KerleyQ

Decent story lines can absolutely be written for characters who are in for a limited amount of time, provided, of course, that the writer has the interest in planning and utilizing the time they have the actress instead of leaving her on the back burner for a huge chunk of her return time and then remembering, a week before she leaves, that he needs to write her out somehow. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that, after Nik sits vigil at her bedside, she comes to and her first word is "Ric?"

And if she ever has her own baby, I'd be fine with her keeping it...after it's been kidnapped and held from her for the first few months of his/her life.

If he's warning us of his exit story line, that would make two in a row for Ron. If your stars feel the need to keep warning their fans off of their story lines, Ron, you might want to rethink your writing style.

If there is a Liz thread, I'd like to put my request out there to not use the word "slut" in the title, as I know has been thrown out there. Personally, I find it offensive and misogynistic, with no place in good fun snark.

Just looking at the #DWTS hashtag quickly, I saw a lot of Derek/Nene votes. Fingers crossed! And there seem to be a lot of votes for Maks and Val to swap partners.

Personally, even if Ben was just Dante/Britt's and not Dante/Lulu's, I don't think it mitigates what she did. In that case, the story would be that she took a patient's sperm sample, that he only intended to have used to create a baby with his wife, and used it herself. If a male doctor was using his own sperm to impregnate his patients without their knowledge or consent, people would (rightfully) call it assault, and there would be a demand for him to lose his license. It should be the same in the other direction.

I'll be going back and forth between here and TWoP until the end of May as well. As for separate threads, I think there could be some value in having some for some of the topics that tend to keep coming up so that they don't dominate over conversation of what's currently going on in the show. For example, the re-hashing of Liz's past comes up fairly regularly, so a thread devoted to that might make sense so as to keep it from derailing the ongoing show conversation. It might also be fun to have like a GH History thread where people can go to discuss old school GH stuff or ask questions about things that happened before they started watching the show? So disappointed that AJ woke up for Carly's shrill self. I so wish he would have woken up to Michael saying something like "I need you to come back to me, Dad." Ron never lets us have nice things.