Dion
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I remember Sunset Beach had a few issues (Ashley Hamilton being replaced by Eddie Cribrian, Kelly Hu and Adrienne Frantz* being let go etc), and the show ended up doing a flashback week of clip shows about seven months in (August 1997?) to give them an extra week while they retooled. The most notable change they made during the retooling was changing the theme song to something a little bit more upbeat (which IIRC was based on one of the show's already existing musical cues). And then after a few more departures and recasts there was that murder week at the start of the show's second year, followed by a few new arrivals. After that I think the show mostly stabilized for the rest of its three year run (Shockwave aside, pun intended lol). *In Frantz's case, her character Tiffany was actually temporarily recast and then written off.
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Minor quibble but Nikolai Cassadine being born in 1852 would mean that he was in his 90s when Victor and Tony were born and in his 60s when Mikkos was born, which does not seem very likely for a family obsessed with heirs and spares. Would have been more plausible if they'd said he was born anywhere from about 1880 - 1900. Alexis also said that Nikolai was the tie between Danny and Charlotte omitting any mention of who Nikolai would've had children with, which makes me wonder if they're trying to further minimize their relation by making Mikkos and Victor the product of different mothers. That would at least explain the seemingly large age gap between Mikkos and his younger brothers if it was like a Bing Crosby type situation.
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Yes, I remember when they went to Robin and she consulted her journal and said that Ethan couldn't be Robert's as he was in Port Charles during that time. I can't remember if they mentioned Mr Big by name, but it was at least strongly implied that it was during that time when Ethan's conception took place. And tbf, I think the GH of 1987 did have Robert and Holly as having serious marital problems, in fact I think it was even said that Holly had cheated on Robert but had decided to work things out with him when she supposedly died. So in my mind it was always somewhat easy to imagine that the man Holly cheated with was Luke, even if I didn't completely buy that Luke would cheat on Laura. What the 2009 story did ignore though was Holly's presumed death. I think her 1992 return had explained at least some of the years she was dead as being in a coma for a period of time, so there was speculation that Ethan was a coma baby snatched away from Holly, but in the end it was revealed that Holly had given him up willingly with no mention of her presumed death. I think Tracy was just being her usual insecure self whenever another woman being around Luke was concerned, whether it was Skye, Laura, Holly or Anna. It was pretty much all the writers wrote for her back then, either she was insecure about Luke when some other woman was on the scene or mad at Luke for some scheme he had going.
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I watched it over the past week and damn that was the best show I watched in years.
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Um yeah so I guess after the brief Spoiler flashfoward at the end of tonight's finale means that Spoiler Rachel is coming back
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Michael and BLQ are second cousins. Michael is AJ Quartermaine's biological child and Brook-Lyn is Ned's.
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In NZ we just got the regular credits on the black screen (on TVNZ+) and I think thats what they got elsewhere too
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Tbf, it was really Julian who killed Kendra indirectly, as he'd sabotaged Brad's car in the hopes of preventing him from telling all about Wiley being Michael and Nelle's kid but didn't count on Lucas driving the car and crashing it. yes Kendra was a Dawn of Day cult member. One of the initiation rites for Dawn of Day was for inductees to confess a secret they'd never told anyone (and thus be open to blackmail if they tried to leave the cult presumably). Kristina apparently had no secrets at the time so she lied and made up that Alexis had hit Kiefer on purpose. Shiloh told Kendra this offscreen and that's what led to Kendra coming after Alexis. Me too, and I'm somebody here actually suggested the same thing at the time.
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I'll preface this by saying that I don't know how close Marlena and Maggie were back in the 70s and 80s before Marlena was presumed dead. But I do seem to recall that they didn't have much to do with each other in the 90s. By 2001, Maggie had been supporting role for the past decade since her affair storyline with Neil Curtis had pretty much flopped back in '91. Meanwhile, Marlena's previous confidants, Laura and Kim were no longer around. Kate (who'd been close with Marlena back when Deborah Adair was in the role) was too busy warring with Sami for a close friendship with Marlena to remain plausible, while Hope and Marlena's friendship were severely strained because of the whole Princess Gina/sub sex/baby paternity drama. And of course Lexie was too preoccupied with Isaac and being tempted over to the dark side to be friends with Marlena. So you end up with Marlena and Maggie as best friends by default, although I assume they did have some sort of friendship back in the day so its not as if it came entirely out of nowhere.
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I'm not even sure Libby's return has aired yet. Does anyone else know her first airdate? It's been spoiled for so long now, likely due to the new filming schedule where they finish up the year in June and then go dark for much longer due to there only being 3 episodes a week produced.
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https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/madeleine-mccarthy-shortland-street-co-star-romance/ Exit interview for Madeleine McCarthy Also as a side note the author of this article is Elisabeth Easther - who played Carla. I also just noticed that she did the Nicole story I posted back in September.
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Nicole was axed (I mean with the reduction, I think we could have guessed that but this confirms it) https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/sally-martin-life-after-shortland-street/
