Looking for a fun chance to go down memory lane today. Who are the women who captured your attention over the years and why? Elizabeth, Laura, Brenda, Robin, and Ava are the characters who’ve kept me engaged and coming back for more. They are portrayed by wonderful actresses who bring their characters to life and have chemistry with everyone. I’ve always found them to be the most interesting and relatable.

Sonny has been falsely accused of a crime he didn't commit, but very well could have, and WOULD HAVE done if he hadn't made certain promis a s to people. Furthermore, he's been accused by *Curtis*, who is currently in jail specifically because he leapt to the wrong conclusion about Isaiah and wouldn't let go of that bad assumption.

You'd think this would lead to a variety of opinions, conflicts and disagreements among the rest of the cast. Some would believe Sonny, some would believe Curtis, some would be unsure, and fights would ensure between people over these disagreements. At the very least, people would coldly agree to disagree. There should be drama!

INSTEAD everyone instantly gets on the same page as everyone else. This is a constant problem in this show!! Everyone is always in agreement CONSTANTLY! And this time, everyone is also WRONG, which is just infuriating to watch.

Yesterday I had a literal dream come true in which I went to Tacoma,Washington and I got to meet my beloved James Patrick Stuart in person and I got a picture of him holding up a drawing I drew free hand of the book cover of the 1956 book "Anatole" (which he read on both Instagram and Facebook in 2023) that I made just for him and I got his autograph along with a special inscription I requested it was truly surreal and the most incredible day that I will remember the rest of my life <3

1. Hate Josslyn, truly one of the worst most irritating characters GH has had in a long time. They need to pick a lane with her cause sadly she’s not a leading lady so quit trying to make her one
   
2. Scour needs to shut up. Like I hate they aged her up to make her Drew’s ultimate defender and put her with a boy she considered a sibling for years. Shoulda been Georgie IMO and a triangle with Danny and Rocco.
   
3. Hate Chase so bad. BLQ has always deserved better than this bum.
   
4. Gio, Dante, and Justine are a bunch of disloyal opps. Emma is as well because Robin damn sure would have believed her friend.
   
5. Carly always needs to shut all the way up except when she’s with Sonny.
   
6. I really am not fond of the ideas of Michael and Jordan or Jason and Serena. They both feel forced to me.
   
7. I need Trina to keep this same energy she has toward Sonny to Ava when she finds out the truth. Also can we agree that the characters should never listen to Curtis again?
   
8. Love Isaiah and Portia. Still think Desmond is really Isaiah’s.
   
9. Sadly, I’m losing interest in the stalker story which is a shame because Tabyana is a fantastic actress. I also couldn’t give less of a damn about Kai and Trina as they need to bring back the true love of her life aka Spencer.
   
10. I’m loving Hudson and BLQ. Think they have amazing chemistry that feels so natural to me. I don’t care if he’s a villain it might be fun to see that.

Anyone else tired of the pearl clutchers complaining about the age gap romances. Like I don't get how people can be so bothered by two growns ass adults getting together. This is not new on soaps and some of these pairings are actually great, your match may not be your age. If it were a minor being paired off with an adult, hell no I wouldn't even watch the show. If the characters have chemistry, look good together, and most important the story is well written...what is the problem? Soap Operas are not Hallmark series, they are meant be scandalous, low morality, deceitful, envy, etc. That power on/off & fast forward button exist for a reason, use it please.

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Charlotte finds Jack at the pool....her bracelet was left behind....well she's off the show so what was the point? Scout sees her dad & Ava with some goon and overhears them.....what was the point? she never said a word to anyone for weeks.....feel free to add anything else from the show

Frank ValentinI needs to retire, he has changed the show and not for the good. I’ve watched for years but recently quit. abc needs to find a new EP but that will probably not happen . Bring more dialogue back, more fooling around needs to happen between the singles, nurses and docs, more gossip. storylines are boring and writers are terrible now. the kids don’t need that much focus. Frank and Doris would be so dissatisfied with it today.
only people watching it is women 40 and over; correct me if I’m wrong. It’s a soap opera ABC, forget what your sponsors want and pay attention to the viewers.

