GH: January 2025 Discussion Thread

[DRW50]

If they play into the sleaze Cameron would be a good fit, as he was always best as Ryan when Ryan was allowed to be a bit dirty. He's never worked as a sympathetic figure - at least on soaps. 

[Sapounopera]

I have no idea. It might have to do with Bobbie's death, I don't know. Or the Mama Bear thing, which suits her very well. When I look at her now I see someone with Carly's life experiences and not Princess Cassie's. 
She looks like someone you should be afraid of, not in a psychotic way, but like you wouldn't want to mess with her of her loved ones. She might shoot you. 

[Liberty City]

Absolutely; it's very apparent in episodes that's what is going on. Even now, I still see [some] of Storms creeping into Maxie, but not as much as before. I look at Y&R and their new head costume designer, and she's doing a fantastic job dressing her entire cast. I wish GH had someone as passionate as her. But alas, we're not in luck.

Both Adrianne León & Briana Lane were dressed differently as Brook Lynn, and it's like night/day between their portrayals and Setton's.

León:

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Setton:

Lane:

To me, Lane's styling mirrored León's, but in a more refined, mature adult way. Setton's looks like a cheap imitation from a MadTV parody.

[DRW50]

I wonder if that sweater Lois was wearing yesterday was meant to mirror how they see Brooklyn. Rena looked fine but I was trying to remember if Lois usually wore that type of stuff.

[janea4old]

This hasn't been stated anywhere.  Do you have a source?

Sofia Mattsson got pregnant several years ago, gave birth, and went on maternity leave from GH, and returned shortly thereafter.  First child born in 2021 (Link)
More recently, she gave birth to another child and took ZERO maternity leave from GH. 
Second child born in 2023 (Link)
I have heard NOTHING about her being pregnant a third time.

[Khan]

The only thing missing from that obnoxious montage:

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[janea4old]

I just found this site which seems to have more concise and organized reports about the L.A. fires:
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/sunset-hurst-palisades-eaton-woodley-tyler-fires

In addition to destroyed homes, at least one of each of these were destroyed:
church, mosque, synagogue, bank, museum, restaurant, school, supermarket, and more.

[BetterForgotten]

Frank Valentini just makes everything looks so cheap and half-assed. 

That montage wouldn’t have happened that way under JFP or Wendy Riche/Shelley Curtis. 

Edited January 9 by BetterForgotten

[Liberty City]

Seeing people compare it to "clink boom" is insulting.

[DRW50]

The thing for me is Guza and others already tried to recreate clink boom 500 times anyway to the point where the whole thing just made GH feel like a self-parody. I still cringe at the memory of those slo-mo shootouts - I think one may have even been set to a Christmas carol, although maybe I'm making that up. Anyway, I am not offended as much as I am surprised they are even trying that approach again.

[Khan]

I don't think you are.  I, too, recall one set to a Christmas Carol ("Silent Night," maybe?).

The thing is, you can execute a montage well only if you take the time to do it right - and as we all know, Frank "Point and Shoot" Valentini never takes time to do anything.  He's the wrong kind of producer for that kind of storytelling device.

[BetterForgotten]

The end credits montage for the clink boom episode has ended up being more effective to me, and you don’t actually see the damn explosion!

I guess I just like the shot of Brenda longingly staring off into the horizon before the glasses clink.

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Edited January 9 by BetterForgotten

[Liberty City]

Look at all of those classic faces/names. Wow.

[Khan]

I totally forgot that Susan Dansby once worked on GH as an associate producer.

[DRW50]

Oh good. Not just me then. I agree the execution is key. I do bitch about those years a lot but I know many of the montages were done with love and care. You don't have that now. The most positive thing I can say is I feel like Frank, the "historian" and CVE are floating around some potential new concepts due to so much falling through (or maybe network pressure in some cases, like the firings of some FOFs and returns of Lucky, Jason and Lulu), but the lack of genuine caring is still clear. 

Thanks. I had never seen this. I miss real closing credits.

This is an episode where a beauty shot would have been ideal - maybe Jax and Brenda slow dancing or just looking at each other - but I don't think GH ever did those anyway.

I hadn't seen Clink Boom in so long I had forgotten it ended with that completely unnecessary Sonny scream.