Carson has nice nipples but can't act, so that's pretty much where my interest ends in him ever joining GH. Next.

1 hour ago, Vee said:

Carson has nice nipples but can't act

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8 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

As much as I’d love to see Carson Boatman on another soap, he’s wayyyy too old to play Cam or Aiden.

Even with the weird ages on soaps, both on and offscreen, I can’t buy one of Liz’s boys suddenly being older than Michael lol

Maybe a brand new character would be better for him

I was joking about Aiden, but they aged up that character so much, presumably due to panic after making him gay, that I wouldn't care anymore.

4 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Jane Elliot would eat him alive.

Jane's worked with her share of iffy actors so I think he'd be OK...but I don't see them adding any more Qs at the moment.

I could see him being yet another Noah on Y&R.

If anyone could've elevated Boatman as a Dillon and made him grow into any more talent, it's actors like Jane Elliot and the old GH writing staff. But the latter are gone and CB is also a bit too young to be a contemporary of Maxie, Lulu, Spinelli, etc.

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10 minutes ago, Vee said:

If anyone could've elevated Boatman as a Dillon and made him grow into any more talent, it's actors like Jane Elliot and the old GH writing staff. But the latter are gone and CB is also a bit too young to be a contemporary of Maxie, Lulu, Spinelli, etc.

A shame they never did much for Dillon when he was around.

Just now, DRW50 said:

A shame they never did much for Dillon when he was around.

They also had a dreadful, typical Frank/Ron himbo recast in Rob Watkins. He was pitiful no matter how he looked in his underwear (this is not an invitation).

Dillon could potentially come back today and do well, I think. I didn't used to think so. Maybe even be a strong spoiler for Lulu and Dante given that moribund situation and spice things up (something they tried to have him do with the last recast and which flopped massively). But you'd have to make him not too similar to Cody, who I don't want to get rid of (and Josh Kelly could've easily played that role), keep his entertainment/arts background in a viable way yet find an actual clear purpose for him. Him just going to work at ELQ would be a boring waste of the character's idiosyncrasy for me, none of which Watkins had.

If you don't do it right Dillon becomes just another hunk standing around, which is what he was last time. And Scott Clifton is never going to leave the comfortable security at B&B.

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17 minutes ago, Vee said:

Dillon could potentially come back today and do well, I think. I didn't used to think so. Maybe even be a strong spoiler for Lulu and Dante given that moribund situation and spice things up (something they tried to have him do with the last recast and which flopped massively). But you'd have to make him not too similar to Cody, who I don't want to get rid of (and Josh Kelly could've easily played that role), keep his entertainment/arts background in a viable way yet find an actual clear purpose for him. Him just going to work at ELQ would be a boring waste of the character's idiosyncrasy for me, none of which Watkins had.

That's a great idea - given the current state of mergers and evil money men I could see Drew buying a major studio and bringing Dillon under his wing to spite Tracy.

You'd have to make Dillon's interests viable on canvas, which is always hard to do with characters involved in film or TV on soaps. No one goes to Hollywood and then resettles in Port Charles, unless he is going independent/arthouse, or is doing something else like TV or some other vocation. There are ways to do it without it being embarrassing but you'd have to be careful. (I think even Johnny DiMera came back to DAYS wanting to make movies and I guess that all went away too)

2 minutes ago, Vee said:

You'd have to make Dillon's interests viable on canvas, which is always hard to do with characters involved in film or TV on soaps. No one goes to Hollywood and then resettles in Port Charles, unless he is going independent/arthouse, or is doing something else like TV or some other vocation. There are ways to do it without it being embarrassing but you'd have to be careful. (I think even Johnny DiMera came back to DAYS wanting to make movies and I guess that all went away too)

I could see him ending up in some type of stuff like those vertical videos that are made very cheaply, although that's probably not something the show would care about getting into.

2 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I could see him ending up in some type of stuff like those vertical videos that are made very cheaply, although that's probably not something the show would care about getting into.

I do think your idea re: Drew buying him up as part of an acquisition a la the right-wing Ellisons is great. It's just an issue of how to weave any kind of film or TV job into the main canvas of a soap opera not set in LA or NY. Maybe Dillon makes edgy films or TV locally, like some boutique directors in their cities or hometowns, and you can weave it in and out of story from time to time. OLTL made Fraternity Row work for years and Erica(?) and Tad had their talk shows on AMC, etc. so it's not impossible to do in a deft way.

It doesn't need to be a big deal and Dillon wasn't even a favorite of mine; I just would hate to see a unique job whittled down to another disposable hunk working at ELQ or being a photographer or whatever. So it becomes a unique challenge to puzzle out. I think ultimately you'd have to treat it similar to how some soap characters (like Felicia Gallant, etc.) were novelists. Always working on some new thing, mostly in the background but sometimes in key story.

...Hell, maybe Dillon's dream project out in the Far East or wherever went sideways (a la Apocalypse Now), he got in trouble with the wrong shady investors and Drew manages to buttonhole him into writing and directing an ego-boosting biopic about his days as a Navy SEAL: "The Drew Quartermaine Story." Starring Mark Wahlberg, naturally (or David Vickers)

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