Episode Discussion II: The TFGH

[Sake614]

12 minutes ago, ffwbe said:

Carly didn’t even have to suffer any consequences for since Drew took the fall. 

Of course she did! She had to find $5 million to pay a sec Fine, which meant she couldn’t buy back the metro court. And she refused to take the money that Joss offered from her trust fund (which is likely considerably more than $5 million) or let Sonny help her. I’m still not sure where she got the money since no one would let her sell the house and she was whining about how it would wipe out her savings. 🙄

[jacourt]

Stephen A. Smith sent to hospital after Celebrity Game practice injury involving Micah Parsons
 

might be getting a brick reprieve for a while. 

[bayviewbubba]

Hair patrol: Sonny got a fresh bottle of shoe black off of Amazon overnight.  When will they learn that the total cover-up look is more aging?  Don't be a hair dye don't be.

[dubbel zout]

30 minutes ago, Sake614 said:

she was whining about how it would wipe out her savings.

She wiped out her savings, I believe. But she still landed on her feet, since she had the diner.

And she still didn't suffer, since everyone immediately started falling all over themselves to help her. Such a pointless story, as usual.

Edited February 16 by dubbel zout

[Redcookie]

Never mind. Google is a wonderful invention. 

Edited February 16 by Redcookie

[ffwbe]

They are being so heavy handed with the Jason mentions. Danny mouthing off to his mother and drinking in a park with his friends is the most garden variety form of teenage rebellion. For the vast majority of people, it doesn’t mean they’re headed down a bad path or on their way to becoming a career criminal. And we’re talking RL teens, for a soap teen, he’s still boring as hell Sam. You can stop worrying. 

[Bringonthedrama]

Good lord, Sam - you've only ever known brain damaged Jason who made Sonny and the fam his #1 priority in life. Danny is not "hard-wired" to do dangerous things like a guy with brain damage. Jason was a studious kid in boarding school when he was Danny's age. Danny is a normal teenager who snuck out, end of story.  Alexis is an intelligent attorney who knew Jason and the rest of the Q Family a long time before Sam did - and was even once engaged to Jason's cousin. Why didn't she point out the glaring fact that 14-year-old Jason was a good kid, not a juvenile delinquent. This heavy-handed built up for Jason's return is ridiculous!!

I need multiple vomit emojis that Dex would rather have Sonny shoot him dead than to live without Joss. I will never, ever buy that Joss and Dex really love each other. She still barely knows him. Esme had more character development and relationships on the show than Dex has had. I did like, though, how Sonny was utterly unmoved by Joss's tears and that she will never forgive him for Dex leaving. lol.  

I love Laura's facial reactions to Cyrus, so very much.

[Pingaponga]

I'm feeling really sorry for Eden McCoy. She returned to work after her mother's death only to have her character grieve Spencer's death and now Dex's departure. I guess the only good thing is that she didn't return earlier and have to play Joss grieving her grandmother Bobbi as well. I think the girl needs some cheery and happy scenes right now.

[Desperado]

The show feels out of sync. Why didn’t Sonny just tell Dex to leave after trying to kill him the first time? He didn’t want Carly to interfere?

Why is Cyrus on the radio instead of a podcast? I’m with Laura though, guy is super creepy and unhinged with his “flock”.

We’re back to mobspital and I’m bored silly.

[PatsyandEddie]

Maybe Sonny will bring Dex back after Carly begs him. 
I agree it’s a bit much for EM. 
 

Edited February 16 by PatsyandEddie

[YaddaYadda]

50 minutes ago, Bringonthedrama said:

Good lord, Sam - you've only ever known brain damaged Jason who made Sonny and the fam his #1 priority in life. Danny is not "hard-wired" to do dangerous things like a guy with brain damage. Jason was a studious kid in boarding school when he was Danny's age. Danny is a normal teenager who snuck out, end of story.  Alexis is an intelligent attorney who knew Jason and the rest of the Q Family a long time before Sam did - and was even once engaged to Jason's cousin. Why didn't she point out the glaring fact that 14-year-old Jason was a good kid, not a juvenile delinquent. This heavy-handed built up for Jason's return is ridiculous!!

