22 minutes ago, carolineg said:

Yesterday she slept with Vaughn. 

And people were freaking out about that online yesterday. I kinda shrugged because Sydney Joss and Vaughn were going to sleep together at some point. Why is this surprising?

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5 hours ago, Antoyne said:

I’ve seen her have sex with a grand total of 2 characters since I started watching again since last May and one was her dead ex.

Exactly. If you don't like Joss, that's fine. It's OK to dislike characters. But there's something off about calling her a whore, when that just isn't so.

A girl or guy her age would likely have been with many more sexual partners than Joss. And while I understand the point that there's a difference between name-calling a character as opposed to an actor,  this one strikes me as mean and almost personal.

I mean if anyone is a whore on this show, it would be Sonny...

The debate on whether or not Joss is a whore is more exciting than her current storyline. 

9 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

I mean if anyone is a whore on this show, it would be Sonny...

No other character has ever been as lead around by their sexual organs as he has! And while I am mostly just grossed out by the age difference, I don’t think Joss is a whore. But I am also sex positive in my household- I don’t shame women or think there is anything wrong with her being sexually active. She’s a young adult woman, and truthfully these shows are old fashioned as can be!

4 minutes ago, carolineg said:

The debate on whether or not Joss is a whore is more exciting than her current storyline. 

That's a given. But you know I will shade that story every chance I can get.  

 

BUT...FINE. Vaughn finally won me over. And I do like him in his briefs.

 

5 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

No other character has ever been as lead around by their sexual organs as he has! And while I am mostly just grossed out by the age difference, I don’t think Joss is a whore. But I am also sex positive in my household- I don’t shame women or think there is anything wrong with her being sexually active. She’s a young adult woman, and truthfully these shows are old fashioned as can be!

So very true.

1 minute ago, Taoboi said:

That's a given. But you know I will shade that story every chance I can get.  

 

BUT...FINE. Vaughn finally won me over. And I do like him in his briefs.

 

I think Vaughn and Dex are almost the same character and you could have done this story tweaked with Dex.  So I don't get the point at all.  

And I don't really care if Joss is a whore or not.  I will say she is ANNOYING and that's a fact.

12 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

No other character has ever been as lead around by their sexual organs as he has! And while I am mostly just grossed out by the age difference, I don’t think Joss is a whore. But I am also sex positive in my household- I don’t shame women or think there is anything wrong with her being sexually active. She’s a young adult woman, and truthfully these shows are old fashioned as can be!

In some odd way GH may be on trend - I keep hearing about how people her age are less and less interested in sex or relationships.

I don't think she's a whore either, but it's partly on the show for how they framed her relationship with Dex - having her go have sex with Dex as Britt was dying, having her cheat on Cameron and the show praising her for doing so. And the "hot" sex scenes she's given that don't really work (admittedly I don't think most of those work on soaps).

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3 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I think Vaughn and Dex are almost the same character and you could have done this story tweaked with Dex.  So I don't get the point at all.  

And I don't really care if Joss is a whore or not.  I will say she is ANNOYING and that's a fact.

They probably just switched partners because they were trying yet again to revamp her. I'm still surprised they didn't try to have a triangle with Gio and Emma, as early on Emma came in blasting her.

5 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I think Vaughn and Dex are almost the same character and you could have done this story tweaked with Dex.  So I don't get the point at all.  

I'd agree that Bryce Durfee and Evan Hofer have enough of a physical resemblance that they could be playing brothers. But beyond that, Vaughn and Dex don't feel very similar to me. I think Vaughn is a huge upgrade because he's a more complex character, someone who's so used to lying and slipping into a role that it's become like second nature to him. With the right writing, you could get a lot of good stories and scenes out of a character like that, because you'd never quite be able to tell where his true agenda might lie. Dex, on the other hand, was just another in a long line of Frank's derpy hunks who look good shirtless. 

5 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I think Vaughn and Dex are almost the same character and you could have done this story tweaked with Dex.  So I don't get the point at all.  

And I don't really care if Joss is a whore or not.  I will say she is ANNOYING and that's a fact.

Oh don't get me wrong! I felt the same. But I think the actor is giving a hint (just a hint) of a personality beyond what I felt Dex was able to do. It kinda reminds me of...don't shoot me...Original Recipe Vaughn on Alias who was the same way with Sydney Bristow. Younger Me found that cute then so I guess some things have not changed for Older Me. 

 

That said...still hate the storyline. And total fact.

 

As for the debate...I am sure the original poster will explain their point of view when they feel like it. I was...just saying to just saying. After all, message boards are full of opinions and why not heard them. Good, bad, ugly, the occasional t#oll...hehe.

1 minute ago, prefab1 said:

I'd agree that Bryce Durfee and Evan Hofer have enough of a physical resemblance that they could be playing brothers. But beyond that, Vaughn and Dex don't feel very similar to me. I think Vaughn is a huge upgrade because he's a more complex character, someone who's so used to lying and slipping into a role that it's become like second nature to him. With the right writing, you could get a lot of good stories and scenes out of a character like that, because you'd never quite be able to tell where his true agenda might lie. Dex, on the other hand, was just another in a long line of Frank's derpy hunks who look good shirtless. 

I totally agree with this. And in my catch-up, that is what I am noticing about Vaughn in spite of me hating the storyline. It's...intriguing...due to what I just said about Alias.

 

tbf...perhaps Hofer's Dex might have found that under the avoided new police guy hazing storyline PM had planned for him. But that's a moot point. 

12 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I don't think she's a whore either, but it's partly on the show for how they framed her relationship with Dex - having her go have sex with Dex as Britt was dying, having her cheat on Cameron and the show praising her for doing so

Yep. Pretty much.

5 minutes ago, prefab1 said:

I'd agree that Bryce Durfee and Evan Hofer have enough of a physical resemblance that they could be playing brothers. But beyond that, Vaughn and Dex don't feel very similar to me. I think Vaughn is a huge upgrade because he's a more complex character, someone who's so used to lying and slipping into a role that it's become like second nature to him. With the right writing, you could get a lot of good stories and scenes out of a character like that, because you'd never quite be able to tell where his true agenda might lie. Dex, on the other hand, was just another in a long line of Frank's derpy hunks who look good shirtless. 

I think Dex has as much complexity as Vaughn does, which is very little.  

There isn't going to be the right writing because Vaughn will end up as another Frank hunk who looks good shirtless just like Hofer.

13 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

They probably just switched partners because they were trying yet again to revamp her. I'm still surprised they didn't try to have a triangle with Gio and Emma, as early on Emma came in blasting her.

A Joss/Emma/Gio triangle makes more sense than this Alias story, but Joss would win and I would hate that for Emma.