol 

It was Frons wasn't it? Jackie Zeman also once mentioned that Frons told her "no one wants to see old people kissing" 

What a Jack arse

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Absolute gold. Those were a fun few weeks. And now...meh. But I haven't started this new week yet and there were some twitches of something last week. 

 

You remind me that I cannot wait to see how BTG vs GH go in the ratings if it turns out in some places they air at the same time. But I guess in some places it would be against B&B, right?

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