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I’ve been watching on YouTube. For the first few years, I found individual episodes; the story arcs are available in playlists. If you search “Port Charles” and episode dates (first episode June 1, 1997) you can find them! Preteen me loved Rafe; even rewatching, I still do. But I’m post-angels at the moment (“Surrender,” specifically) and most of these episodes are really tedious to get through - Tess is awful, Elizabeth’s voice is annoying, Ian is a vampire sleeping with Lucy, Kevin was in a psych ward and is still acting bizarre, and I think Chris is on once a month. They never should have doubled down on the vampires. The early years (with the General Homicide murders, Serena’s blindness, Greg Cooper, the Scanlon family, DL-56, vying for Chief Resident, Matt & Ellen’s relationship, I could go on for ages) were my gateway drug to GH. PC will always have my heart.

Oh, yes, definitely. Why did his mother choose Ryan to abuse and not him, why was he saved but not Ryan - such a layered story in contrast to the Franco abuse story, so many missed opportunities to explore more of Kevin as a character (since so many didn’t watch or don’t remember PC) instead of the lump of info we got: “I was abused, too, let’s talk more about Franco.” He was a former spy and also, I think, a mathematician. He was incredibly intelligent and eccentric - I think he and Mary took accordion lessons after they were married, or something similarly quirky, and he was full of obscure knowledge. Since he was so finding Lucy, he also played a part in a few of her schemes - one time they even got arrested and I want to say that the police thought he was potentially her pimp, but don’t have the episodes bookmarked so I can’t be certain of specifics, although I do clearly remember him in disguise. Victor was also mentally ill, though, and I believe practically catatonic when he was introduced on Port Charles - even though I watched again it fairly recently, I can’t remember specifics, but he was very heavily medicated at some points, and there were a couple scares regarding his mental faculties before they settled him down with Mary Scanlon.

This. And there’s no way I believe that the child of Anna Devane and Cesar Faison could ever be so completely devoid of charisma. Cheers to LWB for doing his job, but the casting department is slacking big time on this one. I won’t pretend I like the idea of the character in any way, but it feels particularly offensive that he’s such a whispery wet blanket.

IIRC it was because Victor was afraid to hesitate in any way - he was afraid if he waited and also tried to take Ryan, he’d lose both of his sons, so he took Kevin and ran and then lived with the guilt.

Eve did cheat on Kevin with Ian Thornhart (Thorsten Kaye), but it was because they were soul mates who had loved one another through past lives (I’m not sighing, you’re sighing). It was an amicable divorce; IIRC Kevin was on his way back to Lucy at the time, too. (I think this was the Time in a Bottle story arc?) Livvie’s mother was Grace, an ex of Kevin’s; Livvie was raised by Grace’s sister, Dr. Rachel Locke, as her own daughter. It’s too bad Eve died in a car crash; I’d have loved to see Julie Pinson make an appearance during a Kevin story. But maybe I should just be grateful the current regime isn’t destroying her character.

Ryan was a pediatrician so my fingers are crossed he somehow sticks his nose in this and kills Oscar.

The only thrill I got out of seeing Cassandra again was yelling, “Run, Anna, they’re BOTH vampires!” at the screen. (Why, yes, I have been watching Port Charles and True Blood in my spare time, why do you ask?)

Long faces. And “not blonde.” That’s all I can come up with. Add me to the “Maura West has talent but isn’t all that and a bag of chips” camp. She had a few great tricks but she employs them over and over. I’m also often distracted by the fact that she rarely closes her mouth - her lips are always parted unless she is deliberately grimacing, which is weird to me.

The Kevin/Ryan/Mac/Felicia flashbacks absolutely made my day. I’m just sorry I didn’t save the episode on my DVR to use as a palate cleanser if/when Carly eats this story and Jason saves the day. Thank God for YouTube!

YES. I even thought his speech pattern was similar and was wondering if the actor was Jason Thompson’s stand-in.

