Dateline Port Charles: Random Axe of Kindness

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Liz's alter is Jizz, a skanky MILF who works the docks and the cocks of Port Chuck.

Is there any character NuDrew has NOT interacted with yet? MYOB

He should have kept the beard. Without it his absence of lips is bothersome.

Trina has been re-cast. Sydney's decision to focus on school.

Trina is the only actress on the soap who can actually act.

What’s your source, R4?

Never mind. What a bummer!

Imagine quitting this job *before* you get the chance to make out with Nicholas Chavez.

I hope they replace her with an Asian actress, just to show diversity.

Marcus Coloma CAN NOT ACT and needs to be sacked immediately.

Does Frank even watch this show?

[quote]I hope they replace her with an Asian actress, just to show diversity.

*snickers*

I hope they replace Marcus Coloma with an actor.

Loved the classroom AbFab moment.

Sad about the Trina actress, I hope they do a better job recasting her than they did Nikolas. But, I wish her nothing but the best with her education.

Also, has the other one gone subscriber only? I'll post on there to let people know, because subscribers have no way of knowing when it happens.

[quote]Also, has the other one gone subscriber only? I'll post on there to let people know, because subscribers have no way of knowing when it happens.

It's not locked just yet. I started this one a little early and posted the link at R264, but by the time the thread actually gets locked that might get buried so it would be much appreciated if you did repost it when that happens. Thanks, R13.

R14 Ok, just let us know when and I'll let them know.

I really want to know how drab, soggy Maxie (and mediocre, middle of the road Robin before her) always pulls all the best dick in PC.

R16 can Spinelli and Austin really be considered some of the best dick in PC? Nathan was the only one waaaaaay outta Maxie’s league. Peter as well, to an extent, at least body-wise.

Sydney Mikayla got into 14 colleges and is currently a straight A student at UCLA. I don’t blame her for wanting to experience and enjoy college to the fullest.

Meanwhile, Eden McCoy just signed on for three more years because God hates us.

R16/R17, during Kirsten Storms' normal-size and druggie-anorexic-size years, Maxie had quite a string of hotties, including Greg Vaughan's Lucky. Of course, that came to a screeching halt with Spinelli. but picked up again when she cheated on him with Franco and then again with Matt Hunter (Jason Cook). Nathan rescued her from a kind of "meh" looking conman with long hair, but he was still hotter than Spinelli.

Even when she was rail thin and snorting up in her dressing room, Kirsten Storms was never attractive. It was laughable that Maxie had a line of men after her.

Robin getting dick from hot young Jason and hot young Patrick is just frau fantasy.

Why R21?

Spencer looks pretty old to have just turned 16 last month (per his mother’s headstone).

NuJordan is such a dud. She just reads her lines, she doesn't act them, she's cold as a fish. And fuck me pumps to go walking through the cemetery? Seriously. She and Sonny seemed almost a little flirty at certain points. Maybe he'll take her to his casino and buy her a dress. Yuck.

NuJordan is a former model and not an experienced actress.

Maybe she'll settle into the role but I doubt it.

There weren't any experienced former Y&R or B&B actresses available?

Everybody looks funny staring up at Nujordan.

I’ll give NuJordan a few months. I remember thinking how terrible NC was his first few weeks and now I think he’s fantastic.

I thought NuJordan seemed considerably more comfortable in her second episode than her first. She has a good screen presence.

Maybe they need to make her look more like a serious working woman. Sometimes being a former fashion model is a detriment.

NuTrina auditioned for the role of Trina three years ago and made it to the final three with Sydney who won the role.

Hopefully, that means she's good.

Vincent Irizarry is going to be on Mo's State of Mind this coming Sunday.

Any chance Mo will use his clout to get VI on the show? I know Mo doesn't like any competition from better actors in the Mob sphere but as Dr. Hayward VI wouldn't be a threat to Mo/Sonny's fragile geo.

GH could use Dr. Hayward since Britt is the only engaging doctor at the moment. His history with Anna and conflict with Valentin over Anna would be interesting. They could cast Lindsey Hartley as his love interest as they have history together from AMC, it was when AMC was circling the drain but nevertheless.

Vincent Irrizarry play David Hayward on GH, but Michael E Knight and Cameron Matheson are playing Martin and Drew, respectively, not Tad and Ryan?!?!

It's enough to make some people's head explode. Just like when Robin Christopher was Skye, but Maurice Benard wasn't Nico, he was Sonny!

GH doesn’t need any new characters.

Maybe David Hayward took over at the clinic in Switzerland where Robin was being held after Dr. Obrect moved to Port Charles.

For all we know, he could have Julian Jerome there, along with Georgie Jones, AJ Quatermaine, Nathan West and Duke Lavery. And of course, Peter August.

[quote]GH doesn’t need any new characters.

I think an exception can be made for dastardly Dr. David Hayward. Great villain and actor who could wreak havoc on so many levels. Unlike the lame villain and cartoon actor WR.

Are we getting the resurrection of Courtney? God I hope not if we need a spoiler for Nik and Ava let it be revealed Rebecca (Emily’s twin) is in fact Emily. Be interesting if Ava finds this out and keeps it from him…

Well that's a creepy "Daddy"/daughter relationship.

