Episode Discussion: TFGH

[dubbel zout]

Maxie, I hardly think Faison is going to kidnap you and the baby by knocking on your front door. FFS. 

1 minute ago, TeeVee329 said:

Good on the show for FINALLY playing that med school beat with Kiki and TJ.  They should have done that ages ago.

I'm surprised the show remembered TJ was pre-med. 

If Molly is so anti-Julian, she should study someplace else. It's not like Julian's bar is the only place in town with heat. Gah.

[Linny]

It's not fun to watch everyone ganging up on Ned. First his ideas for ELQ were shut down by Michael, now everyone is against him in the mayoral race, and it's such a lopsided situation that I feel sorry for Ned. I hope he finds out that Jim Harvey is up to no good and saves the day and gets back in everyone's good graces.

The poor guy lurking in Maxie's hall looked almost as awful as Valentin did in his old picture. Where did they find such a terrible wig? That whole business should have been scrapped in favor of more friendship scenes between Lulu/Dante and Maxie/Nathan, because the gifting of the bassinet and eating the cake was pretty cute.

Things I want to see Faison's hands do next: give himself a manicure, thumb wrestle himself, spell "Death to Sonny" in ASL, sign his autograph across his mugshot, knit a headband for his hair, shoot finger guns at imaginary targets.

[ulkis]

18 minutes ago, TeeVee329 said:

 a) Julian is still doing that lame "Ted" joke

That's just embarrassing. That's verging on Heather shooting Franco territory levels of embarassing.

Edited January 18, 2018 by ulkis

[seasons]

Laura was inept at interviewing Nelle - Nelle!

and now she's a pitbull taking on Ned? please.

[ulkis]

1 hour ago, MissL said:

OMG! I wasn't watching then is that really what happened?!!!  

Yup.

[TeeVee329]

5 minutes ago, Linny said:

It's not fun to watch everyone ganging up on Ned. First his ideas for ELQ were shut down by Michael, now everyone is against him in the mayoral race, and it's such a lopsided situation that I feel sorry for Ned. I hope he finds out that Jim Harvey is up to no good and saves the day and gets back in everyone's good graces.

Oh, I'm sure the friendly neighborhood SERIAL KILLER will be responsible for Jim Harvey going down, after he figures out that he's the one who pushed Drew down the stairs back in the day.  Fuckin' BOO!

In other news, Lulu and Maxie are already totally fine?  Way to soap it up, Show.

[Perkie]

The props department made a giant boo boo today.  Naxie are celebrating their first wedding anniversay, which means their wedding date is Jan 17-18 2017.  However, when Faison is looking at all of the newspaper clippings and he sees the Naxie wedding announcement, the date in the corner of the newspaper reads December 8 2014.  Oopsie.

Edited January 18, 2018 by Perkie

[ulkis]

29 minutes ago, TeeVee329 said:

In other news, Lulu and Maxie are already totally fine?  Way to soap it up, Show.

I'm sure when whatever happens to Nathan happens they'll be fighting again.

Besides, these two always have a fight where oh no will they not be friends anymore oh wait they are. The show needs to spread it around more. Oh wait, this show doesn't really have any other friendships between contract players.

[LexieLily]

21 minutes ago, Perkie said:

The props department made a giant boo boo today.  Naxie are celebrating their first wedding anniversay, which means their wedding date is Jan 17-18 2017.  However, when Faison is looking at all of the newspaper clippings and he sees the Naxie wedding announcement, the date in the corner of the newspaper reads December 8 2014.  Oopsie.

Oopsie is right. That's almost on par with Charlotte's birth certificate having her year of birth as 1994.

[Perkie]

1 hour ago, MissL said:

that is the only reason that AJ is dead.

The only reason AJ is dead is because Sonny can't control himself and he pulled the trigger.  Ava could have been wearing a cheerleading outfit spelling out KILL AJ and it wouldn't matter, because in the end, Sonny has no self control and he wanted AJ dead and he pulled the trigger, pure and simple.  

[ulkis]

24 minutes ago, Perkie said:

The only reason AJ is dead is because Sonny can't control himself and he pulled the trigger.  Ava could have been wearing a cheerleading outfit spelling out KILL AJ and it wouldn't matter, because in the end, Sonny has no self control and he wanted AJ dead and he pulled the trigger, pure and simple.  

