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  1. One more time, Adam intoning today that Connor has OCD, with the gravitas usually reserved for terminal illnesses, while Claire waltzes around blithely announcing she will be living her "best new life" unafraid of her brainwashing homicidal Auntie J, was ridiculous. I think she will either be killed off by her Aunt, or end up as the Newman family's own version of the Manchurian candidate. Then the DID of Ashley is equally inane. She switched outside Tucker's hotel room and wonders "Why am I here?" and then sees her brother and sister, but fails to ask for their assistance? I'm not asking her to have insight into her DID, but most people might consider their confusion to have an organic basis (cardiac or neuro, to name a couple) and ask their siblings for help, wouldn't they? No wonder the actors scripted as angry seem to be convincing, they must be projecting their true feelings. They are probably as mad about these stupid scripts as I am.

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  2. I found Claire and Kyle's casual "chat" about her childhood backstory very off putting. Like stuff that happened to her happens to lots of people? Umm...no. Jack's scene telling Tucker, "I've been coming here my entire life." Yes, you have Jack. You just didn't say it's almost every day of your life. Glad to have it confirmed that Nikki (in her own estimation) can cause catastrophes. Global warming? Something Nikki apparently did one day. Covid? Nikki. Inflation? Nikki Newman, folks. And it makes her want to drink! Immediately. My eyes were rolling back so much today at her, that now I can watch my own back. She is clueless that it's her narcissism and need for immediate gratification she should examine, if she really wants to stop drinking. And both Victor and Jack cave in, and enable Nikki's enormous sense of entitlement every time. IMO, it's nauseating.

     

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  3. 6 hours ago, MsMalin said:

    Disclaimer: I earned a degree in psychology in 1978 but never used it so I am by no means a professional. But imo they are making way too much of this OCD. They should bring him back home and get a get a good therapist.

    I have been praying for some kind of wrongful termination lawsuit. TBH I can't see one here because of their guilt feelings. I've been hoping for a sexual harassment one.

    I have a psychology degree as well, and worked in inpatient psychiatric settings for 30 years. I find it extremely upsetting to watch the treatment of any of Connor's, Ashley's or Claire's current illnesses, as portrayed on the show. I don't expect viewers to end up fully educated about the different illnesses here, but shouldn't the treatment options at least be explored on the severity of their diagnoses? If the 3 of them walked into a psychiatric assessment center, Connor would be sent home on meds, with a therapy referral. Ashley would be admitted, because her DID has affected her baseline functioning. Claire, IMO, likely the sickest of all, would at the very least be getting daily therapy sessions, if not admitted. She was taken out of treatment to "trap" Jordan. Since then there has been no evidence of her still getting any therapy at all. She would be needing therapy on an ongoing basis for at least several years. All of these characters have serious problems, that are being handled in an extremely cavalier way by JG. Maybe he could use a little treatment himself? That said, when Chelsea was telling and selling Connor about the Maryland treatment center and said, "There are adults there that REALLY know what they're doing!" I kind of thought he might be better off there, than at home in GC, where none of the adults seem to ever know what they're doing.

     

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  4. Were Heather and Daniel still too under the influence of their post coital glow to appreciate that (if they had the slightest sense of decency and propriety) they would have tendered their resignations at CW? "Don't want to hurt Lily," would include them appreciating that flashing their lying gobs in front of Lily  everyday at work would also be hurtful. No, these entitled twats expect that in addition to dealing with their betrayal, Lily should decide about the continuation of their employment too. That's calling adding insult to injury, IMO. If the police know who made the 911 call, why has not one Newman been busted yet for obstruction of justice, for Jordan being locked in that cell while Victor reveled in another one of his sadistic revenge fantasies?

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  5. 10 hours ago, Kemper said:

    Too bad you're not writing this show.  Then maybe Victor could walk out of the shower (a la Bobby Ewing) and we learn the last year (at least) has all been a dream.  

    I posted a while back that all of this could be the hallucinations of an aged Victor, while he is sitting on a bench with an aide (Nick), who is waiting to return him to the asylum after a day trip to town. As for watching Claire's dream "today," I spared myself the nightmare. It would have advanced her storyline a lot more if JG could have been arsed to have shown us some of the time she lived with Jordan prior to coming to GC to commence their revenge plot against the Newmans. I can only assume this writer thought nothing of wasting the audience's time again today.

     

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  6. I can get why Connor is OCD, and making repetitive movements with his hoodies, it's  the only stable factor in his life that he or I can isolate. Chelsea blowing smoke about he's the "mostest" of the most, they're gonna get through this as a family, only to dispatch him off with Adam,  so she can have her breakdown du jour. Connor knows his Mom is coo coo for Cocoa Puffs. Then Adam with his foot in his mouth, "I know how you feel," which anyone would immediately know can't be true. Nikki going on about Auntie Jordan reminded me of exactly how Nikki used to "nose up" when she used talk to, and about Diane. Claire "of the flat affect" is IMO a device to make the actress either appear younger, or act out the impression that her lifelong brainwashing isn't  resolved enough, for any emotional reactions to kick in yet. The whole babysitting gig while she figures out what she wants to "do" for a career is ridiculous. Doesn't she need figure out who she wants to "be" first?