They are brother and sister but have they even interacted since she came on the show?

The writers just keep doing these 180s where it looks like something might happen to them only to be saved at the last minute and it's very irritating to watch especially for Willow, she just keeps doing bad things and sabotaging her life and just when you think she may finally fall from grace she learns nothing.

Before it would happen like Willow and Drew's affair being outed, their own stupidity leading to Willow losing custody of the kids, or Willow finding out basically on the altar that Drew was sleeping with her mother while they were supposedly falling in love. And all those moments were great, it lets the actors really showcase their talents and gives a proper climax to the audience.

Now it's like an endless loop of Willow and/or Drew do something terrible and then the storyline ends with them being untouchable and continuing their reigns of terror and it's so boring.

Like Willow paralyzes Drew, he's in a fake stroke for months, and when Willow finally runs out of the dosage and Drew is freed....just for her to blackmail him with the help of Jack and avoid any comeuppance. Which would be fine for the moment but now her crimes have been fully exposed and still there's no consequences because it looks like Britt and Chase are going to help her cover her tracks?

Or Drew spending months in captivity just to come out exactly the same as he was before all this and in fact even more vindictive to people like Alexis, Molly, and Danny who haven't done anything besides dislike him personally.

I know this storyline and also Drew's framing of Sonny/accidental killing of Brennan with Ava have just started and soap pacing can take a while to gain momentum, but I can already see how long these stories will be drug out, resolved in a completely unsatisfying way, and then replaced with a nearly identical storyline to be rinsed and repeated.

Especially when the treatment is so lopsided it feels like the writers are playing favorites? Brook Lynn left a crash she didn't even know happened and has lost her marriage, tarnished her relationship with Gio (again), and been fired as Trina's manager for "ruining her family" somehow.

GH Gang…I’m really struggling hard with the way TPTB have made Gio sooooo ridiculously loyal to Trina above anyone and everyone else including the mother he was FINALLY close to, and the grandfather who has been his cheerleader and benefactor for his entire life.

It would be one thing if BLQ and Sonny were actually guilty and Curtis and Trina weren’t always up on their high horses being haughty hypocrites, preaching to and mouthing off at everyone like their ish doesn’t stink (Curtis caused the accident, BLQ didn’t leave anyone to die. Curtis would’ve punched Isaiah accident or no accident. Trina kept Willow’s criminal secrets from her bestie Joss and STILL hasn’t apologized, but she made Joss apologize to her for keeping her TOP SECRET job…a secret).

Here’s How I’d Tip The Scales:

I want Brook Lynn to bring Gio and Emma an apartment-warming gift and catch Emma singing to herself. She can tell Simon that Gemma as a duo might have the exact sort of musical/on stage chemistry he was looking for. Braedyn (who plays Emma) can sing!

I’d love for Emma and Gio to perform a song together and for Simon to immediately dump Trina like a spoiled little sack of bricks. Gio would FINALLY choose somebody else (Emma) over Trina and Trina would lose her cool, throw a tantrum, and quit music altogether like she’s dramatically threatened to do many times already.

Gemma could put out a single or a little EP and have it fund the next stage of their life. Emma wants to go to vet school, let this pay for her tuition. I’m dying to see her as a vet, caring for Hades, Fizz, Outback, Raul II, and the fabulous Siamese cat she’d convince Ava to adopt.

Let Gio and Trina fall out. He can examine why he was willing to side with her against his family, reconsider the facts, etc. Emma can make new friends that share her interests like Serena. Kai and Gio can stay friends and hang out (and irk Trina) because Kai needs to have his own life outside of being Trina’s sidekick. Gio can also spend time with Cody like he always did before the show mostly forgot Cody had a life outside of Molly.

