dubbel zout December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 John J. York (Mac) What performance on your show do you think was a standout this year? Haley Pullos (Molly) had some really good stuff when Ric died. I want to give her a shout out. What's been the highlight of the year for you, storylinewise? The demise of Mr. Marbles! Ventriloquism is not my cup of tea. Nice to know that JJY didn't like Mr. Marbles, either. And it's lovely that he mentioned HP. 5 Link to comment
TeeVee329 December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 I like that Vinessa Antoine was excited to work with Finola. 2 Link to comment
jsbt December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 (edited) This made me laugh. Maurice Benard (Sonny)What's been the highlight of the year for you, storylinewise?It's just been consistently good all year! Great answer, Mr. Contract Negotiations! Maurice has been keeping his head down for two years. I honestly do not remember Nikolas talking to Emily's ghost. Edited December 10, 2014 by jsbt 3 Link to comment
ulkis December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 (edited) I thought it was last year, but I guess it was January or February. She was telling him some bullshit about how it was Liz he really wanted to be with and not Britt ETA: Here it is, for anyone who's curious Tyler Christopher (Nikolas)What performance on your show do you think was a standout this year?I've been liking what Roger Howarth (Franco) has been doing. I'm a big fan of his. I like his approach to the work. Even the simplest stuff. I like to watch him. Tyler is really trying to kill the remnants of the tween crush I had on him. Stop it, Tyler!! Edited December 10, 2014 by ulkis 3 Link to comment
TeeVee329 December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 (edited) Meanwhile... Marc Anthony Samuel (Felix) What's been the highlight of the year for you, storylinewise?The resolution of the Brad/Felix/Lucas storyline when the realization hit for Felix what it was that he really wanted. It had nothing to do with being caught up in a triangle. He had that epiphany, no pun intended. You would think this wouldn't be such a highlight for him considering that was the moment the show basically gave up on Felix. I still wish, to this day, Felix had found out he was literally about to have his ass canceled on by Lucas and Brad. But no, had to show what a pure, honest, intact moral code Felix has. That's why he covers for attempted baby murderers! Edited December 10, 2014 by TeeVee329 1 Link to comment
HeatLifer December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 Even Ghost!Emily! ain't exempt from propping duty! Whatever, we all know she's with Zander, ok!? 2 Link to comment
ulkis December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 (edited) Also, I can't believe not one of the cast members mentioned the harrowing exploits of the Crighton-Clark storyline. la di da. Even Ghost!Emily! ain't exempt from propping duty! Whatever, we all know she's with Zander, ok!? Well, as long as it's NL's Emily and not Amber's. I hated Zander, and loathed her version of Emily, so I suppose if they're together it's okay :p Edited December 10, 2014 by ulkis Link to comment
TeeVee329 December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 Also, I can't believe not one of the cast members mentioned the harrowing exploits of the Crighton-Clark storyline. la di da. But Roger Howarth wasn't in that storyline! #sarcasm 1 Link to comment
HeatLifer December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 Well, as long as it's NL's Emily and not Amber's. I hated Zander, and loathed her version of Emily, so I suppose if they're together it's okay :p I'll take it. ;) Does the cast even know what happened at the clinic? Like, to put it in words? Heh. 1 Link to comment
jsbt December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 (edited) Oh, I remember that now. I think Tyler is just dazzled by the legend of RH's past work. Howarth was top shit at ABC for many years. He's Franco, get over it. You would think this wouldn't be such a highlight for him considering that was the moment the show basically gave up on Felix. I do wonder why they turned their back. They clearly didn't give a fuck about Brad for a long time and were ready to throw his development under the bus for St. Fee-Fee and Lucas, and then boom! Stopped dead. I can see why he finds it to be a character beat, but the problem is it led to Felix doing nothing but resuming his role as Sabrina's black handmaiden and now joining the ranks as yet another recurring, ignored minority player. Shawn makes sandwiches and does Sonny's bidding, T.J. is on a few times every two months, Jordan is at the whims of bigger plots and Felix is Sabrina's talk-to. Edited December 10, 2014 by jsbt 2 Link to comment
