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  1. Michael's non-reaction to Willow's news of the Drew/Carly breakup was funny to me. To be fair, he did wrinkle up his face a little while saying, without expression, "Wow. Uh. Too bad," as if Willow had just reported that a play outing for Wiley had to be postponed because of rain. Then they moved on to discussing everyone's favorite topic of the last week, Jason. "Wow. Too bad" probably was a realistic reaction for a thirtysomething guy whose mom's boyfriend of a couple years has moved on, but Michael and Carly normally get so overwrought over each other's relationships. I think we can see the way this is going to go: a repeat of the "Drew the Superfluous" writing from 2018. if Spare hadn't already been used as the title of someone's memoir...
  2. Ran over her kidneys! Stupid Drew. So dramatic.
  3. We all know Soap World is weird and incestuous, but this is a little like knowing water is going to be cold and still being jolted when you immerse yourself in it. While watching one of the most recent episodes, following Dante's shooting, I was sitting there thinking about how many of Sonny's baby mamas were in the episode, most of them hanging out at the hospital, and how many of them got hugs from him. The scorecard: Ava: Baby mama, at the hospital, got a hug. Olivia: Baby mama, at the hospital, got a hug. Sam: Baby mama (stillborn), at the hospital, got a hug. Alexis: Baby mama, at the hospital, did not get a hug. Nina: Not a baby mama, at the hospital, did not get a hug. Carly: Baby mama, not at the hospital, did not get a hug. I think they're a good fit. I don't agree with comments that KSt is so far our of his league and the re-pairing is a punishment for her. Maybe one reason you're finding them fun to watch now is that her pairings in the interim have been mostly terrible. The reviled Levi Dunkleman, easy-on-the-eyes but granitic Nathan, Parking Lot Pete, and The Artist Formerly Known as Todd Manning.
  4. I think it's standard practice for the defense in civil suits to request that the suit be dismissed, even when the judge is unlikely to go along. When the defendant is famous, whether minor-famous like Haley Pullos or major-famous like Lizzo (whose team tried the same tactic in the lawsuit brought by her dancers), this makes for good headlines ("[celebrity] ASKS JUDGE TO THROW OUT LAWSUIT!"), but I think it's just preliminary maneuvering. It can result in some individual claims within a larger case being ruled out. From the Burton interview: So...Swickard is a lot like his character.
  5. Twenty to twenty-five years ago, Maurice Benard knew he was one of the "big fish in a small pond" types in daytime. He would give interviews to the magazines and talk about what he hoped would happen for Sonny, and he'd imply that fulfillment of his wishes would make him more likely to renew at the next contract. He was pushing for years to have his own mental-health condition written into his character, before it finally happened in the mid-2000s. Nowadays, there are three other soaps rather than ten, he's about to turn 61, and the most significant acting work he's done outside of daytime TV in the last 20 years was a bit part as a soap star (opposite Laura Wright) in a David O. Russell film. I don't know if he has the leverage he once had.
  6. Tamara Braun seems to be the most polarizing of the four Carlys, in the sense that we all watched the same show but felt different things about her. I have frequently seen Braun praised for bringing qualities such as vulnerability to Carly, and I just did not have that experience when I watched her. Not for the greatest part of her time in the role. At first, maybe. Almost immediately after TB took over for SJB, Sonny threw Carly out for colluding with Roy DiLucca and the FBI to get him out of mob life. So the first impression most of us had of the TB Carly was a very vulnerable one. For a while, she acted as if she were having a breakdown, running around in her wedding dress and begging for another chance. (At least Nina at present is not resorting to the wedding dress.) But even before her place was restored at Sonny's side as mob queen, and she became the ranking female member of the Fab Four and BFF to Courtney, she was smirky, haughty, and (to me) usually insufferable. It started when she zeroed in on first Angel Ellis and then Alexis as women standing in the way of what she was due. I can't really speak for the TB Carly's Lorenzo Alcazar era, however. That fell in a period in the mid-2000s when I was still keeping up, but not watching with the same devotion. From seeing TB in other roles, including her other role on GH (Kim Nero), I don't think her Carly presented the most accurate picture of her baseline screen presence. I think it's just how she felt she should play this character, who was being written by McTavish and then by Guza/Pratt to come out on top most of the time, usually get the last word in arguments, and have her writing-room précis voiced out loud by other characters ("brave and strong and loves with her whole heart, not just a part of it," etc.). I think the same about Laura Wright, actually.
  7. Sonny is—I want to emphasize, only in this one way—similar to Tony Soprano. That was an amusing running theme in The Sopranos. Even though he was in weekly therapy, Tony expected everyone from his wife to his mistresses to his criminal associates to (in one egregious example) his kid's therapist to be his sounding board about all the problems in his past, present, and future. He once even showed up at a friend's house in the middle of the night for, essentially, an unscheduled free therapy session. But when one of those characters was dealing with something serious, such as the death of a parent or a sibling, he'd say something like, "All right, but you gotta get over it." The Sopranos presented this personality in a more self-aware and better-written way, and when there were laughs, they were intentional.
