GH: January 2025 Discussion Thread

[detroitpiston]

I’ma give the show credit for going so slow with Carly and Jack because it made me more invested lol, glad they finally kissed. Valentin trying to kill Jack and Carly busting in and knocking him over the head was fun. I laughed at Carly waking Brennan up by saying she’d tell everybody he died in a bath robe too

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I love this pairing

Emma talking to Dante about Sam was very sweet. Her and Gio were boring but I like her and the animal activist angle they’re taking.

Jason and Sasha are a firm NO for me. Its a tired recycle of his better storylines with Carly and Sam. Sasha and Michael not being married doesn’t make Jason sniffing around his nephews roster any less gross than Drew either. I did giggle at Cody’s reaction to finding out she’s pregnant and seeing Jason feeling the baby kick.

Once again Brook Lynn and Lois got some good scenes, RS and AS have great mother daughter chemistry and I’m glad she got to comfort Brook Lynn after the Chase shoots blanks reveal.

I enjoy Tracy and Martin’s banter, this was a smart pairing choice for JE IMO and she’s made MEK work for me when he’s stuck out like a sore thumb every time I saw him on the show prior.

I’ve really been loving Lulu taking accountability and reacting more reasonably these last couple of weeks. They could have easily had her bite Anna’s head off for shooting Charlotte but after a quick dig she blamed the real culprit aka Valentin.

Her scenes with Dante were great as well I love how she makes him address the elephant in the room when it comes to Sam being her donor. Anna revealing to them both that Sam was murdered was good and I’m looking forward to tomorrow

[Contessa Donatella]

Ding, ding, ding!

About the writing of Tracy toward Sasha yesterday & today & this seeming escalation of negativity/attack mode, etc. IMO, the current writers are possibly the most "plot opportunistic" of any I recall seeing. It seems to me they will have anyone say or do anything if it happens to be what they need at that moment to advance whatever plot point they are fixated on that day, or week, or even longer period of time. So, again IMO only, they thought they needed to push Sasha & Tracy was the best person who was handy to do so. Plot Plot Plot. Plod Plod Plod. And, YMMV. 

[jasonminer1974]

I want Cody to step to Jason and be ended 

Lubabe sucks 

[Vee]

It's increasingly implausible that pushing-60 Jason is going to end anyone, let alone sire the children of young millennials.

[jasonminer1974]

Jason can end anybody at anytime 

[Contessa Donatella]

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[Vee]

Okay. It's not 2000 anymore.

[Khan]

So long as Martin and Tracy remain as cohorts/sparring partners, I'll be okay.  If it crosses the line into an actual, romantic pairing, however.....

While poor Josh Swickard is saddled with being the worst joke ever: a cop who's "shooting blanks."  It's enough to make you call the REAL cops and have someone arrested.

[ranger1rg]

Yeah, I agree. I do not want that. At all.

LOLOL

 

[jasonminer1974]

He's younger than John wick

[Contessa Donatella]

I also really am enjoying the banter & verbal sparring betw Marty & Tracy & I am not closed off  against the idea of them becoming more. I just don't know. Maybe I wouldn't like it. Maybe I would. ??? I would have to see how it went if they wrote it & tried it out. But, I really want Marty to do the beard again. 

 

[AbcNbc247]

Emma and Gio (and Trina and Kai too) are starting to grow on me. They're sweet kids and I'd much rather see them leading the younger crowd lol

And I don't actually dislike this Jason/Sasha thing, whatever it is. It could be pretty interesting if Jason does end up keeping the secret about the baby from Sonny and Carly. Btw, I'm really starting to wonder how the daughter of a Brit and an Aussie ended up with a Swedish accent 

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This hatchet job with Tracy is unnecessary though.

Edited January 29 by AbcNbc247

[Contessa Donatella]

I completely enjoy & love the friendship that Gio & Trina have. 

Sasha did not tell Jason to keep it from Carly. She said she wants to keep her child from the Qs & from Sonny. She didn't mention Carly. Although Jason very well may not tell her. He still has not told her that it was Brennan who destroyed her FBI audio file.

I loved how awkward Jason was when the baby kicked & she reached out & put his hand on her belly. But, what I thought at that moment was Michael was the first baby Jason ever held & now he's just felt his grandchild kick or move or whatever. (Speaking of chosen family & in that sense, that Jason considers Michael his first born child.)

[DRW50]

I didn't watch the whole thing but I think even Steve Burton said on his podcast he doesn't want a Sasha/Jason relationship. I hope they listen to him. I think it would just be lazy and sad, and kind of gross given his history with Michael. I think it makes sense if Jason becomes attached to Sasha and her baby, but that doesn't need to turn romantic.

It's not exactly out of the norm for GH, or any soap, in recent decades. This show can often be brutally plot-driven. Tracy has never liked Sasha anyway. I think it just stings more because of the periods when they do write better material for Tracy. Seeing her put back in some of the slop that reminds me of when she was just there to be a foil to the "good" Quartermaines is beneath her and Jane and us. And I don't even mind Sasha. 

All the Carly and Brennan stuff, what I've seen anyway, leaves me with mixed feelings. I do see where he's something of a temporary character, the type who would have been killed off in "events" back in the day, and it's just a stopgap until the show figures out which big pairing to put Carly in...but it is better than going with Sonny/Carly again, a pairing I genuinely do not think any viewer wants at this point. Carly needs to be rebuilt, and doing so while she's lost so much of her family would be a good time to do it. For a long time, I would have said they should take away all her money and status, but I'm not sure it would matter now. Still, I hope they give her a big reset. 

[Contessa Donatella]

I agree. I'm pretty sure all Jarly fans would agree & Jackly fans, also. Here's the deal. Steve today is a team player, so if they were going forward with Romantic Jason & Sasha Steve would know this & he wouldn't speak against it. So the fact that he did speak against it the podcast confirms for us that NO Romantic Jason & Sasha is on the board. And, may I just say thank god, or maybe Soap Buddha. 

Well, at least I get the sense that you do also find GH to be very plot driven now.

Sonny & Carly? No, never again. Mo doesn't want it. Laura doesn't want it. The show has no interest in it. Nobody wants it! How the heck did this happen? However, ain't it grand? When it comes to Sonny & also to Little Sonny my philosophy is a common one, "ABC" which stands for Anyone But Carly. Hey, Natalia, the field is open.