I agree Timm. This Morgan has become a sulky child instead of the almost grown man that he is. I’m so sick of that look on his face all the time. I hope they re-cast too.

Yeah, Harry. Morgan is either sulking because he didn’t get the cookies and favorite ice-cream he wanted……OR, walks around with eyes half-shut, seemingly asleep.

Bryan is doing very well..
He has worked hard and has really grown into his roll.
when called for he can give great performances..
When Bryan and Maurice face-off there is electricity!

Either way, Rebecca, I hear the actor is in hot water for threatening a “Fan” on Twitter? We may get a recast, regardless? su0000?

Timmm…as a poster just so inaccurately stated…there is “no correct call” nor is anyone an authority on story or actor. As usual, you are gracious in your response. I strongly adhere to my opinion that Craig is not only good…but a very good actor…

I did read about the incident you mentioned. Didn’t see the Twitter exchange, but from what I gathered a viewer insulted him…then Craig’s parents…defended him..and then either his dad or both he and his dad made some threatening statement back to the viewer. Conflicting info unless the actual Twitter exchange is still out there in cyber town….

You’re right, Shay. Neither one has the wherewithal to express into their acting the melodrama ( in technicolor) they lived under the tutelage of their parents.

LOL, Shay….I had posted a few days ago that Craig’s new hair cut is due to the fact he’s balding. I noticed his hair was thinning on his cranium….before he sort of shaved his head. For some reason, my post did not make it. Head-shaving when balding has become the norm to young men. My brother told me….LOL.

Su…I agree with you regarding Sonny and Morgan’s scenes. They’re dynamic! As an aside, Craig plays perfectly into the Corinthos role…bad boy good looks with ANY hairstyle

well said Michele. I hope the story is done in a way that educates fans about the disorder of Bipolar and continues to show the acting talents of Sonny. Morgan, Carly, Michael, Dante & Christine. Bipolar is really a family issue.

Maurice and Laura did a great job!

So because GH is a soap opera and is fictional the realities of the bipolar disorder should not be discussed. Morgan should simply get medication and nothing more said? Yet they analyze why a rape and/or murder took place all the time. GH should show Sonny, Carly, and Morgan in conference with doctors. GH should show Sonny and Carly having to deal with a non compliant Morgan, etc. etc. Life is not all sunshine and roses.

It’s possible for a soap (or any other genre) to be both fictional and logical, su0000. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

It’s been done before (and even on GH). And it’s generally been better at sustaining long-term ratings than the “it doesn’t have to make sense, it’s a soap” approach.

Nobody’s denying that soaps have their hilarious built-in implausibilities: people back from the dead, amnesia at an alarmingly high rate, children that the parents didn’t know existed. But it’s possible to write within that and get the details right. It tends to make it easier for most people to suspend disbelief and get caught up in what they’re watching.

hi Mary..
I’d imagine none are like bipolar Sharon Y&R..
burning down houses, making families believe they are or are not the child’s parents, breaking laws, plotting horrible deeds and doing a variety of bipolar soap entertainment crazy drama stuff, living on the fiction side of life?
All I learned from Sharon’s bipolarism is if she doesn’t take her pills everyone best take cover ..
that is soap opera bipolar lol …

GH has an opportunity to actually tell a story. GH fans were tired of all the choppy writing and stories that didnt connect with a beginning, middle and end. Here is their chance. They can also help an educate fans BUT Bryan cannot handle it. Maurice and Laura can. If Morgan is not casted right, the story falls flat!

@Michael ( not Fairman).
Your post is so on the mark, I am left speechless. You have said it all, clearly and without criticism, but only stating the facts.
I wish I could maintain my dignity when I speak of Sonny, but I cannot see straight when he even comes to mind. …..I see orange, ahem, I mean; RED !
The idea of mob families is defunct, as far as I’m concerned. I am so not impressed by this man….as the character. Bad, bad representation of Godfather of the night…or Spiro. It is a mockery.
I do agree with Timmm that Sonny stepped up to the plate with Carly bemoaning their screwed-up son….yet, I was not impressed. Carly, the Mary Magdalene of GH, was not credible because I cannot erase how indifferent she has been toward her children….that is, putting Sonny first. As a mother myself, her devil-may-care attitude, just doesn’t compute. And, Sonny? I was so unaffected by his acting….he might as well have been talking about the weather.
What happens when Sonny loses his grip on his organization or reality? Or, if he expires? Who will take the reins? Not Michael! Morgan? That’s a laugh. Will he groom TJ? Please, let it be the end of an era, and call it quits. Just sayin’. Don’t be mad, anybody.