The attendant who made the crack about Esme is definitely going to found dead.

Well that took a turn. Today was all kinds of weird.

Who turns out to be Esme's mother? Felicia or Lucy?

Felicia will be her mother. They had to have brought KW back on contract for a reason. I initially thought it was so she could be involved in some lengthy trial over who killed Peter but since that didn't turn out to be the case...looks like Maxie may have a new demon half-sister.

That would be a delightful Women's History Month story. As if Ryan terrorizing her for years wasn't enough - Years ago, he suddenly reappeared from death and raped Felicia and not only forced to carry the baby to term in secret, but to also give the child away. And she's kept it all quiet all these years (to protect Ryan's reputation?)

The last thing the character of Felicia needs is another daughter that she abandoned and didn't raise

So, IF Esme is Felicia's daughter, she's clearly younger than Maxie and Georgie. So, possibly during one of Felicia's many absences, especially in the years surrounding Georgie's death, she was pregnant with Ryan's baby, but never told Mac? Or developed amnesia about the birth?

Well, stranger things have happened on soaps. Viki Lord completely forgot about giving birth to a child in a underground city and then later forgot one of the twins she gave birth to.

Did Frank just kill a newborn baby for Christmas? I doubt he's worried about Women's month.

Wasn't Felicia in a consensual relationship with Ryan when he was pretending to be someone else? I know that would make Esme older but since when have actual timelines stopped writers from creative aging or de-aging.

R41 Ryan was a doctor, as well wasn't he? He could've stolen Felicia's egg like Helena did with Lulu.

Frank will bring on some One Lifer as Esme’s mother.

R45 If so I vote for Kassie DePaiva. She isn't on DAYS anymore and I love her.

They've been talking a lot about Courtney again recently. It's likely that Ryan impregnated her without her knowledge and she gave birth to twins, Spencer and Esme on the day she died

That would mean Spencer has been fucking his sister all this time; there’s no way they’d go there.

Yes, all this Courtney talk is strange. Character has barely been mentioned in the past 15 years, yet now they build whole episode around remembering her death?!? Spencer wanting to visit her grave makes sense, but Carly and Sonny both going on about her is indeed strange. Only thing I can figure is that Courtney will somehow figure into upcoming plot.

And why do they keep showing Courtney's grave with the death date of Feb. 20, 2006, when the episode is airing in early March?!?!? GH hasn't had so many preemptions recently that they're 10 episodes behind.

“Spence” will be on a new series on Tubi.

How can NC book a series when he's on contract? Isn't that the whole point of the contract so that the actor is always available? Wasn't the reason JPS refused to sign a contract so he could pursue series work? Finally paid off for JPS he has a Disney series now and will continue on GH as time permits.

[quote]How can NC book a series when he's on contract?

I was wondering the same thing.

Maybe he was able to arrange it so he only films the series during the two weeks of the month that GH is dark.

Alan Sarapa, the ugly idiot on twitter said that Frank did favors so Chavez could do the other show.

R27 I called it months ago!!! Some stupid twerp kept insisting she was Sonny's daughter, (and Sam's I think?).

^^sorry I meant R37

I think SOD misinterpreted the Variety announcement about Crushed, which just described it as a “romantic comedy.” It’s an original movie made for Tubi, not a series.

R51 Does that explain JPS' abrupt absence? He is sorely missing.

r57

Yes he's been filming his new Disney series Meet the Mayhems.

He is expected back filming at GH in March to be seen on screen in May.

So, mother of the year Felicia is leaving her newly rescued daughter, newly discovered granddaughter, and just released from the hospital husband to search for clues about Luke's death.

On a show rife with shitty characters, she is one on the shittiest.

I’m kinda new to GH. Has Felicia’s face always been like that when she talks? Is she a stroke victim? Bad Botox?

She talks funny because of a speech impairment. And too many years of speech therapists trying to cure it over the years.

R61 Yeah, she really should've stopped with the therapists. People liked her voice and it wasn't unpleasant, just different. But, you can tell she has had too much speech therapy, which has pushed her voice into being strange.

They only made Felicia a shitty deadbeat mom when KW had contract issues with the show. Those girls were glued to her in the 90’s.

And, I mean Felicia's girls and Mac are now safe, because of her, so she is feeling like Wonder Woman right now and Luke was special to her, too.

The plan was probably to have Valentine fly off to Europe with Anna for the investigation, but with JPS scheduling issues, they had to have Felicia going with her

[quote]The plan was probably to have Valentine fly off to Europe with Anna for the investigation, but with JPS scheduling issues, they had to have Felicia going with her

I would say that Dante went in place of Valentin, rather than Felicia.

Felicia being there served a purpose due to her connection to Maxie.

Does anyone think the old mechanic and his wife invited newlyweds Sasha and Brando back to their house because they want to swing?

I like tempHarmony, can they cast her as something permanent?

What's with all the temps? Is Covid going around the studio or something?

R69 A doctor, I know, was telling me a few weeks ago that we should all be ready for a lot of regular illnesses going around for the next few months as things return to normal, because they weren't able to spread before. He also said he expects them to be stronger than normal.

Nicholas Chavez—who isn’t going anywhere, he assures us—is really tall for an actor.

