I couldn’t agree more about Jamie’s interactions with Skillz and Brooke! I mean, I lvoe that kid, period, but he’s SO good with them.

It’s funny to hear people say that TV seasons are long… it wasn’t so long ago that the typical season of a show featured anywhere from 28-34 episodes. Now, we’re lucky to get 20-24.

As for the role of parents on the show, sorry, but I don’t know a lot of 20somethings who don’t have at least SOME interaction with the adults in their lives! Television would love nothing more than to convince us that anyone over the age of 30 — and thus, outside the desired demographic targeted by advertisers — doesn’t exist, but it simply isn’t true! And trying to create a world in which it is rings false. The best stories - especially when it comes to soaps, which, in the end, OTH is, involve multiple generations.

You and Shana both mention Lindsay, and I’d say this: They did such a great job of making her a player who interacts with all the characters that it didn’t need to be part of the Peyton/Lindsay/Lucas story. I’d have liked to have Haley turn to Lindsay as a shoulder to cry on. Same with Mouth: Since he’s supposed to be covering OTH’s games, it would make sense to have him bond with the injured player. Maybe even have the injured player confide in him, creating a situation where Mouth has to decide whether to be a true journalist and report the story, or be a friend to this kid. It could alsocreate a great situation in which Mouth has to decide whether or not to tell Lucas that his star player is injured.

I’ve complained in the past about Mouth being a satellite character who basically orbits around the bigger players. I love nothing more than a well-integrated cast where even bit players have a role in every episode. What’s the point of making fans care about him — or, more importantly, about him and Brooke’s assistant — if you’re not going to play them?

But as always, that’s just my two cents…

I haven’t been watching GH for a while now. Don’t know if I sould go back.

ANTM product placement was off the hook. I really don’t know how they fit it all in. Loved Elle Macpherson though.

I agree, Mouth’s is almost ALWAYS the weak link, but I really like him with that girl whose name I can’t remember right now. I just really hate when a show allows characters to completely drop for episodes at a time. They’ve barely used Daphne Zuniga, who is just being wasted. She’s so much fun!

I really like how they have gradually reintroduced characters from the past four years. It was nice to see Rachel but I was more pumped seeing Tim last week. We haven’t seen him since season three. I hear they are bringing back cameos of others in future episodes.

I like the fact that they got rid of most of the parents/adults. I wasn’t a fan of any of them with the exception of Dan. They need to have more Dan and they need to bring him back into his snide and evil glory that he was in the earlier seasons.

Face it, American TV seasons are so long that they need filler episodes. I think these past few episodes have been quite good for filler episodes. Expect the next episode to be better leading into the midseason wedding.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Mouth and Lindsay missing from this week’s episode. It was a strong one anyway, and Mouth’s storyline was the weakest in last week’s ep.