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So Anna gives Robert, the actual DA, a pass on prosecuting Jason and now Sonny but makes Molly do it despite Jason being her nephew’s father and Sonny being her pregnant sister’s father even though there are 4 other ADAs who won’t have the same conflict of interests? I’m sorry, but that lady is brain dead.

Here’s the full list of the nominations. Light year for GH: Supporting Performance In A Daytime Drama Series: Actress Jennifer Gareis (Donna, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL) Linsey Godfrey (Sarah, DAYS OF OUR LIVES) Courtney Hope (Sally, YOUNG AND RESTLESS) Allison Lanier (Summer, YOUNG AND RESTLESS) Emily O’Brien (Gwen, DAYS OF OUR LIVES) Supporting Performance In A Daytime Drama Series: Actor Robert Gossett (Marshall, GENERAL HOSPITAL) Bryton James (Devon, YOUNG AND RESTLESS) Wally Kurth (Justin, DAYS OF OUR LIVES) A Martinez (Nardo, THE BAY) Mike Manning (Caleb, THE BAY) Guest Performance In A Daytime Drama Series Linden Ashby (Cameron, YOUNG AND RESTLESS) Ashley Jones (Bridget, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL) Alley Mills (Heather, GENERAL HOSPITAL) Guy Pearce as Mike Young, NEIGHBOURS) Dick Van Dyke (Mystery Man/Timothy Robicheaux, DAYS OF OUR LIVES) Lead Performance In A Daytime Drama Series: Actress Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL) Tamara Braun (Ava, DAYS OF OUR LIVES) Finola Hughes (Anna, GENERAL HOSPITAL) Annika Noelle (Hope, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL) Michelle Stafford (Phyllis, YOUNG AND RESTLESS) Cynthia Watros (Nina, GENERAL HOSPITAL) Lead Performance In A Daytime Drama Series: Actor Eric Braeden (Victor, YOUNG AND RESTLESS) Scott Clifton (Liam, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL) Thorsten Kaye (Ridge, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL) John McCook (Eric, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL) Eric Martsolf (Brady, DAYS OF OUR LIVES) Writing For A Daytime Drama Series THE BAY BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL DAYS OF OUR LIVES GENERAL HOSPITAL YOUNG AND RESTLESS Directing For A Daytime Drama Series THE BAY BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL DAYS OF OUR LIVES GENERAL HOSPITAL YOUNG AND RESTLESS Original Song “Shine” GENERAL HOSPITAL “Unexpected Truth” UNEXPECTED “We’re Home” RECONNECTING ROOTS Casting AFRICAN QUEENS: NJINGA DAYS OF OUR LIVES GENERAL HOSPITAL START UP YOUNG AND RESTLESS Daytime Drama Series THE BAY BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL DAYS OF OUR LIVES GENERAL HOSPITAL NEIGHBOURS YOUNG AND RESTLESS

PI think they’re trying to play Sonny as crossing the line with Cyrus because he’s older and not actively in the mob but it’s not resonating with me. Like others have said, Sonny isn’t exactly young himself, they’re practically peers. It’s not like it was Dex or Michael attacking Cyrus. Also, Cyrus did some pretty reprehensible things up until fairly recently and I don’t get why they are pulling this poor man crap with him when he’s responsible for several murders, attempted murders, and kidnappings, not to mention all he did before he came to PC that we don’t know about. Having a come to Jesus moment at 70 doesn’t make him a decent person and Laura should be the last person on the planet defending him after he ordered a hit that put Lulu into a coma, which before anyone asks, she is aware of because she attacked him over it when it happened. It’s common knowledge that Cyrus was behind the Floating Rib explosion

I think you all accidentally got tomorrow’s episode. The previews had Alexis/Finn, BL/Chase, Anna etc. though my episode description for today matched your episode better than mine. The only thing that we had that matched the description is Trina talking to and about Joss/Dex.

I saw some recaps on Twitter that made no sense. Apparently, Canada is showing a different episode than ours but both are new. That is so weird.

Also, I know this is probably an UO, but I’ve always found Michael and Jason’s relationships to be overstated and he only got a pass because he wasn’t the biological father despite the fact that he considered himself Michael’s dad. Jason only actively parented Michael for a few months and post custody battle, we barely saw him around Michael. He left town when he saw Carly with Sonny even though he and Carly weren’t together and “gifted” his family to Sonny. They even had Sonny say he wanted to continue being Michael’s father after he and Carly split because he felt guilty that Jason left because of him and didn’t want Michael to lose another father. That’s not much different than how they turned Lucky into a deadbeat. Yeah, Jason shows up for the hero moments with Michael but that’s what he does with everyone. It’s the day to day he’s not interested in.