It is absolutely Sonny's fault, but I think Ava cheerleading Kill AJ would matter. Not even as to whether it alleviates Sonny of guilt (it doesn't), but whether it assigns Ava of guilt, and imo it does.

[Perkie]

3 minutes ago, ulkis said:

It is absolutely Sonny's fault, but I think Ava cheerleading Kill AJ would matter. Not even as to whether it alleviates Sonny of guilt (it doesn't), but whether it assigns Ava of guilt, and imo it does.

Ava could be running around town yelling kill AJ every day and twice on Sunday.  But it doesn't matter if Sonny doesn't pull the trigger.  I mean, for crying out loud, how long have characters been saying that Franco (or Ava or Julian or all non CarSon ass kissers) need to die, need to pay, need to whatever, yet they're all still alive, because no one actually pulled the trigger.  And believe me, in Franco's case, I need someone to let go of their self control and pull the trigger,.  

[Auntie Velvet]

6 hours ago, TeeVee329 said:

I feel like they keep bringing this up, that it again makes what Ava did worse than what Sonny did re: AJ.  Assuming, I guess, we forget that AJ didn't die instantly, that he lived long enough to have his body dumped somewhere else and for Sonny to sit at his hospital bedside and order him to die and for his last moments on Earth to be spent with Carly.  So really, AJ suffered much worse than Connie did.

I also seem to recall that in the minutes after AJ was shot and lying on the floor, Sonny was pacing around going, "You're going to bleed out, how does that feel, you son of a BITCH," or some such heartless grandstanding. 

[ciarra]

2 hours ago, seasons said:

Today is fugly blouse day on GH.

They had no budget for Ava yesterday, who wore the same black skirt with 3 different blouses -- the white blouse with the metal chain "drawstring" being a rerun that she has worn once or twice before.  And she needs to burn that black/white dress she wore last week, with the empire waist.  It doesn't do her any favors.  Why they'd have her wear it once let alone twice baffles me.

[ch1]

Ava also tried to kill AJ while he was in his hospital bed.   IMO both Ava and Sonny can take a long walk off a short pier.  Both are horrendous.

[ulkis]

Edit.

Edited January 18, 2018 by ulkis

[YaddaYadda]

I imagine Jim will end up dead as some point in the story. That's got to be his purpose in the story, right? Be found murdered, people blame Franco because the guy outs some secret, and then they find him in some alley dead, right?

I don't even know what to make of Nathan and Dante with that handy man. The show could at least have tried to find someone who looked a little bit more like Faison than this dude. They looked like such idiots! 

[Oracle42]

6 hours ago, ulkis said:

It is absolutely Sonny's fault, but I think Ava cheerleading Kill AJ would matter. Not even as to whether it alleviates Sonny of guilt (it doesn't), but whether it assigns Ava of guilt, and imo it does

She also did more than cheerlead. She murdered Connie and framed AJ for it. She was counting on AJ either going to jail for the murder she committed or being murdered himself. Minutes before Sonny walked in the door, Ava tried to shoot AJ in the head, and the day before that, she'd sent Carlos to murder him.

If AJ actually had been trying to kill Ava - instead of the other way around, and if they hadn't immediately initiated a cover-up* - Sonny could have had a fairly strong defense of murder/attempted murder committed while in defense of others. Ava gave him every reason to believe her life was in imminent danger when she knew it wasn't - because she was trying, for the third time in less than 24 hours, to murder AJ. She was absolutely and intentionally culpable. She is just as responsible as Sonny.

 

*Which Ava wanted so she could continue to pin Connie's murder on AJ, and Sonny wanted...I'm assuming because of Michael?

Edited January 19, 2018 by Oracle42

[Francie]

2 hours ago, Perkie said:

The only reason AJ is dead is because Sonny can't control himself and he pulled the trigger.  Ava could have been wearing a cheerleading outfit spelling out KILL AJ and it wouldn't matter, because in the end, Sonny has no self control and he wanted AJ dead and he pulled the trigger, pure and simple.  

I hate Sonny with the heat of 10,000 nuns, but Ava Charlie Manson'ed that death.  Sonny should bear the full penalties under the law, as should Ava. 

