2 minutes ago, Khan said:

No way is he about to cut bait on that snotty, two-dimensional "actress." She appeals to Frank's desired demographic: middle-aged FB users who have defected to Great American Christmas, and who miss the days when Taylor Swift was just another country music artist.

Of course, but it's been maybe a decade? of trying with her and they have other popular young people coming up. She's also been drifting in story and airtime a few times now, more than he'd usually allow for Joss.

3 minutes ago, Vee said:

Of course, but it's been maybe a decade? of trying with her and they have other popular young people coming up. She's also been drifting in story and airtime a few times now, more than he'd usually allow for Joss.

Don't worry, though: soon, she'll be the new editor-in-chief at Crimson, and all will be right again in Frank's world.

24 minutes ago, Khan said:

Drew will be the one to dump Jacinda's body in Michael's bed (and take pictures that somehow end up in an issue of Crimson). He'll also beat Willow, kick someone's dog, steal candy from all the kids on Halloween and hatch a scheme to plunge Port Charles into "perpetual midnight."

I could see Drew doing that with Jacinda's body...2026 will be an interesting turning point as I wonder if they will try to soften Drew or just write him out. What I'd probably do is have him get in way over his head with some bigger villain and come out of the process a wreck (or if they are writing him out - dead).

25 minutes ago, Khan said:

They better bring back Morgan Fairchild for that one. Diva can sell anything!

I'm sure Morgan is just glad for the work but what a waste. They could at least reveal she is Madeleine West with plastic surgery and using home shopping to launder money or cause mass psychosis.

26 minutes ago, Vee said:

I have been saying this for months, stop copying my paper! I'm kidding, but I absolutely do think we'll be subjected to months of Valentin and Carly 'trying to find out who killed Jack' while getting together.

The rest of your guesses sound pretty solid, and not all of them bad ideas! Though I do doubt Gio and Joss will ever happen. Joss is in such a strange place on the show IMO. I know they pushed hard on her again with the WSB thing but it seems like an islanded dud for her atm, and her pairing with Vaughn an afterthought. She feels adrift to me again just as she did with Dex a little over a year ago.

You are probably right about Joss - I don't know if he will want to get her "dirty" (she cheated on Cameron but he was Liz's son so who cares, right?), it's just a roll of the dice for me because they set up stuff with Gio and Joss, a Joss/Emma rivalry, and I could see it being used as a stopgap story for her until she meets her next edgy bedmate.

I did think of your murder mystery suggestion. I'd rather they just have Brennan transition into modeling (they have Vaughn there too, and Home & Hearth - the ideas write themselves!), but it does not seem likely.

22 minutes ago, Khan said:

No way is he about to cut bait on that snotty, two-dimensional "actress." She appeals to Frank's desired demographic: middle-aged FB users who have defected to Great American Christmas, and who miss the days when Taylor Swift was just another country music artist.

That sums it up. I'd add she gives some of the same energy of Sydney Sweeney, just with much more sensible press decorum.

A few other GH predictions:

Marco tries to kill Brad, but Lucas nearly dies instead. Marco hides away, now having only his father for support. Brad stays by Lucas' bedside and when he wakes up he begs forgiveness to Brad, Carly and Sonny.

Doubting Ava's loyalty, Sidwell captures Avery. He also kidnaps Charlotte and Rocco after finding them snooping in his property. Dante is locked up with Sonny and Britt (who tried to turn against Sidwell and was exposed in the process). Britt manages to free them via something her mother taught her and they race to the scene.

Valentin sneaks in via a passage and takes Charlotte to safety. Charlotte says they need to help Rocco too but Valentin claims there isn't time. Charlotte believes him, but Lulu, when she learns of this, hates him even more.

Nathan and Jason save Rocco, but in the process, Nathan is shot, drawing Lulu even closer to him and making Dante feel helpless.

Sonny fires repeatedly at Marco and Sidwell as they flee. We hear an explosion, but only one body is recovered - Marco's.

Ric, meanwhile, decides to try to win Liz back, but as he arrives at the hospital with flowers and candy, he overhears her telling Terri or whoever else that it's taken her this long to see Ric as a good friend, and she can't let herself ever see him as more. A crestfallen Ric runs into Lucy, who is sad about her latest disastrous relationship. They have a mostly offcamera love, and he becomes a legal counsel for Deception.

Cody and Molly become engaged, and he becomes a guardian to a rebellious young man. Molly also becomes close to him and sees him as the child she will never have. Alexis is supportive but wary, and by the end of the year we learn she is right - he is the long lost son of the latest supervillain to replace Sidwell, Cyrus, etc.

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by DRW50

Are you sure you're not auditioning for the show?

4 minutes ago, Vee said:

Are you sure you're not auditioning for the show?

That may be a little too much Lucy for them (and I'm not actually sure if Avery still exists).

4 minutes ago, Vee said:

Are you sure you're not auditioning for the show?

I'll be damned if @DRW50 ends up working for Frank. He's far too talented for that.

3 minutes ago, Khan said:

I'll be damned if @DRW50 ends up working for Frank. He's far too talented for that.

That's too kind of you.

(I'll still take the check if they do want to hire me)

Just now, DRW50 said:

(I'll still take the check if they do want to hire me)

Don't do it, @DRW50 ! Hold out for BTG instead!

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by Khan

The impressive thing is that it's both very in line with the stuff they'd pull and also not all of it is at all bad. Kudos! You're bringing their level up! (Not that I think you're a bad writer, it's just two different things to write according to FV/ABC's tastes vs. one's own.)

12 hours ago, Vee said:

The impressive thing is that it's both very in line with the stuff they'd pull and also not all of it is at all bad. Kudos! You're bringing their level up! (Not that I think you're a bad writer, it's just two different things to write according to FV/ABC's tastes vs. one's own.)

Frankly, a lot of what they pull wouldn't be so bad if the execution wasn't so lousy.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Khan