ITA. Early Jason and Robin was the only time I saw him as a viable romantic interest. I think once Michael was born and during cottage hell, it started going downhill for him. Once Jason returned to town in 2002, he was full on robothug and not an enjoyable love interest. All of his pairings by that point and on involved the women doing the heavy lifting while he occasionally graced them with a smile and they were supposed to fall over at their feet that he would deign to look at them despite the fact that being with him put them in danger and he made his SOs the last priority in his life. The only thing that changed with time is they added on him being a deadbeat dad. I’ve never gotten the impression during the last 20 something years that Jason even gave a damn when he was single or got lonely or wanted more to his life than what he had. He’s content with being a hired gun and emotional support human.

Carly was 100% hoping that Jason would want to pursue a romantic relationship since they’re both single. Her voice cracked when he said he liked things the way they are. The Sonny factor has only ever been an issue for him. Carly would destroy Sonny in a heartbeat if she had a sliver of hope of getting Jason, father of her children or not.

Ava’s plotting but they haven’t done a good job of letting the audience in on her plans or motivations so it’s hallow. I suspect the writers haven’t quite figured it out yet. Like she’s clearly setting Nina up to anger Sonny even more but he’s already done with her so I don’t get why she’s doing it other than to pile on to Nina even more by gifting Carly another win with the outcome of no one appreciating it and Sonny being annoyed rather than happy about it

I’ll never buy Laura going out on a limb like this for Heather of all people. Their connection is tenuous at best. Her adopted father’s brother was married to her a zillion years ago and it wasn’t a particularly long or happy marriage. If it was one of her kids or grandkids, sure, but they needed to bring back someone like Stephen if they wanted to do this SL.

I don’t necessarily think it’s a good idea for BL to buy Chase a truck but this show tends to get very fixed in its gender roles. We just had Michael encourage Willow to quit her job because “they” have plenty of money and that’s just the latest in a line of relationships on this show where the man has substantially more money than the woman and no one makes the woman in those case feels she has to contribute equally. Tracy isn’t exactly one to talk. Luke was basically a bum who married her for her money even though she likes to pretend otherwise now. At least Chase isn’t a gold digger and is gainfully employed.

I’m pretty sure her male bff replacement was Finn but they hardly share scenes together anymore. I think Gregory replaced his role in her life. Valentin, once they started getting along anyway, was always treated more like family, even when they thought they weren’t related

There’s been multiple actors who have called out the lack of balance on the show as well and how the show rarely utilizes all of its cast members properly because they center everything around a chosen few. Usually it only comes up once the actor is off the show but people are very, very aware of it. It’s not all in our heads

TJ, you married into a family who all have ties to Sonny. He’s Molly’s uncle, Kristina’s father, Sam is dating his son and has a kid with his business partner, hell even Alexis is pretty friendly with him. Like even if we forget about the years that TJ’s father worked for Sonny and TJ liked/admired him or say he changed his opinion as an adult, he’d have to be absolutely blind to think his kid would never be around Sonny.

I’m glad TJ is getting POV regarding the baby but I’m also annoyed by him. He’s been very clear about the fact that he didn’t want Kristina to be the surrogate/egg donor but was spineless when it came up. He mostly just complained about it to his family after the fact. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s purposefully distant with this pregnancy because of his poor relationship with Kristina. TBH I think Molly and TJ were so set on making Kristina the villain of this story when they are the real ones who don’t seem to be all that into the pregnancy anymore. They can’t even be bothered to attend doctor’s appointments. So why are the MC’s issues all falling on Nina? What’s Olivia doing? I mean, her bitching about Nina firing an obviously incompetent employee because it’s mean kind of leads me to believe that she’s the problem when it comes to the staff. Not that I buy that Nina would be managing the day to day operations of that place at her level. Jax never did when he owned the MC and Nina has 2 other jobs. She’d treat the MC like an investment and hire a manager. They are really setting Nina up with having her tell everyone that Carly is sleeping with Jagger. One because she’s going to end up with egg on her face when it comes out that she’s not hit even if she was, who’s that impacting? Both of them are single. Are they fazing out the Savoy? What was up Drew wanting Curtis to head up some fitness venture with him? So most of the Qs went to fancy European boarding schools and travelled extensively across the world but trust fund BL has never been to Florence despite the fact that she’s been wanting to go forever and Chase had to sell his car to finance the trip on his own? I guess show