I don’t think the viewership is resistant to a black pro, I think it’s this particular pro. Something with Keo just isn’t clicking. Maybe if TPTB weren’t limiting the roster to one black pro it would be easier to see that it’s the individual and not his race. I think Keo is a great dancer but he does nothing for me with any of his celebrity partners. Usually when pros don’t ‘pop,’ they get replaced. Maybe the network just doesn’t want to roll the dice with a different black pro since this attempt hasn’t been incredibly successful (a devil-you-know kind of scenario) but they don’t want to risk whitewashing the roster, either. I understand it. But I think Keo has been given plenty of partner opportunities on DWTS and I’d welcome a change in the pro lineup.

We got confirmation that both brothers are alive, but not which brother is which. Dr Collins said hello brother to Patient Collins. Now it could be Keven weird behavior since Laura left are because he is Ryan or because Kevin discover his not dead psychotic brother is alive and has been keeping him at Ferncliff. I know it’s incredibly probable that I will end up disappointed (or potentially devastated if they write him out entirely) but I just can’t help but be excited about this. Kevin is my favorite character and I’ve been wishing for him to have a real story for so long. Jon Lindstrom never disappoints me, even if the writing may.

It’s driving me positively bonkers watching Dr. Michael Easton completely unfazed while a woman who could not be acting less like Anna says she doesn’t want Robert involved and digs a tracking device out of his arm. For one, shouldn’t he be having a low key panic attack with the lack of sterliziation, especially since Roxie is nowhere nearby to comfort him? And how am I supposed to buy this couple as even the slightest bit compelling if he doesn’t have any actual concept of the woman he’s supposedly infatuated with? LWB legit looks like Tim Allen mid-Santa Clause at this point. Mommy, make it stop.

I have nothing against Keo, but I wish the show would stop trying to make him happen. He’s not going to happen. At least not on DWTS, if history is any indicator.

I keep hoping that I can will the universe into naming Tom Bergeron as Alex’s successor, but that’s not founded in any actual rumor. Just my personal choice.

They’re consistently letting prepositions fly in the Winner’s Circle. I’m not a fan. I want to believe that Taye Diggs was low-key blowing the round with the female contestant because she was so annoying. ETA: I posted while watching and oh, the RAGE about the last round Mystery 7. The girl should have gotten to pick a category because it was her turn; if it wasn’t the prize category then skip the clues and let the guy play for the trip. That was COMPLETELY unfair!!

Season 27 (which Tom has promised to be a full-length, normal season) premieres Monday 9/24 @ 8pm. The Junior season doesn’t begin until Sunday 10/7.

Must be because of the sideburns.

“What do you mean? Adela is dead,” Michael says as I scream into the void.

Is there room for a xylophone in the band? I’ll start working on “Hello!” from The Book of Mormon. :) I’ll also bring Girl Scout cookies for the snack table!

I came here to post this! Does Alex have a voodoo doll behind the podium or something?? I dont usually keep keep track of my TS (well, I remember what I get right, but I don’t really pay attention to whether the contestants manage to answer, lol) but “Waltzing Matilda” was an instaget just for the word “billabong”!

I simply cannot like this post enough. The finale was horrible and it’s put a bad taste in my mouth for next season. I kept hoping that Lourdes was a crazy lady who would randomly pick up guys in bars, accuse them of rape, and murder them (which is such a weird thing to hope, haha) but noooooo, we have to have the Nth episode of Olivia’s infallibility. And then she practically has an E.T. moment putting her hand on Lourdes’s chest at the end. Gag.

There was a short segment on Inside Edition where they claimed to be showing knock-offs of Meghan’s dresses, but they weren’t, really, because the knock-offs were way trashier. The high neck reception gown had a ton of bling over the chest (and fit the model worse than most of the samples that are clipped on at Kleinfeld’s) while the ceremony gown had one of those stupid unnecessary bling belts (the ones that only cut a stunning gown in half and up the sales rep’s commission) added to it.

I also assumed he would be the perp but I was thrilled that he wasn’t (even though I would have enjoyed seeing more of him in the episode). I find it boring when you can figure it who the perp is immediately just because it’s the biggest name guest star.

I love this show so, so much. Every episode has me literally laughing out loud. Last night’s line of the night (for me) was, “You’re like a textbook that wished to be a real boy.” Runner-up goes to the wheelchair-bound student who thought about leaving mid-lecture but didn’t because it was too dangerous. But he thought about it a lot.