@CeeCee…Sweetness, hope your Christmas with family & friends
was filled with equal amounts of happiness and cheer.
Totally agree with you CeeCee, their scene together was impressive.

Thank you, Fanny….God Bless!

@Jimh…And the hits keep on coming…good one.

Hey CeeCee, I am really glad you got a “taste” of the Scorpios. They are wonderful and my favorite GH family. And Robin and Jason…aaah. Someday when you have time you should go to “that site” and access the first scenes where Robin is introduced. Kim was only seven. She is special to a lot of us because we got to see her grow up on screen, absolutely a unique occurrence in daytime. She made her debut 30 years ago, dropped off at Robert’s doorstep. She did not know he was her dad, and she called him “Robbie.” It was too cute. You will also then see Robert in his heyday. The Scorpios really are special. I am so glad you “loved it!” You saw a lot of advance excitement about them from us, and I was worried you would be disappointed. Glad you were not!

@Tristan.
Hi, Tristan.
I can certainly identify. I started watching OLTL when I was only ten years old. I loved the show because Kristen Alderson was a kid herself….only six….and, grew up on set just like Kimberly. It was heartbreaking for me when the show was cancelled.
No, I wasn’t disappointed. I was truly moved, Tristan. Thank you for caring. I actually did catch a couple of early episodes with Robin as a child. Her nanny, Filomena, I think, reminded me of my own nanny. I was familiar with Finola since she also appeared on AMC, in which my Gran also watched. I usually watched what my Gran watched; sadly GH wasn’t on that list, lol. I definitely am glad I started watching. I do have my faves and I do tend to critique the show. But I also praise it…keep it on an even keel, right?
I truly did appreciate getting to ‘know’ this family, as a whole….amazing, for the little time it lasts.
Happy New Year, Tristan. Many more!!

CeeCee, I know exactly what you mean about OLTL being cancelled. I watched As the World Turns from when I was six years old until it was cancelled and I bawled my eyes out. My mom and I used to be able to turn it on in the radio in our car and we’d listen and guess what was happening when suspenseful music was playing with no dialog. Now my mom and ATWT are both gone, but I’ll treasure those memories forever. Also, I hope your family is kind when they poke fun about past mistakes. My husband’s fam has a habit of doing that, and I’m not an assertive person, but I get upset and tell them to knock it off. The past is the past. No reason to make someone suffer multiple times for the same regret. Ugh, it bothers me. Happy new year!!!

I thought it was a great effort to acknowledge history and give new viewers some important backstory. WITHOUT re-writing major story elements (as is tragically common with these types of scenes in soaps nowadays…)

@Ashleigh.
Happy New Year, Ashleigh. Did you have your baby? If so, I hope mommy and baby are doing well.
Lol, my friend. The teasing among we siblings is all in good fun, usually directed to my 20-year old brother who would pull so many stunts as a teen…… Such as climbing out of his bedroom window at night, and get caught each and every time. Stuff like that……Or my eldest sister and her best friend would write ‘excuse’ notes for each other to get out of class. They would get in trouble, of course. Lol. Then, we tease my Dad, who was in a hurry on morning and actually went to work wearing two different shoes.
OLTL is a sore subject with me. I still miss all those people so much. Everyone was like family to me. When it was canceled, I too, cried my eyes out. It was like a big chunk of my life was taken away. This is why I always fear that the remaining soaps will be taken away….how devastating; I shudder thinking about it. Take care.

Correction….among us, not we.

Gentlemen…As “Jake” Jason saw Robin’s photo at Patrick’s
even picked it up and asked who she was… Because while
recovering at the hospital she appeared to him out of know-
where…

I loved it also!

That’s right, Fanny.

I, too, made the assumption that Jason had ample opportunity to see Robin’s picture in town to recognize him. Her recognition of him, I think, just naturally flowed from being called by name by the man on the bridge she had been talking about with Elizabeth, as well as the significance of the location to both of them through the years. I liked the scene & rehash of history, finding it appropriate for this new Jason without a memory of his past – yet.

If the guy can get shot, be brought back to life, have his face totally reconstructed, lose his entire memory, end up just happening to fall in love with his past love, be subjected to mind control, etc….I think they could possibly find a way to turn him into a doctor. I mean….they’ve explained Robin repeatedly leaving her beloved daughter and we bought it. Just saying, soap fans are pretty forgiving. That being said, I wouldn’t want him working on me.

Oh, really???? Ever heard of Dr. Liesl Obrecht? I know, I know, her most recent charges were “dropped,” but in Port Charles, no crime ever goes unpardoned….except for Blackie’s!

