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It's just a desperate attempt to keep another past their sell by date FV/CVE, etc. era character on perpetually. I couldn't care less. Adding a bloodline or pulling a recast on a pointless hire or tired character does nothing.

The larger Holly situation doesn't bother me. She's been pretty regularly guesting for the better part of 15 years off and on and they never have done anything as ruinous with her as the original monkey virus story, people seem to enjoy her stints. Holly is not a favorite of mine but it gives Emma Samms work in a difficult time.

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If anything, I would've made Sasha a long lost daughter of Lucy. I feel like they look similar and they already have a mother/daughter relationship. Hell, I'd even be okay with writing Sasha off and bringing her back as Christina. Lucy was one of my favorites on Port Charles, but she is such a joke on modern day GH.

Connecting Holly to Sasha is...a choice. I don't have an opinion either way. It just seems so random. It amazes me that Emma Samms is so talented, but they've never seemed to recreate her glory days of the 80s. Even her return in the early 90s was a waste of how talented she is. I'm always happy to see her, so I'm just going to take this as it comes and enjoy her while she's around.

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I'll say this for Sasha: at least she's not Willow. And I do kind of like her C-story romance with Cody. But it does boggle the mind that GH has somehow kept both Sasha AND Willow on the air for 6 years, often in frontburner stories, when they're functionally the same character. 

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Well yeah diamonds!  Wouldn't Holly have learned that her daughter Sasha was involved with Cody and some diamonds storyline?
If Holly had zero maternal care in her heart, she would at least have come back to use her daughter Sasha for getting the diamonds.  That would have been something in character for conwoman Holly to do. But it didn't happen.
Instead it was Sasha's mother-in-law Gladys using Sasha for profit?

 

1) Holly didn't reach out with maternal care during all the years that everything horrible was happening to Sasha.
2) Conwoman Holly didn't use her daughter Sasha for profit in the Cody diamond storyline.
Holly didn't do either of those two things (that we know of).  So how could she be Sasha's biological mother?

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This is just me randomly wildly guessing:
What if Holly isn't actually Sasha's biological mother, but Sasha greeted her at the door as "Mother" because ... 
What if, back in the past before Sasha first came to Port Charles, what if Holly and Sasha had done cons together, with Holly pretending to be Sasha's mother? ? ? That would explain Sasha calling her "Mother" at the door yesterday, as a reference to their con team past?

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I think the actress who plays Willow is a male version of the actor who played Nathan; pretty to look at, but not much going on. They are models, not actors.

Willow might have had more success if the writers had made her a mean, petty, shallow person. But for some reason they write her as a "heroine," which just translates into boring because of her lack of charisma.

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