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I think you're on to something there, see also teenage Laura on General Hospital.

There was Paul Walker (later of Fast and Furious fame) as Brandon Collins, Victoria's only actual high school age peer who was just used as a talk to for Victoria to obsess over Ryan. It's a shame Victoria never became friends with the world's most wholesome drug addicted pregnant teen that Cricket was helping during a brief storyline in between her lengthy ones with David Kimble and Michael Baldwin.

She had LASIK eye surgery on November 7th, 2001 - shortly after leaving the show (she was actually still airing til the end of the month) which may or may not have caused her to develop Dysautonomia. https://www.instagram.com/p/BMhcMy7gLtY/

No it was for a job in the Netherlands where they were developing some kind of treatment for...something. I wasn't really paying attention to whatever the drug was. The kids were to join them later I think, I'm not sure. Yeah what was the point of writing in Ngahuia's pregnancy just to kill the baby off like last time.

Yes please!

I'd love it if the show went to Disneyland like all of those ABC sitcoms started doing after Disney bought them. Though, probably wouldn't be able to top Ned and Lois at Coney Island.

Tom P as Dante may have been just a rumor but it was fairly widespread in early 2009. Of course once Dominic was cast it was fairly obvious he was going to turn out to be Dante.

I found it amusing that the writers picked Auckland of all places to send Liesl. I wonder if her conference will be at the new convention centre, I went to the open day two weeks ago lol

I wasn;t really watching the show at the time, but I vaguely remember Faye being obsessed with Jim Robinson (Alan Dale) so he and Dorothy Burke (Maggie Dence) pretended to be involved to try and put her off

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.

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.

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.

I watched it over the past week and damn that was the best show I watched in years.

Mikkos' cousin Petros I believe, during the Aztec treasure storyline. I think you might be at least partially correct. In any case, I believe Laura #2 ended up falling for Scotty, while being pursued by Blackie and then left town brokenhearted after Scotty married Susan.

Oh I just remembered that Jimmy-Lee and Celia were like second cousins once removed or something.

I wouldn't be surprised if at the most convenient time it comes out that Victor Cassadine was adopted or something. Like how on Days John suddenly found out Colleen Brady wasn't his mother after all, just before Brady and Theresa started hooking up.

Um yeah so I guess after the brief Spoiler flashfoward at the end of tonight's finale means that Spoiler Rachel is coming back

Michael and BLQ are second cousins. Michael is AJ Quartermaine's biological child and Brook-Lyn is Ned's.

In NZ we just got the regular credits on the black screen (on TVNZ+) and I think thats what they got elsewhere too

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

Patsy was pregnant when Kimberly had the miscarriage but that wasn't the story she refused to play. But Patsy did feel uncomfortable enough about it that when she got pregnant again in early 1990 (and Kim got pregnant, but didn't know if it was Shane's or Cal's) she refused to play out a stillbirth. So they replaced her with Anne Howard who lasted a few months and in the end Kim ended up not having a stillbirth but rather gave birth to Jeannie Theresa off-screen in LA (though Shane did go and visit Jeannie just after she was born but I think Kim wasn't seen). Patsy then returned either around the end of the year or early 1991. https://www.welovesoaps.net/2009/07/wls-interview-patsy-pease-part-three.html