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I really hope it's for her scenes where she reveals that she knew about Leo and Dimitri. That was gold, and it was a great closing arc for her character.

God, Ron just loves his DID characters.

That monologue kind of illustrated to me that Scott Foley just isn't good of an actor despite Neve Campbell really trying to elevate that scene. Scream 3 in my opinion was hampered by two fundamental problems- forced rewrites because of the Columbine shootings happening just before they started production, and the Ghostface being played by an actor that just wasn't that good. Especially with that storyline of there only being one Ghostface- you needed to have a Ghostface that could bring the pathos, and I don't think Scott Foley did. I still love that reveal but I kind of wish they had cast Matt Keeslar instead as Roman Bridger. Or hell, Patrick Dempsey might have been too old but I bet he could have brought it. (He kind of does later on in the movie

I basically took the whole thing as the Ukraine/Russian war transferred to the United States. (I did some research and it looks like they began principal photography as the war in Ukraine started, and I thought a lot of the visuals seemed to match a lot about what was coming on tv at the time.) I was semi-spoiled so I knew one of the two women were going to die, but it was still a pretty shocking moment when it finally happened.

Okay, I'm going to give wardrobe props for putting Johnny and Chanel in 1970's winter clothing as a nod to Doug and Julie's hey day as a super couple.

I remember when he first showed up with that nervous laugh I was really unsure about him, but he's really made the role his own.

If we're lucky, this show will decide to utilize his karate skills. That could be awesome. This dude should have been a Power Ranger. I do wonder if the person posting about Tate is someone that has a thing for Holly. That could be interesting.

I'm assuming they're going to have her look like Gabi because Gabi is in the show more often than Will. Although this talk is reminding me of that really bad dye job they gave to Kate Mansi the first few years she played Abigail. There were times it looked nearly orange.

Leo Howard was a Disney Boy, so I think those acting vibes are what you're picking up on. There's a certain personality/acting type that Disney goes for, and you can usually still see it in former Disney stars even after they grow up. I'm really hoping the actor's karate skills come into play at some point. If Ron feels like ripping off Cobra Kai I wouldn't be mad, honestly. Like say some evil dojo tries to take over Salem High. I also agree about Zac Tinker. His vibe was just so different from Freddy's, but I wound up really loving his version of Sonny. I'm just going to roll with this Tate. I also just have a soft spot for former child stars trying to make it as adults because the horror stories are just so bad. (Well, for awhile, anyway. I do thinks soaps mean you need to settle in pretty damn quick or you're gone.)

I'm betting it's Arianna.

I'm just clinging on to the hope that Holly being seen by lockers means that we're finally going to get some other teen characters. This is annoying the shit out of me. Even JJ's teen scene had more than just him and Paige.

He and Dena were co-headwriters, I think.

Isn't Josh Griffith the one obsessed with teen rape storylines? Faith Newman should be terrified.

I'm going to give this guy a chance, mainly because I have a soft spot for former child stars who are trying to have a career as an adult. Although I hope he doesn't try to go too hard to "seem" young. I remember way back in the day on All My Children they tried casting this much older woman for someone in the Bianca era teen scene and she tried way too hard with the "I'm a cute and peppy teenager!" thing. I don't think she ever toned it down and I think her character was gone pretty quickly. I'm going to guess Leo Howard probably got the part because his wife/fiancé was doing Temp Sloan and knew that Jamie Mann was leaving. They have a tendency to move pretty quick- I remember Casey got cast pretty quick as soon as Chandler was leaving to finish college. (So basically the same reason, although Jamie Mann wasn't nearly as enmeshed in the show as Chandler was.) These episodes would have been filmed in October, so I'm wondering if Jamie Mann was trying to give them a head's up that he wanted to leave and probably could have stayed through December (which would have translated to him being filmed through June) or he asked to leave early. It does feel a little abrupt- they could have made the switch while Tate was off-screen for a bit. In any event, I'll miss Jamie Mann's adorable puppy dog self! I wish him the best.

I was looking up New Tate and here's an interview he did when he was 16-ish. Adorable! I really want to give this guy a chance because I've always got a soft spot for child stars trying to transition into adulthood and keep a career going past their sell-by date. It's not easy, and there are so many horror stories.

New Tate has karate skills. This makes me hope Ron decides to rip off Cobra Kai. Like some evil dogo sets up shop at Salem High, and it's up to Tate to save the school from the Cobra Kai's. Or, em...Venom Fangs?

New Tate could have played the twin brothers we've never seen. Lol

This was a 2019 storyline. Evan was a guy who showed up as a nanny for David, Jordan Ridgeway's son that Rafe was looking after. Evan eventually starts a flirtation with Sonny and then it's revealed that Evan is really David's father. He goes nutso. Later on we learn that he is actually Orpheus's son Christian.

Call me cray cray, but I think this new Tate could have made a good Christian/Evan, at least the beginning when he was pretending to be sane.

It's disappointing though, because she was actually quite good in her audition tape where it seemed like they were going to write Ciara as a bit of a flirt and a little bit like Teen Erica. What they did instead didn't do her any favors. Allie technically wasn't a teen (although the actress playing her was 19) and I thought they made nearly the same exact mistakes they made with OG Teen Ciara. However, in her case, she did have pairings that people seemed to be rooting for. I did think towards the end of her year on the show, when they did the Halloween possession storyline, Lindsey Arnold really came into her own and actually looked like she was having fun. Back to the 2015 teen scene...man, it was such a waste to destroy Chase's character like that. But it was Josh Griffith running the show then so of course there has to be a teen rape. It was frustrating because there were some really good ingredients to that teen scene (especially Olivia Rose Keegan) and it had potential, but alas.

It's a little edgier, but I don't know if that means they're giving an edge to Tate or not. He was a child star that did a tv show called Kicking It on Disney about ten years ago. I saw a few episodes but never really hooked me. He looks shorter, but I could have seen him playing a recast Spencer on General Hospital. That is going to be a bitch to recast.

Yeah. It's not even that NB is a bad-looking guy. He's cute in that cute best friend sidekick kind of way. He would have made a really good Gordo in Lizzie Mcguire if it was being written now. That's not how they're writing Spencer, though.

NB is a 19-year old kid who looks like a 16-year old. That's fine, and it's actually a good thing in this industry. But he simply does not fit the role of Spencer as he's been written since NAC took over. If you're going to be an actor, you have to be honest with yourself about what types of roles you're suited for as you currently look. No amount of shirtless pictures from NB is going to change that he still looks like he should be hanging out with Rocco and Danny. Hell, even the hairstyle fits. I really do wish NB the best of luck in college, and I hope he has a blast.

On Twitter Nicholas Betchel has seemingly denied he will be coming back as Spencer (since it's obvious NAC is not coming back) and is going off to college. Good for him. I find that a lot of child stars benefit from doing college and having a regular life before they come back to acting, if ever.

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really want them to add at least two more members to Salem's teen scene because I think I could take this storyline if there were a cute nice girl to be competition for Holly in regards to Tate. With there only being 2 teenagers in the entire city of Salem, Tate can't help but be hung up on Holly. I'm just frustrated because I love teen scenes and GH has managed to make one work well with only 3-4 core teen characters, but they need to add at least one more kid for any of this to work. I get the feeling they thought that they could just merge the kids into the 20-something scene but quickly realized that no one was going to be rooting for a 25-year old Johnny to bed a 17-year old girl.