Episode Discussion II: The TFGH

[Sake614]

43 minutes ago, SiouxB said:

And why didn’t Chase think to ask who the father of this long ago baby was?

Because it’s none of his business? She was a teenager. Maybe she was promiscuous and doesn’t know who the father is. Maybe it was a teen relationship that wasn’t that serious. Maybe a lot of things but it’s completely irrelevant to their current situation and happened decades before they met. 🤷‍♀️

[tessaray]

12 minutes ago, Sake614 said:

Because it’s none of his business? She was a teenager. Maybe she was promiscuous and doesn’t know who the father is. Maybe it was a teen relationship that wasn’t that serious. Maybe a lot of things but it’s completely irrelevant to their current situation and happened decades before they met. 🤷‍♀️

My husband fathered a child as a teen, which he told me about when we were dating. If he had withheld the name of someone in our social circle it would have been emotionally devastating. It's just different. That's your spouse putting the other party's privacy above your intimate relationship. 

Right now Cody and Lois know the truth. And we know what a big mouth Cody has. And there is a real lie out there, that Dante and Brook Lynn were childhood friends only. And if they had dated a little it was no big deal because they never slept together. Lulu will be hurt too. But I expect Chase to be devastated. If he isn't, are we sure he's not a fully functioning android, programmed to be the perfect man? 🙂

[boes]

22 hours ago, ciarra said:

What kind of superspy wannabe breaks into a cabin and rifles through it without gloves? 

It seems on point for the WSB.  They've always seemed to me to be on par with the PCPD, just with better trench coats.

Maybe they really want Joss so they can have a ready supply of those fabulous BLT's?

[YaddaYadda]

17 hours ago, ciarra said:

Okay, explain it to me like I'm Sonny.

Brooke:  I don't know if I had a boy or girl.

 

So, 10 months.  Did she not change a diaper?

A pregnancy is 40 weeks long. I was induced at 39 weeks.

I think Chase being accepting of BLQ's pregnancy and showing her understanding will go to shits once he finds out that the father is Dante. It's one thing to know that your wife was pregnant by another and another knowing that your wife got pregnant by your friend and co-worker and someone who lives under the same roof as you. And what more is that their child actually lives there too.

 

Edited 22 hours ago by YaddaYadda

[Sake614]

25 minutes ago, YaddaYadda said:

their child actually lives there too.

But that’s 100% on Lois. BLQ has absolutely no idea Gio is her son. I just hope Lois catches hEll from EVERYONE in that house including her daughter and grandson. And then I want Ned to throw her sorry ass out and send her back to Bensonhurst, never to be seen or heard from again. And then I want to hear that her family back home turned their backs on her as well. 

Edited 21 hours ago by Sake614

[tessaray]

I don't mind the secret child trope because it keeps soaps populated without the drawn out process of being born onscreen and eventual SORAS-ing. I'll even grant that BLQ being offscreen for long periods of time makes her a prime candidate. But Gio doesn't broaden the canvas, he's just a link in the closed Q/Corinthii ecosystem. Everyone already loves him. The lies are the only drama for Lois, Chase, Dante and Lulu. Now  everyone will be mad at Lois but so what? She can always go back to Bensonhurst and life goes on. 

Imagine instead if BLQ's kid was Esme with an unknown kid at camp the father. That would be more dramatic and open up the canvas for another family to be introduced. (And Dante and Lois could still be complicit, if he went along with the lie he was the father.) On the minus side, Ace would be BLQ's grandchild. Of course, we don't need a Nina/Wiley repeat and there are some other drawbacks but this regime's  incestuous-ness gives B&B a run for its money. (Hey, Kai is the right age too, though that might be too much for today's show.)

It's probably too late for GH though. I've been complaining about this since Carly's father was dead-end Corbin Bernson and not the wastrel scion of a Kennedy-esque clan who liked to go to Florida for drugs and under-age girls. Sigh.