They both share full responsibility in A.J.'s death and neither is one bit less culpable for the other's actions. 

[statsgirl]

It struck me that as well as putting Maxie and their baby in danger from Faison,  Nathan didn't think about Obrecht in his rush to get his bio dad. Now Faison knows that she hid his son from him Nathan's entire life.

12 hours ago, RedheadZombie said:

 

Was that a Silence of the Lambs reference?

A Nietzsche reference. Alexis said she wasn't ready to state in the abyss.

11 hours ago, Kim0820 said:

One thing I don't like about soaps - they promote the idea that you can cut the other parent out of the child's life.   Even though this is a dream, Sonny has talked like that before.  

Sonny talked like that at the beginning of the episode when Ava went to his house to see Avery and he wouldn't let her. He told Carly to take her into the kitchen to get her away from Ava.

[nilyank]

33 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

Sonny talked like that at the beginning of the episode when Ava went to his house to see Avery and he wouldn't let her. He told Carly to take her into the kitchen to get her away from Ava.

Avery's custody status is the dumbest thing ever. Instead of having Ava spend months whining about the little smudge on her cheek, she should had been working all these months with Scott or a real family attorney to get visitation/custody with her daughter. The only time that Ava has seen Avery in all this time was when she crashed the Corinthos kids memorial of Morgan where she couldn't read the room or in this case the park.

[statsgirl]

Ava also saw Avery when Michael and Nelle had her in the park some time before the fire and finding out about her complicity in Morgan's death.  Michael of course was all "Do you have Sonny and my mom's permission to see Avery? If you don't, you can't see her." Because even though both Michael and Kristina have been hurt by Sonny's mob ties, Ava is absolutely the worst thing that could happen to Avery.

[seasons]

2 hours ago, YaddaYadda said:

I imagine Jim will end up dead as some point in the story. That's got to be his purpose in the story, right? Be found murdered, people blame Franco because the guy outs some secret, and then they find him in some alley dead, right?

I don't even know what to make of Nathan and Dante with that handy man. The show could at least have tried to find someone who looked a little bit more like Faison than this dude. They looked like such idiots! 

Oh, I hope not. Greg Evigan looks great! He is 65 years old too! 

[Benji]

33 minutes ago, seasons said:

Oh, I hope not. Greg Evigan looks great! He is 65 years old too! 

I was just wondering about his age too. And Roger Howarth is 49. It is really strange to have Franco and Jim talking about when Jim knew Franco when he was a little kid. Greg looks terrific and Roger definitely looks his age. JMO.

[seasons]

13 minutes ago, Benji said:

I was just wondering about his age too. And Roger Howarth is 49. It is really strange to have Franco and Jim talking about when Jim knew Franco when he was a little kid. Greg looks terrific and Roger definitely looks his age. JMO.

I didn't know roger was 49. Interesting! 

And Greg has been married to the same woman since 1979. 

I'll have what he's having!

[Happywatcher]

9 hours ago, Francie said:

Not to mention being a First Amendment violation against the students' rights to free assembly.*

Or are we not talking about a public school?  If it's private, nevermind. Those institutions can have crazy scary ass rules without hardly any government cross-checks. In which case, WTF are you sending your daughter to a place that's likely to screw up her development with such overly rigid and nonsensical rules? 

*In anticipation of the Footloose question, the movie distorts the true facts a bit. A School Board can vote to say they won't hold a school-sponsored dance, which is what happened in the scenario that the movie was based upon. But a school board or other governmental entity couldn't ban dancing altogether.  Not in this day and age where dancing, itself, would no longer be considered obscene, and therefore subject to outright restriction or prohibition.  Any of these laws still on the books would get overturned before one could say A-C-L-  . . So, if dancing isn't, in and of itself, illegal, a public school can't punish a student for arranging a group of people to engage in the activity (hence, freedom of assembly).  Regardless as to whether the school has its own event on that evening. It'd be no different than banning an alternative lunar eclipse viewing. Or an alternative bowling party.  Or an alternative field trip to the local amusement park.  If the underlying activity isn't illegal, the School Board can't punish a student for gathering together a group of friends to engage in in. 

That's just stupid. 

