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It definitely is a tough call for me if I dislike Peter more than Courtney, but they both were horrible. Courtney was so annoying in a different way than Peter though. Of current characters like her, I think Willow's unfortunately become the most similarly awful.

She definitely could only be interested in men too. Gender identity doesn't indicate sexual preference and I don't think Terry's has ever been mentioned one way or another as an adult.

I don't think he'd passed yet when they were filming these episodes. KS is still in them and I believe he passed away after her leave started (aka when Maxie will stop appearing on the show for a bit). So it's probably just a coincidence Monica mentioned him the other day! I'd expect his memorial episode to be closer to September/October.

Cam and Jake have such great brotherly chemistry. I hope Hudson Thrift is one that they do let age up naturally. I think he's a great young actor. Man, I like Sam so much more when she's not moping over Jason. Those scenes with Elizabeth were great! They both are better off without him in their lives - Britt too. Carly is so clearly gleeful about the whole marriage thing too and it's disgusting. Her trying to get him to take her to the bridge is so typical. I didn't mind Britt/Jax either, especially because of how annoyed it'll make Jason AND Carly. Britt seemed happy too as they were off to have a better 4th of July. It was nice to see her off having fun rather than wallowing. I thought NuSpencer's line delivery was a bit rough his first day, but improved the second day. He looks the part and I think he'll improve as he gets more and more comfortable. I really like how they're clearly coupling him and Trina! It's about time she gets someone who is just about her. I hope he has no romantic interest in Joss. I have absolutely no interest in this Chase/Willow/Michael drama. Let him be free and go be with Brook Lynn instead. It's not even like Willow's torn and that makes it even worse. How can Chase not see how she's not about him at all anymore? Valentin/Anna, wow. They have such good chemistry!

I really enjoyed Cam's graduation party and the crew that attended. I like that he considers Lucky's family his family in spite of how they've tried to walk back Lucky's involvement in his life. Assuming that ninja man is Spencer, I'm pleased that they recasted him! He does seem like he's going to be leaning heavily into those dark Cassadine vibes and I'm okay with it. They could definitely use someone new in the teen scene as I'm sick of it all revolving around Joss's whining. I hope the fact that his first scene is with Trina might allude to them being matched up. She deserves an actual love interest. Jason and Carly's MOC is so so dumb and literally makes zero sense. Even more dumb is Carly pretending it's a legit marriage to Bobbie, Jax, and Michael... Like why not tell the truth to the family at least? I also imagine she's secretly LOVING every second of this. That being said, I was living for Britt not taking any of Jason's crap. While Nik/Ava are on a break, I could be down for another Nik/Britt hookup. Also totally cool with her hooking up with Jax just because it'd bug Carly.

I think Amber would cameo for something like this if they asked her back and she were in the area at the time. She's always been really positive about her soap days at GH. I'd love to see Skye back for it too. Maybe she could bring Lila Rae with her.

Ugh, so sad to hear. I always liked when they found ways to bring him back in ghost form and never fully forgave them for that period of time where they were killing off so many Quartermaines, including someone who should've been on the show until the end like Alan. May he rest in peace and may the show remember him with a thoughtful tribute. I like the idea of renaming a hospital wing in his honor.

I think I'm okay with NuDrew. I like Drew better than a lot of the male characters in his age group on the show and, as much as I'd like Billy Miller back, I don't see him being interested. Even if the recast doesn't work out, hopefully the character at least gets to go off alive versus his current predicament. Heck, maybe he can take Scout with him. Either way, for now, I'd rather have another Quartermaine around, even a retconned one, who actually cares about Monica and spends time with her. I like Drew & Curtis's friendship too. If Kelly Monaco is staying, I hope they have chemistry though because the other current option of Sam/Dante is terrible.

They should've found some contrived reason for Carly to marry Jax again instead. They at least have some chemistry and, unlike Jason, Jax has nothing else going on. I feel like his scenes are solely to prop Nina (who has forgotten about him in favor of "Mike") and Joss. I really don't need Carly in the middle of the only time I like Jason even a little these days - with Britt. It's like how they threw Michael in the middle of Willow/Chase, pretended she'd pick Michael in any world over Chase, and absolutely destroyed the only good thing a pointless character like Willow had going on.

