Jump to content

GH: October 2024 Discussion Thread


Recommended Posts

  • Members

I agree.  It's a different take for sure, but it made me feel like Lucas would be more of a presence this time around.

Oh, I didn't find anything objectionable with his performance.  I actually felt Carnes sometimes faded into the background in some of his scenes.  I would have been happy with Carnes, but I am happy with Van too.  I did like the Carly/Lucas scenes a lot.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 927
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted Images

  • Members

Same; I have that sense that Lucas is going to serve purple, from applying for the job he did, to the warning he issued Brad. It feels... like a more presentable Lucas happening.

I also get the feeling Carnes did not want to be front-and-center as Lucas during his second tenure, and was happy playing the supporting player that came in and out over time.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Yes! I got that sense too.  I wasn't sure if it was the writing at the time.  He just felt a lot more subdued than Lucas already feels on this first day.  I do sometimes wonder if Carnes didn't want to overshadow Perry Shen, who isn't the greatest actor.  Van just practically ran circles around PS today.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Welcome back, Lucas! We’ve missed you

Please register in order to view this content

And welcome to GH, Van! I know I’m  glad to see you

I’m on board with the recast too, even though it would have been nice to see Ryan Carnes again. Lucas is too important of a character to not be on the canvas. Van does seem to have a different take on the character, which I’m liking. It’s kinda similar to the take that Jason Gerhardt had when he was Temp Eric on Days. Different, but not bad or better. If that makes any sense lol

I’m looking forward to seeing where his storyline goes. I wouldn’t mind a reunion with Brad, especially after their scene today. But I wouldn’t mind them casting someone new for Lucas. I hear Peter Porte is available

Shut up, Gio. I know you need a storyline, but shut up. Go play your friggin violin. And since when does Trashbag care about anyone but herself?

And yeah, Lucky doesn’t need advice about being a father, from the father who shot one son and knocked up the girlfriend of another, just sayin

But I am looking forward to Lucky’s reunion with Aiden. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I am not much of a Liz fan myself (although I've come to appreciate Herbst over the years after how they repeatedly tried to railroad her off the show) but I think a lot of the response is people who enjoy the chemistry between the two RHs after years of awful pairings where she had to just prop up the guy she was with. And another part is people who just don't like Lucky whether due to how he treated her or because they want her with Jason. I don't see a lot of ride-or-die "LiRic" in of itself after the way their relationship ended up.

I mostly stopped watching around the period he was trying to sexually assault Michael. I don't know if he improved after that. Did people enjoy the baby switch story he was in?

Edited by DRW50
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

IIRC Parry Shen wasn't in the role when Brad was the scuzz trying to get Michael in bed - that was the heavier dayplayer they first hired, then Shen came in. I may be wrong. (EDIT: I am wrong, I just checked, it was definitely Shen! Can't believe I forgot that. It was so weird how RC tried to awkwardly pivot months later to Brad begging Felix to see the good in him after that mess and Felix trying to train Brad like a dog to be a 'good guy'.) He was definitely a creep but they did try to flesh out Shen's Brad considerably and make him redeemable once they realized he had more chemistry with Carnes' Lucas than Felix did (originally sex pest Brad was clearly meant to be just a spoiler for Lucas and Felix, not that it made any sense for either to get involved with him given his known history) and I think Shen did a good job and I don't mind seeing him, but I've never really cared that much about the character either. 

The endless flopsweat attempts by both Ron Carlivati and every subsequent regime to put Brad and Britt over as the ultimate Gay Best Friends Forever, watching the Nurses Ball together and riffing on it like we were there with them, crowning her as the "Brittch" etc. were lame to me. I never bought into their forced merriment and was always deeply annoyed at the show regularly seeming to offer up Britt as some sort of sop to the gays, acting like she was some sort of gay/camp icon vs. having actual LGBT characters in major story or on contract. (IIRC, even her farewell party shortly before her death featured drag queens.) She was never all that. But I also just never bought her and Brad's friendship. It was always about the show trying to manufacture something (two catty bitches!) that should've been organic between actors.

Edited by Vee
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

10/3

I enjoyed Molly once again having to read her mother. 

Glad they’ve fully repaired Ava and Trina.

Why do people not like Marshall? I actually like that whole gang. As a black man it’s always nice for me to see multigenerational black families on the soaps. And I really enjoyed the Curtis and Marshall scenes. They truly feel like father and son. But maybe I’ve missed a lot of annoying stuff

Please register in order to view this content

.

If I can’t have LiRic, give me Ric and Ava. Maura and Rick literally have chemistry with everyone and naturally they have it  each other.

I hope Portia’s plan works and she can get the blame placed on Brad.

 

Edited by Antoyne
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

10/4

I know there’s a connection because of Luke. But Sonny Corinthos’ murdering ass sitting around dispensing advice to someone on parenting is ridiculous and laughable. Also I assume Sonny’s restaurant is a front but like why is there never a single customer? Has it always been this way?

Never watched ATWT so this is my first exposure to new Lucas but he instantly had chemistry with Laura Wright. He definitely plays Lucas with much more energy than Ryan Carnes’ more subdued performance that I remember in the past. I’ve never really cared for the Lucas character as he was in terrible stories with Brad and Felix so I’m hoping this is a fresh start for the character and I’m coming in with a clean slate.

Gio is an extremely boring young character. He is just so blah and white meat. Josslyn mind your business. 

