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I feel like Chelsea is going to end up in a situation where one of the people in these threesomes is going to get jealous and go off on her.

Leslie's anger toward Eva today showed how dangerous she really is. We already know she's not too sane, but that ending showed she is willing to go off on Eva too.

-- Did anyone else Daphnee Duplaix in a guest role on last night's St. Denis Medical? She played a wealthy hospital benefactor in the final scene.

-- Not buying Chelsea going in so hard on her mother working with her. Didn't we get weeks of Chelsea wanting to be on her own?

-- Derek and Ashley did all they could with those magazine relationship quiz scenes. The actor playing Derek had his best day today.

-- I do not believe the show has already shown that they know Derek and Ashley aren't working.

-- Vanessa and Doug have a lot of sexual chemistry -- certainly more than Vanessa and Joey.

Just now, ranger1rg said:

-- Derek and Ashley did all they could with those magazine relationship quiz scenes. The actor playing Derek had his best day today.

I think so too. For the first time... he was above studio-produced porn acting. I don't know if I'm just getting used to all of these people, but everyone seems to be improving. Absolutely everyone. 

I haven't watched this weeks episodes yet beyond some clips but I did want to go back to the conversation about criticism for the show. I think part of why everybody is on a different page is because it's been so long since we had a new soap and everybody has didn't expectations and time-tables in mind.

I know for myself there are many things I'd change but overall I am still enjoying the day-to-day. The changes I want are more based around the production model and casting. I am still enjoying the writing and the pacing. But I also keep in mind we're still watching stuff from before the show aired. We know they're continuously making tweaks behind the scenes and we know we have something significant coming in May, in addition to a major recast. Even then, we'll only be looking at changes they made based on what they saw while still in a bubble without the show airing. It could be another 2-3 months before we see any changes based on the public reaction to the show.

For me, that's why I've chosen not to focus so much on the negatives. It's very rare a soap launches perfectly and as long as I can enjoy the show on a day-to-day basis, that's all I need right now. I guess for me the point I'd start to really be critical would probably be August-September. I feel like that's enough time to work out kinks and make changes based on feedback. 

But I will say, reading all of the different opinions in here is part of my joy watching the show. I don't expect everybody to think the same as me and I enjoy seeing everybodys thoughts, even if they aren't enjoying the show. 

There was literally in 11 second scene today (Joey/Vanessa after the credits).....what is this, GH?  LOL

This show has a lot of interesting elements, but a lot of boring filler material too. Perhaps if it was 30 minutes, we'd get more of the interesting and less of the boring. 60 minutes, especially for a brand new soap, is hard.

59 minutes ago, Toups said:

There was literally in 11 second scene today (Joey/Vanessa after the credits).....what is this, GH?  LOL

I thought that was intentional -- because they cut from Vanessa/Joey to Doug/Andre -- Andre asking Doug about his injury, while Doug was thinking about Joey's threats. They showed Vanessa and Doug never in the same scene as each other throughout the episode, and indicating perhaps that Vanessa and Joey were thinking about sex with each other... and then near the end of the episode Doug noticing through the restaurant window that Joey/Vanessa were sitting together.
And then suddenly, at the end, the surprise to the viewers of Vanessa/Doug having sex.

I acknowledge that some editing in this series is choppy.  But I wasn't bothered by the transition from Vanessa/Joey to Doug/Andre.

Edited April 24Apr 24 by janea4old

2 hours ago, Toups said:

There was literally in 11 second scene today (Joey/Vanessa after the credits).....what is this, GH?  LOL

Those are the times of our lives 😂

1 hour ago, janea4old said:

Vanessa/Doug having sex

Some people are saying there are no longer any surprises after two months. This was certainly a sexy, pleasant surprise!

Speaking of sexy, who here would have rathered a scene with Chelsea and company getting down instead of Derelict and Ashley?

3 minutes ago, Gatecrashers said:

Some people are saying there are no longer any surprises after two months. This was certainly a sexy, pleasant surprise!

I'm surprised every time Vanessa doesn't have sex in an episode. 😂

lol

5 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

-- Did anyone else Daphnee Duplaix in a guest role on last night's St. Denis Medical? She played a wealthy hospital benefactor in the final scene.

Thanks for the heads up. I don't normally watch that show but will check out her episode.

3 hours ago, Chris B said:

 I guess for me the point I'd start to really be critical would probably be August-September. I feel like that's enough time to work out kinks and make changes based on feedback.  

 I literally said the same thing (much Harsher) last night to a friend.

1 hour ago, Gatecrashers said:

Speaking of sexy, who here would have rathered a scene with Chelsea and company getting down instead of Derelict and Ashley?

Me LOL.

7 hours ago, GLATWT88 said:

Anyway, I would love a non-family member to be brought in to play bestie to one of the Duprees.  

Yeah, I spoke about this briefly with @Cheap21. It's much needed.

Not Derelict!

Nicole looked elegant as always in her suit and Ted in the Hugo Boss jacket with the label prominently displayed. That is unusual to have logos on show.

We would expect the actors to improve as timer goes on. If you're starting out, never worked on a soap before with the workload involved some might struggle. 

Now if in a few more months those same actors are still  struggling, some hard decisions will have to be made.