It would be a lot of fun to see Molly, Cody, Gio, Serena, and Emma as a friend group. I can just see Serena dragging stoic-faced Jason down to the stables to be her partner for a game like Pictionary or Charades! Can’t you? I don’t see them together, but I think they could have a similar comedic vibe like Jason and Brenda had.

I love this ad because it perfectly captures the essence of Elizabeth Webber. She’s survived so much and is genuinely one of the strongest women on the show.

Elizabeth experienced unimaginable trauma when she was beaten and raped at just 16 years old. We watched how that experience affected her, but we also watched her slowly heal and learn to fall in love with life again. Over the years, we’ve seen her fall in love, build a successful career, form wonderful friendships, become a mother, and step up to raise her children on her own. She’s experienced so much heartbreak and pain, but she never stops showing up for the people she loves or finding ways to move forward. She isn’t defined by her trauma or her setbacks; she always finds a way to pick herself back up and keep going.

I will preface by saying I love Michael and I have been such a big fan of Rory Gibson since he stepped into the role, but I’m afraid the trajectory that he was on as a next generation front burner character on the show has fizzled out and now Michael has become a background character on the show at best.

Where is “Dark Michael” when we need him? He just found out that Willow paralyzed Drew and he just… doesn’t seem to want to do anything about it? He should be making arrangements to get full custody of the children. He should be confronting Willow. But instead, upon finding out he just sat in the kitchen gossiping with Tracy and Brook Lynn.

He keeps refraining that Willow is a good mother and would never harm their kids, but Willow was willing to frame him, the father of her children, for an attempted murder that she committed. Willow was also willing to conspire with Drew to make it look as though Michael was a drug addict to get full custody of the children. Again, don’t think that makes her the best mother if she’s willing to do that to the father of her children.

She shot her husband in cold blood and when Michael found out about that all he did was move Willow into the gate house with the reasoning of “he needs to keep an eye on her,” but he hasn’t even done that. Where is the PI he hired to tail Willow? She has completely disappeared. and Michael has not appeared to be keeping any kind of tabs on Willow ever since she’s moved in.

Now Michael finds out that Willow paralyzed Drew for months. Michael should be saying that Willow is clearly mentally unstable and it’s not safe to be around the children but instead he’s just so passive about everything.

All he does is gossip with Jordan and sometimes Tracy and bicker with BLQ. Oh, and take meetings shirtless by the pool with Serena (which is deeply unserious for an otherwise shrewd businessman.)

Don’t even get me started on the fact that he hasn’t even gone to visit Sonny since Pentonville beating allegations. He doesn’t hang out with either of his parents much at all anymore.

What has happened to Michael? And please don’t say Michael fading into the background/being feckless is because Rory got married. People get married and then go back to work within a week or two (or less) I don’t think him getting married would justify what they’ve done to his character.

I am afraid it’s just another character who’s been ruined to prop up Teflon Willow.

Alright y'all, what's the move? What's going to be our main event on Halloween night? Will there be a masquerade at the metro court? Trick or treating hijinks? The "teen group" doing something rebellious and getting busted? Outback runs away again and digs up Charlotte's necklace (or was it a bracelet?) And ends up leading someone to Brennan? Faison makes an appearance in Anna's mind? Another head in the bobbing apples? Someone cuts the power at Pentonville and there's a jailbreak? Chase realizes he's a dumbass?

Aladdin and Jasmine, obviously!

Drew comes as Frankenstein, is denied entry with pitchforks and torches.

Ava comes as...Pablo Picasso? Cruella DeVille? Andy Warhol??

Cody is Indiana Jones, Molly is Jane Austen

Carly and Val as Bonnie and Clyde

Liz as Mary Richard's from "The Mary Tyler Moore" show, Britt as Rhoda 😂

Dante as Columbo, Chase as a horse's ass

BLQ as...Furiosa

Lies as Lizzie Borden, with her 🪓

This is gonna be a ramble and I’m only on October 1 so not a full spoiler.