dubbel zout December 10, 2014 Share December 10, 2014 Thanks for the clip, Ulkis. Now I remember this. Ugh. Nik is such a douche. 1 Link to comment
KerleyQ December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 I'm just surprised that, when face to face with GhostEm, Nik didn't try floating a "hey, remember back when I had the tumor? Want to give it a try again?" 3 Link to comment
rur December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 It's always nice to have a week's worth of material that you can really sink your teeth into. (emphasis mine) Kind of sums everything up. IMO (and a tear rolls slowly down my cheek) 3 Link to comment
Ambrosefolly December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 (edited) From Ron's twitter feed @carlivatiron Help me wish a very happy birthday to @Katehallds AND @ScottCSickles! God must have been handing out great writing skills on this day! #GH Yeah, and too bad neither of them got any of it. Edited December 11, 2014 by Ambrosefolly 4 Link to comment
Francie December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 Oh, that was really good; thanks for posting. Funny, touching and well put together; he did a great job. Hilarious how he included a clip of First Brad. I wish KT the best; I liked her. I liked that clip. I like Parry (Perry?). Based on those clips, I could have liked Brad, and Brad and Britt's friendship. But I'm a stickler for characterization. And Bradley was introduced as horrible, soulless individual who was turned on by the idea that Michael Quartermaine might have sex with him while under duress and not attracted to his gender. He walked into a children's party announcing that he had Felix's balls "right here.". He mentions the Golden Girls and Knots Landing ad nasuem. [Okay this 3rd one pales in comparison to the other two, but I gotta follow the rule of 3 and, forgive me, it's late and I'm tired] So, still not gonna like Brad. Never gonna happen. Sorry Parry/Perry. 5 Link to comment
ulkis December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 From Ron's twitter feed Yeah, and too bad neither of them got any of it. I like Kate Hall; she is a decent scriptwriter. Scott Sickles . . . he's definitely turned in a decent script or two but he too often goes for the easy joke over history/continuity. 2 Link to comment
tvgoddess December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 Aw, now I can't hate on IB or MAS because of their glowing comments about Maura. Good taste, gentlemen. 1 Link to comment
peachmangosteen December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 Why did so many of them talk about the Carly/Franco/Sonny thing as being good? Poor, unfortunate souls. 2 Link to comment
OnceSane December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 They know on what side their bread is buttered. 6 Link to comment
mariah23 December 11, 2014 Share December 11, 2014 I just read Rick Springfield was cast in True Detective. Link to comment
TarHeelTeacher December 12, 2014 Share December 12, 2014 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-martin/soap-opera-update-general_b_6312042.html He never even mentions Spencer! See soap press? It can be done. 1 Link to comment
TeeVee329 December 12, 2014 Share December 12, 2014 (edited) I just read Rick Springfield was cast in True Detective. I can just imagine Ron's reaction. "First Jon, now Rick. Stop trying to be like me, critically acclaimed premium cable drama!". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ed-martin/soap-opera-update-general_b_6312042.html He never even mentions Spencer! See soap press? It can be done. You know who else is completely absent from that article? Franco/Roger Howarth. Edited December 12, 2014 by TeeVee329 4 Link to comment