Maxie

^^well that was depressing.

So that’s how KStorms landed that Brandon Barash D.

David Hayward not arriving my time soon. Ok with me although I hope the actor is healthy.

Ok, the Cam and Michael actors are the opposite. Now that Cam is getting his good hair back, his acting is improving. Meanwhile, while I personally found Michael's longer hair attractive, he seems to be a better actor with his shorter hair. Also, I think he's been working out more, he was looking swole in that dress shirt.

I for one am glad Michael got rid of his Kate Gosselin haircut.

Chase needs to have a beard at all times.

At least BLQ got rid of the blazer. Hope she burned it.

Rumor has it that Chavez was caught whacking off in his dressing room by Miss Frank.

R79 Get a new writer.

What is the reason Mrs. Wu doesn't want Britt in Brad's life? Did I miss something?

Let me axe youse an honest question: who da fuq watches soaps these days.

Have we seen Jennifer smith since the funeral?

Could lucky be stalking Liz? Jealous she moved on?

Maybe victor uses the tarot card to get drew to stalk Liz.

I don't know r81 maybe she has some unknown history with Dr. O. or maybe she wants to use Brad for some secret plan of hers and thinks that Britt could get in the way or try talk Brad out out of doing what she wants.

Damnit, I really wanted them to just let Carly go full Carzilla on her ass.

[quote]What is the reason Mrs. Wu doesn't want Britt in Brad's life? Did I miss something?

I get the sense it is because she knows Britt is strong and has influence over Brad, whereas she wants him to be spineless and easily manipulated into doing her bidding.

Cam and Spencer looked like the before and after of one of those “milk does a body good” commercials from the ‘80s in their scenes yesterday.

Joss is more mature than Carly.

Is it still Mrs. Corinthos?

Anna is such an incompetent spy, although I enjoyed Finola Hughes speaking German.

R92 She didn't used to be. They have dumbed them all down so much over the years it is like the entire city has early onset dementia. One reason I actually do miss Luke and Helena is because AG and CT seemed to never let them dumb them down. They did outlandish things but they weren't dumb.

In fact, I have the perfect story for both of them to have one last hurrah. Luke's "death" was staged to allow Helena to kidnap him, where she managed to brainwash him with Dr. Maddax's system. They return to PC as husband and wife. Because Luke and Helena always seemed like while they hated each other they also wanted each other, like Batman and Catwoman. Imagine the wonderful soapy reveal as all of PC, including Tracy Quartermaine, are summoned to a masked ball at Wyndemere, where Helena and Luke reveal themselves along with Luke and Laura's seldom seen son, deadbeat dad Lucky who has also been brainwashed.

I really don't want to see Luke again. He hogged enough of the show during the years he was there.

R94, I’d rather see some Luke than any more Sonny, Carly, or mention of Jason.

R93 Dumbed down? They're in their FUCKING sixties. THAT'S dementia. It's ridiculous to have these old people globetrotting while playing James Bond.

Those actors were in their FUCKING sixties 15 years ago!

This board has a peculiar desire to see certain actors working on this show way past normal retirement age and literally dying on camera

R96 It doesn't matter about the age, the show now writes everyone dumb.

So, Snarly and Scummy broke up? LOL. Is he now with bugged out frog eyes? Puke.

I hate that these Temps keep coinciding with dramatic moments. TempMonica was fine but those lines would've meant so much more coming from LC.

Mo's baby boy on today.

I bet he becomes a regular.

[quote]Mo's baby boy on today.

Was he the punk trying to hit up on Joss at Charlie's?

r102, yes that was him.

Mo has another son?

Mo’s son is much hotter than annoying Spencer.

R105 You're mad. In WHAT universe is he hotter than Spencer?

Why can’t the show use characters we know as background? Yesterday in Tan-O’Charlie’s they had some day player working behind the bar. Why couldn’t that role be filled by the actress who plays Phyllis? Why do we see random nurses instead of Amy in the background?

Are Liz's parents really coming on screen?

They've been teasing a Jeff return since Franco wanted to invite him to his and Liz's wedding. Nothing ever comes of it. I'll believe it when there is a SOD announcement that Walt Willey has been cast as NuJeff.

R109 What if it is Walt Willy as Jeff and Susan Lucci as his wife?

^^^^That's what I was thinking too. Walt Willey contract, Susan Lucci a couple of guest appearances, Rebecca Budig another one of her short term contracts.

If any of it comes to be it will be for May sweeps.

I think actress Joyce Guy must be filming a movie or some other role right now, which is why we haven't seen Phyllis in a month or more.

Same reason we haven't seen Valentin since early February. James Patrick Stuart is filming episodes of the Disney + series he was cast in.

SL is too busy making money off her heart attacks.

Poor Vee, who’s in the biz, is so fucking stupid. He goes on and on and on but says nothing. Vee is in the biz, you know.

What's the rift between Liz and her parents?

Mo is over the top tweeting about how great of an actor his son is!

Mo is insufferable. How a guy whose acting is so choppy, sputtering and stilted while reading from cue cards can be so full of himself, I'll never understand.

Will his son be teaching everyone how to act just like he has taught everyone how to act?