It's ridiculous especially when Sam says that Jason was in and out of Danny's life. The writing omits that Sam is an adrenaline junky herself.

[ffwbe]

2 minutes ago, YaddaYadda said:

It's ridiculous especially when Sam says that Jason was in and out of Danny's life. The writing omits that Sam is an adrenaline junky herself.

I’m guessing that’s why they had Sam add in the line about it being part of his DNA, which makes even less sense considering before the accident, Jason was a goody goody who never did anything wrong. He was the only Q who wasn’t messy.

[dubbel zout]

45 minutes ago, Bringonthedrama said:

I did like, though, how Sonny was utterly unmoved by Joss's tears and that she will never forgive him for Dex leaving. lol.  

Sonny has never really cared about Joss aside from her being safe for Carly's sake. I like that about him. Joss's anger is so stupid. Dex worked for Sonny. WTF did she expect would happen? This is not an unforeseen consequence.

1 minute ago, PatsyandEddie said:

I agree it’s a bit much for EM. 

Maybe it's cathartic for her. She likely knows what she can handle.

[Kmr]

Okay maybe the feds would be more interested in working with you if Anna and Jordan hadn’t pursued the case after being told not to when they were not law enforcement and then withheld information. 

[rur]

2 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

Sonny has never really cared about Joss aside from her being safe for Carly's sake. I like that about him. .

Me too -- it so neatly demonstrates his priorities. 

And, FWIW, today in his confrontation with Dex, he sounded more like a petulant 15-year old than a powerful godfather. Maybe the new writers will move him to a back burner. 

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Joss's anger is so stupid. Dex worked for Sonny. WTF did she expect would happen? This is not an unforeseen consequence.

I'm pretty sure I wasn't hallucinating when just the other day I heard Joss tell Dex to run -- for her. Why does she now hate Sonny for convincing him to do the same thing? 

Edited February 16 by rur

[KittenPokerCheater]

So is the actor who plays Dex being written out?

I'm so tired of Sonny.  Maybe it's time for the actor to take a vacation.

[sacrebleu]

Nitpick... No east coast radio station would have call letters starting with K... It would be W... K is a West of the Mississippi thing 

It bugs me when they can't get even the little things right. 

Edited February 16 by sacrebleu

[Sake614]

43 minutes ago, rur said:

Me too -- it so neatly demonstrates his priorities. 

And, FWIW, today in his confrontation with Dex, he sounded more like a petulant 15-year old than a powerful godfather. Maybe the new writers will move him to a back burner. 

I'm pretty sure I wasn't hallucinating when just the other day I heard Joss told Dex to run -- for her. Why does she now hate Sonny for convincing him to do the same thing? 

Because before it was her choice and she was going to run with him. Now he’s chosen to leave town and live, but without her. Sorry not sorry 🤣

[tessabq]

Well, Joss, that's what happens when you date someone who works for a coffee importer. <rolls eyes>

[KittyQ]

I wonder if Joss will "hate" Sonny longer than she hates Nina? I would think that this is a much deeper wound than whatever Nina supposedly did to other people. I can imagine in a different medium that this would fuel Joss's desire for revenge, and she might pursue a career in law so she could prosecute Sonny herself.

 

[ffwbe]

Joss should be happy that her mobbed up bf wasn’t killed. Any other snitch would have. I think some self reflection is required there because maybe don’t get involved with someone in that business if you can’t handle the consequences.
 

The funny thing is I doubt this would have all come out had Dex stopped working for Sonny when he had the chance to go but he didn’t want to because he had no education or other skills and thought he was above working a job like opening the door at the MC. He chose that life over a normal one with Joss so I don’t get why either of them are acting so dramatic today. 

[TVbitch]

Missed the first 40 minutes due to news, but sounds like it was mostly a lot of pointless blathering, so I won't bother. Joss is so entitled, she thinks her mob boyfriend should be allowed to mob and turn traitor without consequences. Guess what Joss, Dex is a criminal too! 😱🙄 I wonder if he told her he almost killed a man for Sonny. And before you get too pouty, don't forget how very much you worshipped Jason, who would not hesitate to make Dex permanently disappear. 

Pretty sure the GH basement morgue would not get portable AM radio reception. 📻 🤣

[JMO]

Doesn't have to be Ingo, but this might be a nice time for Jax to come for a visit.  

