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There probably would have been a good chance they knew of him, especially with his ties to Spaulding and his being involved in so much scandal (meaning there would be plenty of photos and articles around they both would have seen), but I agree the mask was silly, clearly just a TV moment.

When the announcement was first made, I did wonder if other plans were in the works. I guess we can always keep hoping, especially as the show has a small core cast.

RIP Wayne Lewis. (he sings near the end of the episode) https://deadline.com/2025/06/wayne-lewis-dead-atlantic-starr-founder-singer-1236426870/

Thanks again @Paul Raven Monica was completely without redeeming qualities at this point. I always found the whole Monica = Carly narrative regressive, as I don't think shows comparing characters so heavily is ever a great idea, but she's actually worse than Carly was. Was it the Pollocks who had Leslie have a miscarriage? Giving her a child, especially by rape, was not a good idea, but a part of me wishes they'd committed to it just to see what story it might have had in later years.

Not to go too off topic but if you ever want to see more of his Search run just look for SFT Summer of 1966 on Youtube.

The most we ever saw was on the "Roger years" tape.

I had totally forgotten that Courtney story. I see Burton was already phoning it in by that point.

Jordana Brewster is making a new movie. https://deadline.com/2025/06/rob-riggle-jordana-brewster-the-pirate-king-1236426287/ Kelly Rutherford posing for a magazine cover with her son. Kelly Rutherford Photographed with Model Son Hermés, 18, Years After Custody Battle

Maybe she's gone back to her music department days?

Still not sure how they got Wiley. Sounds like a YA character. Daisy mostly reminds me of an awful character on Y&R. Still, I can see Sasha liking it as there is or was some fashion figure called Daisy.

Kelly should sing this at the next Nurses' Ball: I suppose it was just a matter of time, as she chose to leave, rather than being let go, but it does make you wonder with Easton (I think Howarth is probably done). I wonder how far the plans went for Jason/Sasha. If they ever did, it was a lazy, bad idea. Britt probably is a last chance saloon for Steve.

Everything with Elon and Trump is a stunt. If people, and the sycophantic press, are talking about their "feud," they are not talking about Republican plans to gut Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA.

I can't fully remember, but I don't think they tried to get Beth Chamberlin back. I think Laibson/McTavish likely saw Beth as old news and wanted to move Philip on; either that or have her return only when Philip was closely tied to a new woman. Thanks as always for these recaps. I think I had stopped watching around this time and mostly kept up by reading in the soap magazines. Bridget's degradation was horrible to watch, as the character had grown so much over the years and was clearly regressed just to be a foil for a "hot" couple viewers had zero investment in.

KMH's Emily was a harbinger for the lack of dignity many characters would face in the last decade of ATWT. On paper, many of the stories given to Melanie Smith's Emily could have been extremely sleazy, but she was treated with respect and understanding in the writing. By 1996 the show went from often not knowing how to write for KMH's Emily to giving her outright reprehensible material. There were breaks from this treatment, but not enough, with even those breaks often being poorly written or just used to make her look even worse (like her grotesque rape story turning into her using her rape to destroy Margo's marriage). By the last years I don't even know what the hell they were doing. Wasn't there some kind of mother-daughter whoring story with Emily and Alison? Wasn't Emily getting beaten up by johns? Whenever I think of how they wrote for KMH's Emily I'm reminded of Pauline Kael's quote about Ann-Margaret's '60s movie persona - calling her "dirty" and saying the people who made the movies "knew what men wanted to do to her." Even as much as ATWT started hiring softcore actors in the mid/late '90s, the Emily treatment was on a whole other level. I have never known what audience they thought they were going to be attracting.

With proper writing I think that could make sense - Lucky's happiest years were in Canada and on the run, not in Port Charles. But the show has never done well at explaining why Lucky is the way he is (among other reasons it's because having an abusive father and a mother who suppressed herself to survive living with her rapist does not make for a well-adjusted son).

https://deadline.com/2025/06/khadiyah-kd-lewis-dead-love-and-hip-hop-atlanta-star-1236425096/

Nina does seem very aimless. I'm not sure what is left for her, unless they want to pair her with Sonny again (which seems unlikely). Maybe she kills Drew and frames someone else.

You're probably right. So maybe they already knew he was going and that's why he is getting this plot.

I agree they could have done more with him, but even if they had tried, I think there was a lot of damage done and the character had just been gone for too long without enough on the current canvas to really make it work. I think Lucky last really had worth as a character when JJ left in 1999. He could have under Greg Vaughan but Geary and Guza spit on that at every turn. They could have done more with him than the icky Kristina/Lucky relationship that seemed to be in the works though. Amazing how Frank has made so many bad choices with Kristina after presumably paying a big price to bring Kate in.

I have a feeling if he does return, they will move him on to someone they see as fresher (like Sasha). Just depends on whether ABC folds.

Very sorry to hear of her passing. Aside from a few clips I've only ever "known" her through scripts and photos, but she along with the rest of the original cast helped make a show that changed daytime forever. We're still talking about one of her major stories on here to this very day.