Well r116, I guess the apple does not fall far from the quite limited and very deluded tree.

Mo is a great actor. He has the emmys to prove it. And his son will win an emmy.

What is the name of the artist the teens kept talking about? I want to look them up. Plus, I hate Esme.

MB said in his State of Mind with Vincent Irizarry that his son is "the next James Dean".

The guy is delusional.

I saw an interesting theory elsewhere that speculated it's not really Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Carolyn that Jake has been communicating with, it's some kind of a set up related to his time on Cassadine Island. It kinda makes sense, because why are they only reaching out to Jake and not their other grand-kids, they're suffering, too. Plus, it sounds like it's all happening online. Cat-fishy.

R122 I am calling it now, it is Helena and her captive brainwashed husband, Luke.

[quote]What is the name of the artist the teens kept talking about? I want to look them up.

It was something Molyneux, Richard, maybe? Don't think it's a real person, though. None of the art online for "Molyneux" fit the description of a bunch of squiggles. Highly unlikely they would take a chance on getting sued for badmouthing a real artist's work.

Does Mo think that when he is stalking around Sonny's penthouse he is playing Macbeth?

He may be shooting for Macbeth, but he's succeeding as Fredo.

Esme sneaks the burner phone into Trina’s handbag, in a room with an armed guard, in a prison. Are these writers on crack?

I’m sad to see Sydney Mikayla leave on such a fractured note between Trina and Spencer, although she and Chavez really made a meal out of their final scenes together. I hope NuTrina is anywhere near as good.

Agree R128. Sad to see the actress go while we remain stuck with Joss/Mini-Carly.

The whole ‘teen’ scene is dull. None of them are good actors. Chipmunk looking Joss is the worst. The others aren’t much better.

I wonder if Victor's thug Johann will go turncoat now that he knows his boss would have had him killed just to test Drew. And could fatass Carly have been a bigger asshole busting in on that scene.

Looks like the Blue Valentines thread is finally paywalled.

So now Carly has to be inserted into the Victor storyline? 🙄

R132 A Carly and Victor "romance" would be fun. Think about it, if they married she would be married to Ava's husband's patriarch. That I would love to see, plus we know the actor has a certain chemistry with slightly trashy women. But, I think the writers have forgotten how to write a soap that takes chances anymore. The Victor storyline is the only thing other than the teens, who are Victor adjacent, that I care about at all.

Bipolar Sonny and Nina are a flop. I loved them as Mike and Nina, but not whatever in the fuck this is. Michael and Willow's fight against Sonny and Nina just feels like a retread, and will only be worth it if they actually allow Michael to really go after Sonny. Who knows hopefully they made some sort of deal, and if that means we have to watch his son act I'm willing to accept that. Willow's whole birth parent thing, I don't care about unless it is a major shock. Sasha and Brando feels like a retread. Ms. Wu feels like a retread. Alexis was more interesting drunk or in prison. I am intrigued by Elisabeth and her boys, but I think that Victor will have a hand in it.

Basically if the story isn't tied to Victor or Esme right now I fast forward, unless of course a vet pops up. The only exception is Chase and Brook Lynn's romance, I completely love them and I hope they go on to have wonderful adventures. They remind me some of my absolutely favorite GH, if not soap, couples of all time, Sean and Tiffany.

Why didn’t Phyllis get a headshot in today’s opening? I call racism!

Maybe she hasn't had her photo taken yet.

So, what cure will Willow need that only Nina can provide?

So did they finally get rid of the Jack Urbont music cue at the beginning of the theme? The new opening theme music SUCKS!!!!!

Either a kidney or bone marrow.

Brain transplant. I mean it wouldn't be that much of an improvement but a small one.

WR at the GH Convention saying he's open to playing Peter's twin.

I may have to pull an Elvis and shoot my tv if his mug ever shows up on my screen again.

Wes is GREAT! I want him back!!!! So glad to see him at the show. I love Wes.

I think the audience has had enough of WR as Peter or a twin or anyone. The only one who wants him on the show is his wife or girlfriend or whatever the hell she is. She doesn't want to go back to having to support him.

Is there a new Y&R thread?

Wes gets to eat out Laura Wright’s snatch! How lucky is he.

r143

try this

NuJordan seems very uppity to me...Just saying...She gave an interview and she seems arrogant...Link..........In the first scene I saw her in (I didn't know she was supposed to be Jordan)--I just thought it was a tranny man and Sonny arguing......I really did...

Is it just me or is Mo more unwatchable than ever lately?

NuNuJordan is terribly miscast and amateur actress.

She's also one of Holly Gagnier's students along with Nicholas and Avery. Unless Holly has a magic wand, I don't think she will be able to do much with this new student.

She and Marcus need to go - STAT.

The main problem with NuNuJordon is her voice. You can usually tell an inexperienced actor from an experienced one by how natural they sound. An experienced actor sounds normal on screen, but she always sounds like she is "acting." It happens a lot in independent movies, Tyler Perry movies, and Hallmark movies.

She's not natural at all. I don't think it will get better. They need to cut their losses. There isn't another actress like Vinessa Antoine in all of L.A. they could hire?