Robin was not being selfish and Jason, Sonny and Carly were horrid to her after she did the right thing by both Michael and AJ.
Not allowing AJ to be a father to his own child was a heinous thing to do.
Robin always knew that Carly was and is a destructive, possessive and controlling force. This was the first time I hated that unholy trinity that is Sonny, Carly and Jason.
Sonny was especially disappointing because he loved Robin like a daughter after Stone died. Both Sonny and Jason owed Robin better. She did the right thing and it took courage.

I agree with Harry–“she did the right thing.”

AJ was a self destructing drunken con man.

Alcoholism
Admitted to an alcohol rehab program
Nearly died of alcohol poisoning and admitted to a detox program.
AJ was responisiable for Jason’s brain damage, AJ was driving drunk..

Arrested for drunk driving several times

Loan shark operation in college

Hired someone to beat up Nancy Eckert to keep her quiet about his misdeeds

Responsible for the car accident that left Jason brain-damaged [1996]

Had Jason and Sonny’s warehouse torched [Feb 2001]

Blackmailed Skye into helping him try to regain custody of Michael [2001]

Pursued a relationship and marriage with Courtney Matthews, Sonny’s half-sister to try to get custody of Michael [Jan 2002]

Drove drunk and crashed into the Oasis, a strip club [Jul 2002]

Torched the Oasis after finding out that Courtney was stripping there in order to keep the owner quiet about A.J. being the one who plowed into the club with his car [Aug 2002]

Hired Coleman to stalk Courtney [Sep-Oct 2002]

Hired a private investigator to follow Courtney [Jan 2003]

Set the gatehouse on fire as part of a plan to give Edward custody of baby Kristina [Mar 24, 2003]

Teamed up with Skye to kidnap baby Kristina [Mar 31, 2003]

Brought an intoxicated Janine Matthews to Courtney’s wedding shower to cause problems [May 30, 2003]

Bribery; paid Janine to convince her daughter, Courtney, not to marry Jason [Jun 2, 2003]

Attended an illegal auction; was present while Luke was auctioning off the Dead-Man’s Hand [Oct 31, 2003]

Stole the Quartermaine fortune and fled the country [Dec 11, 2003]

Falsified divorce documents to render them invalid

Assaulted his brother Jason Morgan

Hired Faith Roscoe to kidnap Michael, Morgan, and Kristina

Staged Michael’s death

Shot and wounded his father Alan

Attempted murder of his brother Jason
Revealed after A.J.’s death:

Hired Dr. Asher Thomas to kill Jason in 1996 while Jason was in coma

Blackmailed Dr. Thomas to certify that A.J. was insane when he kidnapped Michael, shot Alan, and tried to kill Jason

Fugitive; fled town to avoid arrest

Blackmailed Tracy Quartermaine to obtain the position of C.E.O. at ELQ [Jan 2013]

Instructed Duke Lavery to steal a jar of Pickle-Lila relish from Tracy Quartermaine [Feb 2013]

Threatened Connie Falconeri and choked her [Aug 2013]

Held a gun on Connie Falconeri and threatened to kill her [Aug 2013]

Arrested for the murder of Connie Falconeri [Aug 2013; found not guilty]

Attempted to strangle Ava Jerome [Mar 4, 2014]

I can see why Carly would not want AJ to have Michael.

su Your right bad AJ . he tried to pour Booze down a dry recovering alcoholic, made him think he would kill him if he didn’t sign over his son, told him he had already made his family think he was dead in a drunken car accident.made businesses pay protection money. amoung other mob things.he ran the mob. He sent a brain damaged man to kill his so called enemies. He abused and gave drugs to a sexually abused teen to get her to dance on his bar. He stole another mans son, The mother of ths child the one that was sooo much better than the father, oured booze and drugs down him lied to half the town about childs paternity. slept with her mother husband because she didn’t raise her in a brothel. They killed a man in cold blood for no reason other than he was getting close to his son. AJ did drive drunk, but no one forced Jason to jump in the car. If you are dumb enough to get into a car with a drunk driver you have to also take responsibility for what happens to you. Saint Courtney killed a cop. and let zander take the blame AJ wanted his son. he fought the only way you can with a dirty mobster. dirty. You actually think Sonny was ever as good as a man who had a diesese? Alcoholism .When AJ was cleaning up his act, Scummy and Snarly did the best they could to destroy him. AJ DID NOT KILL CONNIE. AVA DID AND THE CHARACTERS ON THIS SHOW ARE ALMOST ALL MURDERERS,

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I totally agree with you Janet. I loved AJ and couldnt stand everything you just described that was done to him. Not only that, but he lived in Jason’s shadow. Even Emily showed favoritism to Jason. The only Q that was ever totally in his corner was Skye. It was heartbreaking…his life and his death.