LeftPhalange December 12, 2014 Share December 12, 2014 ABC's General Hospital and CBS' The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful have been in fine form, each one as engrossing in its own crazy way as anything else on broadcast television GH is in fine form? Since when? Freak show is more accurate. Everything else about GH -- for my money the best soap on television right now -- has been on fire, much of it due to the returns of a host of colorful supervillains from the show's past. Many of them are fascinatingly tied to a relatively new character, mad doctor Liesl Obrecht, played to striking perfection by Kathleen Gati (pictured below), who consistently makes the over-the-top doc funny and frightening without allowing her performance to degenerate into ridiculous camp. Dr. O is ridiculous camp from top to bottom. I don't fault KG for that because I'm sure that's exactly how Ron wants it. And how about Nancy Lee Grahn as power attorney Alexis Davis and William deVry as semi-reformed mobster Julian Jerome (pictured at top)? Without question they have been the soap opera super-couple of the year. (They are known online as "Julexis.") What makes their work together so extraordinary and their chemistry so profound is the fact that Grahn and deVry aren't kids, as most super couples, especially the sexually combustible ones, tend to be. They are both accomplished soap opera veterans with decades of work behind them. Grahn (a two-time Emmy winner) and deVry make Alexis and Julian more complex and captivating than any other couple in daytime or primetime -- and way sexier, too. When did Alexis and Julian become a super couple? They're fine but I wouldn't call them all that complex. All they do lately is argue and then Julian throws her up against a wall so they can have sex. 2 Link to comment
jsbt December 12, 2014 Share December 12, 2014 Kathleen Gati is capable of much, much more. Like most actors on this show. The problem is Ron and Frank think they are giving her an endless buffet of glorious material - which I'm sure she enjoys, day to day - when it's really just overheated camp and soppy melodrama. Suddenly Obrecht is the long-suffering mother and lovelorn woman of a certain age, while Anna is a "hypocrite" for trying to rid the world of Faison. Everything is angled towards Obrecht, and that's why it's killing her character. They love so many things on this show to death. 7 Link to comment
Chairperson Meow December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 I love that a big part of that article was written about AJ. Oh Ron, how sad you must be that AJ was a huge focus. Link to comment
TeeVee329 December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Daytime Confidential posted their 10 Worst Soap Opera Characters of 2014 list. GH is represented by Levi, Kiki, and Fluke: http://daytimeconfidential.com/2014/12/15/10-worst-soap-characters-2014/ 4 Link to comment
Chairperson Meow December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 The description for Steve Burton's new character on Y&R made me freaking belly laugh. Who is their writer? Link to comment
dubbel zout December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 I don't think Daytime Confidential listed the characters in any particular order, but I agree that Levi and Lauren should be at the very top. This cracked me up: Unlike, General Hospital, which makes a habit of bringing back actual villains from the past, recent Y&R regimes tend to favor re-writing history with abandon. The writer of the list must not pay close attention to GH, because we get actual villains from the past AND rewriting history with abandon. 10 Link to comment
OnceSane December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Daytime Confidential posted their 10 Worst Soap Opera Characters of 2014 list. GH is represented by Levi, Kiki, and Fluke: http://daytimeconfidential.com/2014/12/15/10-worst-soap-characters-2014/ The only thing they got wrong was suggesting that any version of Kiki did anything but suck monkey balls. 4 Link to comment
Cattitude December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 The description for Steve Burton's new character on Y&R made me freaking belly laugh. Who is their writer? Monkeys with typewriters? No really a large gorilla with a sledgehammer:( 1 Link to comment
Evolution101 December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 SOD released its Best & Worst of 2014 issue. Here are the categories GH "won": Most Entertaining Show Best Casting Coups: Donna Mills, Michelle Stafford, & Billy Miller Saddest Twist: Gabriel's Death Best Secret: Sonny Killed AJ Most Preposterous Plot: Jason, Helena, & Stavors Are Alive Best Triangle: Nathan/Maxie/Levi (WTF?) Best Breakup: Franco & Carly Worst Breakup: Patrick & Robin Most Entertaining Character: Spencer Biggest Lothario: Sonny Best New Character: Jordan Link to comment
Tiger December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 (edited) Who is Gabriel? Edited December 15, 2014 by Tiger Link to comment
magnolia11 December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Most Entertaining Character: Spencer Did they forget the "As Compared to a Root Canal" part of that category? Who is Gabriel? The Patrick/Sabrina blanket, er, baby. 3 Link to comment