Edited 21 hours ago by tessaray

[statsgirl]

Among the people who should be angry at Lois is Gio himself. Here he's been thinking that he is an orphan with his mother dead and not knowing who his father is, a sad and lonely place to be. But in reality he's got a living mother and father, two grandmothers, two grandfathers and a great grandmother, two half siblings and various aunts and uncles, all of whom he knows and who are fond of him (except for step sister Charlotte).

If Chase is so obsessed with being biologically related to Brook Lynne's new baby, he should ask Finn to be the sperm donor. I hear he produces acceptable children.

[ciarra]

56 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

If Chase is so obsessed with being biologically related to Brook Lynne's new baby, he should ask Finn to be the sperm donor. I hear he produces acceptable children.*

*One that doesn't sing, please.

Chase: Do you want to try and find your child?

Me: Have you looked in the Q kitchen?  He usually shows up there.

 

[ulkis]

On 2/21/2025 at 5:36 PM, ciarra said:

What kind of superspy wannabe breaks into a cabin and rifles through it without gloves? 

2 hours ago, statsgirl said:

Among the people who should be angry at Lois is Gio himself. Here he's been thinking that he is an orphan with his mother dead and not knowing who his father is, a sad and lonely place to be. But in reality he's got a living mother and father, two grandmothers, two grandfathers and a great grandmother, two half siblings and various aunts and uncles, all of whom he knows and who are fond of him (except for step sister Charlotte).

If Chase is so obsessed with being biologically related to Brook Lynne's new baby, he should ask Finn to be the sperm donor. I hear he produces acceptable children.

And potentially have Gio fall through the baby's nostrils? No no.

9 hours ago, SiouxB said:

And why didn’t Chase think to ask who the father of this long ago baby was?

Because I don't think it remotely occurred to him it could be Dante. Why would it? And anyone else would mean nothing to him.

[ulkis]

On 2/7/2025 at 9:13 PM, jsbt said:

Didn't Felicia come back to town for that? 'Determined to find Georgie's killer?' And then I don't think she even stayed for the climax lol

[Kiki777]

Joss : superspy = Lulu : journalist

[Kiki777]

On 2/22/2025 at 4:24 AM, Grinaldi said:

Anyone else getting Rod Serling vibes every time Chris McKenna talks. Something about his cadence.

Now that you mention it, I can hear it.  And visually, he reminds me of Nathan Lane (not a likely romantic partner for Carly 😂)

[sashabear21]

On 2/22/2025 at 2:26 AM, graight said:

 

Oh, and this is what I think when I see Aiden -- a teen in an 80s movie:

 

I would much rather be watching Chainsaw and Dave get into shenanigans than TFGH!

[YaddaYadda]

15 hours ago, statsgirl said:

But in reality he's got a living mother and father, two grandmothers, two grandfathers and a great grandmother, two half siblings and various aunts and uncles, all of whom he knows and who are fond of him (except for step sister Charlotte

So I got Rocco as his half-sibling. Who in the hell is the other one? I've been scratching my head at this for the past 2 minutes.

I do think it's funny that since Sonny's sperm factory refuses to be put out of business, Donna and Avery are his aunts and more than half his age.

[nilyank]

49 minutes ago, YaddaYadda said:

So I got Rocco as his half-sibling. Who in the hell is the other one? I've been scratching my head at this for the past 2 minutes.

 

Maybe they mistakenly included Charlotte who is most definitely not Dante's child so not a half sibling.

Meanwhile Leo is double uncle to Gio.

[statsgirl]

I was thinking of Charlotte as a half-sibling even though she isn't related by blood. This show plays fast and loose with who is a blood offspring and who is an offspring because raised (e.g. Sonny and Michael). Kristina definitely thinks of Michael as her sibling even while it wouldn't bother Joss to disown her.

Edited 40 minutes ago by statsgirl

[GHScorpiosRule]

18 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

I was thinking of Charlotte as a half-sibling even though she isn't related by blood.

That would make them step brother and sister only if Dante and Lulu were married/ got married again. “Half” refers to when they share a parent biologically.

Edited 23 minutes ago by GHScorpiosRule