     

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  7. Is there such a thing as Soap Opera Rapid Trauma Adjustment (SORTA)? How can Claire be "well" after a lifetime of being brainwashed, while Conner's OCD has him still tugging on his hoodie strings? I am sorry, but if Claire becomes Hairyson's nanny, I will be noping out on watching it. It was one thing for me to hear abstractly about Claire's dysfunctional upbringing. To watch a vulnerable child put in the care of a woman whom I perceive as still profoundly mentally ill, will be triggering to me, and IMO, I suspect for a lot of other viewers as well.

     

     

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  8. On 3/13/2024 at 10:09 PM, Peppermint said:

    Banning all Hunters from my Soaps, Tylo & King, please.

    Phyllis gives us a really good drunk. Less over-the-top as inebriated than her usual persona. She and Nick were fun together this week.

    The point in leaving Jordan behind a flimsy door and not notifying the the GC police was...Oh, yeah, there are no more GC police, and the former one was busy diddling Nick's daughter. This leaves hope for more scenes with CZ..Hurrah !!

     

    The writer JG is so lacking in creativity, that one day when Victor and Nick go to check on Auntie J, all they'll find is one of the fingers or toes that she self-amputated getting out of that cell. And BTW, did Victor have to make Nick his accomplice in not turning Jordan over to the authorities? Doesn't he pay his security enough for them to assist him with all his law-breaking tasks?

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  9. This scheme of Victor's to bribe Jordan out of GC & the Newman family's lives puts him in the driver's seat of aiding and abetting a murderess evade arrest. Didn't people die in the fire Jordan set in the jail? Part of the storyline surrounding that fire was Victor awaiting news about Jordan's fate, while the authorities in Oregon sifted through the ashes looking.  Michael needs to be disbarred for assisting his #1 client by being complicit of this obstruction of justice.

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  10. 7 hours ago, Denize said:

    One less set TPTB need to worry about.  V&C will probably move into the ranch and hang out in the livingroom all day. Have we even seen Johnny & Katie since they were shipped off to boarding school last Fall?

    Thought the very same thing about the fire at Victoria's house. I can't remember seeing anything there since Nick bounced Ashton Locke's head off the fireplace. Kudos to JG for explaining why we won't see that set again. Guess there's no way he could have sent the house to boarding school, or to tend to a ailing out of town relative. I'm still watching and trying for the sake of the years I've spent watching this show (sunk cost fallacy) but it's getting more difficult. No character, corporation, or couple is ever fleshed out enough anymore for me to develop the emotional investment I need to feel anything, before the conclusion of any particular storyline has been force fed to me. Just my opinion.

     

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  11. 1 hour ago, Waldo13 said:

    BlueFang🕷️, a choice between going back on tour and you 😂😂😂.  Give me a fucking break. That like  choice between heaven and hell. 

    BlueFang🕷️ is so full of herself, she probably taljs through the best parts and then calls out her own name while having an orgasm. 

    Where did Seth get the money to buy probably $300 bouquet of flowers?  

    Claire said that she now has two brothers and a sister. So that would include Adam, Banana Breath🦍🦍🦍🦍, and Abby. Shouldn’t Det Deadwood (Dylan McAvoy ) be included?  

    The plot thickens. Will it come to a conclusion by next week?  What will happen to Claire after that?  

     

     

    She's probably begged to be written off of this "shew of shews." She might want an actual acting career, unlike the majority of female characters, that lost all other offers and hope, and grace our televisions daily. She saw what could be her future, and it wasn't a pretty sight.

     

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  12. 5 hours ago, stewedsquash said:

    I hate when the hair stylist decides it is every actress gets the same hairstyle day. And the stylist does not know how to do updo styles or buns. 
     

    Conner needs to be in the scenes for me to care about the story. If they are recasting go on and do it. 
     

    Sharon Case deserves a story. I would love to see her and Lily team up in business. I hope they play it as Oh, okay! Next! when she comes back to find out Daniel and Heather are a family again. Bring on a new flame for her. 
     

    Two eps to catch up on.
     

     

    A new theme for Sharon and Lily should be "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus. With a verse added to the effect that they can handle a business, without any of the nepo boys help!

     

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  13. 13 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

    You know what I don't understand, Esther? Why you're not at the coffeehouse making cafe mochas instead of giving unasked for advice about things you know virtually nothing about.

    Ehh, Audra, it's not a good look for you to keep grilling Tucker about Ashley. Either he's lying to you or he's not; either you trust him or you don't. Ashley is not your issue, she's Tucker's.

    Traci and Jacking agonizing over Ashley like she's high school girl with a crush on the resident bad boy. Do you two hear yourselves? Maybe you need to stop humoring Ashley and get her some professional help.

    Whoa, Esther hit the guilt trip trifecta when she was admonishing Billy and Devon. She managed to bring up not only Kay and Neil but also John Abbott.

    Look at Chance and Nate, stylin' and profiling in their GQ suits. 🥳

    I wish we had gotten to see Chance's whole presentation on his musical festival proposal. Billy was a Grade A jerk about it so it must have been impressive.

    Okay, Tucker finally came clean with Audra about finding Ashley in his suite. I'm not sure he should've done that though. It seemed to stoke Audra's jealousy.

    Did someone summon Billy to the Abbott manse to perform his wise old sage routine? Shut yer trap, William.

    WTF is Ashley up to? She must be counting on people not to compare notes on what she's said to them from one week to the next.

    Surprised to hear Tucker booking flights to Paris. I figured he had a private jet at the ready. 🤔

    Man, Audra's lady bits are putting in that work with Tucker. She's wearing him out, lol.

    Poor Chance. He finding out that C-W office politics are the worst, especially when aging nepo baby Billy's involved. At least Chance has Summer and Nate to give him the background dirt.

    Oh boy, here comes the Audra and Ashley showdown. I gotta give Audra points for having the guts to go into enemy territory.

    I hope Audra runs into "just another notch on her belt" Kyle while she's there, lol! I am weary of how everyone in GC feels a need to run their opinions or interference on Audra's love interests. It's like she only exists now that none of them are trashing Diane or Sally anymore. What a pack of pompous  gasbags they all are. Sharon and the Abbotts all favored Allie (remember her?) for Noah over Audra. Next, no one thought she was right for Kyle. Now, they are all into it up to their armpits about her relationship with Tucker vs. Ashley. They all need to either at most get a life, or at least find real jobs to keep themselves otherwise occupied, IMO.

     

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  14. The OCD diagnosis for Connor seems suspect. Whoever diagnosed him needs to take a trip to GC, and see how all the adults there obsessively go to the same places on a daily basis for coffee, lunch, and dinner and run in to the same people everyday. The GCAC is the only place to stay for those lacking a family home. Next, the businesses should be observed for the same people compulsively switching in and out of CEO positions. Lastly, throw in the interpersonal relationships, which seem to just rotate all the same people, making the same repetitive mistakes. Maybe then Connor's diagnostician might consider that children live what they've learned?

     

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  15. 3 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

    ^^^Except for the part where Audra hasn't been characterized as a gold digger and isn't married to British royalty. The Royals forum got shut down in large part because of the divisive stuff being posted about the Duchess of Sussex. I continue to wonder why it's being brought to this forum.

    Oh, okay. I thought he said "intern" and figured BJ was doing a poor job of reading off cue cards or something.

     

    I agree that the renaming of Audra with the name of a currently controversial celebrity to be problematic in terms of the site just recently shutting down all the Royals forums. It has always felt to me like the insertion of a name, simply for the sake or shock value of doing so.  Nothing in the way this actress physically looks, has been written in the past, or now, even merits the comparison, even by a long stretch of my imagination. I think the actress playing Audra is one of the best new cast members. She is not ham-handed, she doesn't chew the scenery. Her hair, makeup and wardrobe luckily seemed to have escaped the fate of being made to look as garish or clownlike, as some of the her female co-stars. 

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  16. 14 hours ago, Joimiaroxeu said:

    Lol, Nikki was acting like she wanted to sniff Seth's breath to see if she could get a contact buzz.

    Why was Nate loitering around the GCAC? He doesn't live there and isn't dating anyone who has a room there. He wasn't having a late business meeting either. 🤔

    Audra actually said she's in love with Tucker. A few days ago she was thisclose to seducing Nate. Girl, bye.

    Adam: I have a surprise for you, Sally!
    Sally: oh yeah? What is it?
    Adam: that there is no surprise. My dad kiboshed it because he hates you.
    Sally: um, thanks for letting me know?

    Why was Victor running around at night instead of staying home to protect Nikki? Plus it must've been past his bedtime.

    Still surprised Seth doesn't already have an AA sponsor.

    Tucker, are you dense? When Ashley said she wanted peace, what she meant was a piece o' dat a$$. She's setting up the tried and true, "you don't dump me, I dump you" play, to be executed right after she gets you in bed one more time.

    Ashley trying to throw down with Audra. LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL! Go on with your batsh!t self, Ash. Audra can see you coming down Broadway like the Snoopy float.

    I'm thinking Sally should flip the script on Adam and Victor by going to Tucker for the investment in her design business. She needs to be free of the Newmans financially.

    Oh no, Tucker straight up lied to Audra about having just met with Ashley in his suite. Darn. 😒

    I mentioned a few weeks ago that I thought show is prepping us for "Who killed Tucker?" Talking in bed with Audra about their "future," Crazy Ashley busting in his room to wait for him, his lying to Audra about that represent a foreshadowing, that  seems to be pushing his character in that direction to me.

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  17. 6 hours ago, MollyB said:

    You will be needing rehab more than Nikki does if you do.😉

    Regarding Nikki: the make-up artist that's doing her blusher needs rehab. The way her face looks to me now is borderline Heath Ledger "Joker." JG, please don't send her to any AA meetings looking like that! The other participants would never be able to remain sober after taking a gander at her. I had a G & T myself to numb my horror.

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