The Bong Hits for Jesus Supreme Court case specifically allowed public schools to control the political and religious speech of students off school grounds, when they are released during the school day. Several districts have taken that to mean they can control speech on social media at all times by students. The lower courts are allowing this so far, because the speech is mostly against fellow students

It isn't that big of a stretch for a school to prohibit a dance at the same time as a government sanctioned dance. Maybe if Port Charles had more than two private practice lawyers and two corrupt DAs....   But Sonny and his complete power to seduce any woman at any time screwed that up for us and ran off an otherwise good attorney, leaving just Dumb and Dumberer

[Ambrosefolly]

5 hours ago, ulkis said:

It is absolutely Sonny's fault, but I think Ava cheerleading Kill AJ would matter. Not even as to whether it alleviates Sonny of guilt (it doesn't), but whether it assigns Ava of guilt, and imo it does.

 

 

5 hours ago, Perkie said:

Ava could be running around town yelling kill AJ every day and twice on Sunday.  But it doesn't matter if Sonny doesn't pull the trigger.  I mean, for crying out loud, how long have characters been saying that Franco (or Ava or Julian or all non CarSon ass kissers) need to die, need to pay, need to whatever, yet they're all still alive, because no one actually pulled the trigger.  And believe me, in Franco's case, I need someone to let go of their self control and pull the trigger,.  

 

Incitement is a punishable offense in some cases and places, and definitely be the case with Ava had mens rea and did want AJ dead. And she the fact that it is being argued that Sonny had a hair trigger when it came to killing AJ and Ava (and everyone in fact) was well aware of this to me at least proves she is even more guilty of her culpability in AJ's murder because she knew it was an excellent possibility that Sonny would at least try and murder AJ.  

[apbr]

9 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

Everyone is always worse than Sonny, even if they do the exact same thing. (Which they sometimes do.) It's one of the worst things about this fakakta show.

The GH motto.

I agree.  Everyone is forgivable except Ava.  Everyone gets away with everything, except Ava.  As far as Sonny and  Valentin, et al, all I can figure out, is that GH thinks that like Clay Allison, they never killed (or had killed) a man who didn't need it.

[ulkis]

1 hour ago, apbr said:

I agree.  Everyone is forgivable except Ava.  Everyone gets away with everything, except Ava.  As far as Sonny and  Valentin, et al, all I can figure out, is that GH thinks that like Clay Allison, they never killed (or had killed) a man who didn't need it.

Who has Ava not been forgiven by that she wasn't already not talking to in the first place? Julian, Kiki, Scotty, all speak with her. She's got a hot guy screwing her. The latter is more than Julian has gotten ever since the knife stuff. She's not in prison, her face is fine. It sucks that Carly and Sonny have their clutches on Avery but Ava's got a few things going for her.

Edited January 19, 2018 by ulkis

[dubbel zout]

5 hours ago, seasons said:

Greg Evigan looks great! He is 65 years old too! 

I wish his hair color were more natural, but he does look good.

2 hours ago, Happywatcher said:

The Bong Hits for Jesus Supreme Court case specifically allowed public schools to control the political and religious speech of students off school grounds, when they are released during the school day. Several districts have taken that to mean they can control speech on social media at all times by students. The lower courts are allowing this so far, because the speech is mostly against fellow students

It isn't that big of a stretch for a school to prohibit a dance at the same time as a government sanctioned dance.

I don't think this applies to the dance. It won't be held across from the school (where the Bong Hits for Jesus banner was), and the dance isn't promoting anything illegal (the court ruled the banner could reasonably be interpreted to be pro-marijuana use).

On whom did they slap that terrible wig and badly fitting jacket to play Faison? It's ridiculous. And are we really supposed to be surprised when he ultimately shows up? His name has been mentioned every five minutes basically since Jason returned.

I enjoy Julian calling Ned "Ted," but the way he constantly used it today is ruining the joke.

[RedheadZombie]

On ‎1‎/‎17‎/‎2018 at 3:36 PM, TeeVee329 said:

It was Megan Ward, the original Kate/Connie.  I guess Kelly Sullivan was busy?

Megan Word was awful!  She's been gone seven years, is now 48 y/o herself, and yet her character somehow became infantilized.  That voice was horrific.

[RedheadZombie]

17 hours ago, Oracle42 said:

Sonny was primed to kill AJ, because Ava set up AJ for Connie's murder. But he promised Michael that he wouldn't do it, and I don't have any reason to believe that he would have done it if not for Ava.

When Sonny walked in on them fighting, she started begging Sonny to kill AJ, - not because she was afraid AJ was going to hurt her - but because AJ was trying to tell Sonny that Ava had murdered Connie. In fact, she spent the entire next episode trying to convince Sonny to finish him off because AJ was still breathing after Sonny shot him.

Ava decided that AJ had to die because she didn't want to pay for shooting Connie and leaving her to bleed out on the floor; that is the only reason that AJ is dead.

So her sadz over her scars from the fire she set? Zero fucks. 

RC killed off a legacy character and effectively ruined both Ava and Sonny with that story decision. He followed that up with Avery's conception, Carly/Franco and Fluke - amongst other terrible storylines. He should've been fired sooner. 

Was he also behind Connie's drawer-baby?

[RedheadZombie]

I'm enjoying this gentrification/mayoral run story line, and it seems I'm the only one.  This is a real story that happens to real people everywhere.  No mob business, no faceless wig coming back from the dead for the umpteenth time.  No which monster is the baby daddy, Sam and Jason gazing longingly at each other in their monosyllabic, low talking way.  No serial killer boyfriend, narcissistic obsession with a facial imperfection.  Instead, we have Molly and TJ - the most functional and healthy relationship on the show.  We have Laura and Alexis - two women in their fifties looking to serve the community.  Another fifty-something, Ned, offering an alternative (wrong) side to gentrification.  Laura has always cared about the community and people, and Ned is used to holding and seeking power.  Kevin will probably get involved at some point, and everyone seems to love that character.  All seasoned actors who've been on the show for years.  The most hated here - Carly, Sonny, Jason, Franco, excluded.  Win/Win in my opinion.

I'm probably wrong, but I thought the issue with the school dance wasn't holding an alternative dance, but deliberately attempting to block a school event.  I believe Oscar and Joss both openly acknowledged they were trying to shut down the school event by having everyone attend their alternative dance.

11 hours ago, Linny said:

It's not fun to watch everyone ganging up on Ned. First his ideas for ELQ were shut down by Michael, now everyone is against him in the mayoral race, and it's such a lopsided situation that I feel sorry for Ned. I hope he finds out that Jim Harvey is up to no good and saves the day and gets back in everyone's good graces.

The poor guy lurking in Maxie's hall looked almost as awful as Valentin did in his old picture. Where did they find such a terrible wig? That whole business should have been scrapped in favor of more friendship scenes between Lulu/Dante and Maxie/Nathan, because the gifting of the bassinet and eating the cake was pretty cute.

Things I want to see Faison's hands do next: give himself a manicure, thumb wrestle himself, spell "Death to Sonny" in ASL, sign his autograph across his mugshot, knit a headband for his hair, shoot finger guns at imaginary targets.

It didn't bother me at all.  It's exactly the opinions I would expect from someone like Ned.  I hope Laura wins.  The last thing the world needs is another trust fund baby millionaire holding political power.

[Oracle42]

8 hours ago, RedheadZombie said:

Was he also behind Connie's drawer-baby?

Yup. He transformed Kate Howard from a successful, intelligent, self-made businesswoman into a loony tunes rape-victim whose success was entirely due to the alternate personality she created when she had a rape baby and left him in a drawer in a motel.

I think while he was writing the only woman with any career aspirations was Kristina, and she wanted to be a reality TV star

Edited January 19, 2018 by Oracle42

[Francie]

10 hours ago, Happywatcher said:

The Bong Hits for Jesus Supreme Court case specifically allowed public schools to control the political and religious speech of students off school grounds, when they are released during the school day. Several districts have taken that to mean they can control speech on social media at all times by students. The lower courts are allowing this so far, because the speech is mostly against fellow students

It isn't that big of a stretch for a school to prohibit a dance at the same time as a government sanctioned dance. Maybe if Port Charles had more than two private practice lawyers and two corrupt DAs....   But Sonny and his complete power to seduce any woman at any time screwed that up for us and ran off an otherwise good attorney, leaving just Dumb and Dumberer

Yes, I know the Bong HIts for Jesus case.  For everyone else, a school back in the 1960s or 70s* had a race that led students around the permiter of the school. A student stood on the opposite side of the street with a banner than read “Bong Hits for Jesus.” The school disciplined the student. The student said, “Hey, I’m not on school grounds.” The court said, “Your actions brought drama onto school grounds caused a substantial disruption there.”  Today, we see these kinds of cases all the time when it comes to students engaged in social media activities at home.  Is their conduct reaching school grounds in that students are accessing the information there and creating disruptions in the classroom?  These cases are very fact specific. And more often than not, the conduct is not deemed a substantial disruption to the school, and the conduct is unpunishable. 

A dance is neither political nor religious speech.  And, while interpretative or dance made with the intention of making a statement may be speech, it’s not inherently speech, and that’s why my post focused on assembly.  You can’t tell people they can’t hang out together because the school is doing something.  Imagine if the school attempted to apply this to a basketball game (son, you’re suspended because you and your friends organized a 3-on-3 tournament down at the playground). Or, again, a school-sponsored bowling night. 

Put simply, it doesn’t pass the smell test.  It’s an ACLU lawsuit waiting to happen.  What constitutes a violation for the policy? People hanging out to play dancing video games? And does head bobbing count? 

By the way, to bring religion into this, so a student can’t have a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah on school dance days under this policy? Or are religious exemptions built in?  

It’s a ridiculous stretch of a school’s authority.  

14 hours ago, statsgirl said:

A Nietzsche reference. Alexis said she wasn't ready to state in the abyss.

 

I thought that “was he the great big, fat one” was a reference to Silence of the Lambs, too.  One of Jame Gunn’s lines. 

 

*I looked it up after this post, and had the time period wrong. It’s a 2007 case (I was confusing the date with the seminal school speech case, Tinker). The race was actually the 2002 torch relay.  But the rest of my post still stands. 

Edited January 19, 2018 by Francie
Correction of fact

[Kim0820]

12 hours ago, Benji said:

I was just wondering about his age too. And Roger Howarth is 49. It is really strange to have Franco and Jim talking about when Jim knew Franco when he was a little kid. Greg looks terrific and Roger definitely looks his age. JMO.

 

16 years is a good soap parent/child age gap.  SORAS causes it.  The world record was 5 years on B&B where Jack Wagner's character's mother was played by Leslie (Can't think of last name) who was only 5 years old than he.  

[fishcakes]

18 minutes ago, Kim0820 said:

The world record was 5 years on B&B where Jack Wagner's character's mother was played by Leslie (Can't think of last name) who was only 5 years old than he.

I think GH has the world record. Jed Allan, playing Edward Quartermaine, was one month younger than Stuart Damon who played Alan.

[Cheyanne11]

I HATE this mayoral race storyline.  Where's the candidate who wants to rejuvenate a rundown old neighborhood yet also provide affordable housing?  No, instead we have Ned who wants high-rises and Laura who seems not to care of the awful condition of the buildings because Mary Mae! history! blah de blah blah!  I find both choices, and their arguments, insufferable.  

Also, shut up, Molly.  She's acting more and more Kristina-like and it's not in the least bit appealing.

[TeeVee329]

Previews...hey, the show remembered that Faison is ANNA's arch-nemesis, not Sonny's or Jason's or Nathan's. #eyeroll  And yesss to Anna and Dr. O squaring off, it's been too long!

[dubbel zout]

11 hours ago, RedheadZombie said:

I'm probably wrong, but I thought the issue with the school dance wasn't holding an alternative dance, but deliberately attempting to block a school event.  I believe Oscar and Joss both openly acknowledged they were trying to shut down the school event by having everyone attend their alternative dance.

Unless the dance is a required school event, students can choose whether to attend. The show is wading into social issues and doing it very, very badly, as usual.

[LexieLily]

Did Genie quit or is this one of her breaks? This hasty re-write to get her off the canvas makes no sense. Poor Jon Lindstrom barely gets anything to do as it is, why leave him in Port Charles and not have Kevin go to Spencer with Laura to support his new wife?