R147, it is most certainly not just you. Sonny with Carly is unbearable. Sonny with Nina is pointless. Sonny should uh, ya know, be put permanently out to pasture. Now that Michael is starting to show some actual balls he could take over the family business once he buries Willow.

Sorry to see Sean leave, he is one good looking man.

Wasn't a fan of Mike and Nina and don't like the Sonny and Nina pairing, but this pairing does look like it makes Sonny and Carly as mere participants in other peoples' stories. So that's a good thing. In fact, we've already gotten scenes telling Sonny and Carly to MYOB.

MB still has a family to support and a wife with expensive tastes. He's not going anywhere for a while.

With Michael in trouble with the law for punching that reporter, Sonny and Nina will sue for custody and try to raise Wiley together.

R153 yeah, I don't see a judge, even in PC, taking a child from a Quartermaine and placing him with a bi-polar mobster and a known kidnapper who also has a history of mental disorders.

I actually don’t mind Sonny. He’s far more tolerable with Nina. I also like the chemistry between MB and CW. Michael is who I want dead.

End all things mob related. Let Sonny run Tan -O’Charlie’s.

With Sonny as the bartender, there will need to be warning signs that customers will need to dodge all of the flung bar glasses

LOL, R157

Bring back Brenda for a short visit and write sonny and Brenda a happily ever after…

I’m hoping that the citizens of PC soon find out all that Esme is guilty of (setting car on fire, locking storeroom door leading to the baby death, taking the sex tape, drugging Trina). Then Esme is found murdered setting up a good old soapy who did it mystery. So many people in PC would want her dead that most of the cast could be suspects. Of course it would turn out to be Ryan.

Would a Sonny and Liz or Britt pairing work? Why have they never put Carly with Nikolas by now?

Today, Cameron said, “Joss is Sonny’s stepmother.”

Hahaha. Whoops!

The young actors on GH are AWFUL!!!

My 90 year old grandmother has a blouse with the exact same pattern as Elizabeth's today.

Is Audrey coming back for a cameo?

R165

Uh oh is Esme preggo?!

Please recast nikolas before starting a new long term 8pregnancy story that seems like it will for sure involve him

Who has Esme slept with?

I don't think she's pregnant. She set it all up so Spencer will think she's pregnant. Like why would she have a pregnancy test stuffed in the very top of her bag if not to fall out at the exact right moment? Duh!

Then, once he believes she's pregnant, she'll have to figure out a way to actually get pregnant, so she'll drug Cameron and fuck him - or something like that, then try to pass Cam's baby off as Spencer's.....how long have you guys been watching this fucking show??

I always thought Esme wanted Cam...I think she saw him and just thought "fuckable" and everything she has done has been to get him to screw her. Or at least that's how gay guys think...

Shearoun Stiegele (NuAudrey) can’t wait for her upcoming appearances!

R172 What fucking species is that leather faced super fug cunt!

Ha ha, I sort of missed the Scoche troll.

R172. Please don’t start that crap here. I hate having to block people. You just got of the list a week ago.

Preview of Tyler Christopher's State of Mind interview with MB this coming Sunday the 27th.

^^I've been saying this for a year. They're holding on to this Nicholas until the real one is ready to mend fences and return.

r177 Well, there's got to be some reason TPTB haven't cut Marcus Coloma loose yet. Maybe you're right.

Please get rid of rat faced Joss. Can she be the next to be recast? Please?

Well I certainly hope you all are right and there is hope for a TC return and MC is just a placeholder.

I don't know how long TC has been sober but if it's been a reasonable amount of time and he's made progress couldn't he be accompanied on set by a sober coach? Couldn't they make that a stipulation of his employment?

Whatever the case, MC is a dud and has got to go.

I'll be anxious to see how Tyler does on his State of Mind interview. That should tell us a lot about how much humility he has gained and if he's really putting any effort into self reflection and personal growth.

I would imagine he did MB's show to display that to ABC, R181. They stuck by KS and her years of issues.

I've been watching the old soap The Doctors, on an off, and MC's Nic reminds me of the period on there when Elizabeth Hubbard had left and they recast her role with Virginia Vestoff. It was clear after the first week of episodes that she just was not right for the role, and it quickly seemed as though they were just keeping her on because of who the character was and they were hoping for Hubbard's return, which happened.

When are NuAudrey’s airdates?

I think the show is missing a chance to tell a good story that would resonate with young people. They are being all woke about the double standard without acknowledging that young men now face many of the same issues as young women. Joss wouldn't be the only one facing body shaming from the video. Body image issues are huge among teen guys right now. Also, he would be sex shamed because it was supposed to be his first time. Would anyone really want their first time to be taped and shared with the world as representative of how you fuck? Social media and sex tapes are not a female only story.

Are big buttons in or something? Cam looked like he was wearing a pajama top, today.

There is NO WAY that ABC or GH is going down the TC road again. Ever. They had to emergency recast (then write out) Nik in 2016--not the first time they recast either. ...Then (only a few years ago) DAYS had the same problem. Not even a pity interview from Mumbles is going to change TC history. VIDEO = Ava and Recast Nik 2016.

In case you missed it = Nicholas Chavez being interviewed. Off script and Girly..Chatting with some FemGirl Gay with over plucked eyebrows... Hispanic Prince is talking about his "chemistry" with Trina...I think not. Enjoy. It's short.