I’m just being honest. I don’t think the show has ever been “balanced”. At least not during the entire time I’ve been watching. Seems like every HW and EP has their set of faves who get focus and POV while the rest mainly get shafted or are brought on to support other people’s SLs. I’m not entirely sure if there is a way to give equal focus to 35-40 characters. Now there are times when it’s kind of obvious that an actor’s contractual guarantees don’t line up with the writer’s interest in the character and we’ll see someone on all the time but is constantly inserted into other people’s SLs, which really tend to annoy fans of characters who have to deal with their own faves being cycled.

Im also starting to think Ava is the red herring and not the schemer, which is disappointing if true. They’ll figure out Sonny meds were tampered with and Ava’s fingerprints are on the bottle along with her history of tampering with medications so she’ll be suspected.

I’m assuming they had Ava take Sonny’s bipolar meds to realize that they’re different but it’s so dumb. Even ignoring the fact that Ava thought someone else’s regular prescription meds to fall asleep was preferable to just running out to get some melatonin, them not making her sleepy means nothing. Not every drug that “may cause drowsiness” will make every person who takes it drowsy and it being a lower dosage than Sonny was taking wouldn’t mean that they wouldn’t affect Ava- who unlike Sonny hasn’t been on bipolar meds for decades and is smaller.

You know, as much effort as they’ve taken to make Michael the lead of his age group, he and Willow are pretty isolated from their peers. They’ve made Cody/Sasha new bffs with Maxie and Spinelli so we saw them regularly interacting and BL was working with Sasha and Maxie so they were always together. Kristina and Michael were close as teens but they’ve pretty much dropped that relationship while she’s always around her other relatives. Michael and Willow are mainly around their much older relatives or alone save the big group events.

It’s cool, I got where you’re coming from. IRL, I don’t disparage SAHMs or ladies of leisure at all and think it’s a valid choice if that’s what they want to do. However, I don’t think it works for a soap character unless said character is maybe over 60 and has adult children and grandchildren to fuss over. Jobs provide ways to insert them in stories and allow them to interact with characters they might not otherwise talk to. There’s no story in Willow listening to Michael talk about his day and her very young children can only give her so much to do onscreen. Unless a kid gets extremely sick, kidnapped or stuck in the middle of a tense custody battle, they don’t have much in the way of storyline potential for their parents until they reach their teen years.

He never wanted her to go back after the cancer battle. They had a big fight over it and he used the same argument about how she doesn’t need the money because he has money. I don’t think SAHMs or wives on soaps work for a lot of reasons and that’s why they all pretty much have jobs, even if it’s just for fun. When they aren’t working, the show only writes them talking about what their SOs are doing and it’s been like that the entire time I’ve watched the show. However, Willow is a stepford wife whether she has a job or not. Even when she worked, we hardly saw her there. Those 2 episodes she was there recently were likely just so she could steal meds for Jason. She doesn’t have an identity but it’s not because of her job. She defines herself as Michael’s wife and mother of his children.

Willow is locked in as Mrs. Michael Corinthos. She’s ready to stop working because it’s taking away time from the kids. Michael of course was all for it and said she could help with charity work the Qs are involved in if she gets bored. Basically the only way she could have developed relationships outside of Michael and his circle (working at GH) is going away.

Yeah, I’ve suspected that for awhile and it’s not just because she’s being shady. They have her so isolated right now. She spends almost all her scenes with Sonny and they can’t seem to think of much else to do with her other than open the door for his guests, fix him drinks and lurk in the background.

That and Carly has been handed several fortunes from her exes and a business from her mother. The fact that she isn’t extremely wealthy right now kind of is more of a reason to not give her more money. Plus the show will never sell me on Jake and Danny being loaded from whatever tiny percentage of ELQ they got. They can’t even sell the stocks since voting rights are attached to them and Valentin somehow was able to buy 50% of those stocks with whatever funds he stole from the Cassadines before losing control.

MW must be bored out of her mind. She spends like 90% of her scenes standing off to the side while Sonny talks to someone else