[TeeVee329]

Huh?  The Dr. O/Faison retcons make even less sense after today.  So Dr. O said Faison only wanted a son if it was with Anna (which, hey, Caesar, ever heard of a condom?) and sent the other random son *coughPeterAugustcough* off to boarding school and basically ignored him, just like he did with Britt.  So why would it matter whether she told Faison about Nathan?  He wouldn't have taken any interest.  And thusly, why would he take an interest now?  Am I missing something?

But Dr. O Uber-ing to Anna's all sloshed was kinda fun.  And I was all excited about busting out the fierce hats for a Anna/Dr. O team-up, but naturally, this awful show had super spy Anna go running to Sonny for help.  Ew ew EW!

I guess Genie Francis is taking a break?  Hence stupid Spencer's off-screen accident and her urging Kevin to run for mayor in place?  And oh my sweet Kevin, thinking a serial killer in the family would be a knock on a mayoral campaign given a different SERIAL KILLER is the town's sweetheart, blech.  I kinda wanted him to agree to run and then have Lucy step in as his campaign manager, would have been so soapy!

Edited January 19, 2018 by TeeVee329

[TVbitch]

OMG, I don't know if I will survive the mayoral race/gentrification storyline. Just when you think GH has reached the total bottom level of boring, it turns out to have an underground garage. 

[ulkis]

There was a rumor going around that she quit. I guess it's true. I don't think it's a break because it wouldn't make sense to write this mayor stuff and then have her all of a sudden have to go to Spencer.

[TeeVee329]

1 minute ago, ulkis said:

There was a rumor going around that she quit. I guess it's true. I don't think it's a break because it wouldn't make sense to write this mayor stuff and then have her all of a sudden have to go to Spencer.

Oh that's right.  Uh oh!

And if that's true, we better keep custody of Kevin!

[Linny]

Kathleen Gati was so good today. Her drunk Liesl had the attitude of a cat who had been left out in the rain and was now pissed at the world for suffering such an indignity. I don't even care that her knowledge of Faison's other son is a clear last-minute revision because she sold it well, and the show is at least making an effort to justify her decision to hide Nathan's paternity.

Kim works better with Julian than Jason IMO, but I could have done without Julian looking down his nose at Jason for being in the mob. All of Julian's victims are turning over in their graves at his implication that he's morally superior to Jason.

Is Kevin really replacing Laura as candidate or are we just going to pull another name out of a hat next week? I don't like this storyline but it sucks for Laura that fucking Spencer has derailed her ambitions.

I'm so tired of the show relying on the JaSam theme music and decades old clips to try to play to our emotions in place of Steve Burton actually emoting any love or longing for Sam. 

[LexieLily]

9 minutes ago, ulkis said:

There was a rumor going around that she quit. I guess it's true. I don't think it's a break because it wouldn't make sense to write this mayor stuff and then have her all of a sudden have to go to Spencer.

And this is her grand exit story? Tracy's exit story was dumb as hell and nonsensical but she got one and it lasted a few weeks. 

[dubbel zout]

2 minutes ago, ulkis said:

There was a rumor going around that she quit. I guess it's true. I don't think it's a break because it wouldn't make sense to write this mayor stuff and then have her all of a sudden have to go to Spencer.

Wow. The mayoral race is a decent story for Laura, though of course we're grading on a curve.

8 minutes ago, TeeVee329 said:

But Dr. O Uber-ing to Anna's all sloshed was kinda fun. 

"I'm an adult. *blows raspberry*" Hee. 

3 minutes ago, Linny said:

I'm so tired of the show relying on the JaSam theme music and decades old clips to try to play to our emotions in place of Steve Burton actually emoting any love or longing for Sam. 

Ugh, that music. I HATE it. In a weird way, I kind of admire the show for so brazenly refusing to write all the soapiness of this story. 

[ulkis]

7 minutes ago, Linny said:

I'm so tired of the show relying on the JaSam theme music and decades old clips to try to play to our emotions in place of Steve Burton actually emoting any love or longing for Sam. 

Mileage varies, but I think he has been doing that quite a bit.

[TeeVee329]

3 minutes ago, LexieLily said:

And this is her grand exit story? Tracy's exit story was dumb as hell and nonsensical but she got one and it lasted a few weeks. 

If she did quit, it must have been very abrupt given, like ulkis said, all this set-up about her running for mayor.