All this talk about Gio and I honestly forget he’s on the show these days until he has his random appearances doing nothing.

Yeah, Gio definitely got lost in the shuffle this year.

The actor really should have been a recast Cam because he is good, it would’ve kept him more grounded, and it would’ve given him an actual purpose, rather than just popping in from episode to episode. 

Edited November 18, 20241 yr by AbcNbc247

@carolineg I had a dream Brenda came back to work at Deception, to overtake homophobe Natalia, and it somehow came out that Gio was actually her son (retconning his Bensonhurst connection).

I'm pretty sure VM would rebel if Brenda had not one but two secret kids. She barely acknowledges Alec is canon as is.

1 minute ago, Vee said:

I'm pretty sure VM would rebel if Brenda had not one but two secret kids. She barely acknowledges Alec is canon as is.

Gio was Alec. 🤣 Must be why my head is pounding this morning, lmao. @carolineg is getting into my head. And no... it was Vanessa Marcil not Gina Tognoni in my dream (in case she tries to say I recast Brenda in my sleep).

1 minute ago, Liberty City said:

@carolineg I had a dream Brenda came back to work at Deception, to overtake homophobe Natalia, and it somehow came out that Gio was actually her son (retconning his Bensonhurst connection).

That's sounds like a beautiful dream I would have lol.  Except the Gio part.  She doesn't need more rando kids.  But you could also work in the Bensonhurst connection with Brenda confiding in Lois she was pregnant but in danger because when is Brenda not?  Lois found "parents" to take baby Gio in and the Cerullos considered him like family all to protect the child's identity.

Anyhow, I wouldn't mind seeing ELR and VM go up against one another......even if it's over Sonny.

Just now, carolineg said:

That's sounds like a beautiful dream I would have lol.  Except the Gio part.  She doesn't need more rando kids.  But you could also work in the Bensonhurst connection with Brenda confiding in Lois she was pregnant but in danger because when is Brenda not?  Lois found "parents" to take baby Gio in and the Cerullos considered him like family all to protect the child's identity.

Anyhow, I wouldn't mind seeing ELR and VM go up against one another......even if it's over Sonny.

Haha, see, this is why I brought it up, lmao. I knew you'd sus my dream out real well, haha. And why not ultimately saddle Brenda with more kids? It's the rage in Port Charles... Maxie got three, Sam [had] two, etc. Everyone gets kids.

Making Alec , Gio could work. Maybe there is still a threat from Balkan associates and Brenda did this to protect him? Id watch that story. 

5 minutes ago, Vee said:

I'm pretty sure VM would rebel if Brenda had not one but two secret kids. She barely acknowledges Alec is canon as is.

VM would hate that unless Gio is somehow Sonny's I think.  But GM looks nothing like either of those two.  You could probably make a decent story out of Brenda giving her Sonny kid away to protect him and having Lois mostly watching over him, but Sonny has way too many useless kids as is.

5 minutes ago, carolineg said:

That's sounds like a beautiful dream I would have lol.  Except the Gio part.  She doesn't need more rando kids.  But you could also work in the Bensonhurst connection with Brenda confiding in Lois she was pregnant but in danger because when is Brenda not?  Lois found "parents" to take baby Gio in and the Cerullos considered him like family all to protect the child's identity.

Anyhow, I wouldn't mind seeing ELR and VM go up against one another......even if it's over Sonny.

That's a dream alright, a pipe dream!!! 🤔🙄😒😉

Me, I was more than a little bit interested in the rumor of a descendant of Mary Mae. None of us are getting what we'd like to have. 

So, what else is new? Right? 

On 11/16/2024 at 1:59 PM, DRW50 said:

Too much time being spent with her clinging to Sonny and all the confusing stuff about the pills...it didn't feel as much about her having an edge as her likely being the scapegoat to help exonerate Sonny with the people of Port Charles after her probable death. I never believed any of the anti-Sonny stuff, whether under Mulcahey or not. I know how that game ends.