Olivia Jerome had such a tangled history with the residents of Port Charles, they might need a recap episode to remind us of all of it.  

Given that we seem to be worried about mobsters, has anyone seen Selena Wu lately?

[Bringonthedrama]

1 hour ago, JMO said:

Doesn't have to be Ingo, but this might be a nice time for Jax to come for a visit.  

Jax's absence from Josslyn's life for more than a year - never a mention - has been glaring because he has a history of being a very involved, doting dad. A revenge porn recording of Joss goes public, Joss and Cam are interviewed by Jax's best friend for a media story, but Mr. International Corporate Raider apparently does not have anything to do with media, the Internet, or his daughter anymore since he left town for an undefined period of time. You would think Jax died off-screen. Ugh, this show. 

The show has done this before, though, with a devoted parent. Brooklyn's throat gets slashed, Ned is afraid she won't live/recover ... but Lois doesn't show up. Brooklyn is "pregnant" and then she and Chase are together "raising our baby" ... but Lois doesn't show up. Brooklyn has some business-family problems with Tracy that get so-called media attention, and then Lois comes running (since RS became available) because she's "so worried" about what big bad Tracy has done to her daughter. 

[ljr]

I don't understand why dex was willing to die but then he argues with Sonny about leaving Joss?

And how can dex and joss be so much in love? They spent the whole time talking about Sonny and having sex.

[ciarra]

On second thought, this is dumber than most things I say.  <delete>

 

 

Edited February 20 by ciarra

[30 Helens]

15 hours ago, Bringonthedrama said:

Danny is not "hard-wired" to do dangerous things like a guy with brain damage. Jason was a studious kid in boarding school when he was Danny's age.

Yeah, the only thing Danny is “hard wired” to do is wear a reindeer sweater. Later, Sam did switch to talk of Danny emulating Jason, which makes more sense and made me wonder if the writers know what “hard wired” means.

11 hours ago, KittenPokerCheater said:

So is the actor who plays Dex being written out?

I’m not up on casting news, but I fully expect Dex to return, possibly just in time to save Sonny from Jason’s* next attack and be redeemed in Sonny’s eyes. But if he is leaving, even temporarily, why for the love of all that is good and holy couldn’t he take Joss with him? 
*my assumption; not a spoiler

 

8 hours ago, Bringonthedrama said:

The show has done this before, though, with a devoted parent. Brooklyn's throat gets slashed, Ned is afraid she won't live/recover ... but Lois doesn't show up

And let’s not forget how quickly Felicia went from being fierce mama bear to deadbeat child deserter hanging out in Texas.

[Winston Wolfe]

11 hours ago, JMO said:

Given that we seem to be worried about mobsters, has anyone seen Selena Wu lately?

She's actually the only authentic mobster we've had on GH for years. Really miss her scariness.

14 hours ago, Desperado said:

Why is Cyrus on the radio instead of a podcast? I’m with Laura though, guy is super creepy and unhinged with his “flock”.

GF's facial reactions to Cyrus are pure Gold. You can tell she's not sure how to feel about her half-brother.  And poor Kevin is stuck with the BIL from Hell (hey, that rhymes!)

16 hours ago, bayviewbubba said:

Hair patrol: Sonny got a fresh bottle of shoe black off of Amazon overnight.  When will they learn that the total cover-up look is more aging?  Don't be a hair dye don't be.

Particularly when it's backed up with white whiskers whenever MB doesn't have time to shave. He should take a page from silver fox MEK's book. He makes grey look distinguished and sexy.

[YaddaYadda]

12 hours ago, Bringonthedrama said:

Jax's absence from Josslyn's life for more than a year - never a mention - has been glaring because he has a history of being a very involved, doting dad. A revenge porn recording of Joss goes public, Joss and Cam are interviewed by Jax's best friend for a media story, but Mr. International Corporate Raider apparently does not have anything to do with media, the Internet, or his daughter anymore since he left town for an undefined period of time. You would think Jax died off-screen. Ugh, this show. 