  8. I'd be with you on this, but we've all been on this ride so many times. For anyone who is introduced or reintroduced hating Sonny, there are three possible outcomes: (1) They'll get villain writing and will have a short shelf life. (2) They'll be ineffectual in opposing Sonny. (3) He'll save their lives or help them in some other way, and they'll come to grudgingly accept that he's "the good mobster" because he operates by a "code" and all that crap. Even Taggert was drinking the Kool-Aid 15 minutes after his 2020 return, which is something I hoped never to see. I know that soap enemies joining forces against a more immediate threat is a reliable trope, but still: blech. At least Jagger seems unlikely to fall in love with or have sex with Sonny, like Hannah, Claire, Ava, et cetera.
  9. Drew Cain is funny and kind, and when he loves, he loves with his whole heart. (Not just a part of it!)
  10. I don't think Morgan's coming back in the immediate future. If the show hangs on for another three to five years, either in its present form or on a streaming service, I'll be surprised if the Morgan death is one that sticks. I am already surprised he's stayed gone this long. It would be an easier death to walk back than some deaths they have walked back in the past, and it allows them to add another guy in his twenties or thirties who's connected to a lot of characters—most of whom have "most favored" status, whether we feel that way or not—and has immediate story.
  11. It had not occurred to me before now, but the Ava/Sonny situation isn't 180 degrees from the beginnings of Carly/Sonny in 1999-2000. In both stories, Sonny and a woman toward whom he has hostile feelings end up sharing Sonny's living space for Reasons. Both have been disappointed in the outcome of their most recent relationship. (It goes without saying that in both 1999 and 2024, Sonny's immediate previous relationship soured over a "betrayal."). Over time, he gradually warms up to the object of his resentment. It's even taking place on what we're meant to accept as the same set (although the front door is now at stage-right and all that). The biggest difference is that the first time around, the woman (Carly) was being allowed to stay with Sonny because they had had their hate-sex first and she was expecting his child. Fortunately, Sonny and Ava played the pregnancy beat a long time ago. But really, even that part is the same—the woman gets in the front door because she's The Mother of My Child.
  12. I agree. I remember this promo for a Zander/Elizabeth/Jason triangle during the summer of 2002, when Burton had just come back. I was still naïve enough to think that if they went to the trouble of making a commercial hyping something, and even ran the commercial in prime time, it was going to be a significant story. Ha. ALW's Courtney was the shiny new thing, and Guza and Pratt quickly wrecked Liz/Jason to facilitate Courtney/Jason (by some accounts because Brian Frons was all about Courtney/ALW). I'll never forget the scene of Tamara Braun's Carly telling Liz that she had had her chance and blown it, and now Jason was over her. Anyone who remembers the Tamara Braun Carly can picture the expressions and hear the vocal tone. She couldn't have been more smug about it if Jason had started sleeping with her. The Liz fans of that era really felt like Charlie Brown going trick-or-treating and getting a bag of rocks. Not for the last time.
  13. Or praising her for it, if they're Carly fanatics. In the early-2000s heyday of SoapZone, the pro-Carly contingent treated Korte like the high priestess of their religion. Whenever a storyline was coming up that made them worried about their gal, like Sonny getting closer to Alexis, I'd see comments like "I have faith in Elizabeth Korte." They hoped she would eventually become head writer. I haven't seen much mention of this in the discussion, but Bradford Anderson is another actor who should be pleased, as Korte is a Spinelli fan too. I believe she once described him as a "truth-telling character" and said BA was an actor who was a delight to write for. (This was early-days Spinelli, who had nicknames for everyone.)
  14. I think there is. I recall a story years ago—shortly after Watros took over playing Nina—in which Ava agreed to cooperate with a profile in Crimson to shore up her image. When it was published, much of the reaction from readers was negative. We saw Ava and Nina scrolling on phones or tablets as if the comments they were reading aloud were under the article, rather than coming via email or snail mail. Ava and Nina as besties wasn't a thing yet at that point.
  15. Whenever I see comments about the "veterans" not being featured enough, I fear that someone associated with GH is going to take that to mean Dex and Drew, since they were in the military. Sonny's face when he turned around at the hospital and saw Nina was hilarious to me. Mo overshot the mark just enough for it to be funny. The face he made is more appropriate for turning around to see Nina in a clown costume handing out popsicles. I had to freeze it on the spot; I needed a few more seconds with it. Then I made a side-by-side with a meme of a bewildered cat. You're welcome.
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