Okay, I give in: I really like Britt/Jason. Those boxing scenes were fun. They're just so pretty together and have such good chemistry. It's such a step up from recent years of KM/SB too where they're supposed to be "in love" but it feels like they definitely might hate each other. Speaking of couples with chemistry, I also am intrigued by both Valentin/Anna, Valentin/Brook Lynn, AND Chase/Brook Lynn. I feel like they'll probably go the Valentin/Anna and Chase/Brook Lynn direction longer term, but there's a lot of chemistry all directions here. As others have mentioned, I also didn't really care for AS's Brook Lynn during her initial run, but since she's come back, I'm all about her. I wish there was some way that Brook Lynn and Valentin could keep Bailey forever because they're so cute with her and it'd be so much better if she were really their child versus Maxie and Peter's. Nik/Ava brought it in their angst-filled scenes yesterday too. I like that Ava put Avery first, especially since she often used to seem to struggle with that when it came to Kiki. I'm not as high on Finn/Elizabeth as others seem to be. He's just kind of dull to me in general. It's a step up from Franco/Elizabeth though. I hated that she was with him after everything he did, tumor or not. It's been nice having some time away from Nixon Falls. The show's so much better without that storyline in focus. I also am ready for Shawn/Alexis's prison storyline to end. It's so boring. Ugh, I do not need to watch Willow stay married to Chase just because he's paralyzed. LET. HIM. BE. FREE. They're such jerks for thinking this is somehow better for him. It'd be better if Willow loved them both for real, but the way they're playing it is just messed up. I feel like they could cut a significant portion of the cast and be better off, even though if they did, I'm sure they'd pick the wrong people.

Well that would be wonderful! I miss Robin.

Neither Sasha nor Brando are particularly compelling characters (plus the actors who portray them are mediocre at best), but they do have some solid soapy chemistry together. They're probably one of the better chemistry couples that have been paired recently. I can't get over how much I love MC's Nik. He's one of my favorite recasts on GH in years. Since he started, he's been breathing new life into the character, plus he has this electric romance with Ava, and he's easily one of my favorite characters on the show right now. The Sonny storyline is a complete fast-forward for me. The most boring! The only way I might've cared would've been if Brenda was the other woman in the story, but a Nina/Sonny romance does zilch to make this better. I prefer Jax/Carly to CarSon, but even that development has been moving at the speed of a tortoise so it's not very exciting. As for Willow picking bland Michael over Chase, well, don't even get me started. So so dumb. Other than Michael always winning by defacto, there's no reason she'd ever pick him over Chase. But sure, show. Peter needs to be dead tomorrow. He has officially reached Shiloh levels of "overstayed his welcome".

I think it could've been more powerful if he'd mentioned Lucky and Drew in particular here, but I was glad there was a mention to other father figures he'd had. I thought William Lipton, yet again, killed it in the scenes with Zander too. He's 100% going to get snatched up by a primetime show sooner or later, but I hope we get Lucky back before he leaves so they can share scenes too. I really liked the whole episode! It was nice to see Alexis with all of her daughters, including Kristina. For once, Maxie seemed to understand that Peter's terrible and treat him accordingly. I was happy to see her standing up to him and seeing his true colors. I can't imagine he'll make it too much longer at this point now that he's killed multiple people and is openly threatening his pregnant wife. I liked Amanda Setton today too and am excited about that storyline. The only part I didn't like was Gladys. Ugh, go away. I'm not a particularly big Brando or Sasha fan, but they have chemistry, so that part was a bit better.

Exactly! They could've played it a lot more like the John-is-Roman-but-wait-no storyline on Days of Our Lives. Instead, they acted like Sam suddenly didn't care about Drew at all and regressed every bit of forward movement she had since Jason's death in favor of them reuniting. It made zero sense and was a disservice to Drew's character. I also think they should've incorporated Drew's memories back into him and found a way so that he had both Jason's and his own. It would've given him a lot more room to continue to grow as a character. They wasted him and the Kim/Oscar plot they came up with was terrible.

