HeatLifer

Characters Billy Miller played on GH: 1. Guy with amnesia 2. Guy with amnesia who was told he was Jason Morgan 3. Guy with amnesia who “remembered he was Jason Morgan” 4. Guy with amnesia who believed he was Jason Morgan but was told he was Drew Billy Miller never portrayed Drew. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Aw, so the young actress who plays Gina’s daughter in her new project “Awake” on Netflix loves Brett Dier and Gina had him send her a message. It’s on her Instagram stories at @ariana_greenblatt. So cute. ☺️

Michael is so ugly! And poor. Do people like ugly and poor people? Weird and gross! On a serious note, I think it’s unforunate that some don’t credit Jane’s writing to herself. Raf doesn’t get credit for her talent. He supported her like A LOT of characters did. It’s 2019. We don’t need to give the man the success of a woman’s work.

Damn, and she only really started dating Raf until the end of the series! She didn’t write about it too much. Rich abs boy must have bored her that she spent more time on her love story and backstory with that skinny dude. Love it.

Michael supported Jane’s writing and believed in her. Like, huh? That quality is not exclusive to Raf. And, oh, Jane the Virgin is actually Jane’s book? Damn, she spent all that time on Michael, wow. Bold choice.

I can’t believe Jane wouldn’t stop talking about some random undeveloped dude with no abs.

I can confirm. Also, “Do you want me to be a regular person?” YES FUCK YES, WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR DECADES

I’m laughing bc they literally had to dig up Michael’s whole grave to make Raf feel good about his place in his relationship. Why is The True Love Interest threatened by such an irrelevant character who didn’t affect the canvas? 🤓

Carly and Jason’s romantic relationship would be exactly what we’ve already seen, just add a FTB sex scene.

Loving the pastel and flower scheme for the mob family. Really makes sense.

It almost seemed like their only obstacle was waiting for “Raf to choose family over career” and “Jane to see that Raf has chosen family over career.” They didn’t really go through much else. Not even a typical telenovela “X gets hurt and Y is at their bedside.” Again, Michael and Jane had these moments. It’s weird.

I just find it humorous how Liz can be in contact with Patrick but not Lucky. Lucky is irrelevant to this canvas and knowing his history (we saw this character since childhood, he is LUKE & LAURA’S SON) compared to Patrick made it even more funny.

Finally Philly makes sense. 🧐

What do you think they’ll do with Scout?

Lols. Not even Lucky gets the Patrick treatment. Woo.

What’s funny is the amnesia storyline is something that happens between the MAIN couple. And they reunite when he or she remembers, lol. Like, this story should have been Jane & Raf’s. And now that I think about it, Jane and Raf never had these huge life or death moments that are a standard in this genre. Michael and Jane did. The whole story was handled shoddily, and it only had Raf in mind, not even their main character in Jane. Michael lost everything, his life, his memories, for years and Jane only reflected on this because it affected her current engagement and relationship. Why was Raf the only character that was important in this storyline to Jennie? Clearly her endgame wasn’t solid enough that she took a hammer to Jane, Michael, and Michael/Jane to solidify it. (And, you are right, ultimately Real Michael was gone, anyway, although MichaelJason was still a better man than Raf. Jennie screwed that up, too).

What’s sad is the only motivation for Jennie, it seems, was to make sure it was known that Raf wasn’t “second best.” Raf even had a line at one point (I think mid-S4) that went something like: “I feel like second best...even though I know we can’t prove it!” Then boom: Michael’s back so Jennie can “prove it.” Again, no need for that if it was something she had already written clearly.... It was also odd that Jennie believed that Jane needed to prove herself to Raf, as if she owed it to him for ever choosing Michael to begin with. All of S5 seemed like it was a way for Jennie to “course-correct” her plot. The article on the last page said it best, it was Raf’s wish fulfillment.

Personally, the reason I think it’s a mistake is mainly seeing how Jennie has responded to her own work. And the “surprise” reaction she’s having to some feedback. Like, hun, if you put all the seasons together as a whole, Jane/Raf were apart longer than they actually dated! As a viewer, I don’t think that was a good idea if the main message was that they were OTP. I wasn’t sold because I didn’t get to see it.

I don’t believe anyone claimed any relationship was perfect, not Michael and Jane, and certainly not Jane/Raf either. All relationships on TV will have a list of squabbles or detriments to it. As I said, IMO, I think they should have spent more time SHOWING us Jane/Raf than Michael/Jane if that was always “inevitable.” There was way too much time spent on flashbacks, their history, their present, hopes for the future, for example, for a couple that was never “viable” and a character that was “unimportant” and a “road block to Jane/Raf.”

Fixed that for myself. 😏

Oh, I didn’t either; agree with your post. I do think Jennie is trying to backpedal and sell the idea that basically “we all should have known all along that Michael wasn’t IT; Michael and Jane weren’t IT” and that’s fine. She’s the writer, obviously. I’m just not sure I buy what she’s selling and I don’t even think on a certain level that SHE buys it. Which is 1) Why Michael was killed off initially, and 2) Why he wasn’t truly “Michael” when he came back. Like I said, I think the writers made a mistake in how Michael/Jane were portrayed if they wanted Jane/Raf at the end of the story. The way S5 panned out was attempting to fix their mistake. Side note: I also feel like young Jane when she went to a romance novel book reading with a list of questions for the author about how the ending should have been better. 🤓

It seemed like they always knew that in the end, Raf’s character arc would end with Jane being the breadwinner and he’s some stay-at-home dad who gave up his career for his ~family~ I just don’t think they did a good job with it, lol. It looks like a good idea —albeit generic story—on paper, but they missed so many beats in-between to actually SHOW us who Raf IS...not tell us. And they didn’t tell us much either. As far as S5, it would have been better not to revert him back to his angry, “kicking Jane out of the house in front of their son” self just so Jane had to “win him back.” Or even bring Michael back just so Raf could “win” over him. None of that would have been necessary if they again, truly SHOWED, not TOLD us, that Raf was always, from the first episode, “The Love Interest.” Especially in the face of trying to claim how Michael and Michael/Jane were so unimportant and just a road block. The fact that Raf needed further coddling about his relationship with Jane in the final season wasn’t just some telenovela back-from-the-dead idea. They clearly screwed up along the way. Should have spent more time actually showing us Jane and Raf. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Preach. It’s almost like, well, maybe they shouldn’t have sold Michael and Jane so well? Just a thought. But Jennie’s right about one thing: she did follow the formula of a typical telenovela. “Hot guy with abs is girl’s OTP just because!” Michael loved cats, was a breakdancer at his own damn wedding, and karaoked to Bruno Mars and she thought we’d root for anyone else? 🤣

That lady? They recast Carly like, 4 times! They’re obsessed with this character, girl. They know her. 🤒

By who!? *has a complete meltdown*