GH: October 2024 Discussion Thread

[Liberty City]

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[carolineg]

I liked the Jason scenes and the JaSam montage.  It's fitting to me for them to end out the episode since most of Sam's important moments have to do with Jason.  Steve did a good job.  Poor Kelly.  Fired and dead and has to listen to some of her least favorite cast members give monologues to her "dead" body lol.  

NLG/Alexis did a good job, but it didn't really give me any feels.  I never thought the Sam/Alexis bond felt that organic or strong.  NLG just basically elevated the writing here with her performance nothing more.

I don't think Van is too bad.  He's has moments where he can reel it in for sure, but it doesn't bother me.

Unfortunately I do think Sasha will get pregnant. 

[Beachstorm]

I kinda thought Sasha couldn't get pregnant again after losing Liam. Am I wrong about that? Of course it doesn't matter in the soap world. Same with Willow. Didn't she go through chemo during and after her pregnancy with the little girl baby? Again, see above about soap world. Seems that since neither of these women should be able to have more babies, that surely they will both be preggers now. It's good and soapy so I am down with that.

That MichaelQ is a freaking dog if he can drunk-boink one woman and then go home and boink his lying wife. That was pretty gross, even if he did take a shower. 

Since I'm a Jason fan and an SBu fan, I appreciated his finale monologue with dead Sam. I enjoyed him as Harris Michael on Days, so to see a little of that come out in his speech about Sam, well, I liked it.

I know NLG's tears were real, so that's all I can say about her performance. Seeing Dante and Rocco at the end hearing her blurt out that Sam was dead, well that was unexpected.

[Antoyne]

Just wow. I didn’t like it when Ron killed Abby over at DAYS out of bitterness and I don’t like killing Sam out of bitterness. And they could not have made the scenes today more final. I actually thought Nancy and Kelly did well over the years to sell the late in life relationship especially when it’d be all the David girls. I truly felt for her Alexis in those scenes today.  As usual Frank couldn’t let the damn scenes breathe.
 

Michael agreeing to keep the secret of cheating on his wife after being upset at her for kissing Drew is just wow. He was definitely raised by Sonny Corinthos. And to know he’s gonna justify keeping his secret because he knows Willow is lying about it being one kiss. And then had sex with his wife less than 24 hours after cheating on her with his ex and her friend

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Why does Cody hate Drew so much suddenly? I will say I do enjoy CM as Drew and it’s because of this storyline and usage under PM initially. Making him sort of a sleeve works for me. I always hated Ryan Lavery but this is working.
 

I liked Liz being the one to explain things to Jason and sort of be there for him. “I figured you would outlive me, you were supposed to.” Steve really was great. Like others I knew he could be un Jason like as Harris on Days but man he was so good today. I hated JaSam but I felt their love and the heartbreak today.  That montage definitely showed Steve and Kelly genuinely had some great chemistry at one time.
 

This poster has a real hate boner for Brook Kerr and Portia for some reason. She was perfectly fine today. I’m confused what was so awful about her performance.

Rocco and Dante walking off the elevator hearing Alexis. Wow!

Edited November 1, 2024 by Antoyne

[titan1978]

I get her fans are in their feels about the firing. And it was petty on FV’s part. What I do not get is the outcry about them not pairing her with Jason being the fault of the show, and how that would have saved her.

She chose to tank the triangle story and reunion between Sam and Jason the last time he returned. Publicly. Because she wanted to be paired with her real life boyfriend only. So blame the show for firing her, and firing Billy, which was shitty and petty. But not what happened to JaSam. Look at her photos in the Steve returns promos from January! She was still visibly against being paired with Jason. And I am totally fine with that! But don’t blame the show for that one fans.

Edited November 1, 2024 by titan1978

[Contessa Donatella]

It is my understanding that Billy Miller left GH of his own accord & that he was not in fact, fired. I've only learned of this recently. Before I was of the impression that they had fired him. Which it is, I suppose, is something that could be found out.

Doing a quick run through Google Search I can find no statement of his being fired. Instead his mgr said he last filmed in July 2019. Then Google goes on with several suppositions, like maybe contract negotiations were not going well & since Steve Burton was back maybe it had a negative impact on story for him. Etc. 

Edited November 1, 2024 by Contessa Donatella
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[Vee]

The thought of enduring Round 11 of Jasam makes me want to fling myself off a cliff.

Sam has been played out for over a decade at minimum. The character should've been written out long ago. She's not entitled to another tedious round of that couple to stay employed.

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[titan1978]

Yup.

[carolineg]

I know we moved to the November thread, but I guess my question was who did KeMo want to be paired with at this point?  Obviously not Steve, she didn't seem to what to be paired with CM's Drew, they were bringing back Lulu so Sam couldn't stay with Dante forever, and, sadly, Billy Miller passed away.   I am just trying to figure out what KeMo wanted and how she thought she was going to manage to stay employed if she just vetoed everything?

[Contessa Donatella]

Great question. The most recent information I am aware of says that she did not want the proposed triangle with Dante & Lulu but instead wanted to be repaired as JaSam. The problem is that does not seem to make sense with anything else she has said. So, basically, I have the same question you pose. 

[Taoboi]

10-31

 

Just WooooooW!!!!

 

Now that had me in my feels. And regardless of other stories in the episode (Drew vs Cody, Michael having back-to-back ewww sex with Willow), I actually feel like the focus was on Sam dying and playing the start of that out beat by beat. I felt things were finally allowed to breathe IMHO. The only thing that irked me was some of the staging cuz if THE SOUP was still around, trust those overhead angles would get a shoutout.

 

NLG played it to the hilt. And when Alexis broke down in Liz's arms, I started crying too just hearing those sobs. That resonated. So did Alexis's denial. Alexis's anger. Her crawling in the bed with the cold Sam. Just so much to enjoy in NLG's performance. 

 

And I can say the same about SB, too. He shows so much with his eyes. And his body language for the most part was actually relating. Bonus point for the moment when Lucas is talking to Alexis, Jason and Liz sharing a look. And then Liz walking him through what happened. Not only a good Liason moment, but if anyone would understand, it would be her giving the loves of her life that have died/'died.' And then Jason got to the hospital room and SB sold that for me. And that last scene...awww. I'm so happy that SB came with a Jason who can emote a lot better than he normally does. And speaking of couples, while I was not a big Jasam fan, I love that they got a montage, and it was beautiful. Feeling for their fans. 

 

Cody with money? I'm down. Now what will he do with it? Though I still feel this anger at Drew...which is projected mind you...still comes across jarring.

 

I can't believe Michael forgave Willow. And double ewwww at him having sex with her after having sex with Sasha. 

 

The gasp I let out when Alexis talk about Sam's death in front of Dante and Rocco. 

[Contessa Donatella]

Those awkward overhead angles are ridiculous. I thought it was funny the first time they did it & some poster asked if it was supposed to represent Violet's pov. Every other time since then I've just been so annoyed it's not even funny. 

I thought it was a shame that he didn't get enough to buy Serenity.