Yup again after today, give me Ric and Ava ASAP. I’m loving Ava having a brain again and immediately figuring it out it was Portia and covering for her after leading Ric down that path in the first place. And I loved Ava coming to Portia to help her because she loves Trina.

Add me to the list to write out BLQ and Chase with in their current incarnations even if I do think Amanda Setton has amazing chemistry with her onscreen parents and grandmother. But the couple being this sexless Amish couple because the actors don’t seem to know they’re actors is not the move.

I think Rachel is supposed to be a demon spawn given her mother. Young Spencer was supposed to be cute. It was awful.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Ooooooo TEA!!! lol.

 

I knew there was some drama between MB and TB and also thought it had to do with the Alcazar stuff, but WOW at the specifics. At least he is owning it now and they are on much better terms. 

 

 

Well welcome. I always look forward to your commentary!!

Please register in order to view this content

 

Oh...pray tell.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • I’m hoping to start getting to know Vernon better this month. He’s really only been a bunch of noble and good tropes so far. I don’t want him to be taken down the way Ted has been, but it seems he was a long-running Senator and no matter what party you are, lasting longer than twenty years means you’re looking out for you (and not who you’re supposed to be looking out for) most of all. I want to get to know both Vernon and Anita beyond their Dupree posturing. Clifton Davis can sleepwalk handling the kind of material Christopher Bernau and David Lewis handled and I’d like to see more than just a saint.
    • I thought Emily/Hal was a really interesting pairing. And I think KMH played that version of Emily very well! It might not have been what people wanted from Emily, and the writing got pretty gross at the end, but I thought she embodied that character effectively.
    • Don't know if this exactly fits here, but it is connected: Does this abandoned building look familiar? It is one of those explorer videos - and the outside may look VERY familiar if one watched GH in the '70s and '80s!

      Please register in order to view this content

       
    • So, I have been in the hospital all week. I am close to being up to date on my soaps. Now I have to go to the Infusion Ctr daily to get IV antibiotics, for 6 weeks. I am frankly exhausted. A hospital is no place to be when you're sick. Hooked up to machines that go beep beep beep all day & night long. Someone wakes you up every hour on the hour for something, either to stick you with needles or to take your gosh-awful blood pressure for the umpteenth time. So, you don't get any sleep. Now I have a central line, upper right chest. After they "installed" it, I said, I am now Borg. They just stared at me. Apparently scifi is not general knowledge. What happened? I have an infection inside my big toe right foot & it burned the skin on my foot. The burned skin is already better. It was like a bad sunburn. The infection inside the toe is the issue. Oral antibiotics won't even get its attention. So, IV antibiotics plus time. 
    • Please register in order to view this content

        As Salem bids farewell to John Black on Monday, the "Days" family and fans say a final goodbye to Drake Hogestyn.   From his time as a young man playing baseball in the minor leagues for the New York Yankees to his almost four-decade run as John Black, Drake always did his best. And, while becoming a soap opera icon, he spent almost 40 years at "Days" telling the best stories and taking the younger cast under his wing to make sure they would do their best as well. Thank you, Drake, for the legacy you have left for everyone at "Days." The impact you made on the cast, crew and fans will never be forgotten...and that's a fact.
    • I found an interview with Joseph Breen (Will Jeffries) where he mentions that Reva was put in a coma so Zimmer could go to Hollywood to do a pilot (OMG, if ONLY it had been picked up, LOL) and that Sonni and Josh and Will became a popular with the audience while she was out of commission.  If you want to read the whole thing: https://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=47394 Breen was known for being very candid in interviews, I wish I could find more of them. I seem to recall he made a couple of snarky comments about Zimmer, implying she was not above acting like a diva. Sounded to me like he had a lot of respect for Forbes (who went on to have a very strong and varied career after GL). 
    • I was so confused why Devon was prying into Nicks love life and then it clicked and I remembered they’re brother-in-laws. Shows how little I pay attention to this show anymore. I was like uh? Do these two even know each other this well?     
    • The Bell soaps, B&B and Y&R: cannot watch. If I went by the last time I did I would have to give them both D- but I really don't think it counts when you're not a daily watcher.  DAYS: B+ (Now this is with the knowledge that for years I have given this show a D- because I've been a fan for too long to give it the F it deserved.) GH: A+ (With Korte driving this bus to me the show is so much better! IMO we just had the best NB in so many years I cannot count!) BTG: A solid (Things I love, a few I do not, nothing I hate, still find it in general remarkable.) As always, thanks for doing this thread. I count it. I always look for it & I always post. 
    • Okay, I continue to maintain that what is so good about this particular reveal followed by umbrella storyline is that you can see & understand many different points of view where there is not one bad guy or one 100% right person.  About your stated opinion, that Lois & Gloria did the right thing, you know that this was technically an illegal adoption? For it to have been legal the father, if known, would have to have been informed & have signed off on terminating his own paternal rights. And, of course, it is clear how many people they lied to.  Personally I feel like Lois is going to take the biggest "public" blame with Lulu a close second in the blame category. I am looking forward to a tongue lashing I hope Brook Lynn gives to Gloria. I continue to be more than annoyed with Dante. First his attitude toward Gio with regards to Rocco & a drinking game & its results. Second his attitude toward Lulu. Meanwhile enjoying the show every day!
    • Lois and Gloria did the right thing I feel knowing it was Camila that raised Gio has BL feeling some jealousy No one is saying that Camila was a bad mother to Gio I believe it will be Gio saying that Camila was great to him, thanking Lois and Gloria to get BL to see truth
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy