GH: November 2024 Discussion Thread

[Aragorn]

I love it that Sasha is pregnant. Now Willow needs to take a pregnancy test. Both of their kids can be raised in the Quartermaine mansion.

[Vee]

I would bring Alcazar back for at least an arc, but not for Lois lol. And yes, that was all my thinking on Jax. There's a history and he plugs in all over. One of those dudes Carl dug up is hot! I'm so behind on Neighbours.

Edited November 27, 2024 by Vee

[Khan]

And no one CARES who's revealed as Austin's killer either.  I know I don't.

[Vee]

I hate those kind of loose ends so I'd still pin it on Ava or Witch Nose Brennan/Pikeman or something. But I don't care either.

[Khan]

Believe me, I hate loose ends, too, lol.

[carolineg]

I wouldn't mind Alcazar coming back long term even.  I just want to stay away from the Lois/Alcazar romance.  Even though I am sure TK and Rena would have good chemistry the pairing felt wildly out of character.

I am all in on a Jax recast though.  

[Vee]

I would probably let them mention it, since I am pleased when you can casually mention weird history (like the whole Tomas Delgado thing, easily explained in one line of dialogue) in a not totally gratuitous way, which this show too often does over the last 10+ years. I would not go back there though lol.

Edited November 27, 2024 by Vee

[carolineg]

Oh, sure you can talk about it but we don't need to re-explore it.  I am not sure if half the things LK's Lois did are even part of the Lois canon anymore though.

[Vee]

Remember the whole American Idol L&B riff with Clive Robertson from Sunset Beach as Fake Simon and Dillon dressed in drag? Woof.

[carolineg]

Unfortunately, I do.  I am not the biggest fan of singing on soaps in general, but I hate when it's very marginally talented singers and that era had a lot of them lol.  

It's still hard for me to buy Ned as a rockstar, but at least that story was fun.  Then again, I didn't buy Miguel Morez as a rockstar, but Ricky Martin has proven me wrong lol.

[Vee]

I'll give it that it was at least vaguely topical and silly fun with an existing GH framework (L&B) that was not mob-oriented. But the execution (especially Dillon doing a She's The Man) was dreadfully stupid lol.

I don't mind telling a showbiz story on soaps though the format makes it inherently limited when you're not in a big city and can only change a character's status quo so much. I think it can be a unique challenge rarely solved well (which is probably part of why Dillon is not back). Singing stories almost never work well lol. But I would take Lois and possibly BLQ back to L&B in some new media way, while keeping Brook in the mix at Deception.

Edited November 27, 2024 by Vee

[Aragorn]

I believe that Nikolas murdered Austin because he slept with Ava. Nikolas is currently not wanted on by the writers and is in prison for kidnapping Esme. If the show wants Nikolas in the future, he can get of prison. If the show no longer wants Nikolas in the future, then Austin's murder will be pinned on him and he will stay in prison forever.

[carolineg]

Yeah, the entire thing with models/actors/singers on soaps is that they are in a small town.  

I would take L&B back in a second, but it's hard to believe these people are truly famous and not just playing at Luke's every weekend lol.  I guess it would be Curtis's club these days instead.  I think you could make it slightly believable by just one or two characters saying Lois and Brook are in New York working instead of basing their entire business in PC with PC characters and make it seem more expansive in general.

[Vee]

It's a tricky problem. I think it's easy enough though to have most of the artists or talent be largely offscreen, or when it's a contract player (like Danny Romalotti on Y&R) have most of their action be out of town.

With someone like Dillon, a filmmaker, I can think of ways to make it work or innovate on it, or just move him into a somewhat different field in media where he can be closer to home. But Dillon becoming just another ELQ drone would be depressing. I do think something like BLQ functioning like Jack Antonoff or whatever (a songwriter/creative) could work, but I sadly can't currently imagine Colonial Woman on the Wing Churning Butter* BLQ doing any of that at present. Maybe if Chase dies in a horrible sweeps incident!

(* - apologies to Bridesmaids)

Edited November 27, 2024 by Vee

[titan1978]

This is not confirmed, but I did just read on Reddit from a fan that Genie had a death in her family around 3 weeks ago. That would possibly explain her being gone. She may have been gone from filming even longer due to the declining health of this person, which would explain the disruption to the stories. I was kind of wondering if something like this was possibly why things seem kind of stalled and also moving along.