8 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

TV Insider is claiming he is not back as Nathan West.

tvinsider is citing the Deadline article:
"Paevey will be playing a new character on GH, according to Deadline " 

But the Deadline article doesn't say that specifically.
Deadline says "It’s unclear, for now, what role he will play since his previous character, the popular Det. Nathan West, was killed off in 2018."

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7 minutes ago, Vee said:

Shifted it to someone with at least an inch of acting ability!

GH loves to handicap itself whenever it has something good. The Willow, Drew, Michael etc. saga could have powered the show for many more months but now it's time to pivot to Britt, Jason, WSB Agent Joss and the resurgence of 'the Faison/Obrecht clan' featuring this dude who could never act to save his life. I'm not here to watch these people kiki over their weird-ass relatives all year.

I was just saying this morning that the only good Korte/CVE material has been the Drew stuff and that was mostly PM's set up.  I can't think of anything they've done that's been interesting otherwise.

22 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

Hence why Josh Swickard should have just been a Nathan recast; it would have shifted the role a bit, but it would have worked out.

JS would have been fine as a Nathan recast.

2 minutes ago, carolineg said:

JS would have been fine as a Nathan recast.

Absolutely; I felt like when he debuted, there was slight chem-testing of him with Kirsten Storms, and I saw it then.

30 minutes ago, Vee said:

WSB Agent Joss 

LOL..that still gives me a chuckle

Hopefully he's spent the past 7 years taking acting lessons. Or maybe we'll get lucky and his new role will be as a deaf-mute male stripper. 

41 minutes ago, janea4old said:

tvinsider is citing the Deadline article:
"Paevey will be playing a new character on GH, according to Deadline " 

But the Deadline article doesn't say that specifically.
Deadline says "It’s unclear, for now, what role he will play since his previous character, the popular Det. Nathan West, was killed off in 2018."

Hmm all the articles said it was unclear who Kelly Theibaud would be playing since her character had been killed off in 2023.  So this might be like that.

12 minutes ago, prefab1 said:

Hopefully he's spent the past 7 years taking acting lessons. Or maybe we'll get lucky and his new role will be as a deaf-mute male stripper. 

As a frequent Hallmark hate watcher, if anything, he's gotten worse. He seems like a nice guy and all but whew.

I was a more sporadic viewer during the Maxie and Nathan era and thought they were pleasant and sweet enough. They've just never been able to make any romance for Maxie work, outside of the original Spinelli pairing, and it doesn't help that she's saddled with so many children.

This isn't a slam against him, but I'll just never understand who GH thinks is into any of this family outside of Faison and I reckon Obrecht (who I find amusing but shouldn't be a central character). GH has about 7 or 8 characters in the young adult age range that the audience already knows and cares about sitting offscreen and yet they continue to double down on this family and these characters nobody gives a [!@#$%^&*] about. Like aren't Nina and Willow related to them too? It's just ridiculous.

8 minutes ago, AdelaideCate007 said:

As a frequent Hallmark hate watcher, if anything, he's gotten worse. He seems like a nice guy and all but whew.

I was a more sporadic viewer during the Maxie and Nathan era and thought they were pleasant and sweet enough. They've just never been able to make any romance for Maxie work, outside of the original Spinelli pairing, and it doesn't help that she's saddled with so many children.

This isn't a slam against him, but I'll just never understand who GH thinks is into any of this family outside of Faison and I reckon Obrecht (who I find amusing but shouldn't be a central character). GH has about 7 or 8 characters in the young adult age range that the audience already knows and cares about sitting offscreen and yet they continue to double down on this family and these characters nobody gives a [!@#$%^&*] about. Like aren't Nina and Willow related to them too? It's just ridiculous.

Agree with every single word. I'd go as far as to say that Maxie is a non factor and has been for years. The writers gave her a kid with any make lead she had a smidge of chemistry with. I wish he were returning (if he must) to usher her off the canvas.

I don't get the appeal of Britt and her family ties that they all need to come back at full force. 

If any character in Maxie's life needs a return, it should be Georgie. Granted, it's been ages, but Frisco and the WSB could've saved her. I'd go along with whatever they came up as to why she's been away for so long. 

10 minutes ago, AdelaideCate007 said:

This isn't a slam against him, but I'll just never understand who GH thinks is into any of this family outside of Faison and I reckon Obrecht (who I find amusing but shouldn't be a central character). GH has about 7 or 8 characters in the young adult age range that the audience already knows and cares about sitting offscreen and yet they continue to double down on this family and these characters nobody gives a [!@#$%^&*] about. Like aren't Nina and Willow related to them too? It's just ridiculous.

