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I couldn't remember just when the Alcazar stuff was. 2006 probably could keep her around that age, unless they want more women in a slightly older group as Emma/Joss might take up a lot of space (I don't think Trina will be on much longer).

I found GL watchable, at times entertaining, during the Rauch/B&E period. The wheels come off in the last year or two and looking back I know what I was initially fine with was a big mess in the long run (the Santoses and San Cristobel - although GL actually did manage to move away from them, which some soaps never do). It wasn't until the Labines came in with Rauch that something shifted for me and the show started to feel very sour and unpleasant. It wasn't just their fault, but I lost my interest and other than a brief period in the last months of 2002 that didn't change (and then Conboy/Weston and the later arrival of Jonathan finished my viewing experience until the cancelation news). As for Alan...Ron Raines was a decent enough actor. I wasn't surprised that he had a real following onstage, in musicals. I just don't think he was tough enough or sexy enough to be Alan. To be Alan you need to be cutthroat and charismatic. Chris Bernau was a very tough act to follow. I would have chosen Dennis Parlato, although he was still on Loving at the time Alan was cast. I would have waited a lot longer to find a more suitable figure, whether it be Dennis or someone else. So Solita was the good girl? I think the DID element also confused people, especially as the end, IIRC, implied that she had become the bad sister again.

She should probably be in her early 20s, maybe aged up to late 20s now. My feelings on Gina depend on the role, but she would suit Skye.

Thanks. I think I or someone else posted a Grover interview years ago from her Doctors run (I think @Paul Raven did too) - no idea if any of that is still up.

I'd say bring back Carrie Genzel, but that probably isn't likely. Maybe Jamie Luner is still on the line. I forgot they could just do Dillon/Lulu again, if she isn't paired up with Cody.

Thanks.

If Tommy and Simone hadn't been shrugged off the show would have had more building blocks in place all the way back to the '90s. I imagine she would have had a big involvement in Damian's murder story. After that she probably would have been written out early in Guza's second run, like Keesha. I'm just sorry we never got to see more of Rosalind Cash as she was such a legend.

Thanks for watching.

I am surprised we have never seen Skye in the last decade - I guess Robin is retired. Dillon returning would make sense. He'd probably end up with Sasha, just for extra Tracy fatigue. I'd like to say those days are done but I'll never stop being wary.

He'll probably be another Q great-grandchild who only appears a year or two and never does much - somewhere between Dillon and Maya Ward. But you never know.

Thanks @GymnastGuy I think a few of the people here mentioned that Grover did a good job on The Doctors. (was this after she was done with The Doctors - does anyone know?)

Thanks. I have never cared about Sonny, so I only knew the bare bones. I appreciate the extra info.

I'm still here for Heather Rattray... (to connect this to GH...hell, let's bring her out of retirement to play Heather Webber, and just say she had a poisoned funny bone leading to a face transplant) I'm surprised they even bothered. A year and a half has passed. The historian comes through! I have to admit I am in the dark about most of Adela's history beyond the origins (that she was abused and then pushed down the stairs and died). What all did they change with her?

I've read about the scenes of Mike at the picnic, giving an angry drunk speech about Vietnam, but I had never seen any glimpse of them. You can still tell it's James Kiberd of course, with those cheekbones and that voice, but he does seem very different on Loving than just five years later at AMC. I think the most jarring was the 1984 clips Eric recently gave us where he looked extremely blonde.

When did they leave to start Texas? Anytime I try to watch this period it does seem lethargic, although I know the bad stuff is still on the way. Thanks for reminding me - a few from January or February 1980 had been on Youtube for years but I don't remember ever seeing the May 1980 episodes put up today. This opens with the craziest scene. I knew that Liza was in constant danger in the late '70s/early '80s but I never thought I'd see her in a full on choreographed fight sequence! Sherry goes all in. What a treasure she was. I don't think @amybrickwallace has posted here in a while but if they still do they might enjoy this.

Thanks for replying @EricMontreal22 as I wasn't sure anyone would want to read that wall of words. Curtis did have more to do pre-reboot, which is why some fans thought there'd be more of him this time around, but you're right he is not a central character. I don't remember the guest character to regular character disparity being so clear before the Amazon revival. If they miraculously get another year, I hope this can be worked out.

Not for several years. I wasn't sure if ATWT or GL hired him first - looking at IMDB (which, bewilderingly, only credits him at OLTL from 09-12), it was ATWT first. At the time I think he had an SPW interview which mentioned being out and he was grateful for the chance to come back. After his brief ATWT stint in 1999 he then got a bit more on there and a bit on GL before returning to OLTL in 2002. The story was confusing even for the time, which is saying a lot, but at least it was compelling, unlike others of that time like the trucking vendetta or Simon's parentage (I think I've had to ask you all on here about 3 times if he was actually Alex's brother or not). Michelle Forbes was so dynamic, a once-in-a-generation soap casting, on a show that needed new female blood. And Long didn't have long (no pun intended) to write for her before the lengthy strike kicked in. I can see why she wanted to do whatever she could with Forbes, even pairing her with Roger near the end when they knew she was leaving. In another life Forbes and Zaslow would have been one hell of a pairing for film or TV. I always think of Robert Newman talking with SOD in the late '90s about how he still had people asking him to explain the Sonni/Solita storyline.

They then kill him off in order to give Ben his money, which I thought was short-sighted, not that it mattered as we soon had Ben as an escort and a murderer via retconned sexual abuse (I will never forgive that storyline). I wish they'd considered it so Mitch wouldn't have been flogged again and again on OLTL. It seemed like they mainly gave him the job as a kindness as he had been all but blackballed after abruptly quitting AMC.

I think the number of revivals or near-revivals they had is a show of their success (and even though I wasn't a big fan, the primetime version probably would have stayed on longer if not for the Gulf War preemptions).

Some Italian OLTL footage - from 1984? I am just guessing. I'm not sure if we've seen the OLTL Italian credits before.

Two and a half hours of AMC here, dubbed into Italian. I'm not sure how wide a span of time it encompasses - 1983? 1984? 1985? We go from Tad/Liza to the aftermath of Alex Hunter's murder. Is any of this stuff that wasn't already around?

This must be some kind of catch-up show, maybe up to 93 or 94? I don't know. It's dubbed into Italian as you can hear the actors speaking in their English accents underneath during the interviews. The channel also has a "Ciao Week end" from 1991, with Susan Flannery, John McCook, Daniel McVicar, Jeff Trachta and KKL being interviewed (in English). Trachta sings. There are also comedy sketches or recreations of scenes (?). Is that the first Thorne at 19 minutes or just someone I don't know? The last video is a brief segment showing the people who dub B&B episodes into Italian. If this is already widely known and available, my apologies. Still, it might be a curio for you.

I have a lot of doubts about Hogg in any leadership role after some of his comments on social media, but we'll see. Media darling Marco handing another win to China and continuing Elon's vendetta against South Africa: https://www.yahoo.com/news/rubio-boycott-johannesburgs-g20-meeting-050421512.html

That was a very moving scene, especially considering what Rosalind Cash was going through.

This seemed to happen quite a bit with GL in the mid/late '80s.