Yes, the Corinthos clan is a big part of the show and unfortunately I think the show’s insistence on continuing to focus on them and the mob related stories is what is dragging it down. At the peak of their popularity, the soaps were romantic escapism with stories built around starcrossed lovers and their fight to overcome the obstacles in their way; Luke and Laura’s wild adventures in the 80’s boiled down to the nice girl and the guy from the wrong side of the tracks trying to be together. People can turn on the news to hear about violence, the soaps should be about the lush fantasy romances they dream about having.

But it hasn’t always been, and there’s no reason it couldn’t not-be again.

For example, the Hardys were also once a “big part” of the show and are no longer. And the Scorpios. And the Quartermaines certainly don’t have anything like the presence they used to have. So it’s entirely possible to diminish a family’s importance on a show if TPTB choose to do so.

I’m not sure how far Alan goes back with GH, but I’d definitely argue that those of us who have been viewers since before Sonny was even around have the right to remember that the show existed (and quite well) without the Corinthoses and to think that their air time could be better used. I can accept that they’re now an important part of the canvas and their stories will continue to play out, but I have no desire to return to the days when they and the mob were the focus of the show. Shifting away from that was one of the smarter and more perceptive things that Valentini-Carlivati did (in their first year or year and a half; I certainly wouldn’t make that argument about the last two years, although I’d bet money that the renewed mob presence was an ABC idea).

I can’t believe that ABC (because that’s where I think this is all coming from, not the new writers) thinks more of a focus on Sonny is the ticket to better ratings. It might be OK if the focus wouldn’t be the mob part but instead the family-dynamics part, but I’m sensing we’re in for more mob-mob-mob, which is what almost got the show cancelled a few years ago.

Whatever they do, I hope it’s done with some balance; that’s something this show really needs where the mob is concerned.

Regarding the Morgan story specifically, I’m not opposed to exploring this, given that the genetic connection on bipolar disorder is a reality, but I agree with someone above who said that having Carly and Sonny forced to deal with the fact that they’ve been lousy parents would be a more interesting story. (But of course the show will not go that route, because it will never let Sonny be portrayed for exactly what he is and the mob lifestyle portrayed for what it really is. That brief period in which Michael handed his parents their heads and called them out for the lousy human beings they are was probably the closest we’ll ever get to that.)

Sonny and Carly are awful parents in every sense of the word going back to how they took Michael from AJ. They have consistently lived a lifestyle that has repeatedly put themselves as well as their children in danger. And don’t forget that Sonny killed AJ and Carly helped him cover it up so she wouldn’t lose the love of her life.

Maybe it was the writing but when I watched the scenes all I saw was Sonny making it about himself — “What if I gave this to my son?” — and Carly telling Sonny not to blame himself.

I pity poor lil Avery growing up in that household.

Meant Jax… not Max!

Yes I think we can agree on that Rose. If I remember correctly Morgan was upset when he was sent away, and was VERY attached to Jax. We can only assume there were a lot of visits, calls, etc… Carly was a better mom then. She wanted Jax to be Morgan’s father, wanted Jax to influence Morgan, to be exposed to his world instead of Sonny’s. Unfortunately, though Jax tried to stay involved in Morgan’s life Sonny re-entered the picture. And yes, as I too stated in my post above Morgan has always seemed lost in Michael’s shadow. The one-way rivalry is palpable. (I never faulted Michael though…he has always been, and still is, good.

Also agree…both actors/Morgan and Kiki… have been knocking it outta the park Kudos to both!

Su0000,

Why is it that you have to constantly bash/disagree with everyone else’s opinions and story wishes? My great grandmother, grandmother, my cousin and even I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It can be a debilitating disease that not only affects the person surviving with it, but also friends and family members of the person diagnosed with it. GH was at its best when it touched on serious topics and issues such as Breast Cancer, Rape, and Bipolar disorder. So, by all means, I hope GH goes down this road again and has a chance to educate viewers more on this disease.

