GH: February 2025 Discussion Thread

[BrendaB]

Was there any reporting on why they recast Jack Brennan?  That was a surprise.  I liked the actor.  The recast actor is good, too.  Wasn't he Joey Buchanan back in the 1990s on One Life To Live?

Surprised they gave Selena Wu an actual office and said she has a shipping business!  Good for her.

[janea4old]

Yes there's reporting on the exit, and yes the recast was Joey.
There's a thread with details in the spoiler section here:
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/68149-gh-actor-leaves-former-yr-actor-in/

 

Edited February 5 by janea4old

[Liberty City]

Credits for Wednesday, February 5, 2025:

Created by: Frank & Doris Hursley
Executive producer: Frank Valentini
Head writers: Elizabeth Korte, Chris Van Etten
Writers: Suzanne Flynn, Kate Hall
Director: Allison Reames Smith

[AbcNbc247]

Too soon to make any judgments about Carly and NuBrennan, but I did like Lucas being there for his sister today. It's time for Lucas to get his own storyline though. 

I was loving Lucky/Liz/Ric too. They really need to push this storyline because it's one of the best on the show right now. I'm so interested in seeing where the three of them are gonna go from here, and after all this Cyrus stuff ends. 

And yeah, they still want us to hate Drew and Willow. And it's still working lol but I do love how we have to hate Willow for what she did/doing but when an even worse character did the exact same thing, we had to love her for it 

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And Tracy, FTW! This is how she always should be written. 

Edited February 5 by AbcNbc247

[Soapsuds]

Drew, Willow and Cody are insufferable!! They need to be killed off!!

[Taoboi]

Well, I don't hate you for not being a Liz fan.

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Liz has always had possibilities only hindered by BTS agendas.

 

That said...don't hate me...but I liked that 3 of her love interests showed up in town last year around the same time and FINALLY everyone was SINGLE...while RH was also getting all kinds of screen time. But I guess I can't have nice things. lol.

 

I'm not even against Liz finding a new guy, either. I was one of the few that did not mind Ewen when he was around. 

Oh it's coming. Slowly, but surely.

 

Amen.

 

 

Oh it's coming. Slowly, but surely.

 

Amen.

 

 

[Contessa Donatella]

Wait, as a Liz fan do you not feel like you're getting nice things RIGHT NOW?

And, while I'm on the subject, 2 things, I like her hair getting longer & I loved this second dancing scene between Liz & Lucky!!! 

[Taoboi]

Not as much as the two months of RH being the lead in the episode count and Liz having constant scenes with all THREE of her past love interests. I'm happy to see her all the same...and NOT catch up.

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[Vee]

I agree. Elizabeth's story of setting aside her dreams after getting pregnant very young by the wrong guy, and then still building a wonderful life and career, is very relatable and is something that strikes to the heart of the genre and its audience for me. Which is why I only grew truly interested in the character after she became a mother. Though I also think Becky and Jonathan still have it (much moreso as weathered adults for me than as a teen couple, when I found them too sweet together) and they should be A-story. While it's sadly common for Becky and Liz, it's inconceivable to me that JJ especially is being relegated to the B-tier atm. In any event, they should be central.

[carolineg]

I had to laugh at Anna/Felicia/etc thinking about how crazy Robert's reaction would be about Sasha getting pregnant by Jason.  Did everyone in Port Charles just forget Robin was in a long-term relationship with Jason for years, lived with him, and helped raise baby Michael?  The show's erasure of one of my favorite 90's couples hurts my heart.  

[Taoboi]

I can't believe they would believe Jason would at all.

[DRW50]

Anna may not want to think about that after her liplock with Jason.

[carolineg]

I would argue she should have thought about that a lot MORE before her liplock with Jason.

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[DRW50]

I'm probably a contrarian as I did not care for Liz in the years where the show was pushing her (moreso after JJ left and we got Jason/Liz, the model period, and all the endless dock pity party scenes) but after it became clear the show had no real use for her beyond what moved the plot along (this began somewhere in the mid '00s, if not a few years earlier), I warmed to her a little. The truly ugly way that she was treated in JJ's first return (through no fault of his) still stays with me.

Becky Herbst will never be one of my favorite actresses, but she is calm, direct, capable of some subtlety, and after getting to see some of GH of the '60s and '70s over the last decade, is more at home with the foundational acting style of GH than I had realized. She also has chemistry with most of her leading men, which is rare. 

The show should have done so much more with her as a single mother, should have done much more with her kids, who have now all been shipped off, or in Aidan's case, overaged and given a cynically, depressingly offcamera coming out storyline. But in some ways that may have benefited Liz - look at what happened to Carly and her kids when they were treated as leading characters. They are all completely spent (and one is long dead, somehow staying dead even with ill-fated attempts to change that).

It's a shame they apparently did such a half-assed job bringing in her parents as I know a number of fans had wanted that for a long time.

I agree that Liz should be in a new relationship. Lucky's return has been exactly what I expected (I believed the show had passed him by, and I still believe that), and Ric makes sense in her life as their version of John Dixon and Kim Hughes. As for Jason - Jake should still be on the canvas and that should cause much more of a relationship between Jason and Liz, but I think that only works as tension over what could have been and never was, not anything now.

Edited February 5 by DRW50

[Vee]

I could and would recast both Liz's parents tomorrow (I'd even try to get Robert Newman as Jeff on a recurring basis, because why not?). They could drive a lot of story with that relationship, especially with her mother as a domineering schemer at the hospital and in that family.