Tiger December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 The Patrick/Sabrina blanket, er, baby. Oh, the towel that Patrick keeps referring to as "THAT baby"! I didn't know they had actually named him. Link to comment
Cattitude December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 (edited) Best Secret: Sonny Killed AJ This should be who the #$@%@ Fluke is b/c I think the writers have kept it secret even from themselves. The only person who was kept in the dark about Sonny killing AJ was Michael. Edited December 15, 2014 by Cattitude 2 Link to comment
Cobalt Stargazer December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Oh, the towel that Patrick keeps referring to as "THAT baby"! Otherwise known as ShamWow. Oddly, that nickname did not come from Patrick. Link to comment
dubbel zout December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Blanket dying was hardly a "twist," though they got the "worst breakup" right. Link to comment
Chairperson Meow December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Sonny as BEST "lothario"? For reals? How about best criminal? Best scumbag? Seriously, does Ron give these people fruit baskets? Spencer as best new character? On what planet is he the best or new? He's existed for a bit. And the whole damn town knew about Sonny killing AJ. Only Micheal and the Quartermaines didn't know. Ron, you lose. 2 Link to comment
Cattitude December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Okay I was looking at KSt instagram and came across these. One for me: http://instagram.com/p/vkWM5OTJGd/ awww.... and one for ulkis since I always bag on DZ hair. Now THAT is a hairdo!LOL http://instagram.com/p/vWIGO0zJEq/ 1 Link to comment
UYI December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 To answer Tiger, ulkis, and anyone else who may have asked, TG has seven Emmys in total, which is the record for actors at the Daytime Emmys (Erika Slezak and Justin Deas are tied for second with six). 1982 (note Constance Towers, then on Capitol, as one of the presenters of his award): 1999: 2000: 2004: 2006 (no clip, I swear there used to be one up... crap) 2008: And last but not least, 2012: Link to comment
Chairperson Meow December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 What happened to Justin Deas? Link to comment
SlovakPrincess December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Did TR ever get nominated or win? Link to comment
ulkis December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 :) I saw that one. Eh, I've seen it worse :) Link to comment
UYI December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 ^^No for TR (for either noms or wins), but here's the promo for Finola's Emmy! :) 2 Link to comment
SlovakPrincess December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Whaaaaat? Surely at some point he should've been nominated. He's as good or better than TG. Poor guy (unless he doesn't care that much). 1 Link to comment
LeftPhalange December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 (edited) Most Entertaining Show No. Saddest Twist: Gabriel's Death No one remembers THAT baby even existed. Best Secret: Sonny Killed AJ No. Best Triangle: Nathan/Maxie/Levi (WTF?) No. Most Entertaining Character: Spencer No no no no nooooooo no no. Edited December 17, 2014 by OnceSane removed slut-shaming language 6 Link to comment
UYI December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Whaaaaat? Surely at some point he should've been nominated. He's as good or better than TG. Poor guy (unless he doesn't care that much). Ian Buchanan has an Emmy, but it's from when he was on B&B, so I can't post it here. ;) 1 Link to comment
MSquared December 15, 2014 Share December 15, 2014 Best Secret: Sonny Killed AJ Um, it's not a secret when half the town knows before the son of the victim finds out last. I mean, by the time the truth was out, Sonny, Ava, Shawn, Carly, Franco, Kiki, Morgan, they all knew. "The only was for a secret to be kept as such is for two people to know, and one of them is dead" (paraphrased) 1 Link to comment
Tiger December 16, 2014 Share December 16, 2014 and one for ulkis since I always bag on DZ hair. Now THAT is a hairdo!LOL http://instagram.com/p/vWIGO0zJEq/ Bro stole my look! Actually, I guess I stole his cause I've been copying his hair since he ditched the shag (and JT, who I use to copy, started doing some wacko hair). 1 Link to comment
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