The show has done this before, though, with a devoted parent. Brooklyn's throat gets slashed, Ned is afraid she won't live/recover ... but Lois doesn't show up. Brooklyn is "pregnant" and then she and Chase are together "raising our baby" ... but Lois doesn't show up. Brooklyn has some business-family problems with Tracy that get so-called media attention, and then Lois comes running (since RS became available) because she's "so worried" about what big bad Tracy has done to her daughter. 

The same can be said about Drewfus. Went from a doting and devoted father, his whole reason for surviving his kidnapping and imprisonment by Victor was the daughter he wanted to get back to because she was his everything, to abandoning said daughter to go jail for his girlfriend and wanting sell daughter's birthright to pay for his g/f's debt.

3 hours ago, 30 Helens said:

But if he is leaving, even temporarily, why for the love of all that is good and holy couldn’t he take Joss with him? 

Because we're not that lucky.

[Cheyanne11]

I can't help but laugh at how anti-mob Joss is now, considering how she almost cut Cam out of her life for daring to call Jason a criminal. 

Jeff Kober continues to be a bright spot in every episode he's in.

[PatsyandEddie]

JK and GF had such great chemistry on screen. I love the way she arches her one eyebrow at him when he is sermonizing. They each have a knack for saying something without speaking a word just by the use of facial expressions. 

[ljr]

I wonder what the subliminal. message is behind cyruss radio show

Is it something to do with murder? Maybe is followers are murdering the mobsters?

[ciarra]

2 hours ago, ljr said:

I wonder what the subliminal. message is behind cyruss radio show

Is it something to do with murder? Maybe is followers are murdering the mobsters?

Someone was watching old GH Black Hills shows, where the drummer was tapping out Morse Code onstage to signal the baddies.  "Dusty" (Shaun Cassidy) and "Terry Brock" Robyn Bernard were the singers.

Edited February 17 by ciarra

[Bringonthedrama]

3 hours ago, Cheyanne11 said:

I can't help but laugh at how anti-mob Joss is now, considering how she almost cut Cam out of her life for daring to call Jason a criminal. 

Same. It was good to see Joss on the floor crying because Dex left her behind, after how she treated Cam for his very understandable perspective about Jason, and then cheated on him with Dex. Joss crying over Dex truly highlighted that she never deserved to be Cam's girlfriend, or even his friend really.

[Winston Wolfe]

10 hours ago, ljr said:

I wonder what the subliminal. message is behind cyruss radio show

Is it something to do with murder? Maybe is followers are murdering the mobsters?

Now Streaming: Only Murders in the Pulpit. Starring Dan Aykroyd, Shakira and Eddie Murphy.

Edited February 18 by Winston Wolfe

[ffwbe]

I’m sure Joss will forget about all of the ranting she’s done about the mob and criminals being bad in the last 2 years once “uncle” Jason comes back since we know that man is never leaving the mob and worshipping Jason is ingrained in her. Very well since it was OOC to begin with considering she used to gloat about Sonny being in the mob and getting away with everything and frequently used his name to threaten people. 

[dubbel zout]

Wow, they sprung for a photo of Tonja Walker.

I love the relationship between Alexis and Valentin. I'm so glad they made it mostly warm instead of adversarial.

Joss is acting like a colossal  infant. Not that I'm surprised.

I did not like Nina's outfit today. The blue color looks great on CW, but the style is so ugly.

[DanaK]

20 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:

I did not like Nina's outfit today. The blue color looks great on CW, but the style is so ugly.

I thought she looked fairly good, though perhaps a little severe and not like her usual styling; I really liked the blouse color

[nilyank]

On 1/20/2024 at 8:00 PM, nilyank said:

Maybe Nina buys the Invader from Shawn.

Well I was close when I predicted this. I don't why Nina needed Valentin. She is wealthy enough to do this on her own.

[Daisy]

11 minutes ago, nilyank said:

Well I was close when I predicted this. I don't why Nina needed Valentin. She is wealthy enough to do this on her own.

 

easy. wealthy people keep their money by asking other people to spend theirs. (tm: Emily Gilmore, Gilmore Girls)

[YaddaYadda]

This whole Carly produced a high quality magazine is such bullshit. That monthly Crimson magazine was handled by Nina from start to end. All Carly did was send it out to the printer. It doesn't take a week to put a magazine together. 

