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Thanks @chrisml I didn't see you'd posted it here before I put it in the DS thread. I just recently saw that David and Susan Sullivan did a Big Finish audio together for Dark Shadows. It's still available for purchase on the Big Finish website if anyone wants to hear it. Panic | The Dark Shadows Wiki | Fandom

There's a certain long, slow death for complexity and story with the black characters on the show starting in 1994 that makes the material easier to forget. Charles Malik Whitfield was the first Ben. Charles Malik Whitfield - IMDb

That definitely helps.

On a positive note, Lucas does have a grandson. List of Days of Our Lives characters introduced in the 2020s - Wikipedia

That used to annoy me to no end in the late '90s and the '00s, but the later versions with even the characters knowing how absurd the constant use is do amuse me.

Thanks as always @slick jones

If I had to guess, I'd say the show or the network thought he was too goofy and not a leading man. It's always easier for a soap to tell a story about a stalwart man and an out-of-control woman, and that's what we got once lap dance Rachel arrived. I'd still love to know what went on with the Kevin recasts. If the idea was Geiger being too short, Armstrong was certainly taller, but not much else. I wonder if they were told Geiger was being let go by the network, were at a loss, and someone remembered Jack Armstrong for how good he looked in Speedos on Eden (Diana Barton was also cast on Y&R around this time so clearly someone in soapworld was a fan). Armstrong's assets would have been put to better use on OLTL about 15 years later, but not in 1994. It takes a lot for me to say an actor was much better as a performer on a softcore Playboy soap than on OLTL or his previous flop stint on AMC, but Armstrong genuinely was. Not just in the expected, but even his acting. Maybe he was better in his primetime work than on soaps...I have not watched any of that.

Thanks. Erika does a great job describing the character, maybe more than we'll get onscreen.

Thanks @Paul Raven I could see Morgan being OK, even if it's odd imagining her doing martial arts, but van Dusen bored the hell out of me on Y&R and PC. Not sure how his primetime work fared.

Nice to see another BB fan on here (I think most either quit the board or the show...). Rachel certainly deserves the gig after carrying the first half of the season on her back.

I did think Frannie saying it was a little funny, but Lisa saying it was perfect. My only complaint with the story is I think they cleaned Susan up a little too much, I guess to keep her as a viable character. I prefer how sharp she was when she first came back.

She and her husband were extremely wealthy. She had multiple VCRs and constantly taped and kept the tapes in storage facilities. As time passed, she left her house less and less frequently. There were 6 hour and 8 hour tapes, although I'm not sure if there were when she started taping.

I love the very dramatic repetitions of "Susan Stewart." One of those things that makes soaps what they are.

Rachel Reilly is popping back up on B&B for a few episodes in November. 'Big Brother' star Rachel Reilly to return to 'The Bold and the Beautiful' (exclusive)

If anyone wants to watch the full documentary:

Unfortunately, those are the people who run the country and own the press. They will eat this up. And anyone who doesn't will nod and move along, as always. I haven't seen it getting much attention aside from people who are having a few laughs at him going on about Nordics.

Thanks @Soaplovers ! Here's another pilot on their channel I'd never heard about - an Invisible Man pilot with Kyle Maclachlan.

That's the best description of what shifted. I do respect Marland not taking John too far over the edge, because the story that was going on under early Marland where he was obsessing over Sierra could have easily gone that route (I remember Ryan's Hope having a similar story and I think it ended with Roger Coleridge nearly raping a woman [and John did have that history]). Still, much as I bemoan daytime of recent decades where so many "good" characters go around murdering or attempted murdering, I would have enjoyed seeing John in a more aggressive role during James' return.

The GL logo is such a good trip back to their '50s and '60s openings but could still work for today.

I don't think it would have to be that extreme, although given what GL was by then...

Sorry to hear that. Will you miss the show?

You're right. If the show had stayed on then bringing him back older and not just the psycho killer might have been interesting.

Will.

I didn't think Wright was very believable as a stripper - admittedly most who are cast on soaps aren't going to be - but I didn't have a problem with her as an underdog. Wright had a very hard energy, and it just got harder as the show went along. The show rarely let Cassie be an underdog, but when they did, I thought Wright sold it, even in stories I thought were bad and unbelievable (like the forced estrangement from Reva after Richard died). I think Rauch just didn't care very much about Vanessa. I know he later went off on "Matessa" fans for being entitled, but his anger there seemed to be about how much he'd done for them as a couple. As a character, he did sweet [!@#$%^&*] all for Vanessa. Wasn't there a claim on here that Cassie was intended to be a major rival for Reva but Kim wanted them to not be at odds? I would guess that Watros made it known well in advance that she was leaving. As for fans who were upset that Dinah was being ruined to prop other characters, all I have to say is: