GH: May 2025 Discussion Thread

[carolineg]

Unrelated, sort of, but he looks absolutely nothing like Amanda Setton or Dominic Zamprogna so it's kind of hilarious they decided to make Gio their kid.  It's very clear this was not the original origin story for Gio when they cast him.

He is a very handsome guy though. 

Edited 12 hours ago by carolineg

[Vee]

GM is adorable, charming and fun onscreen despite months of nothing to do until recently, and has a bodacious bod. I'm not cosigning the show or this story - I haven't watched a full episode in over a month - but I think we're all taking the small victories in 2025 at this point.

I'm open to testing this theory!

[AbcNbc247]

He definitely got lost in the shuffle last year.

First, they were implying that he was Drew’s son, then he was nothing more than just Violet’s bff

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And then they changed him to being Dante and Brook Lynn’s son, which was clunky at first but I’m enjoying the storyline now. 

Edited 7 hours ago by AbcNbc247

[Vee]

I don't think they had any idea who he was this time last year. I think they were keeping their options very open. Same with totally dropping the Trina romance that was spoiled for him in the mags once FV clearly took a shine to him. Frank's priorities are bright and blazing in one color.

I do think Gio and Emma seem to have worked out given that she is very dry and sarcastic and he is like a hot golden retriever, but I'd still play the field or explore quads with both with very different people - Emma with a scheming young man (of color), Gio with possibly Trina or someone else, or even a boy. Then maybe put them back together, who knows. But of course none that will happen.

Edited 6 hours ago by Vee

[AbcNbc247]

You’d think he would’ve learned after the way Sprina took off. 

I hope we get a proper Emma/Gio/Trina/Kai quad, as friends, romantic rivals, etc. In the few scenes that the four of them have had together, I felt like there was a natural chemistry between all of them, similar to the way that Cam/Spencer/Trina/Joss was, in the beginning. 

And, it would be a lot better than all this stuff with Kai’s surgery. 

[Vee]

I'd dump Kai next week, lol. I would bring on Justus Ward's secret kid, as was rumored last year, as a suave, ambitious young schemer.

Edited 5 hours ago by Vee

[carolineg]

The fact that Lois brought Gio to Brook Lynn's wedding, encouraged him to stay in town, then decided he should live at the Q's make her look dim and like she was asking to get caught lol.

I still strongly dislike this story, but the performances have been good.  Like you said Gio finally has a story and Dante will get something to do besides playing house with Sam on the backburner.

[Vee]

I do like that they seem to be pushing ahead with Dante and Lulu as opposed to what I feared would be an overly-long wait for a reunion. But while Lulu has always been rash and at times self-righteous, the story does feel skewed towards FV's faves (Setton vs. Laura's kids).

[carolineg]

The show is definitely trying to make Lulu seem like she's wrong and Brook Lynn is being tormented.  I just don't really see it that way.  Lulu really hasn't done anything except confront BLQ.   She hasn't told anyone, Chase already knows, and she's writing an article about adoption.  Everyone is jumping down her throat for something Lulu actually has a personal investment in.  Brook Lynn's freakout about a newspaper article on adoption is way more suspicious than Lulu just writing a story about it lol.

Chase is coming off ridiculously self-righteous too.  Telling Dante to make Lulu stop while lying to him about his child.