Well then can we get Nick Stabile back?

What's Coby Ryan McLaughlin up to? How about give him a shave and a new look and call him Nik, that man can act.

Anyone besides insipid MC and his amateur acting.

Agreed R184 but an even bigger problem with this story is the Josslyn actress. Much like LW, she can’t be anything but condescending in her scenes. I feel zero sympathy for the character. They need to recast but FV loves that girl. She just signed on for three more years.

No, my guess is LW loves her and Frank does what LW says. Probably next to MB LW has the most power on the show, maybe even as much as MB. I have no doubt in some form Peter (the actor, and I use that term loosely) will be back.

R187 I hate this lil FTM playing Spencer. Worst fucking "actor" on the show. She is clearly a girl and has zero masculinity.

Elizabeth is the only long-running character on any soap that comes to mind who's mother never appeared on-screen. I thought this time would be different however if it's just a plot point for this story then there goes that theory. I also assumed they'd trot her mother out when Franco waa on canvas to provide angst for Friz2 however that never transpired either. In August it will mark 25 years since Elizabeth first arrived in Port Charles so maybe her mother will show up by then lol or not.

R189 and R190 both can be true, well they are lol. Frank adores Eden McCoy however he is also known to fall out of love with his hires too, so even if he wasn't interested in keeping her, LW would fight to keep her around. The main reason why Wesley joined was due to LW feeling like she was being undermined when Frank hired Tamara Braun as Kim in 2017 (LW was in talks to join a CBS soap, reportedly Y&R when Jill Farren Phelps was still EP in 2016, while Steve Burton was still there. However, they had to wait until the fall of 2017, when LW's contract with GH was up. Jill was fired shortly after those discussions later in 2016, and Steve's contract wasn't renewed, resulting in LW resigning with GH. Frank knew of her plans to jump ship, so he had Tamara Braun in mind as Carly again if/when Laura decided to leave. Since she stayed, the role of Kim Nero was created for Tamara, Laura felt she was being "replaced" so Frank hired Wes to appease her) and Wes definitely may return as a new character months from now if Laura has her way (she also has a prime parking spot and Jane Elliot's old dressing room, which she had dibs on before anyone else could).

Also, Maurice "allegedly" pitched a fit whenever there were rumored plans to possibly recast Chad as Michael (he also said he preferred for them to kill Morgan instead of recasting him when Bryan left, as they had initially planned to do) so when or comes to their favorites, Maurice and Laura have been known to throw their weight around. Maurice is also the reason why Steve Burton was able to return in 2017; Steve wanted to immediately return to GH in the fall/winter of 2016 after the contract issues resulted in his exit from Y&R, although Frank wasn't interested. Nancy Lee Grahn even said at one of her fan club events that Steve was even willing to come back as a new character. It took Maurice going over Frank's head in 2017 to gwr Steve his job back.

If they wanted to be funny they could have cast Robert Newman as Dr. Jeff Webber (before he ended up on Y&R) and Kim Zimmer as Carolyn Webber.

[quote]Elizabeth is the only long-running character on any soap that comes to mind who's mother never appeared on-screen.

I agree, its a rare occurance, especially for female leads on a soap.

In addition to Elizabeth, we've never met Marlena Evans mother or father. Days has referenced them occassionally, saying they live in Colorado. But we've never seen. Not at any of Marlena's weddings or any of her funerals.

R196 Isn't that where Elizabeth's parents are as well? Though to be fair Marlena's parents would have to be ancient by this point, I'm sure they don't want the drama of being around their daughter that keeps getting possessed by Satan, especially at their age.

LW loves Eden. Eden has previously said that LW is a mentor to her and has helped her a lot with her acting.

MB is said to have really hated the storyline where Michael turned against Sonny. The storyline was eventually dropped to appease MB after he being throwing a fit about it. It been alleged that MB has some level of story control/veto power over the Michael character.

Too few hot men on the show.

MB says TC is a "great" actor.

[quote]we've never met Marlena Evans mother or father

Not to detour this into a Days thread, but Diana Douglas played Marlena's mother Martha in the late 70s and early 80s.

Interesting Tyler and Mo both said he burned his bridges at GH "for now".

He said during his traumatic brain injury surgery "Vanessa and Kim" came out to Ohio to see him. I'm assuming that's Vanessa Marcil and Kim McCullough. He and Mo both said they speak all the time, are close and spoke during pandemic lockdown often. Yet when Tyler came back to L.A. recently he was homeless living on skid row for weeks and Hollywood & Vine and Toluca Lake park benches for days. Why didn't he call Mo or Vanessa or Kim? He had a computer even though his phone was stolen.

Hmm, were Harmony and Madelaine, lovers? If Madelaine was really such a cold fish and always looked down on those she perceived as "the help," as Phyllis claimed, I doubt she would have been laughing it up and acting warmly towards Harmony simply as a co-conspirator in some baby trafficking scheme.

Looks like the writers are trolling us again....today's Easter egg moment was when Scott referred to Martin Gray as both "The Colonel" and that "Kentucky-fried lawyer." 🤣

NuTrina is just way too meek. She's definitely not portraying the strength or spunk or feistiness the character is known for.