I feel like the real entertaining story--far more entertaining than the WSB/Britt story we're seeing onscreen--is whatever's been going on behind the scenes the past few months. Because first we get Daniel Goddard auditioning for the role of Brennan--which would have been perfect casting and he might have even been able to generate some chemistry with Laura Wright, which Chris McKenna certainly can't. But then the role goes to Frank's old friend Chris McKenna, although that means now Brennan is suddenly no longer Antipodean, but a down-home American son of a plumber. But then Frank likes Goddard, so he creates this entirely new role for him, Dalton, the college professor with a sinister secret. But before Goddard's character gets to actually do much villainy, the focus suddenly shifts to Croatia, where a back-from-the-dead Britt is using Dalton's research. And she's working for some unseen Big Bad, who's clearly going to be this new character played by Ryan Paevey (almost definitely Nathan's hitherto unknown evil twin). Which leaves Dalton doing very little in this story (and Goddard off screen for the past few weeks). 

So is Frank just like my cat, who comes running every time someone waves a shiny new toy in front of his face and then ignores the shiny toys he got just a few minutes earlier?

26 minutes ago, AdelaideCate007 said:

I'll just never understand who GH thinks is into any of this family outside of Faison and I reckon Obrecht (who I find amusing but shouldn't be a central character). GH has about 7 or 8 characters in the young adult age range that the audience already knows and cares about sitting offscreen and yet they continue to double down on this family and these characters nobody gives a [!@#$%^&*] about. Like aren't Nina and Willow related to them too? It's just ridiculous.

They have their fans who get loud online - every mid or small fanbase or character does today, it seems - but what Twitter fails to convey is that those people are a miniscule amount in the larger scheme of the general audience.

I feel like now that they've been forced by circumstance to bring Britt back for Jason, this is a CVE, etc. thing reliving their favorite days with these 'kooky' characters from the dregs of the mid-late 2010s, a wretched time for the show. RC definitely tried to put them all over though. I am convinced his original intention for Nathan and Stafford's Nina was to make them Cassadines by way of Obrecht and Thaao Penghlis' Victor which, ugh.

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20 minutes ago, prefab1 said:

But then the role goes to Frank's old friend Chris McKenna, although that means now Brennan is suddenly no longer Antipodean, but a down-home American son of a plumber.

I love Chris who is a great actor doing his best in a part not suited for him, but lol it's true.

So is Frank just like my cat, who comes running every time someone waves a shiny new toy in front of his face and then ignores the shiny toys he got just a few minutes earlier?

Often seems this way, and it's what happened to Eva LaRue among many others. I suspect poor Mansi may be next.

What's insane to me too is the idea of a major storyline largely centered around aging Steve, Kelly Thiebaud, Eden McCoy and a new potential villain played by... Ryan Paevey. Oh, and let's not forget the recurring player of "Vaughn," who literally has the exact name of his identical character from ABC's Alias as an in-joke that has already gone too far.

Like, good luck?!

I knew the reactions here were going to be more entertaining than the story probably will be, and so far I'm not wrong.

49 minutes ago, Vee said:

Shifted it to someone with at least an inch of acting ability!

GH loves to handicap itself whenever it has something good. The Willow, Drew, Michael etc. saga could have powered the show for many more months but now it's time to pivot to Britt, Jason, WSB Agent Joss and the resurgence of 'the Faison/Obrecht clan' featuring this dude who could never act to save his life. I'm not here to watch these people kiki over their weird-ass relatives all year.

Yes, I haven't watched Nathan's era in a long time, I was barely watching then, but I do find Josh a little more captivating and a bit better as a performer than Paevey. I know he's another of the brunette pieces of ass Frank has collected since the Ford days, but he is probably one of the better choices of the pack for me.

I wonder how much of this revival is Frank trying to go back to some period where he felt happier with the show. I know Nathan and Britt have fans, I know Liesl has fans, but that era seemed to be literally dead and gone. 

Maybe he can give Donna Mills a check for a day, although she seems to have moved on.

3 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

If he's going to return, he had better be onscreen like this 24/7😂😍

 

I think you and I might be the only two people who are good with a Ryan Paevey return😂

I loved looking at him, and I never thought he was a bad actor, either on GH or at Hallmark.

3 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

If he's going to return, he had better be onscreen like this 24/7😂😍

 

This isn't against Ryan but I hate the baby oil look. I have always hated it, even before the Diddy jokes.

He'll be nice to look at again, that's for sure 😍😍

But ehhh... whatever

31 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

This isn't against Ryan but I hate the baby oil look. I have always hated it, even before the Diddy jokes.

Ron Carlivati is shaking his head right now 😂😂😂

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