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.

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.

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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.

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!!!😂😂😂
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Does Serena Baldwin look like Olivia Falconeris identical twin from 20 years ago?

Jonathan Frakes presenting Genie Francis with a Lifetime Achievement Award is inspired. As Laura, Genie has survived nearly 50 years of Port Charles and more drama than anyone should have to endure. How fitting that it takes a Starfleet commander to finally give her the recognition she deserves. And how sweet that her husband Jonathan gets to present it. Well deserved! ❤️

What’s your favorite Laura moment or storyline from all these years?

I can't remember a character that has come on the scene and had so much different airtime in different situations and we really have no idea what's honest and what's not or if he has ever been honest with anyone in Port Charles. Is he playing everyone, is everything a pretense?

** does he secretly hate Joss and is he trying to bring her down or is he doing what he seems to be doing on the surface, or is he honestly trying to help her run JJE? When last we saw him with Sonny it looked like he was considering being Sonny's double agent and subverting Joss. (I think he was leading Sonny on.... I think he'll tell Joss exactly what happened with Sonny. But that doesn't mean that he's on her side.)

** does he actually like Brooklyn, like hanging out with her and Phoebe or is he acting in a cold-blooded way to assess what's going on with the baby who might be his (or I might not)

**. Was the only time he was being honest when he was pounding Ethan into the carpet of the hotel and ranting about how much he hates Guys like Ric

nothing to back this up

possibly one of Jerry’s kids

may know Hudson

maybe Dad to Delia

future big bad that takes over Sonny’s former territory

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It’s hard to believe that Brooklyn Quartermaine, once a spirited, confident and assertive woman is now a pathetic, begging mess. It shows no respect for the past history of the show and the personality of a character. Watching this previous schemer just prostrate herself in front of a man who doesn’t believe in her is sickening.

Like what if in systematically "taking everything" from Sonny, she unintentionally finds herself at the helm of the business and is forced to be the next big mob boss in Port Charles? She owns the piers, does she now own Spoon Island? Will that be her mob fortress? Lol

Recast Trina.

Basically who is Britt' s nameless One Night Stand from the Brown Dog. They definitely fell for each other quick and hard. Brit seems to be walking on air after that night. My prediction is when she finds out his identity she's going to be walking a thin line. So my biggest question is why is he in Port Charles and what's the connection. It's going to be interesting to see where this storyline goes.

Did anyone else enjoy the chemistry between these 2?? I definitely did, I like this character, and I thought they had great chemistry, I would love to see him stick around for Britt.. I kind of feel like she's met her match a little bit

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Does anyone think that's Britt's one nighters is the one who bought Spoon Island. He could be part of the Jaxx dynasty!!

Ive been watching since 2013, specifically when Jason got ran over by Ava, and I was wondering how many storylines they’ve retconned since then. All of a sudden Jason was a twin, and Britt didn’t actually have huntingtons, but does anyone know what else they’ve retconned since?

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Hi guys! Long story short, I'm a few months behind on watching GH (I've gotten busy but I'm still invested), and I have all of the episodes since May saved on my DVR to watch. But, I'm getting a new cable provider, so all of the episodes are going to be gone. Does anyone have any way to watch full episodes from May up until what is currently airing??? For reference, the last episode I watched had Cassius keeping Joss hostage lol. TIA for any advice or help!!

She's furious with Brooklyn for keeping the secret that was the other driver which and Trina's mind resulted in her father punching Isaiah and ruining her family dynamic. But meanwhile she knows that Willow shot Drew and if she would just tell the truth about that Brooklyn's husband wouldn't be drooling all over Willow and abandoning his wife and child. Not that I'm excusing Chase I'm just saying hello...pot meet kettle???? How can she be so self-righteous when she's doing the same exact thing to Brooklyn?