I hope Joss will be off screen as she searches for her boring boyfriend. 

I skipped the Trina scenes. Knowing that Spencer will eventually be back takes me out of any mourning scenes, tbh. In any case, the way they wrote Spencer as basically a socialite made me feel like he was dragging Trina down. 

So Nina is going to work at The Invader and Alexis thinks she and Valentin are up to something when they're really not up to anything. And Nina is going after Drew and Carly via the magazine. I hate it when characters have nothing going on, so they just keep running in circles chasing their tails.

I wish Lois would go back to Brooklyn. 

[jsbt]

How on Earth is old-ass convict Cyrus now the Voice of the Night?

When do Drew and Nina fuck? That's the only heat this plotline has, deranged hatesex between two nutjobs.

[nilyank]

2 hours ago, jsbt said:

How on Earth is old-ass convict Cyrus now the Voice of the Night?

 

Ask Nina. She got him the show so that he would drop the charges against Sonny for beating him up.

 

2 hours ago, jsbt said:

When do Drew and Nina fuck? That's the only heat this plotline has, deranged hatesex between two nutjobs.

When Carly dumps Drew and I would say Sonny officially divorces her.

Edited February 20 by nilyank

[ffwbe]

So now Carly can be shielded from things by being above revenge plotting leaving Drew and Nina to go at each other while Carly somehow is the only one repeating any benefits and not suffering. I think we’re getting another setup of poor, poor Carly just in time for her to cut ties with Drew for her own peace of mind as soon as Jason comes back. Things are lining up perfectly so she coincidently won’t get called out for the fact that she never gave a damn about Drew outside of a Jason replacement and she and her mini mes will go right back to forgetting that Drew exists. 

[jacourt]

Maybe Shaun wouldn’t sell to Nina because , you know. 

[TVbitch]

When Nina bounced into Alexis' office with that big bun on her head it made me laugh, but she looked good. 

I can't believe we wasted 15 minutes on a wedding invitation mistake. What a waste of Tracy. And do rich people really make only some of their invitations "plus one?"  And does Tracey really need to be sent an invitation?

Sorry, but totally bored with Trina's grief and Hatman's, um, very existence. 🤣😇

[dubbel zout]

27 minutes ago, TVbitch said:

I can't believe we wasted 15 minutes on a wedding invitation mistake. What a waste of Tracy. And do rich people really make only some of their invitations "plus one?"  And does Tracey really need to be sent an invitation?

If Lois secretly sets up Tracy with someone I will be enraged. And Lois's judginess about Tracy not being nice enough to have an escort was gross. Shut up, Lois.

Tracy doesn't "need" an actual invitation, but maybe she wants one as a keepsake. And I think it's also a way to keep the general guest numbers accounted for. You sent out x number; so far you've received y; then you get down to who specifically replied.

32 minutes ago, TVbitch said:

Sorry, but totally bored with Trina's grief and Hatman's, um, very existence.

Same. Marshall's story has dragged. He's been in PC for three years, and we're only now getting some sort of resolution? At least he decided he wasn't going to dwell on the inaccurate diagnosis and will live for today. I can't take more moping. 

[ffwbe]

I mean, is Lois going to have a date to this wedding? It’s not like we’ve seen her with anyone since she’s been back nor has she mentioned being with anyone so I assumed she was going to be dateless as well 

[Desperado]

I really want to be distracted from my life and would love to have GH fill at least an hour of it, but too little good is happening and I have to mute most of it to avoid major second hand embarrassment.

Another month of this… ouf.

[Winston Wolfe]

12 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:

Same. Marshall's story has dragged. He's been in PC for three years, and we're only now getting some sort of resolution? At least he decided he wasn't going to dwell on the inaccurate diagnosis and will live for today. I can't take more moping. 

Did anyone else notice that today was kind of a Black History Month shout-out? Multiple Shawn Butler references, Stella's cringe-worthy "You is free" proclamation and Marshall's angry "I don't feel free" retort, it hurt my feelings as a Black man. Hey morons-in-charge, why didn't you just bring back Brian and Claudia while you're at it? And end with clips of Justus and Mary Mae Ward? For Fuck's sake!

Edited February 19 by Winston Wolfe