Entertainment and exaggeration are not automatically connected, su0000. As T has pointed out here and others have pointed out elsewhere, it’s possible to write a realistic story around a medical or social issue and have it be entertaining. It’s been done, quite successfully, on GH and elsewhere (and it used to be the norm). When it’s exaggerated (as you chose to term it), that’s a choice made by TPTB and/or the writers, and they can make a different choice.

If they’re up to the task, of course.

(And seriously—you’re using Sharon’s storyline on Y&R as an example of how it should be done, when you’ve done nothing but bash it at every opportunity [and I agree]?)

Su, it is real life….and, as I have said so many times before, soaps may be fictional, but even fiction mimics real life, with a few twists and turns, here and there. C’mon, su….every essay we wrote in school was fiction; but, based on reality. From where else would we draw our thoughts and conclusions? It is the same with wring for a soap or a novel. It does not make it a documentary. The majority of viewers expect this, they want to understand what they are watching….without understanding there’s no involvement?
The Sharon ‘mishap’ was handled horribly, you’re right. This is why I keep insisting that Morgan should be recast if this is the way the storyline goes. It would be a great story, if told with substance and TPTB are well-informed. But, by the same token, it would be a great tragedy if Craig assumed the characterization. Unless he morphs into this unparalleled actor overnight, he will not be able to carry this character through. So, I also agree, to let sleeping dogs lie, and just leave Morgan as a spoiled brat, or suffering the consequences the feeling of abandonment his parents stamped on him. Gloria’s post says it best.
I also agree with tml. Morgan, as a screw-up, makes much more sense. Later, gator.

Correction…writing for a soap….not wring

Michael (not Fairman)..
sure, but–
has Sharon Y&R been written factually, any info about bipolarism outside of her crazy deeds, and she has done some really breaking laws crazy stuff, not helpful to and real bipolar people..
Sharon’s bipolarism has been written for soap drama entertainment.
And she was written by the same two writers who would now be Morgans bipolar stuff, if they go with it.

even the Doctors who treat bipolar people do not fully understand it, no way in hades will a soap opera writer who writes drama for entertainment.

T..
I do not bash, anyone.. I disagreed..
I speak my mind .. and I spoke up on how ridiculous it would be to write a life long story of Bipolarism for Morgan,, yes- lifelong, it is not curable.

Bipolarism is -different- with every patient.
Again- Doctors do not fully understand bipolarism because it is not the same for all.
there are different degrees, sometime there are -other mental factors- included in a bipolar diagnosis.

To attempt to inform anyone on bipolars in a soap operas written by writers that hold no medical degrees to be able to represent bipolar of –one– person to match millions yes millions each with their type of bipolarism, is ridiculous.

Soap opera Bipolarism is not going to portray every aspect, every treatment, every sign. People will see this and it well may be that… it is different with all.

It will in fact be written as drama , a soap drama.
It can not be done properly in a fictional written for drama soap..
rape, cancer is very different to write than bipolars..

the messed up writing of bipolar Sharon Y&R is what you will get.

I see cancer stories being written terribly.
Y&R cancer story was about Erectile Disfunction.
I seen transplant stories very very far from factual.
I seen rape stories where after there was a wedding.
I have Sharon/Y&R bipolar story being written with DNA changing crimes, down houses, etc written for soap drama.
Bipolarism is not for soap opera drama.

Also-
It depends on the writers, how they would portray bipolarism.
(( and they horribly with bipolar Sharon.))
Biopolarism is very tough thing to deal with in a soap story real life bipolarism is not wholly understood.
Agnes Nixon may be able to pull it off, maybe, Jean and Shelly, no.

Have to agree su doesn’t make a habit of “bashing” people…except complainers when they come out in full force. On the other hand she is GH’s biggest cheerleader (to a fault sometimes in my estimation) who I can disagree with at times, but wears invisible Teflon armour when it comes to all the criticism she takes. I do admire her spirit.

@Rose…..three cheers for su0000. ….could not have described su better myself. She is wonderfully resilient. You hear, su?? We love you.