Hello, Celia!!!! (I mean, “CeeCeeGirl!”)….If you have ever seen “Northern Exposure,” then the delightful Ms. Delano should look mighty familiar as she appeared as the firearms-fixated, super alpha-female cop/main squeeze of former astronaut Maurice Minnefield…and what an absolute hoot she was in all of her over-enthusiastic policewoman glory! (How hilarious would it be for her to go fisticuffs with “The Dominator,” aka, Alice??? I wouldn’t want to place bets on the outcome….LOL.) Not unlike yourself, I’m currently much less engaged in GH and the convoluted mess it has become…in fact, over these past few months, I watched the Anna/Duke farewell and Laura/Kevin disco scene and that was about it…..I intended to tune in for the NB until I discovered Dr. O’s gargantuanly gifted Kathleen Gati was being kept off the stage in favor of much lesser talents and I boycotted the whole thing in protest. Quite frankly, I’ve really lost my patience with this dreadful show….it never seems to get better, only worse by repeating the same mistakes again and again, such as adding more and more unnecessary newbies, and over-emphasizing the wrong characters, both old and more recent ones. As for the pathetic Alexis???? I’ve loved her fall from her own self-inflicted hubris….it’s truly time for this romantically-deluded woman to give up on the stubborn notion of being Port Charles’ version of Susan Sarandon and resort to becoming a crazy cat lady with a houseful of felines (That one’s for you, Timmmbo!) since she is so obviously incapable of having a healthy adult relationship, instead always opting for her default setting of a lovesick high schooler who falls for the “Leader of the Pack” whenever the opportunity presents itself. (Perhaps that proverbial suggestion to take up knitting as a hobby might also not go amiss!) By the way, I’ve responded to you a few times via my new phone and even though the remarks were posted, they ended up at the bottom of the thread as opposed to below your direct link where I placed them….don’t know what was up with that, but just wanted you to know that you had not been ignored. Anyway, hope all is well with you and that your great-gran is feeling better.

@CeeCee….I’m fine, thank you, just been very busy! (And bored to tears with GH….it’s as you have mentioned regarding your Days, I barely recognize the show anymore, and I’ve become less and less inclined to bother with it, including recaps and spoilers…) But I have read many of your posts since you’ve returned to us, even though I haven’t replied much….other than on 5/21 and 5/31 threads when I sent you quick personal responses that failed to land in the right place! (However, they are still there, if you care to check….) Having said that, I feel for your current family situation, yet how fortunate you’ve been to grow up in such a multi-generational atmosphere….the obvious influence of your amazing grans has definitely made you wise beyond your years and it shows, my dear! Which is why I’m sure you could never be the fool that is Alexis. Whilst I can appreciate your sentiments for the character, perhaps I’ve seen this disillusioned side to her far too many times already….with Sonny, Ric, Jerry, now Julian…..bad boys all, and yet this woman just makes the same poor romantic choices again and again. Both in drama and real life, I have no patience for females who don’t learn from their mistakes, especially when it damages their children and imperils their lives….so as you so optimistically hope for this to be a true turning point for Ms. Davis, all I can think is WHO will be the next smooth criminal that she beds???? After all, the insatiable Alexis is not one to do without for very long….in addition to suggesting professional help to kick her habit of immensely awful taste in men, perhaps in the future she should rely on a more personal form of mechanical stimulation to scratch that perpetual itch of hers….what a storyline that would make, eh? I’m sure NLG could bring just the right “vibe” to that scenario….LOL! (And for the record, I’m also still pushing for that feline menagerie ….nothing says “woman over the edge” like a houseful of cats! It’s classic cuckoo!) Toodles, mia amica!

Well, CeeCeeGirl, there’s one thing that Carly has never been short of and that is GALL!!!! She is the ultimate hypocrite in so many ways, and it does wear mighty thin….as you know, I’m no fan of the Corinthi and the manner in which they have been held up as some sort of supercouple….always destined to be together in the end….it actually sickens me, and that is a shame because I consider Laura Wright to be so much better than being pigeonholed as the perpetual mob moll apologist. (She was best with Jax since at least to some extent their romance broke her out of that mold, although Sonny and his unsavory influence was never far away and kept drawing her back into his seamy underworld antics even during her time as Mrs. Jacks.) As for Alexis, I can see your point about redeeming her character into someone who could garner some respect, but for me, it’s simply a case of too little, too late…..I’m just so sick of her….she’s had frontburner status for far too long and it was solely squandered on silly, sophomoric sexcapades. I’m much more invested in seeing where Laura and Kevin’s romantic adventure leads and how Anna moves on with her life…..these are the two “women of a certain age” who grab my interest, along with Tracy, albeit her current inexplicable obsession with someone else’s “nino” grates on me….this is a woman who barely had time for her own sons and now she’s slobbering all over a gangster’s offspring….I find it rather off-putting and blame the aftereffects of Ms. Quartermaine’s brain surgery and Finn’s prescribed course of drugs for her obvious lapse in her signature behavior. Me wants the tried and true Tracy back, in all of her delicious witchy and wicked glory, ready to snatch the reins of ELQ from the hapless and hopeless Mikey! (You go, Girl!) Of course, by now, I’ve learned not to expect much of my desired dramas of GH to come to fruition…..there only seems to be more of the same with characters—both old and new—for whom I hold no regard….maybe that’s why I’m finding it easier and easier to skip this show. Just saying!