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Of course, Schroeder would be bad news... That movie sounds interesting.

I'd love that (even if Frank uses it to bring Violet back...).

I like those ideas. The one where he was dead could have played into Tad's own return from the dead - what if someone claiming to be Bobby shows up years later and they struggle with whether to believe him or not because as far as they know he was murdered as a child?

I would have preferred that to the cliffhanger they used.

The Patrick Clohessy channel on Youtube is uploading Savannah's run. Savannah has a thread on here if any fans want to try to PM the mods to unlock it. Last used in 2014. Homefront is also seemingly up in full, on the YonatanDoron channel.

That would be a lovely idea. It's already become a community center of sorts anyway.

It's hard to imagine where they'd be without Jane. I'm glad they have allowed Tracy to have more layers. I felt the writing for Monica vs Tracy often lacked depth, but Leslie and Jane always gave their best. I was watching a clip on Twitter where Monica was looking at the family tomb and it just reminded me of how ghoulish the show's choices were to slaughter so many Quartermaines. Bless Leslie for playing the material in such an understated way to emphasize the sense of loss Monica had without gnashing teeth. Leslie always underplayed Monica's grief, which made it hit harder. It ends with a quietly sweet moment where she wishes Lila a happy birthday as we see her grave. That would be a great idea, even if Steve will never do it.

That would probably be the most dramatic, but it would make me nauseous.

I'd be surprised if it was anyone else. Either him or Olivia (passing from one Q wife to another)

Thanks so much @Wendy Claudia was just a mess, but that first season was her best, and Kathleen played the hell out of her. I notice she doesn't mention Passions. I wouldn't either... Sometimes I forget that when Kathleen was brought in to play the "older woman" on AMC, she was only 32 years old. (and only 3 years older than Mark LaMura) These days on soaps 50 year old women are written like 18 year olds.

I have a vague memory of that Lesley and Monica scene from the early '10s. Knowing Lester was Leslie's nickname on the set adds a certain sweet footnote to that confrontation. Thank you for sharing Monica's final scenes. In of themselves they aren't anything special, but they are pleasant enough, and after so many losses Monica suffered it's nice to remember her last year was spent with a houseful of people. It's depressing to know Michael probably won't be involved in Monica's death or funeral, but I hope some writer manages to use that for added poignancy - have Jason feel some regret that thanks to him Monica's grandson can't be there for her.

This has two parts. I didn't even know any news programs had a 'soap chat' segment in 2024. Amusing to see Rena have to skirt around the Gio question.

Thanks. I was probably thinking of Nick Benedict as he was the second Phil. I wonder if Rosemary was ever asked. I know there's something poignant in Amy just leaving and never returning but there was good material left unmined for a future appearance. I do hope there's more out there. I know there were a few episodes Rosemary Prinz may have had (unless these were the episodes). And yes anything in color would pop after so many kinescopes - I think we've only ever seen a minute or two, in Ann's boutique.

Thanks @All My Shadows I completely missed those when I looked through that account. The AMC I saw were just Soapnet repeats. Rosemary Prinz is such a wonderful actress. Those scenes with Phil and Amy are tough to take - just the right type of soap performance. I wish they had found a way to bring Amy back sometime before they killed Nick off, even for a visit. Or even after Nick was killed, to meet Charlie. So rare to get the screaming and wailing we get from Ruth late in the second episode too. I sometimes think the show made Ruth too stoic later on. Joe looks oddly different with that side part.

That's such a beautiful image. I'd like to believe that's what she is doing right now.

I was just thinking again recently about her absence and then was reminded in a Donna Mills interview I found yesterday about how important she and Leslie were to Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. Heartbreaking. So many losses for the GH family but this is one that directly affects so many of my GH memories. By the time I started watching GH, Monica was more of a support character, but I still appreciated Leslie's work in any scene she had. There are few soap actors who ever crackled with as much life force as Leslie did. She could often be reserved in drama and wry in comedy, but you never sensed she didn't care. No matter how rote the material might be, she always gave everything she had. I was fascinated when watching her. She was one of the most intelligent actresses soaps ever had. And something she never got enough credit for was just what an easy chemistry she had with all her scene partners, whether in love or war, in giving medical news or being a mother or having a coffee with Bobbie or putting up with Amy's nonsense. She loved the Quartermaines even when the show didn't. I remember her quote about how Gloria Monty had tried to get rid of the family with the Eckers, and by the end, most of the Eckert scenes took place in the Quartermaine living room. I'm sorry she wasn't able to be there during the relative renaissance period of the last few years for the family, but they wouldn't have even gotten to this point without her. I've never forgotten the interview she gave to SOD about how uncomfortable her debut as Monica was because she had to tell her co-stars that Patsy Rahn (Monica #1) had been fired. She was also a huge Elvis fan, and Elvis had recently passed away. Eerie as Elvis had his birthday not long ago. She has some good stories here on this subject: https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/tbt-leslie-charleson-2/

Promo around 7 minutes in.

At around 7 minutes there's a promo with some footage I've never seen (as we have so little of 1985). Is that Stacey getting into a fight with Ava?

Thanks so much.

Insert the why not both gif.

I think if Joanna Going had stayed, the writing would have been more balanced. Vicky tends to scrap with a number of women and the writing is generous toward them, even when the actresses aren't the strongest. The issue here is not only was Joanna Going...going, but there was so much more story in a baby between Vicky and Jamie as well as Vicky sleeping with her sister's husband. If the writing had been better and Jamie had been cast more strongly in these years, I think there was so much more with Vicky and Jamie as a couple that they could have done.

Thanks @Chris B And the beautiful Reed Diamond too.

Why do those thumbnails make me think Maurice is planning to become a magician?

Probably David Tom's first run as I remember him hurling a lot of that abuse at her when he first came back to Genoa City.

You're right. I forgot how long that story was (not counting Adam learning, which went nowhere). I won't disagree about how bad much of their ATWT run was. ATWT was in such dire straits in the early '80s it's amazing how the show managed to turn around by the mid '80s. GL had the opposite track. GL was extremely lucky that it got so many second chances and twists of fate.