GH: February 2025 Discussion Thread

[Darn]

He's walking around town look like Count Chocula. It looks awful.

And yeah this Kai story is not working. We don't know him, didn't even see the accident and most importantly do not care. I like Trina but not enough to put up with this stranger complaining about losing a life we never even saw him have. And Trina dragging both of her parents into counseling this kid they also don't know is weird.

I refuse to buy Lois keeping this secret from Brook Lynn, allowing her child to be raised as a cousin right under nose. It just doesn't seem like her at all. Lois unable to call her grandbaby her grandbaby? Naw.

They can tell me that Sidwell is charming or a threat but at no point do I buy it. What a weak villain. Three months ago he was somehow conned by Holly, a woman very bad at the career she's chosen, and playing poker for funsies everyday.Also personally I really need for them to move away from him because if I have to hear another reference to lawless Africa I'm gonna lose it.

Anna: We have nothing on him, Jason! He committed the crimes on Pride Rock! Mufasa and Rafiki don't want the headache, they refuse to send us the CCTV footage!

Shut uuuuuuup

[carolineg]

Aside from being completely out of character for Lois which I could go on for days about, the whole thing is confusing.  Lois just handled the adoption?  Brook Lynn would have had to consent to something at some point.  She didn't ask anything about where her child would end up or with whom?  Did Gio's mom live in Bensonhurst when Gio was born or did she show up later with Gio as a child?  Did Ned just not see BLQ for 9 months while she was a teenager?  Did Lois think it was a better option for Gio to just be the town orphan instead of letting him know the truth?  Olivia never noticed Brook was pregnant?  Lois just decided to keep this from her as well?  Somehow Sonny knows this kid well enough to pay for his schooling even though he was clearly in PC when BLQ was a teenager, so does Sonny know something about this too?  

None of this story makes any sense.  Lois just gave the baby to her buddy then had her move next door or whatever and just hoped nobody would figure it out?  It's almost like GH over explained Gio's upbringing when they introduced him and now there isn't a logical way to make it make sense.

Edited February 4 by carolineg

[jasonminer1974]

What's up with the map of fire Island? Always wanted to go there.

[Liberty City]

The whole story is sus; Lois' hinting was never dropped in until this storyline began, and it paints her poorly. Not to mention, it re-writes history as we saw it play out. It's at times like this I do feel Douglas Marland's rules on how not to ruin a soap come into play (even though it seems like they're trying to touch on #7, which is not how it should be done):

1. Watch the show.
2. Learn the history of the show. You would be surprised at the ideas that you can get from the back story of your characters.
3. Read the fan mail. The very characters that are not thrilling to you may be the audience's favorites.
4. Be objective. When I came in to (the show), the first thing I said was, what is pleasing the audience? You have to put your own personal likes and dislikes aside and develop the characters that the audience wants to see.
5. Talk to everyone; writers and actors especially. There may be something in a character's history that will work beautifully for you, and who would know better than the actor who has been playing the role?
6. Don't change a core character. You can certainly give them edges they didn't have before, or give them a logical reason to change their behavior. But when the audience says, "He would never do that," then you have failed.
7. Build new characters slowly. Everyone knows that it takes six months to a year for an audience to care about a new character. Tie them in to existing characters. Don't shove them down the viewers' throats.
8. If you feel staff changes are in order, look within the organization first. P&G (Procter & Gamble) does a lot of promoting from within. Almost all of our producers worked their way up from staff positions, and that means they know the show.
9. Don't fire anyone for six months. I feel very deeply that you should look at the show's canvas before you do anything.
10. Good soap opera is good storytelling. It's very simple.

[carolineg]

Yes, it's obvious this has been re-written and it wasn't thought out.  Again, I will never buy the Lois I knew would ever do this, but now she also looks stupid on top of everything else.  Who would just let their secret grandson live in the same house as her, his mother, and his other grandmother, grandfather, great grandmother, etc with his father in town as well on purpose?  And, oh yeah, the stablehand also knows BLQ was pregnant as a teen.  I could see if Lois tried to actively stop it or something, but she encouraged the entire Gio thing.

[Liberty City]

Watch them sell it as Lois allowed it to keep an eye on her grandson and wanted to reconnect him to his mother... that would be some grade A level bullshït to me. Rena Sofer can sell it, but that does not mean it's something I want/need to see.

[Taoboi]

tbf, you never know.

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 Given Frank's history. As I've said more than once. But for now...I'll stay devil's advocate. 

[Jdee43]

As the backstory of Cody, Sasha, and now Gio shows, the writers could care less about faithfully following the history of the show. Maybe the audience should just consider the last 13- 24 years to be set in an alternate universe or something. 

[Taoboi]

Yeah, now that they are seriously getting into it, I know you can go on about it for days.

 

I can't believe they are doing this to her character. I also can't believe that BLQ at least knows its Dante and said it onscreen. I was like ugh.

 

And it sounds like Lois does know which I suspected where the baby is while BLQ has no idea. 

 

Just very un Lois like. 

Very don't care.

 

I miss the days where if this was to happen (like with Nikolas and Laura) there was a plausible timeline for it AND it was a shock. 

[Khan]

To everyone who enjoyed seeing Rena Sofer/Lois back on GH and wanted her to stay:

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[carolineg]

I could see someone like Brenda make a dopey move like this because she has a history of making terrible decisions.  I don't ever see Lois doing it.

There is no reason for level headed Lois not to involve Ned, Olivia, and Dante in this choice.  All of them are (mostly) decent people that would have respected Brook's decision here.  Lois hates dishonesty and lies.  This whole thing is idiotic.  Even if Lois/Brook Lynn were in on this together and knew Gio was her son that would make a bit more sense.  I know it's going to come down to the excuse that Lois was protecting her daughter, but she's essentially hurting a bunch of innocent people in this.  It's not 1950.  Teenagers get pregnant in high school and give children up for adoption and have successful lives.

Ugh, my biggest fear was they might pair her with Sonny.  Not that they would just entirely try to destroy the character although a pairing with Sonny would have destroyed the character too lol.

[Contessa Donatella]

Indeed. This time, what the story actually is, we are at a loss. 

[Khan]

At this point, there's only one way out of this: Lois has DID.

Edited February 4 by Khan

[titan1978]

I am dying.

[Liberty City]

Honestly, the strike team were the only ones who really got Lois.