37 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

Same here LOL.

I really want to know if Flynn is even happy playing Cane because he always looks bored out of his mind every time I flip past.

IKR!

And it sounds like they are heading for more mess with him, too. Le sigh.

5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Jason Thompson, another high-profile poaching, also seems completely miserable onscreen.

I wonder if JT is even happy with his choice of careers. Every time I've seen him - on GH, as well as on Y&R - he always looks as if he'd rather be doing something else.

5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I can see it not being what he expected, but I guess the money and job security helps. I wonder if some is just Y&R's backstage atmosphere, which is so legendarily loving and warm, as Jason Thompson, another high-profile poaching, also seems completely miserable onscreen.

I haven't looked in much in awhile but I cannot imagine JT (who has aged a lot) looked more suicidal on-camera than he did on GH during the FV/Carlivati regime. After coming on during an era of strong scripts with some layered male POV (however misogynistic and mob-centric during Guza II), from 2012-2016 he looked like was experiencing slow cellular death everyday. Dominic Zamprogna clearly struggled in the 2010s too before briefly leaving.

1 minute ago, Vee said:

I haven't looked in much in awhile but I cannot imagine JT (who has aged a lot) looked more suicidal on-camera than he did on GH during the FV/Carlivati regime. After coming on during an era of strong scripts with some layered male POV (however misogynistic and mob-centric during Guza II), from 2012-2016 he looked like was experiencing slow cellular death everyday.

It probably didn't help to be tied to that awful Sabrina.

8 minutes ago, Khan said:

It probably didn't help to be tied to that awful Sabrina.

Oh, he looked mortified. Once they got to the 2013 Nurses Ball where she 'transformed' into a plasticine princess and he was supposed to be enraptured by her, JT looked both baffled and lost in a fog for much of the remainder of his run. He enjoyed working with Kelly Monaco later by his own account, but the story was still bad because under Carlivati normal male characters are mostly clueless dupes for scheming vixens or eye candy. Only the 'edgy' guys or villains get a POV. So Patrick, Dante, etc. all lost most of their personalities and nuance from the Guza years and simply because slackjawed sperm banks.

I know JT came to Y&R full of vim and vigor and apparently enjoyed working with Gina Tognoni, but it wouldn't surprise me if he's lost the passion there after years of playing Podcaster Billy, DID Billy, etc.

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43 minutes ago, Vee said:

I haven't looked in much in awhile but I cannot imagine JT (who has aged a lot) looked more suicidal on-camera than he did on GH during the FV/Carlivati regime. After coming on during an era of strong scripts with some layered male POV (however misogynistic and mob-centric during Guza II), from 2012-2016 he looked like was experiencing slow cellular death everyday. Dominic Zamprogna clearly struggled in the 2010s too before briefly leaving.

True. I always forget he was on GH that far into the decade.

22 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

True. I always forget he was on GH that far into the decade.

Carlivati was fired in summer '15. Passanante and co. took over in late summer-early fall IIRC, and the first order of business from the network was to wrap up the endlessly prolonged Robin saga (in which RC circa 2012 had faked Robin's death after Kimberly McCullough chose to quit during the Garin Wolf mess, then had her rescued in '13 and immediately had her forced back into captivity again in early 2014) due to fan outrage. Patrick saved Robin in late '15 and they left Port Charles with Emma very early in 2016 IIRC. Not long after JT joined Y&R. Anyway, we're far afield.

Edited 16 minutes ago16 min by Vee