5 hours ago, carolineg said:

TJ got an off screen phone call from Curtis!!!!

OMG!!! Get out! Frank actually remembered he exist?

2 hours ago, Vee said:

He's slightly less boring and pointless than Sasha.

He was also easy on the eyes with a nice bounce.

2 hours ago, Antoyne said:

We basically watched the character grow up on the show even with the various recasts, some that were actually quite good. It’s just crazy to send him Up to the attic and have to watch Molly move on like her 10 year relationship never mattered so she could date someone 20 years older than her and have a teenage relationship again.

ALL OF THIS.

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

See my profile pic for an actual obsession.

Hehe. A great obsession though cuz she is THAT GIRL.

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

It's just very lazy he just disappeared.

Oh so lazy. Especially since there was real potential for him when he abruptly vanished. And it's still a missing link in the Molly/Cody stuff and will always get side-eye for the pairing due to how he abruptly vanished.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I think it's also an example of the show's poor treatment of their black cast.

Same.

36 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

Agreed. They also threw away a character that was a doctor and we need more of them, not less.

Also this.

24 minutes ago, CrazySexyQ said:

GH gets a lot right, but the treatment of the Black cast is eye-rolling at times. We don't need to care about TJ to see how he was erased from the canvas. Or how he barely mattered in a story about his own child.

Speak on it! Same.

11 minutes ago, ranger1rg said:

It's very difficult to think of a Black character on GH who's been given good writing.

Vinessa Antoine's version of Jordan? Or Trina once upon a time.

Steve is a quirky dude, but he, and Bradford, look great. This is an interesting watch to get their perspective post-Steve's break. He talks about his ideas of a Jason 2.0 and Sonny 2.0 in this era. They talk about Nathan being Cassius. Bradford asks a good question - did Obrecht know she had twins?

I did find it interesting when Steve said the writers had to make stuff up because of his surprise announcement. We're in a world where actors get to dictate story vs. the engine, which rarely would have happened when soaps were at their prime. Sign of the times I suppose.

I've noticed that many of the GH people are on a national tour. It reminds me of the good ol' days where they would travel to different cities and generate buzz with fan events. I hope it works for them. Steve and Bradford will be in my old hometown later this month and it makes me wish I could be there, because I would in a heartbeat.

3 hours ago, Taoboi said:

OMG!!! Get out! Frank actually remembered he exist?

He was also easy on the eyes with a nice bounce.

ALL OF THIS.

Last TJ def had a bubble and I actually thought he handled a lot of the surrogate material well. I initially didn’t care about him because there were two different TJ’s I actually liked before I stopped watching years ago but he genuinely won me over. I had zero idea the show treated Molly/TJ as non players during the time I wasn’t watching so I was very much interested in their story especially played with Mansi as Kristina whom I loved on Days. Sadly the show erased TJ and killed absolutely any love I had for Kristina or Mansi.

Molly and T.J. were rarely seen much from 2014-15 until the surrogacy story began in mid-late '23. They were nobodies. The reason being that when Frank and Ron first arrived in 2012 they tried very hard initially to find a new teen Starr Manning type fitting her mold from OLTL for youth stories, to chase that youth demo. That's where Molly came in.

Frank pushed hard to showcase Haley Pullos' teen Molly and turn her into Starr II with his chosen new guy for her, Silas Clay's twink nephew Rafe Kovich Jr., the son of Caleb and Alison from Port Charles. The kid playing Rafe couldn't really act and nobody cared about him so the hard sell with them flopped, but at the same time FV and RC were trying to smear Tequan Richmond's T.J. to kill that relationship - he was acting out, getting drunk with Felix's mischievous niece or sister or whatever and being a wild teen. It was bad optics for a young Black boy to be made to look unruly and out of control while the two white kids were being shined up in 2013, let alone today but Frank and Ron were not exactly racially sensitive.

Anyway, it didn't work. Rafe was killed off and with his attempt to make Molly and Rafe into Starr and Cole 2.0 having flopped FV pretty much exiled Molly and T.J. to the eternal backburner for the better part of another decade. (That's when he discovered Eden McCoy and began trying to make Joss into Starr instead.) After that they very rarely had any story. And I lost interest in T.J. entirely once Tequan Richmond was gone to better things. Tahj Bellow was okay but it was always a character that had very little grounding to me vs. other young men of color you could bring on with less tedious history. And Molly needs a long break from the canvas - Kristen Vaganos is bland and boring to me. So that's why none of it registers to me. But I do think it's pretty tacky that they never gave T.J. a proper goodbye while subjecting us to more of Molly and Cody's Hallmark slop.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Vee

31 minutes ago, Vee said:

Molly and T.J. were rarely seen much from 2014-15 until the surrogacy story began in mid-late '23. They were nobodies. The reason being that when Frank and Ron first arrived in 2012 they tried very hard initially to find a new teen Starr Manning type fitting her mold from OLTL for youth stories, to chase that youth demo. That's where Molly came in.

Frank pushed hard to showcase Haley Pullos' teen Molly and turn her into Starr II with his chosen new guy for her, Silas Clay's twink nephew Rafe Kovich Jr., the son of Caleb and Alison from Port Charles. The kid playing Rafe couldn't really act and nobody cared about him so the hard sell with them flopped, but at the same time FV and RC were trying to smear Tequan Richmond's T.J. to kill that relationship - he was acting out, getting drunk with Felix's mischievous niece or sister or whatever and being a wild teen. It was bad optics for a young Black boy to be made to look unruly and out of control while the two white kids were being shined up in 2013, let alone today but Frank and Ron were not exactly racially sensitive.

Anyway, it didn't work. Rafe was killed off and with his attempt to make Molly and Rafe into Starr and Cole 2.0 having flopped FV pretty much exiled Molly and T.J. to the eternal backburner for the better part of another decade. (That's when he discovered Eden McCoy and began trying to make Joss into Starr instead.) After that they very rarely had any story. And I lost interest in T.J. entirely once Tequan Richmond was gone to better things. Tahj Bellow was okay but it was always a character that had very little grounding to me vs. other young men of color you could bring on with less tedious history. And Molly needs a long break from the canvas - Kristen Vaganos is bland and boring to me. So that's why none of it registers to me. But I do think it's pretty tacky that they never gave T.J. a proper goodbye while subjecting us to more of Molly and Cody's Hallmark slop.

Thank you for the history lesson, cause I def had no idea about any of that. Molly and Tequan’s TJ were played pretty heavy when I was watching. I actually preferred the original TJ to Tequan at first but grew to appreciate him.