OH! New INFORMATION TODAY

Here we are... knee deep into the newbies and let's hope I can figure out who's who today. We need a score-card or face sheet to follow along with! 

TODAYS SHOW: 

Ric walks over to Dante and Liz. Makes a snotty remark. Liz can't get dinner so they are going out Wed. They kiss, he leaves. Dante and Liz then talk about his part in the whole Rocco evidence scrubbing thing and how Anna let him go. He feels guilty he used his job to do what he did. 

Emma, Gio, Trina and Kai are playing a board game at Emma's. Trina's trying not to think of the trial. She really wants to go but her parents don't want her there. 

NEW INFO: BROOK TELLS SIMON THAT TRINA GRADUATED COLLEGE IN JULY. Which is a big thing and -- WHAT?????? okay.. whatever.

SIMON meets with Brook and tells her he has big plans for Trina/Gio. And.. Simon wonders where they are. Brook is like: they are on their way...then calls GIO. OMG GIO FORGOT! CRISIS!!!!! They have to hurry over! And.. KAI decides to go but Emma isn't going. Weird.

They get to the surf shop. Introduce Kai. Simon won't shake his hand. Simon talks to Britt. Says he thought Gio and Trina were a couple and they are GOING TO SELL THEM LIKE A COUPLE. Marketing and all that. They'd better get on board. He has to get on a plane and leave.

Joss is jogging in the park. Says she can't go to Emma's and meet Trina because she's working. She gets a pain where she was shot and flashes back to her shooting on the docks. 

Nina wants to go to dinner with Brennan but he says he can't. He has an important phone call. They kiss. Joss walks in. Nina leaves. Joss says she's a liability. Tells Brennan all her faults. He yells at her to quit it 

Anna sees Val/Carly...and Peter is standing behind her. She turns and knocks into a waiter. They invite her to sit. She sees the champagne and asks why. They tell her Val's assets are unfrozen. She freaks out. Says the WSB won't let him go. Carly says: NOT TRUE. Joss is getting out too. Anna looks at her like she's crazy. Says probably too late for Josslyn. Says she's sorry she knew before Carly but would have stopped Josslyn if she knew before she joined. She ends up leaving and Val realizes something is off with her. Thinks Faison is still on her mind.

Jason tells Sonny he's out. "Is it Me" asks Sonny--"No it's me" says Jason. Tells him about being on the roof to kill Cullum. Sonny can't believe he had him in his sights and didn't SHOOT. Jason says Brennan was in the way. Sonny's mad he didn't tell him. Jason says he was going to Danny's game and DANTE arrested him! There was no TIME! He keeps telling him about Danny seeing him taken away and something broke in him. HE can't live this life. He can't kill for Sonny anymore. He doesn't want Danny to follow in his footsteps. Sonny says "he already has". Tells him Danny wanted to join Sonny to take care of Cullum but he stopped him. Then-JASON SINGS SONNY'S PRAISES for all the wonderment over the years and both CRY BIG TEARS and this is the biggest break up in Soap-Love History I've seen in a LONG TIME. Cripes LOL Jason wants Sonny's "BLESSING" to leave

END: 

Brook says she can fix things with Simon 

Ric still stalks Liz at the park

Pintrest Trina board pops up and someone is editing her photos on the computer

Sonny and Jason have a sad goodbye. (hahahha...it's SO OVER the TOP!)

Sunday Surgery: FOUL BALLS

 

I've thought about how I'd approach this week's blog many times and I still don't know how it will turn out. My last post was titled "Chaos" and I should have saved it for this blog. I going to make a confession: I'm too old for these shenanigans to happen all in one damn week. I have whiplash. 

Since GH is going with Softball as a theme, I chose to honor that in the title. So: PLAY BALL! 

Get some scrambled eggs and pretend they are my brain and let's GO GO!! 

Chaos.

 

YESTERDAY'S SHOW: NOPE that's not Serena, it's Justine Lupe from Nobody Wants This. I also thought she had some Nicole Kidman vibes. 

Scotty is in Key West!! So on brand!! 

Tracey and Stella were the gold in the episode and of course Tracey by herself! "Yuri owes me 50 bucks"!! 

There are just too many new characters on for me at the moment. ugh. 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

If I get all the newbie characters mixed up, forgive me. Damn, it's TEW MUCH FOR THIS BRAIN!!!!!! 

So, we are in the Southern California park with the softball players. Joe and Dante for the PCPD and Lucas and Liz for GH . ...WHERE IS BRITT WITH THE EQUIPMENT? Then they talk about Lucas looking for an apartment. He's like "I like my room at Ava's, we have martinis every evening". She says find anyone else to live with ---AND JOE runs over to get a ball. WE GET IT. Then Dante comes over. Tells Liz he will help her with her catching. They leave. Joe then asks Lucas how long Dante's been dating Liz. Lucas does a spit take. He's like they aren't but hey, they should! He's better than the guy she's seeing! They talk about sports films and OMG GUESS WHAT!!!!!!!!? Joe is LOOKING FOR AN APARTMENT!! WHATTTTTTTT? (ahahha)

Dante and Liz toss the ball back and forth. Flirty.  Ric walks by and sees Dante helping Liz with her mitt. heh. 

Britt is in GH talking to Dr Tristan and Jason sees them. Tristan walks away and Jason wonders what Britt knows about him. Jason says he's WSB and he saw him on the plane coming back from Jakarta. Britt freaks out. Jason says Tristan BROUGHT HIM BACK --(this is weird because wouldn't the WSB know that?!!). Anyway...he wants to go out on the boat and she can't because of baseball. She wants him to come to the park but Sonny calls and summons Jason to his place. Britt gets Tristan into an exam room and confronts him about being WSB. HE says he's NOT he just worked at medical facility.  She brings up her Hungtingon's disease and how they lied to her and he's like: Sorry lady, nothing to do with me. Tells her to get therapy and drink Decaf coffee. 

Ric is at Sonny's they talk about Sidwell. When he goes to jail, the piers and Wyndemre will go up for auction. ROCHESTER IS MENTIONED! Then Sonny calls Jason. Jason walks in. Sonny wants Ric and Jason to make nice. They shake hands. Ric leaves. Sonny thanks Jason. Jason says there will never be peace between him and Ric. 

At the Metro, Val planned a dinner with Carly on the patio. She's like: Who's paying, me? HE says NO! My assets got unfrozen. He's going to buy her a big gift. THEN he makes a connection with the black box to Nina and Brennan. He's curious why she would want it. 

At the Pool, Drew lurches around and sees Ava. She's like: WTF! He asks if she's meeting Nina. She says no..she's with... and ETHAN IS GONE after looking @@ at the OTHER NEWBIE THERE. Danny is freaking out seeing Drew. So's Brook. Drew asks Ava how much she knew about Nina and Willow's plan. She says how devoted Willow was and blah blah. He says they are divorcing. Things weren't how he thought they were. Ava leaves. Danny is delivering Drew's ice tea and trips, throws it all over him. Drew erupts and yells. Brook tells him to chill out and not talk to Danny like that. OMG Drew took over-acting steroids today. GEESH

Anna sees Peter, he tells her to kill Britt. Emma walks in.  Anna's all shaken. Emma asks about Joss being WSB. Anna couldn't tell her. Then they talk about Anna's state of mind and Anna says she's going to put 'everything behind her'. 

Ethan is at Lulu's and is taking a bag out. He tells her he's leaving for good. She's like: you can't you work for Sonny Corithos, you just can't leave. He took on Ethan because of their dad and he'd never give him a second chance. Ethan says he has to fulfill  a promise. She's like: I have your back. They hug. 

END: 

Ric sees Liz/Dante talking to Britt and gets jealous

NEW GUY calls Lulu to see if Ethan is there by pretending to be a delivery guy. She says he left the country. 

Anna sees Valentin and Carly making out

Jason quits Sonny. 

SERENA

 BLOG FILLER FOR THURSDAY JULY 20th!! 

Ok, so we are not talking about this Serena. But I loved Elizabeth Montgomery and the TV show Bewitched so I couldn't resist inserting this picture. FUN FACT: Did you know that EVERY female witch on the show had a name that ended with the letter "A"? Go on... start going through the names. I'll wait...

Today we are talking about Serena Baldwin. Carly Shroeder originated the role in 1993. Her parents were Scott and Dominque and she was born through a surrogate, Lucy Coe. Dominique passed away shortly afterwards. In 2017, immediately after the death of Scott's father, Lee Balwin, Lucy had Serena return to Port Charles to spend time with Scotty. Carly, the original portrayer, reprised her role for that storyline. 

Now we are in 2026, and the role is being recast with Kelly Kruger. Serena is 33 years old, and Kelly is 44. I don't know if they will age the character or keep her in the mid to late 30s. 

Either way will work for me.

I have read so many crazy rumors on the web, and each one is crazier than the next. Even Karen and I can't make this stuff up. 

She will be romantically paired with Jason. She bursts through Deception boardroom and takes over (I'm picturing Alexis from Dynasty.) She is pregnant with Ethan's baby. She walks thought the door with Sam. She knows Valentin. Scotty returns with her. Tristan and Serena have a past and he is dangerously obsessed with her. She has a toddler son. 

As always, they are not really revealing what her storyline will be. The only fact that I do know is that Cody is her step-brother and that should be an interesting bond. However, we all know that writers like to re-write history. Kelly has a soap history herself being on Bold and the Beautiful and Young and the Restless. They should give her a decent storyline based on those acting creds.

Tune in tomorrow...

Karen Adds:  (Yes, that's my face 99% of the time now!) 

I think Serena should be a WITCH. Yep. Do it up like they did with Caleb on Port Charles. We could use a little magic on GH! 

Mini Surgery Rant

 Saw this on Twitter. It’s the 45 people that are in the opening credits of the show. 45. What are they thinking? and they just keep adding....

PS--I'm out of the office today and probably the next 2 after that. Please put your comments on today's show in each filler blog! Thank you

James, Kristina and Cassius are gone . We've added Tristan, Quinn, Simon, SORA'd Scout, Serena, Hudson and... Joe. Three of those are contract players. Not sure what's going on with Carlo Rota or JPS at the moment. But dang--YES, GH's canvas is just a sea of faces. 

It hit me the other day we hadn't seen Michael in so long, I forgot about him. They don't seem to have much use for Jacinda, do they? *sigh* . I suppose his new Deception shares will give him more to do. 

While I appreciate the fact we need new characters now and again, I'm just flabbergasted at all of the influx at this time. Joe the cop is a bust--so BLAND. Simon, who could have been ANYTHING is another bland guy. Copy that to Tristan. Another doctor when you could have recast TJ? I guess Serena is at least a 'legacy character' but dang. Getting rid of Maxie's entire family sucks imo, especially with her rich history and the fact we love James and Spinelli. What about Georgie??! She's a TEEN! I'm not even looking forward to "Hudson" who's due to come on at some point. I'm glad to see Quinn in a way because that 20something set sure needs a boost. 

They really should be tightening up the families on this show and creating new drama for the existing players.  Stories take too dang long to tell because there's just so much bulk involved. It's taken almost a month to get every character up to speed on the whole "who knew what when" in the Cold Fusion story. Well, except for Liesl who's only on a day or two here and there. You'd think Britt could at least be living with her right? 

Also-- we need to see Brad, Terry, Yuri, N'neka and Deanna around. They are the colorful background characters that really fan everything out. We know they don't cost an arm and a leg, they are day players. 

UPDATE: And yesterday we got a whole new Ethan. An actor who by all indications has NONE o Ethan's qualities. Remember when they tried to have him be all blonde? At least he had an Aussie accent. This guy could have looked zexy-dashing-- but... Cody Lite? Why? WHYYYY!!? No sparkle, no anything. I was thinking of Maura who had to switch partners when TC left that first time as well. Yes, she's a true professional. 

Just looked him up.. he's a stuntman making his "daytime debt"... and he's BRITISH. Why the hell not have him keep the accent? Or at least do an Aussie one? We know Brits can do them! 

DEALING WITH DREW

 

Didn't think I'd be here but--I am!! I will hopefully be traveling tomorrow but we shall see-- things have gone a bit wonky. 

TODAY'S SHOW (here's hoping no new faces, right)?

Meanwhile on the boat dock. Gio's all "OMG Drew can swim really well !! AND HE WAS WALKING AND TALKING" ......PFFFFFFFT. Cripes! OH! Get this, Drew didn't want to go to GH so Gio put a towel on the seat and drove him home. Nina and Brennan are like: UT OH. They try to call Willow then run off the docks. 

Willow sees Drew's dirt on the floor. He is at the door "HI HONEY, I'M HOME"! She looks at him like he's a zombie. He says 'I've been dreaming about this moment for MONTHS". Willow's like: HUH? HOW? He says he's going to talk and she's going to listen and blink like he had to "While You still CAN"!!  OMG Cam M is having the TIME OF HIS LIFE with these lines! ahahahaha. WOW. You have to watch it He's so GLAD THEY ARE ALONE-TOGETHER and he tells her her mother pushed him off the docks. Willow asks if he's going to kill her. He says no, but she will wish he had. Says she'll go to jail forever and Michael will get the kids and they won't know her anymore. She tries to grab something to fight him. He says: you think you can take me? She's like: you've not been walking for awhile--then Brennan and Nina bust in. Brennan has a gun on him. He tells him that he has evidence he bribed the German nurse, misused funds and gave money to a judge that turned up dead. Drew says: FINE! Turn me in, it will be worth it to get YOU ALL. Anyway, they talk about Drew/Scout--jail yada yada. Willow says we forget everything in the past-- you give me a divorce and I take nothing. Nina says: Yeah, and you don't run for congress again. Deal? 

Carly and Sonny are talking in her kitchen. Jason walks in. Carly hugs him, so does Sonny. He's sorry he didn't come right over but he needed to be with Danny. They talk about the fact Rocco shot Cullum. Carly didn't know. He tells them all about that night on the docks. Then Sonny talks all about his Sidwell thing and the ADA being taken by him and how he saved her. Jason is confused as to why Sidwell would take her and not Ava. Sonny says: Ava's too much trouble. hahaha

Joss goes to The Metro Pool to meet Trina. Guess they are all pal-pal now. Oh Emma's there. Joss isn't happy. She tells Emma she's working at the WSB. Emma gives mad face. Wants to know if her grandmother knows that Joss is WSB. She says yes but she was undercover. Emma goes off on her and says the WSB is BAD BAD...and wants Trina to tell Joss that too. Trina says she loves Joss and wants her to be happy. Joss goes and answers her phone. Then Gio comes in and tells Emma and Trina that Drew is walking and talking.

The kids are at the Qs: Danny, Char and Scout. Danny's going to live there with Jason. Rocco walks out and is not happy. Oh wait they are all cool with each other now, it's allllllll good. Danny wants to take the boat out to the island that Scout swam to-- Rocco says bad idea. Scout doesn't want to go. Danny and Char take off. Scout and Rocco talk about her swimming for charity. 

Marshall comes to see his grandson and meets Isaiah. Marshall is all: You look so good!! To Portia. He says he missed Curtis' boyhood but won't miss Desmond's...he will be around. 

END: 

Danny and Char went to the island and back in 4 minutes lol 

Drew says he'll make the deal. Willow takes off her ring and drops it. "Freedom" She's leaving and Drew says under his breath "enjoy it while you can you treacherous bitch"... 

new FACE

 

SO, It's MONDAY and Drew is in the lake and... I think we know he's not gonna die, right? Probably can swim at this point. 

TODAY'S SHOW: 

Another fine shot of Drew going into the lake. We see Nina crying and hesitating calling anyone. Then she yells for Drew.. DREWWWWWWWWW. AND RUNS ahahahahaha.

Britt slaps Jason but only to get him into an exam room. She's on probation and doesn't want to get in trouble (it's stupid). She missed him, he missed her. He's home for good. They hug. She tells him she doesn't have Huntington's. They hug. She says she did do horrible things and Marco is dead because of her all for nothing. 

WELL SADDLE UP BECAUSE... ETHAN is now being played by some OTHER GUY-- who has sandy hair and ISN'T AUSTRALIAN AND WTF IS HAPPENING. Good GOD this show... He's talking to Ava at The Metro but.. I just can't deal. He looks like Cody and I think it's his first day acting. They talk about Phoebe and the 'real father'...He can't tell her because the guy is DANGER. :eyeroll: Then Ava says Phoebe is where she needs to be. She goes to leave and HE TOUCHES HER WRIST. UGHHHHHH this can NOT HAPPEN. Gross.

Valentin gives the black box to Brennan. Brennan finds the info on Drew but Nina runs in and says she killed him. Says she pushed him into the lake after he talked to her and she lost it. Didn't call 911, just ran. PLEASE help me cover it up. They leave.

Valentin and Joss talk about her getting the charges dropped. He thinks she did it partly because he saved her life. 

Gio is singing to baby Phoebe. Brook walks in. Awww, adorable. They talk about nothing.

Gio goes swimming and sees something in the lake.

Chase goes to get Willow to talk about Sidwell. She's like: I'm in the middle of something, say you couldn't find me, ok? She finally says she will go. They ask her why Ezra said she had meeting with Sidwell. She lies that it was about his company and they'd better not hold her there. She stomps off. . 

Chase and Brook talk about Willow going into the PCPD and that he might get his detective job back again. She's happy. 

END: 

BRITT AND JASON LOVE EACH OTHER! 

Gio tells Nina and Brennan Drew is ok, he swam out of the lake HAHHAHA

Willow goes home and sees dirt on the floor. Then Drew is in the DOORWAY! Dun dun DUN.