Alan Sarapa should shut the fuck up! He’s an ugly idiot. NuTrina is just fine.

TPTB really do dig in their heels and refuse to acknowledge mistakes when they make a bad hire.

Takes them years, if ever, to get rid of miscast actors, bad actors and bad behavior.

Billy Miller's bad attitude and lazy acting went on for years before they put him on the down elevator.

KeMo's bad behavior is still on display after many years of sleepwalking. KSt should have been relegated to recurring long ago since they can't let her go due to BJ's heart or some such reason.

WR's cartoon acting got him a steady gig for four and a half years. MC is still there after two years of amateur acting that hasn't improved one iota.

Now we have a model with no acting experience trying to convince us she's a police commissioner. How long are they going to let this mess go on?

NuTrina can act but isn't right for the role, too sweet and demure.

Whatever happened to the good old days when miscasts were promptly shown the door. Carly #3 was only there for a nanosecond before she got the boot. It was so quick I don't even remember the actress' name.

Recast Nikolas prefer Tyler and recast Carly with either TB or SJB

NuTrina is good (much better than NuJordan, who’s still cardboard) but I agree that her Trina seems like much more of a shy shrinking violet.

OG Trina would be all "Hell, no, you cannot go through my things and take what you want without a warrant! My daddy taught me better than that. If that means you need to keep me, than so be it. Now where's my phone call?"

Has that FAT god damned slob Casey Hutchison weighed in yet! That fat porker is an idiot.

OG Trina would have had the same exact writing with the same exact lines. My problem isn’t the recast - it’s the incredibly dumb writing. You expect me to believe a 19 year old college kid didn’t notice she had two phones in her school bag? No testing for additional fingerprints on the phone? No one blinking an eye after Trina has said multiple times that ONE hot toddy served to her by Esme knocked her out for hours? Come on.

R211 Exactly, or Jordan acting like my hands are tied we must arrest her because we found a phone. No they did not have to arrest her at that moment. They can let her go pending investigation, it is done all the time. The writers made a lot of questionable decisions today.

R206 = Jennifer Branford was Lousy Carly from 2005. Those were the good old days when they booted bad recasts quickly....Who the hell thought SHE could pull off Carly...

Wasn't she the one who played Georgie Phillips on OLTL in 1998, the one who triggered the whole Todd taking everyone hostage because he was being blamed for Georgie's murder?

Didn't think the Harmony storyline was headed this way. Does this have something to do with Willow?

Didn't Harmony's husband also die of a suspicious drug overdose?

I want to see a “who killed Esme” story. Starting today.

So it doesn't look like a coincidence that Harmony has been working with Ryan

TempAlexis coming….NLG recovering from surgery.

Am I the only one who preferred tempHarmony?

R214 Yes that's the same actress

R213 Lol actually Jennifer Bransford was hired under deceptive purposes. She initially auditioned for the newly created role of "Drew" (which is a common practice in auditions to prevent leaks) unbeknownst to her, it was Carly, which she learned upon being hired. It came down to her, Sarah Buxton and Jamie Luner as finalists for the role; then hw Charles Pratt Jr. lobbied for Luner, since they're friends, however Jill Farren Phelps selected Jennifer under false pretenses, for Jill really wanted Laura Wright all along; however, she was still under contract at Guiding Light so Jill had to wait until Laura was free.

Prior to choosing Jennifer, Tamara Braun was asked to stay an additional six months (which was how long Phelps & Brian Frons had to wait for LW) which she declined (she had issues with Phelps, Bob Guza and even Maurice at the time, so she was beyond ready to exit). They also reached out to Sarah Brown (who had just finished a short arc on As The World Turns) for a six month return as Carly, which she in turn declined as well. An idea to have Faith Roscoe actress Cynthia Preston do double duty as Faith/Carly (with plastic surgery) was also floated around, though with everything Carly was going through at that time (leading up to & resulting in her breakdown) it wouldn't have made sense.

Jennifer was under the impression (along with everyone else) that she would be there for the length of her multi-year contract, when she was unceremoniously fired, she was devastated. Maurice even tried to save her job by speaking up on her behalf, however he was unaware that the plan all along was for her to be there only until they could get Laura Wright from Guiding Light.

The new cop with the soda was fine.

Rory, the cop, is on contract. I wonder if he’s connected to the Wu’s.

Random observation: I thought NuTrina was excellent today. I really enjoyed SM as Trina but she had a few acting tics that would bother me. This recast is great. I don’t understand them bringing Neil’s death up again with Harmony. Hard to believe the actress is actually younger than Herbst and Monaco.

Thank GOD old Trina is gone! This new one is fine. Now if we could only get a new Josselyn.

R223 New cop is cute lol. New Trina came alive in her scenes with Spencer today; she started off meek and timid like others have said however today she was more interesting. Old Trina and Spencer were the strongest out of all the young actors in my opinion although Esme actress is pretty good too. Cam and Joss are the weakest links yet they're still not as bad as other younger actors who've appeared on soaps over the years. I'd actually like to see Esme stick around lol instead of Nik they should bring in another cute young actor for her.

