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I remember thinking GH looked generic and washed out even by the mid-late '90s. It often looked to me like someone had just put out a fire moments before filming began. I think Disney buying ABC ruined most of the look of the shows. I know OLTL has a much more distinctive look up to about 1994 or 1995 than it ever had afterward.

I've stopped watching the show again. It's better than it was, but it still feels clumsily plot-driven and outside of some select moments, lacking in any real meaning or heart. I also don't care about most of the characters constantly being shoved at viewers.

A good reminder of the true motivations of "progressive" figures like Ro Khanna and many other Bernie supporters who gave this man a huge platform over East Palestine. They're just not as honest as this headcase grifter is.

@Vee Thanks for finding the bts footage of him on Twin Peaks. Very moving. I know he had a very troubled life, but I hope he is at peace.

If we're going to keep getting so many ugly laws, can someone in California please pass a law saying no gay men can be on DAYS while Ron Carlivati is headwriter.

This is the same piece of [!@#$%^&*] who skipped over to Lisa Murkowski to show her mean tweets.

You could really see Guza's contempt for that character (and likely the women who had helped write the rape story) when he had Lucky tell Liz the only time she was of worth to him was when she was bleeding in the snow after being raped. I never really liked JJ Lucky, honestly, or the punishing, misogynist nostalgia that surrounded his take on the character, and that moment will always cement why.

Glad to know this video is still around, as it makes that story much more interesting than it ever was, IIRC.

There's a lot of confusion about whether Brenda Brock ever got any exit. I don't think Eli, the HIV-positive boy Carlotta adopted, did either.

March 12, 1981. The full episode is on Youtube. There is the NBC bit at the start but I wonder if they got this from when AOL was running 80-81 AW (I see that Texas, which they also ran, is on afterward). Thanks for finding that.

I'd say they did too. The end result is usually bringing in another kid, which rarely ends well. They should just end the show.

I do think Sara was still needed on GL in the early to mid '80s because of continuity, as the show was full of recasts and new characters. Did anyone really care about Claire, or RVV Ed, etc. as hospital figures?

Thanks! (you too @watson71)

I haven't listened to all of them either but there's some great material. This one was especially interesting to me because I could compare it to the way Lemay wrote about it (claiming Val Dufour took the spotlight away from Susan Sullivan, and so on). Ah. Thanks for letting me know. I think S&H was later but there was probably another show with similar footage. I knew the crash would not have been anything special, with budget limitations, it's just the rare choice to have different credits and no music that fascinates me. I am not sure how many times AW ever did that.

Listened to this old upload for the first time in full yesterday. Listening to this reminded me of the various times Lemay had leading ladies having complete breakdowns, to the point of sedation or needing serious treatment (Alice several times, Pat at least once, Lenore here). I suppose this was part of the era and how it viewed women, but it's such a contrast to the idea Lemay gave of wanting to avoid melodrama. I wonder if Susan Sullivan was trying to sound like Judith Barcroft at this point. I barely "hear" Susan at all. The '80s were, overall, a wash for women in soaps, but I do think as a whole the women of Bay City became stronger. Even the most generic of ingenues, like Amanda, rarely got this treatment. The closest (albeit much worse in writing) to these sedations and breakdowns was what DePriest did with Donna, which was, for me, completely unwatchable and horribly damaging to the character. I wish I could see the closing credits of Walter's car in flames. It must have been a harrowing visual at the time.

Thanks for finding that, @victoria foxton

Based on the writing for heroines on JFP's soaps, I'd put it more on her. That would have been a good use of Annabelle, who seemed like one of those characters who mostly just served plot anyway. Tony was often unwatchable to me under Marland. He hasn't been as bad in later material for me but I think there's just something to Greg Beecroft which is difficult (that may be why he worked so well as Brock on ATWT, even if he was apparently a pain offcamera).

101! What a life. I hope someone interviewed her in later years.

Could have been a number of women as so many were going at that point (Elvera Roussel, Kathleen Cullen, etc.).

I don't know who they are, or if they have another account. I certainly don't begrudge anyone posting the links. Many people enjoy them.