Same here! I became less bothered by Franco over time, but never particularly liked him. I couldn't stand him in the beginning and still don't know why they thought the character was needed at all after they did the whole James Franco stint. I'd much rather Liz have her happily ever after with Lucky and have him raising the three boys if that's all they were going to end up making Franco in the end. Despite all of this, I got teary at Cam's reaction though. Those scenes, man, William Lipton is just incredible. Becky and Kin also did a terrific job. I do like all the other people involved in that family unit. I know it's been theorized that they're in the process of SORAs-ing Jake or Aiden, but how weird is it that their reactions are happening offscreen? I imagine COVID must be restricting some of the kid actors, but it's weird how Violet, Wiley, and even Charlotte and Avery (those two less often) are still shown pretty frequently. Clearly, Jake and Aiden would be important in this storyline. Same with Rocco being MIA for Lulu's coma and James and Georgie missing Maxie's wedding. So bizarre. I very much do not want RH back as Drew and am super worried that's going to be the case. Also, I wonder why they even introduced Kim having that offscreen Franco-"Drew" baby? Seems like it's really not relevent now that Franco's dead.

I love Anna and Robert! He was so wonderful with her in all of the scenes today. Chase was a cutie with Violet too. I never want characters to have kids too soon on this show, but I lowkey want him to become a dad sooner rather than later. The actor is just so good with children! Maybe he can get with Brook Lynn and be a father figure to her and Valentin's baby. I didn't mind Willow with him at first, but now, she just seems so wishy-washy between him and Michael. Maxie though, ugh. I used to really like her and always have been a fan of KS, but this storyline is killing my interest in the character. How can she still be willing to take him back? Like, Anna has no stake in lying about this and Maxie has known Anna her entire life. For her to believe Peter over Anna AND all the other corroborating sources is bonkers. I don't really get the point of Franco's voice in his head still, especially since it's basically just reiterating what everyone else has already called Peter out on so far. Sam being like, "what can you even do?" about Peter was ridiculous. Drew deserves better!

Since they're doing this story with Sonny having amnesia, he should start to remember, but be years behind, and think he's married to Brenda Barrett. It'd be an easy way to bring Vanessa Marcil back to canvas.

They definitely have some chemistry. I think I'd be down for them to pair up. Whenever Finn and Anna presumably break up, I'd lean toward Alexis/Finn because I think he might be her best bet in terms of onscreen chemistry at this point too now that they killed off Julian and Neil. The two of them definitely have some chemistry and are at least more interesting than Anna/Finn. Finn's 100% going to be Chase's father, so they also could play that out and then just send Finn and Jackie off together into the sunset. I wouldn't miss either of them. The "where is Sonny?" storyline is so lame. I can't imagine even casual viewers are remotely concerned that they'd actually kill him off, so what's the point? At the very least, make him legit presumed dead for a bit so Jax/Carly can hook up. Jason definitely seems a bit more alert in his scenes with Britt compared to Sam. I just don't want Britt to be saddled down by him, especially because she'll always come third to Carly and Sonny. Are TJ and Molly the most mature couple on the show? Possibly. That being said, it kind of made for a bit of a lackluster reveal about the whole Brando situation. I'm guessing it's because they're taking Brando in a different direction now that they have him in Sasha's orbit every five minutes? I definitely prefer Brando/Sasha to any of Sasha's other onscreen partners, but they also could head off forever and wouldn't be missed.

I agree! It's the first time I've been invested in Martin too. MEK plays really well off of GF. I still wouldn't mind if his accent accidentally disappeared, but otherwise, I feel like the character could actually work with this dynamic after not really liking him most of his time up until this point. On the other hand, I've continually loved the Laura vs. Cyrus dynamic. It's been the best part of their entire storyline and, now, this adds another layer to that too. Especially now that they're leaning into Cyrus's villainy, I'm interested to see where things go next. They must've tipped JK off about the relationship, because he definitely did have some specific reactions to Lulu and the explosion that were subtle, but really well-done. Also thought it was super cool that the same actress, according to Google, reprised the role of Florence after only playing the role one other time for like a year in the 1970s.

I really love them and they've become my favorite current couple on the show. Their chemistry is killer and the way they're falling in love has been very well-done. I thought it was surprising that Ava told him the truth, but liked that they went that direction with them. I also thought it was really cool that he believed her and didn't think the worst of her when she was telling him everything. In general, I like MC as Nik a LOT. He is easily one of my favorite recasts of a longterm character that I've seen. He's breathing some fresh air into the character. Even though Lucky isn't on the show, I think MC physically looks like he could be JJ's half brother and has good chemistry with the rest of his onscreen family as well. I liked TC too through the years, but in recent years, you could tell he was struggling offscreen in some of his onscreen work at times. I think MC kind of works even better at this stage in Nik's life. Take everything I said about MC and apply the exact opposite feelings toward NuLucas. He is AWFUL. If Ryan Carnes is unavailable (and TPTB aren't just being jerks toward him), then they need to go find another recast option or send Lucas off canvas for a while. There has never been a more appropriate couple name. Amazing!