I am at a serious loss here. Really??? Any of you are attempting to show how bad AJ was, as compared to Sonny?? Rack up a list of how many characters who have been shot, maimed, injured, and murdered directly because of Sonny. All AJ ever did was try to be a better person and a better father, and continually had to use underhanded means to do that. Sonny hung the guy on a freakin’ meat hook, and forced him to sign away his parental rights!! That does NOT make him Michael’s father, that makes him Michael’s kidnapper!! Even though at LEAST 20 characters have directly met their fate as a result of Sonny’s murderous greed, somehow he still gets hailed as a good, loyal man, and a great father. He has repeatedly threatened to kill Carly, and was even close to killing his beloved “son” when
michael turned on him. What do you people do for fun in REAL life, when you are not worshipping fictional murderers??? WOW! Sometimes I am seriously ashamed to be part of humanity!

Thanks Fanny to bad Robyn has (KM) to leave I think she could have one this Jason over easily with her honesty and humbleness something lacking from all three of the women in his life now…

Oh, I know that he is in the coffee business to cover his illegal dealings. So someone please help me figure out what the “mob” boss does that is so illegal. What does he deal in?

if you believe that, I will sell you the bridge Robin and Jason are on.

Yeah, I think the writers won’t ever let on what it is he really does. They want to keep Sonny (and Jason) as bad asses but they still want them to be “good guys”. Drugs and guns are bad so they don’t deal with that. I told my girlfriend, it’s either knock off Louis Vuitton stuff or diamonds, ha ha.

From history, we know for a fact that Sonny delights in exploiting teenage strippers. We know that he emotionally and physically abuses women he claims to love. We know that he is a child kidnapper. We know that he is a cold blooded serial murderer, who feels no remorse other than getting caught. We know he is a man who would viciously shoot a cop with NO plan as to who would clean up the body…..of the carcass that was his SON. We know that he threatened to murder Carly SEVERAL times, he woman he currently claims to love. Huh? We know that he took a brain damaged 21 year old and turned him into a col, unrepentant murderer for hire. PLEASE…if ANYONE can offer me a reason why this greasy, violent, misogynistic, narcisstic, disgusting murderer is considered a GH lead, please type it for me!!!!

Most “rare,” to be sure, Tristan! (Well put!) I think the main difference between other “GH group sites” and the one here at MFSoaps is that no matter how—as you point out—“passionate” we may be in stating our assertions, we genuinely like most of the other posters, respect their opinions…..and often even admire them as friends of comparable intellect, interest and imagination….and it shows. As the majority demonstrates, that ethos permeates these threads, as we somehow manage to strike the perfect balance of being extremely topical, yet also going off on some highly entertaining and edifying tangents, so that one truly benefits from the chance to get to know and enjoy each other on a more personal basis, and perhaps, in the process, even learn about other various and unexpected subjects. To be sure, one can never really guess where our discussions will lead….but they are most often full of wonderful surprises! (Particularly when you consider that nobody here seems to be what many of us may have previously assumed to be the stereotypical soap fan….there is such a fabulous cross-section of demographics represented, and, at least from my perspective, few contributors could be called ordinary, but many are certainly very extraordinary! Not to mention, humorous, classy, talented and unique!) Like yourself, I have visited other GH sites—never to post, but simply to check spoilers or recaps—and I have to admit, I’ve been wholly unimpressed. The comments tend to range from immature and naïve, to merely commonplace……there’s seldom the creativity or cleverness of in-depth thinking and witty, tongue-in-cheek remarks like what we encounter here on a regular basis, and although there is undoubtedly camaraderie to be had amongst those other posters, their utterings are largely of the quite banal variety….ranging from daily reports on their weather conditions, aches and pains and pet antics, to the largely looming issue of “what’s for dinner?” It’s all well and good for those who enjoy such matters—bless those souls for having found each other—but this website has a really special alchemy when it comes to its mix of individuals….it’s like one big GH viewing fest and sophisticated cocktail party all wrapped up in a single cybervenue. No wonder it is so popular and addictive…..yet, also immensely friendly!!!!! I was initially amazed at how welcoming and encouraging people here are….so many have such kind and generous attitudes, and I’ve never forgotten the lovely responses I received from longtime contributors when I first began posting here…they were excellent examples in promoting the participation of others, and since I so appreciated their enthusiastic reactions, I’ve subsequently tried my best to emulate them when I notice an unfamiliar name with something original to say about Port Charles and/or its people popping up here….because it truly is the more, the merrier, as far as I’m concerned! But enough with the glowing superlatives to describe the distinct nature of these threads….the most expedient way to define them is “simply the best!” and for that, we must, first and foremost, thank… Read more »