GH: July 2024 Discussion Thread

[VelekaCarruthers]

Wonder if Charlotte Gibson is out.  She hasn't written a script since June 14.

Gold hasn't written a breakdown since June 21

[glfaninnyc]

Charlotte Gibson wrote last Monday's script

[TEdgeofNight]

Soap fans are funny. If you like a writer and ratings drop and they get fired, it’s because their work was interfered with. If you hate a writer, said writer’s work never gets interfered with and everything is their fault. 

[BetterForgotten]

I think Doug Marland could return from the dead and struggle to write GH with stakeholders he'd have to contend with. 

Edited July 8, 2024 by BetterForgotten

[Contessa Donatella]

First of all, fire Frank, hire Wendy Riche. 

[Vee]

The fact remains that Mulcahey's work was the only stuff that's fully engaged me with this show for years. I'll miss what we've gotten (particularly if the Drew/Willow/Nina stuff is about to hit a new peak). I couldn't care less which kind of Sonny the general audience prefers, because I don't really care about Sonny much. Watching him spiral and the town turn on him properly has worked well for me. MB is barely able to function onscreen these days anyway.

Blaze I also couldn't care less about. But the turn to sympathizing with Natalia is clearly about protecting ELR's place on the show, who is yet another soap 'get' and going interest for Frank Valentini. That's not about PM.

I am impressed the Drew/Willow makeout sesh went to air. I thought they'd curtail this with the writing change before it got there, as this show has such allergy to actual soap and sin among the 'good' people.

Edited July 8, 2024 by Vee

[VelekaCarruthers]

ok thanks

[ranger1rg]

So wait -- Drew's campaign for Congress hasn't even begun and already he's messing around with a married woman? LOLOL

Quartermaine, indeed.

 

[AbcNbc247]

#Drillow?

Let’s do it!

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I really hope that they take the route of having this all be just an elaborate scheme to get back at Nina for everything she did. It could be tied back to the PTSD thing that Chris and Dan were gonna do with Drew before the writer change.

I will say that I think they should have established a good conflict for Michael/Willow though, that way Willow would have a stronger reason to turn to Drew. 

As for Cody, all I can say is, about time

[ranger1rg]

I think that's another soap fake-out.

In the previews, Mac is heard saying "What did you say?" I think Cody then changes what he said, and that's why we see Maxie saying "Why did you lie?" to someone -- who I think is Cody.

They need to stop dragging this out.

[John]

Speaking of what could have been

Watching Nancy Curlee and Stephen Demorest on The Locher room

GH almost had Nancy Curlee as Head Writer in the mid-late 90s but she was expecting and dint wanna leave NY and her husband who was at ATWT at the time. 

[Aragorn]

Drew is going to have an affair with Willow after having slept with Nina. He will have slept with both mother and daughter. Willow must find Michael boring.

Having Mac in the scenes today felt so good. I'm glad they finally got to his paternity reveal.

Sam trashed her mother's former newspaper!

Monica will never come out of her room until she dies.

I enjoyed Sasha and Nina together.

Heather's release is inevitable regardless of the opposition. It is better soap action to have her loose in Port Charles.

Laura, Mac, Felicia, Cody, Sasha, Nina, Dante, Sam, and James. This episode is for me.

Edited July 9, 2024 by Aragorn

[Jdee43]

When one character just blurts out their long held secret to another, I think that's usually a sign that the writers are just over it

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I dread watching the actors who play Drew and Willow try to rationalize their out of character actions. I doubt either actor is up to it. Thank goodness for the fast forward button

Edited July 9, 2024 by Jdee43

[AbcNbc247]

Maxie knows that Cody is Mac’s son? 

I can’t remember.

Edited July 9, 2024 by AbcNbc247

[Liberty City]

THIS! I think people expected an over-night turnaround of material, and I always stated following May Sweeps we'd see some kind of story-movement, and what's playing right now is proof of that. And agree: seeing Sonny spiral and every turn against him has been compelling, and while I understand Maurice Benard's POV on the story, he's an actor and should be able to handle the material.

Patrick Mulcahey's work has been clear and the heart he's poured into a lot of the storylines has been wonderful to see playout. It's a crying shame TPTB chose for Elizabeth Korte to remain, and not Mulcahey.