Exactly! Like, please go ahead and break up JaSam, but the writers could put a little more effort into the reasoning. This sudden change-of-heart came out of nowhere. Sam's been preaching the opposite vehemently since SB's return and just sold out Scout & Danny's ELQ shares just so she could live with him... I feel like it could have worked better if Danny had been seriously injured in the explosion at least (but even that assumes Sam cares about her kids which is never reflected on screen). It's just very dumb. I really liked Tracy's return, especially when she showed up for Laura. JE adds such a beautiful vibrancy to the show. Usually, I can't stand Sasha, but I think she has chemistry with Brando. If she has to live, I hope they keep going that direction instead of putting her in a love triangle with Michael. He doesn't need one chemistry-less love interest, let alone two. I thought the goodbye scenes for Lulu were well-done, and yet again, Valentin was one of my favorite grey characters on the show. I wonder how his change of heart about how he raised Charlotte with Lulu will impact how he's a father to Brook Lynn's child (assuming she does come back pregnant). Laura was lovely and the flashback to Lulu as a baby was a sweet touch.

William Lipton is such a good actor and the perfect compliment to Rebecca playing his mom. I love him! His reaction to Dev's death was top notch and definitely the best of anyone who grieved Dev. I feel the most for Cam too, losing both of his male best friends so young. The kid's gone through a lot the last couple of years. I keep thinking what a perfect time it'd be to bring Lucky back even as a recast. Between Lulu's coma, Franco potentially becoming Serial!Killer!Franco! again, and Cam having the worst couple of years, it'd make a lot of sense. I'm totally fine with a JaSam split, but it does seem kind of weird to do this sudden 180 where Sam can't deal with Jason being a mobster. She was preaching the opposite for years to the point where she picked him over Drew because of his "adventurous" lifestyle that she loves. I think it would've made more sense to have built up her and Julian reconciling the past few months and then have Jason kill him in this storyline, leading to tension between them. But, that's even weird now since I feel like the Sam of recent history would be like, "I get why you killed him, Jayyyyy-sun" versus even being conflicted.

I kind of like the idea of a JMB return from a different coma, even though I have no clue if she's into the idea of returning. Otherwise, I suppose we'll get another recast one day.

I don't know what happened all of a sudden at the start of November, but this show really has been trending upward since then! The Alex/Anna storyline was very well-done and had a lot of old school GH vibes and this one does too. This was one of my favorite GH disasters in a long time. The reactions of everyone to the explosion, the mix of folks actually interacting with each other, and the stakes of everything were all on point. It was terrific that Mac and Laura were in the midst of it all too. Even the explosion itself looked legit! It was all so soapy and paced really well. I was pretty surprised that Dev died! I'm really glad they recognized the character wasn't working and ended things, but what a weird anticlimactic way to have him die mid-ambulance ride with Sonny. Even the reaction to his death was so "eh, he's dead" by Sonny/Carly and "ugh, too bad" by Laura/Mac like they learned about a squirrel getting hit by a car. RIP Dustin - I was sad about him. I liked Mark Lawson a lot and thought he had good chemistry with ER and the kids. It was too bad they didn't do more with him. That being said, with Lulu on her way out, there's clearly not a lot more road for him, so I'm not surprised. Speaking of Lulu, she seems to be doing surprisingly well. Could her ending be coming at a different point? Maybe she starts investigating the explosion and Cyrus targets her? Franco totally is going to become SerialKillerFranco again post-surgery. Valentin's letter to Alexis was super sweet. I know Alexis is supposed to be in alcoholic mode, but I thought it was weird she wasn't more concerned about Danny. The whole "I told her so - Danny was gonna be killed" thing to Valentin seemed like a strange initial reaction to everything rather than being upset about her grandson and worried about his present condition.

While I agree Britt/Jason have more chemistry than JaSam, I don't want Britt saddled down with Jason. 🤮 Give her someone she can go be sparkly and fun with instead. She's so dynamic and doesn't need to be dragged down by the Jason/Sonny/Carly orbit. If they're going to go with 10 years older, I'd be into chem testing her with Jax since he has zero chemistry with Cynthia Watros.