Perhaps it was to the strength of Maury West as an actress that I bought all of that, but I liked that Ava was in an interesting position, and it was just luck that she winded up at Sonny as they were slowly tying her into the Sonny's Meds storyline. With Sonny isolating himself due to his paranoia and Ava having no one, I could believe that those two would be closer. And the story looked like it was getting a part duex until Natalia showed up...which in hindsight looks like a pushed agenda. That said...Ava getting jealous over it only to find out about the pills was highly believable to me.

 

But I believed in the theory that Ava would have had a fall because so many people were gunning for her, but it was in the terms of the old school villain tale of a villain being caught, made to pay, and then having some redemption...but still allowed to have an edge. And I know the idea was mentioned by someone else that Ava knowing about the meds might have been her 'get out of jail free card' toward the aforementioned start to her redemption. 

 

But...woulda, shoulda, coulda. 

10 hours ago, Antoyne said:

All this talk about Gio and I honestly forget he’s on the show these days until he has his random appearances doing nothing.

Completely lost. 

Just now, Taoboi said:

Perhaps it was to the strength of Maury West as an actress that I bought all of that, but I liked that Ava was in an interesting position, and it was just luck that she winded up at Sonny as they were slowly tying her into the Sonny's Meds storyline. With Sonny isolating himself due to his paranoia and Ava having no one, I could believe that those two would be closer. And the story looked like it was getting a part duex until Natalia showed up...which in hindsight looks like a pushed agenda. That said...Ava getting jealous over it only to find out about the pills was highly believable to me.

West can and does sell anything and everything given to her. She turns shït into GOLD!

1 minute ago, Taoboi said:

But I believed in the theory that Ava would have had a fall because so many people were gunning for her, but it was in the terms of the old school villain tale of a villain being caught, made to pay, and then having some redemption...but still allowed to have an edge. And I know the idea was mentioned by someone else that Ava knowing about the meds might have been her 'get out of jail free card' toward the aforementioned start to her redemption.

My theory? Cates' murder was meant to be Ava's murder, and it was a swap-out at some point. that's just my theory on that.

On 11/16/2024 at 3:24 PM, Soapsuds said:

And they wonder why viewers have left in droves. They think their viewers are stupid. We haven't forgotten that Sonny killed him and got away with murder yet again.

PREACH!!!

 

 

4 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

West can and does sell anything and everything given to her. She turns shït into GOLD!

My theory? Cates' murder was meant to be Ava's murder, and it was a swap-out at some point. that's just my theory on that.

FACTS!!! 

 

Hmmm...I never thought of that! 

22 hours ago, Liberty City said:

I do think the plan was to put Gio with Trina, but they got scared off from the pairing. Such a shame, too, because I felt like both Mazza & Tabyana Ali had that spark between them that could have ignited.

They should have. The potential as usual was there.

22 hours ago, titan1978 said:

there should always be room for a charming, good looking person on a soap.

Amen.

 

 

7 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

FACTS!!! 

Hmmm...I never thought of that! 

I mean, it's very clear Ava was poised to be written off, based on how they were writing her. Either that, or a major dark return to the Jerome crime family world. And I think after being involved with the Kristina-baby drama, it would have made a major "Whodunnit" storyline for the murder of Ava Jerome. And, with Mulcahey out and Van Etten in, I feel like it was swapped to Cates and we got what we got: a shitshow.

4 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

I mean, it's very clear Ava was poised to be written off, based on how they were writing her. Either that, or a major dark return to the Jerome crime family world. And I think after being involved with the Kristina-baby drama, it would have made a major "Whodunnit" storyline for the murder of Ava Jerome. And, with Mulcahey out and Van Etten in, I feel like it was swapped to Cates and we got what we got: a shitshow.

Don't you meant a vanishing act, not a sh*tshow.  

 

The writing change definitely harmed that. Cuz as soon as CVE came back, Ava stopped being cunning and crafty. A shame because I was liking her with Wagger and how she had him wrapped around her little finger. They could have even had a flawed good guy/bad girl pairing there.