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Ryan Lavery is enough reason to hate Drew, frankly. I do feel just a tiny bit sorry for Cameron Matheson, who seems like a charming and likable guy IRL, but I'm sorry, my dude, seeing your face onscreen you're immediately classified under D for Douche. I will say there have been times when there was potential to not hate Drew. Remember the beard? The beard worked.

Is Grieving Dante the hottest Dante?

I get you. And I do think an emotional affair is as bad or worse than just some one-night stand or the like. But I don't think the show agrees. It's not just this couple or even this show (I'm reminded of OLTL's Rex & Gigi, for reasons I probably shouldn't go into here), but it just feels like soap women are held to a different standard of sexual purity than men. Michael is allowed to act out sexually and I suspect Willow will end up shouldering some of the blame for his cheating, but we can't let her get too down and dirty herself or Michael would look weak for ever taking her back (admittedly that's speculation on my part, but I'm pretty confident the show considers them a root-for couple and won't split them permanently). I don't know, I might be reading too much into a lazy story or making assumptions about the writers' thinking, but the whole vibe of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Since Willow cheated on her previous husband with Michael, I have less than no sympathy for him. Also, I don't like Drew or Willow as characters, but there's something weirdly misogynistic about this. Like, she's in the wrong but didn't actually sleep with Drew so she's not really a [insert Sonny Corinthos language here), so it's acceptable for Michael to eventually reconcile with her, and he actually slept with Sasha, but he's a man and thought he'd been betrayed, what do you expect he and his penis to do? Just let Drew and Willow fuck, Jesus.

Co-sign. As a writer ugh how fucking pretentious. As a person who likes to write and think about writing, I have to ask, what does Gio want? Because that's what really defines a character - their desires, their goals. And it's not just Gio who is lacking here. So many characters on this show are just there, floating around the canvas, existing. Say what you want about Molly - and I could say plenty, Molly is infuriating - but revenge against Kristina is a driving want. It falls apart because what's driving that - the loss of the baby - never felt real. It never felt like she really wanted a baby, no matter how often the scripts said so. The writers understand that conflict drives story but they don't understand that conflict arises from character, not plot. Yes, you put the characters in a plot situation, but then the characters react to it and there's your story.

I get you, dubbel zout, but I always thought Ethan being a Holly/Robert kid made so much more sense storytelling-wise than him being Luke's. But when was the last time a GH regime actually cared about storytelling? Y'know, Cutter and Kim being siblings and children of Alex also came out of nowhere and didn't make a lot of sense if you thought about it, but it wasn't nearly as aggravating. I wonder if it was because I liked both those characters, while Cody and Sasha are both walking, talking piles of nothing? I don't know

It's so irritating. And lazy, honestly. If you simply can't resist dropping an Easter egg, go deeper. Say Holly was palling around with Heinrich Kaiser. That approaches being clever.

David Vickers, really? Shut up, GH. Now, Pierce Dorman, he was dangerous. In my Big Book of General Hospital Grudges, #284 is the fact that they took a big Quartermaine story and made it all about Sonny and the mob.

I don't know why Charles Mesure couldn't have been a recast Jax.

Here's where I confess to my great shallowness. Because this statement is true and I HATED Franco. To a worrying degree considering he's a fictional character. I never liked Ric either, despite recognizing that Rick Hearst is a talented actor. And Ric's still being an asshole. But this silver fox look he's sporting? It's working for me.

Julia! I remember my half-baked theory that Cooper Barrett (y'all remember, one of Maxie's hot dumb cops) was actually Julia's son with...AJ. They did have an onscreen affair, though I forget if she stuck around long enough afterwards to make a secret pregnancy plausible. Even if not, there's been nuttier retcons. And it was bonkers that they gave Cooper the last name Barrett and did nothing with that.

I was raised on the ABC soaps. I never really got all that into AMC, and even less into Loving or The City. More so Port Charles, but I really loved OLTL and GH. I think during the '90s (which were my peak soap-watching years) I would've said I loved GH more; but as (multiple!) cancellation proved, it was OLTL which burrowed itself deepest into my heart. I still think about our show and what it did and what I wish it did and what it might've done if it hadn't been killed. And I think about it fairly frequently.

I think so? I have very vague memories that she was the lawyer involved in at least one of the Lucky/Elizabeth divorces.

Jesus. What the fuck? That's awful.

Tempus! I always enjoy seeing him pop up. I haven't used "galactically stupid" as an insult in a while. When there are many characters on this show alone to whom it could apply. Anyway, by weird coincidence, I was looking at Santa Barbara clips recently. I saw some Mason/Julia. Yeah, so, I get it. You all know my opinion on pairing up actors just because they were successfully paired on a different show. And I wasn't some huge Alexis/Cameron fan. But they worked well enough. Probably because the characters they played, while definitely not carbon copies, weren't wildly different from their former characters. Not on the level of Katherine Bell and Stefan Cassadine, who were complete 180s from Patch and Kayla from Days. (I'm not a Days viewer, either, but I know enough to know that.) I loathed that couple and I wasn't alone. I know they had their fans - every couple has some fans - but I remember them being quite unpopular. Anyway, Lane Davies! I'm a little sad he's not playing Cameron again, even though that probably wouldn't be a good idea, mostly because I'm envisioning a scene with Cameron and his namesake grandson. Then again, Cam isn't actually on the show either, so I'm being silly. (I know Cameron Lewis died, not that that means anything on a soap. Or at least I assume he died because I just realized I have no memory of his actual exit. But he left back in the days when the writers seemed to be getting a bonus for every character they killed off, so.)