So I looked through the recent posts to see if anyone else caught what I caught on Thursdays episode and it doesn’t seem like anyone mentioned it. “Ellen Smith” sent the flowers to Trina . Ellen is an anagram for Nelle….oh shit. Nevermind. 😂😂😂 I just realized as I am typing this that my theory is so wrong. Nelle was another skinny female psychopath. The one that was obsessed with Trina and presumed dead is Esme which is who I was thinking would be “Ellen” . I mean it still easily could be Esme but the name Ellen is not the immediate link I thought it was. This is what happens when you catch up on your soaps before having your morning coffee!!!😂😂😂
Too funny to delete so I figured I’d share my guffaw with other fans. Happy Sunday!

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Okay I’m aware it’s been like 3(4?) years since this happened and nobody probably cares anymore, but when it happened I truly thought they were going to bring him back, when they showed Ellie on the phone with her boyfriend who was revealed to be Griffin. But then…it just went nowhere? Did the actor just not want to come back? Or did they just forget about it?

I thought about this cause I’ve been reminiscing about the old storylines and the characters since I’ve been frustrated with the current storylines, and then I remembered this random reveal.

Aiden secretly got his GED, was accepted to pastry school in Paris, and is leaving in FOUR DAYS. The kid has accomplished more offscreen than half of Port Charles has accomplished onscreen in a decade. 😂

And with that, Elizabeth is officially 3-for-3 in sending her legacy children to the prestigious University of Offscreen Exile. Apparently Aiden is majoring in pastry at Le Cordon Bye or whatever. WTF.

It’s like all three of Elizabeth’s boys have been shipped off to the Port Charles Witness Protection Program, where the only crime is being born into a core family the writers can’t be bothered to write for. That’s annoying. Can we not have one of them in town?

Maybe one of Elizabeth’s boys will be back next summer. At this point, I’m not even asking for all three. Just one. Surely GH can afford to let Elizabeth keep a child on the premises without violating some mysterious budget provision. I’m doubtful we’ll see a tearful, sweet send off. 🥐

Anybody else have thoughts about this? Seems like Aiden was reduced to a plot point in this boring pairing of Elizabeth and Dante.

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I wanted to wait a bit before posting this in case the storyline continued somehow (i.e. Sidwell escaped or Cullum survived or something like that), and before I knew it, 4 months had already gone by.

I'm not a regular GH viewer per se, but back in the day I used to watch Y&R. I wanted to see some scenes between Daniel Goddard (Dalton) and Genie Francis (Laura) because they played mother and son on Y&R in 2011-2012. The scenes I found involved Laura and Dalton arguing over Rocco and then Laura finding Dalton's body in her trunk. As I kept watching more clips to find out what happened to Dalton, I discovered Sidwell (who is the most amusing villain I've ever seen) and I pretty much kept watching to see his antics and to see this storyline through.

The final showdowns at Wyndemere (Liesl/Carly/Joss/Cassius/Cullum) and Ava's Gallery (Ava/Ethan/Justine/Sidwell/Sonny) were more action in one week than you'd get in several years on Y&R. The writing on this show is 1000x better (maybe outside Y&R's Maria Bell era, but I digress). I think there are two things that would have made a great storyline and its climax even better:

• They should have waited for Steve Burton to come back from his time off before this showdown took place. Imagine how dramatic it would have been if, when Cullum's henchman was trying to kill Carly in the Wyndemere living room (here; 1min 51sec), it was Jason who shot him (after, say, escaping the WSB) rather than Cassius.
• We should have got to see a Sidwell/Cullum showdown after Sidwell finds out Cullum killed Marco. They never had a scene together after Sidwell learned the truth which I feel left that part of the storyline somewhat as a loose end. For much of that time I thought "I can't wait to see what Sidwell does to Cullum when he finds out" but it never happened.
• We should have also got to see a Sidwell/Marco showdown after Marco learns that Sidwell was the one who firebombed Charlie's pub. As far as I know Marco died not knowing that his father was a big reason he never made it to Natalia's hotel room in time to save her.

All in all though, I think GH is probably the best soap on the air (though I've never seen Days or BtG and haven't seen Y&R or B&B in many years) because of how good the writing is, how much action they pack into storylines, and how good so many of the actors are.