#he would have fallen in absolute love with OG Soap’s character I just know it

[rip-cod-brainrot]

The weirdest part of getting into this fandom is knowing I have a younger brother that would totally have been into the original series if we had been able to figure out how to make it work on the Wii.

Why is it weird?

My bro’s name is also John.

[jjohnson217]

GH Rant

I haven't really spoken much on GH lately, mostly because I wanted to let things play out a bit before commenting. I know what I'm enjoying (GHToo, Alexis in therapy) so I don't have much to say about that. But there's so much that I don't like, so I'd like to vent a bit. 

First, Friz. I’ve come to terms with the fact that RoHo and RH are absolutely adorable together. They have great chemistry, imo, and they play very well off of each other. I hate that it is Franco, but love them when I forget who he is. They were the first step, in the past month or so, to me breaking all of my FF ties and accepting characters as they are. One thing I’ve seen is that people hate his insecurities, and find it annoying. I get it, but also, I like that it isn’t Liz that is written that way, when they very well could. Insecurites in men, especially men as damaged as Franco is, make sense. The guy was cheated on by the first person who loved him even knowing what he did to those they are close to, and Nina had different aims when it came to parenthood, which was totally her right. He sees Elizabeth as this perfect person who has made mistakes, but he doesn’t think that those mistakes take away from her in his eyes. Can he help that he sees her as perfect? No, and that has to be intimidating for him since he sees himself as completely opposite. I just wish they would have had him continue seeing Kevin, even offscreen, to work on those insecurities. I like that Elizabeth has found her own stability, too. When she and Franco were apart(didn’t last long but still) she didn’t break down. She didn’t whine about him not being there, or waffle on the decision. She knew that they both needed time and she did what she needed. I actually think I can grow to like Elizabeth as a character and not just as part of a couple. Right now, my appreciation for Franco is in his relationships with Liz and Kiki. 

Peter. Sucks. I like Obrecht, but I wish she would take one for the team and kill him. Sooner rather than later. 

Grava/Griki is stupid and gross. Griffin can leave now. 

Oscar is boring. Joss is boring, but has potential now that she’s a little klepto, and the actor playing Cam is a bit,,robotic. but I’ll give him a chance because OMG THEY AGED CAM. 

The mob story is so boring. The Alzheimer story is now tertiary, because the mob story is secondary to Carly’s story. 

Dante is gone and DZ’s send off was not well done. 

This Carly thing is...okay. I’m actually starting to like the way they have Nelle because it’s consistent, and Michael isn’t being blinded by her. It makes me sad that CL is leaving now because I’m starting to enjoy her. I like that they had Kevin talk to Carly about her relationship with Jason. A lot of the interaction between Jason and Carly seems borderline romantic to me. The hands against the window between them, the way Jason talks about Carly, the way Carly talks about Jason, and the lengths that Jason is going to for her, but unless they are making Jarly happen again, then it is ridiculous. Jason is supposed to be so in love with Sam, but all he talks to Sam about is Carly. He doesn’t ask how she is, or what’s going on with her. Other than today’s episode, they haven’t spoken about something other than Carly or Peter since she told him she loved him. Which brings me to my next point.

The triangle. Now, I get that to have a love triangle, you need three people. Jason, Sam, Drew. They all interacted, until the Nurses Ball, then there was nothing between her and Drew. At all. Which makes no sense. Jason was always around, but now that Sam and Drew decided to get divorced, they can’t find their way into the same room at the same time if the both were programmed to sit in a room and not leave. Why? Some would say that it’s because Drew and Sam aren’t the story, others would say that BM and KM have too much chemistry. I think that these writers just don’t write women well. Here’s why I break it down to that. Sam’s finding herself has been narrowed down to being a PI. Not being a mom, because you rarely hear or see that. Not being a daughter or sister or friend. But being a PI. I love PI Sam. I like that she has her own career. What I don’t like is that they had to write Sam as someone who was forced into doing something she didn’t really want to because Jason suggested it, then, once she found out it wasn’t Jason, it wasn’t good enough, or who she is. And now that Jason is back, and he’s fallen back into his 2012 sized space in the Corinthos Clan, Sam has to fall back into her box from when she was with him last. The PI who only did PI stuff on screen if it had to do with Jason. At McCall and Jackal, she had multiple cases at once, but now she only works on finding Peter, and helps Jason on the side. Why? Because that is all these writers can think of when it comes to characterizing Sam. This is what happens to her when she is with Jason, even when BM was Jason. His opinion becomes her end all be all, her ability to fit into her slot in his life is the most important, and everything else tends to become secondary. The only reason I didn't mind it as much with BM was because NuJ did what I always wanted OG to do: put Sam first. People can argue with me all day about that, but the truth of it is that Sam has only come before Sonny once and Carly never. Jason just got done telling Sam that he would take Carly and run to Canada. So, yeah NuJasam was super co-dependent, but it was co-dependent on BOTH sides. Unhealthy? Yes, but it’s a soap so unhealthy is a bit expected. Jasam has made Sam put Jason on a pedestal and Jason put Sam as an equal, which normally would be fine, but since he sees himself as less important that Carly and Michael and Sonny and Elizabeth and whoever else is “a friend” who “was there for him” at some hard time in his life and he “owes it to them” and keeps that gratitude for life, no matter what they do to him and his. (Yes, I am still mad that Jason has said nothing to Elizabeth about what she did to Sam and Danny, but actually threatened Sam with jail twice if she revealed a secret, and death if she hurt Elizabeth or her kids. Just another missed point in this return story). So no, I don’t see this PI Sam as a return of real Sam. I see real Sam with Maxie, and today with Lucas I saw personality peek through. I don’t see her in her scenes with Jason where she stars as a person to bounce ideas off of. Drew, meanwhile, has been bussed, then reversed over, and hit again every time he has a scene with Franco. He’s been forced into a weird friendship thing with Kim, and has Oscar acting like a 5 year old with his “I want my mom and dad together” mess. I get that he hasn’t had a typical family life, but it’s annoying now. But that could be me just not liking Oscar. Drew’s waffling on the memory thing makes me mad too, because now he’s stuck in limbo. There’s no risk in stagnation and that is exactly how Drew is. Stagnant. He isn’t moving forward with learning about himself and his life, he isn’t going back to the things and people he knows now, so he’s kinda stuck in the middle with no direction except “Oscar is important, Aurora is mine, and Scout is with her grandmother”. And now there’s the 15 years of Jasam thing. Look, I hated when I would see people talk about 18 years of Liason, since they weren’t together that long. They were in limbo at first, not together but borderline occasionally, then finally together, then in secret, then broken up, then almost together again. But for some of that, they weren’t really involved in each other’s lives. so you can’t count that as part of their history. So, Sam being with Jax and Sonny, and Jason with Courtney, then Jason and Sam hating each other, then Jason being gone for 5 years, means that there aren’t 15 years of Jasam. At all. 

Trying to understand the choices made on the show when it comes to writing story and dialogue, putting people together, and breaking them up, frustrates me on a level that I have never known before. I don’t watch consistently anymore. I watch 2 or 3 episodes at a time because it has become so easy for me to decide not to watch, and then watch when I’m bored, and it makes me sad because this was my favorite show for such a long time, and now I almost don’t care.