12 minutes ago, carolineg said:

Labine/Guza would have never let the Britt angle with Rocco get so far out.

I do hope Rocco just walks dogs all the way to Sonny's house so Sonny and various characters can have serious life changing conversations while holding adorable dogs.

Guza did let the whole Sonny as Michael's true father angle go on and on so I guess this is just the Britt version.

36 minutes ago, Vee said:

I have seen the brief scenes and they are reasonable reads. The old GH writers' room from the Labine/Guza years would have had ol' Misty Britt (because she was giving that misty nausea look again that Kelly puts on when she's 'concerned' or 'pained!) absolutely eviscerated though.

I like how Rocco has ten million hours of community service over these dogs. Like which pet will he walk and care for next?

I could see Britt in the Katherine role of mostly just hanging around for years being vaguely disliked by much of the populace (other than that year or so where they tried to make her Kayla).

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9 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Guza did let the whole Sonny as Michael's true father angle go on and on so I guess this is just the Britt version.

I could see Britt in the Katherine role of mostly just hanging around for years being vaguely disliked by much of the populace (other than that year or so where they tried to make her Kayla.

Fair enough, but people used to actually like Sonny.

I could see Britt as a Katherine like character that everyone just eye rolls when she speaks yet vaguely tolerate, but that's really not helpful or what I think the show is going for lol.

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

Fair enough, but people used to actually like Sonny.

I could see Britt as a Katherine like character that everyone just eye rolls when she speaks yet vaguely tolerate, but that's really not helpful or what I think the show is going for lol.

Genuinely asking, did people actually support Sonny forcing AJ to sign over his parental rights by putting him on a meat hook?

1 minute ago, Antoyne said:

Genuinely asking, did people actually support Sonny forcing AJ to sign over his parental rights by putting him on a meat hook?

I would say no. Not at that point. Early on I think Sonny/Carly had some support from fans.

12 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

Genuinely asking, did people actually support Sonny forcing AJ to sign over his parental rights by putting him on a meat hook?

No. That was Jill and Megan btw.

17 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

Genuinely asking, did people actually support Sonny forcing AJ to sign over his parental rights by putting him on a meat hook?

The show had spent years demonizing AJ and Sonny has always had fans, so probably.

5 minutes ago, Vee said:

No. That was Jill and Megan btw.

Oddly they were kinder to him than the coming regimes were, IIRC.

3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Oddly they were kinder to him than the coming regimes were, IIRC.

I thought that whole move with the meathook was so cartoonish. It showed they did not understand how the show handled these characters. (They also had a ridiculous reintro for Jax where he rappels upside down into an auction or museum or something hunting for jewels like Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible.) Of course things got far more cartoonish later when Guza II began. I do blame some of that on Pratt's insane excesses, but Guza def made some terrible choices all on his own for years to come.

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49 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

Genuinely asking, did people actually support Sonny forcing AJ to sign over his parental rights by putting him on a meat hook?

From what I remember...nope. They STILL talk about it. Heck, we STILL talk about it.

Well good to know people didn’t enjoy that. I don’t have a lot of faith in the GH faithful when it comes to Sonny 😂

Well after what happened with that FBI Agent we don't mention...

1 hour ago, Taoboi said:

Well after what happened with that FBI Agent we don't mention...

She's out with the heartbreak of psoriasis. (Yes, I'm kidding).

28 minutes ago, Khan said:

She's out with the heartbreak of psoriasis. (Yes, I'm kidding).

Lol.

9 hours ago, Antoyne said:

Well good to know people didn’t enjoy that. I don’t have a lot of faith in the GH faithful when it comes to Sonny 😂

Personally, I was never a fan of Sonny/Carly vs. AJ for Michael. In the beginning when Carly was pretending Jason was the father I could almost get behind some of the reasoning. ALMOST. Once Sonny got involved the show had to work far too hard to make me believe Sonny was the better option as a father.

Carly/Sonny had tons of support on message boards in the early 2000's though. The most ardent Sonny fans wanted Sonny to have a child because there was a time long ago where Sonny didn't have any kids (that he knew of) and Carly had trouble getting pregnant again.

The writing was always an issue for AJ, but I would argue the recasting to Billy Warlock was also a big shift for AJ as anything other than a loser bad guy.

Sorry, that's my longer answer to your initial question lol.

10 hours ago, Vee said:

(They also had a ridiculous reintro for Jax where he rappels upside down into an auction or museum or something hunting for jewels like Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible.) .

I remember Ingo being gone for like a year and came back when Titans flopped. They announced his return at the Emmys, there was a good amount of promotion, and then that was the re-intro. He originally left to find a not dead Brenda and failed but found Alexis's long-lost sister instead. Yay? Lol

The show never really knew what to do with Jax outside of Brenda and later Carly's orbit. It's amazing Jax lasted as long as he did on the show.

20 minutes ago, carolineg said:

Personally, I was never a fan of Sonny/Carly vs. AJ for Michael. In the beginning when Carly was pretending Jason was the father I could almost get behind some of the reasoning. ALMOST. Once Sonny got involved the show had to work far too hard to make me believe Sonny was the better option as a father.

I was very into Sonny and Carly with Maurice and Sarah, and later in the early period with Tamara before Lorenzo came along and things got really grotesque in '03. But I never liked the A.J. situation or how he was treated. It was always just plain wrong to me. I was baffled in '98/'99 when the show tried to paint Robin as being in the wrong.

21 minutes ago, carolineg said:

They announced his return at the Emmys, there was a good amount of promotion, and then that was the re-intro. He originally left to find a not dead Brenda and failed but found Alexis's long-lost sister instead. Yay? Lol

The show never really knew what to do with Jax outside of Brenda and later Carly's orbit. It's amazing Jax lasted as long as he did on the show.

I remember that!!!

In hindsight, their attempt at a soft reboot. Something Jax needed since sadly Brenda was not coming back any time soon.