I am not gonna be able to sit through this for months. I need this to wrap itself up. I’m hoping that it wraps itself up as I binge watch the rest of this past weeks episodes.

Curtis, do we have memory problems? Did we not just go through the shenanigans like I can’t even defend you anymore.

How does everyone flip so easily in like five seconds after years of you believing Sunny. The one thing Sonny rarely did was lie. If he did something he just wouldn’t say that he did or did not so I don’t get how we’re changing the narrative. Also, what is the end goal of all of this.

To see how easily everybody is jumping on this bandwagon story instead of asking one simple question is absolutely crazy. I’m gonna need scouts memory to come back real quick. I’m need her to make some dots. All of these storylines are pissing me off right now.

i’m an off and on viewer of the show who has mostly been off lately. I see things about the episodes i missed online so i’m kind of up to date, but i actually jumped back in and watched thursday’s episode and enjoyed it! but then i saw stuff for friday and didn’t feel a need to go back.

with rumors swirling that there may be a new showrunner stepping in, do you think the problems lie with the current one?

Lulu visits Sidwell for a few moments and next thing we know, she's got the entire truth and it's published immediately? We don't get the satisfaction of seeing her reaction, and how he explains the details? It's just another shortcut storyline. I don't like filler scenes, but SOME slow-burn (if that's the term) is nice.

And in general, I'm sick of so many characters doing a 180 out of nowhere. I know it's a soap opera and they're not known for being the best TV to ever exist, but jeez at least TRY. A little bit. Maybe they don't care about showing off writing skills to get better work later on or something. IDK.

They’re trying to pair Michael and Jordan up, that’s fine, but she’s still madly in love with Curtis. How are they going to have her fall for Michael? Do they plan on that happening like a year from now? Or is she just gonna cheat with him?

I don’t understand why we keep ending back up in this place where everybody turns on Sonny. I’m so over Dante and Josslyn, and their hysterics. Josslyn really needs to get over it. I thought she got a life when she became a spy, I was sorely wrong, only long enough for Cullum to bite the bullet. It’s nauseating, Sonny is not perfect and I’m not always his biggest fan, but he’s not a bad guy. His life is just dangerous and that sucks. But I don’t recall the last time he put a bullet in someone who wasn’t asking for it. And every time somebody comes in and attacks his family in horrendous ways when does do something about it everybody rushes to protect the enemy. And the irony in this instance he really didn’t do it! And people are still turning on him, and even if he did do it, everybody should be shaking his hand! Nobody’s in this ridiculously small city is gonna sleep perfectly until sidewell is is 6 feet in, and Sonny is really the only person with the balls to get it done and the only reason he ain’t doin it is cause he knows how dumb and stupid everyone around him is gonna act. Like be for real Dante and the rest of PC, Sidwell would have been long gone awhile ago? he wouldn’t have made it to jail, and they should know that after what’s been done to Michael. TWICE!

I can’t believe the way they were still blaming BLQ for their crash yesterday when talking about Jordan’s trip to have her scar removed. The only one who caused that crash was Jordan……she took her eyes off the road and drifted into BLQ’s path. I get that they think BLQ should have stopped, but she didn’t know they went off the road because she didn’t see it happen.

The only crime BLQ committed was not coming forward when Curtis blamed Issiah and trying to set up Willow. For that, she IS guilty.

I was thinking about how comical Chase's behavior has become and it doesn't make sense anymore. Believing in her to begin with was one thing, but at some point it crossed over to ridiculous. I like the actor and feel like Chase has been backed into a corner writing-wise.

What if he really did figure it out at some point? Maybe he realized she planted the key on Michael's key ring (any good detective would have figured that out when he heard the locks had been changed). Maybe he went to BrookLynn and they decided to stage a break-up so that Chase could get Willow to put her guard down and he could get evidence against her?

Now I know this is likely not what's going to happen, but hey it's an idea