No offense to the actor who plays Cam, because he does look like he could be Herbst's son, he just looks like a little boy compared to Spencer. They really should recast. Have soaps forgotten the days when the used to cast 25 year old hunks to play teens. Nu Trina is fine, but again with the casting. How does Portia and Taggert end up with a daughter who looks like Trina?

Well, R227 Trina is probably going to be Curtis’s daughter so…

Ok there is a glaring hole in the sex tape story, why is everyone acting like Esme wasn't there so how could she have taped them? I'm certain Spencer has seen hidden cam porn before.

What kind of fucking mob is Sonny running? I mean could you imagine Nic and Victor just walking into any other Godfather's office like that?

R229, there *has* been pushback against the "Esme and Spencer had already gone home" argument, including Cam pointing out to Spencer that Esme could have rigged a motion-activated set-up or even just pressed "record" and left the room.

I find it harder to believe that Trina wouldn't have been fishing around in that sack of a purse for her wallet, keys, ANYTHING, and not noticed she had a second phone in there.

Why would the original Trina actress leave now? Just when the role was getting really juicy? Just seems kind of strange

Here R232 .

Are they going to do more with Brad than be Britt's gbf?

Spencer lazily putting on his shirt as he walked down the stairs to breakfast at Laura’s yesterday…fingers crossed for another MetroCourt pool season soon.

R231 Yes, I had forgotten that. But, the purse thing is confusing. I don't know any women/girls who would not notice they had an extra phone in their purse. Sonny told the guy on the phone to work with Spinelli, surely he can show it wasn't Trina's phone.

How did Esme get the phone back after she left it there? Did she return and break into a mobsters house?

Definitely a normal way to greet your grandmother for breakfast

Spencer isn't exactly committing to a six pack even after all these months. Brando has a nicer body.

Was the show on today? It isn't on hulu yet.

Spencer is cute but the body seems kind of lazy. At his age he could be in better shape in a few weeks and yet he clearly is just doing the minimum...

[quote]Definitely a normal way to greet your grandmother for breakfast

Seriously. At the very least, I would have expected an elegant brocade robe or smart velveteen smoking jacket.

[quote]Definitely a normal way to greet your grandmother for breakfast

Kelly Nelson was walking around in a speedo and shirtless in Bert Bauer's kitchen, 40 years ago. Spencer was almost overdressed.

R242 the old Spencer would have dressed like that. Did they send him to some kind of secret French gay conversion school?

[quote][R242] the old Spencer would have dressed like that

Exactly! Fabergé, all the way.

I prefer some natural looking guys on the show. Glad spencer isn’t jacked.

Spencer is getting fat already.

Have Harmony's and Esme's wigs met yet?

So the writers changed direction and made the seemingly-reformed Harmony an outright murderer. Such lazy writing when they can't come up with more creative storylines so they instead resort to character assassination. They did this numerous times on OLTL, the most egregious example being what they did to Marty Saybrook.

So now we'll watch as a 3-dimensional, flawed but sympathetic character gets turned into a one-dimensional villain.

[quote]So now we'll watch as a 3-dimensional, flawed but sympathetic character gets turned into a one-dimensional villain.

Don't you just hate it when that happens to a good character.

I guess they need a who dunnit for May sweeps and Harmony is the most expendable character at this time. Maybe she will reveal who Saint Willow's real mother is as she lays dying after Neil's brother shoots her.

R251 it has to be Nina, right? Did they ever actually do DNA on Nelle or Wiley and Nina or did they just go by the necklace? Maybe Harmony switched Nelle and Willow. I am interested in finding out why Harmony killed Alexis’ doctor friend, and I always wondered if that would be revisited because it seemed to be an abrupt and random death. To me Harmony has never been a fully realised character she is just sorta there for whatever the writers need her to be for the plot.

God damn! I wanted Harmony to eat out Alexis!

Didn't Cyrus order the death of Neil?

Wasn't Harmony just following orders because she was under Cyrus' thumb,? At least briefly she was under Cyrus' thumb

I'm also was thinking she did it on Cyrus' orders but then she looked so sinister in that last shot today. Nice lighting by the Lighting Department.

Speaking of interesting pasts, I'd guess that Neil's brother (Josh Coxx (?!?) has some International Male photos in his past

What’s wrong with Harmony’s eyebrows??

Happy 59th Birthday to General Hospital!

Debuted April 1, 1963.

Y'all? When did THIS happen? He's always been kinda sexy to me but WOW.

So I'm guessing we will be getting something BIG at this point next year, right? I mean they can't screw this up. It is a milestone that no other soap/scripted US television only show has ever achieved. Sixty years on television is big. I think I now understand why they have brought on Victor Cassadine, at this time, but why they are being slow in the roll out of his story. In anticipation of the big anniversary hopefully they will be mining history for the next year, which will include returns for a lot of characters for short periods of time.

I suggest they follow RC's lead from the 50th Anniversary show and keep that actual episode focused squarely on the hospital. I suggest that Monica be the focal point. And they should liberally use the GH memorial wall and clips.

R260 Monica, Laura, and Robert

I take it this thread is no longer the current one.

R262 They say this one is paywalled. Everyone is at...

Oh no. I’d have to pay a dollar…. I guess we have to move. Annoying.

Thank you for posting new link.