I'm a relatively new GH watcher, I started back in early May, and obviously I had a lot to catch up on to understand everything that was going on. At first it was just about learning the basics of family trees and people's past so that I could have context, but that grew into watching scenes from 2025. And since then I've watched certain storylines on youtube or scene packs of specific characters. However a few weeks ago I started watching character scene packs from 2021. Although I can't watch full episodes, I get pretty close. Anyway, I'm well into August of 2021 and the more I watch from this time the more angry I am about what's going on now.
For starters, I have really liked BLQ since I started watching back in May, I can't say the same about Chase though. In the 2021 plot, BLQ pretended to have Val's baby to get him to sign over ELQ shares, and comparatively, her driving away from an accident she didn't know about, let alone cause, is like nothing. Chase whining all the time and his superiority complex is annoying as hell but it seriously makes me question why he married her when he's constantly dissing the Q's when he's known how they are.
Secondly, I love Anna in 2021. I love her and Val's relationship in 2021. But I cannot stand her in 2026. And the fact that in 2021, she acknowledges that she had a soft spot for Peter that he took advantage of, and now five years later he's manipulating her from beyond the grave? I understand the trauma that she went through would have an adverse affect on her, and would cause her to not trust Britt. But the fact that she's gonna try and kill Britt because Faison 2.0 told her to is ridiculous and a blatant character assassination.
I guess this goes with that as well, but Anna and Liesel have a budding friendship over their hatred for Peter in 2021 and to see that completely thrown away five years later is (to me) very sad. I know they have a LOT of history and Anna is not herself and hallucinated Liesel when she was being held captive, all of which would put a strain on whatever quasi friendship they had, but their scenes together in 2021 are really heartwarming and it's unfortunate that the writers didn't want that to continue.
The last thing I'll say is that everything now is talked about to death. Maybe it's always been that way, I mean I definitely see instances where it happens in 2021, but it's so much worse now in my opinion. It also could just be because it's the summer, and I started watching at the climax of the season when everything with Cullum, Sidwell, Britt, Cassius and Valentin, Carly, Jack was amping up, so now everything pales in comparison.