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  1. Toadie and Terese are two characters who I never would have thought to put together (and never would have been put together were it not for the cancellation, revival and time-skip) but work surprisingly well. Unfortunately it's hard to get invested because it's clear that their marriage is doomed.

  2. 11 hours ago, John said:

    Lisa Lociero did say that she read for Brenda before Olivia. That they were considering recasting brenda in 2007/2008

    They even had that arc on season 1 of Nightshift with the mysterious burns victim - it was hinted strongly that she was Brenda, with the burns being a way to set up a recast.

  3. On 1/30/2024 at 6:06 AM, BrendaB said:

    Cute seeing Sally Field reference Frank Smith & Luke and Laura's return.  1990s GH for the win!

    Just so happens the Luke and Laura Roseanne "crossover" came up on my Youtube.

    The Roseanne/Sandra Bernhard scene is interesting for it being very GH 1993 specific - e.g. the joke about Jason going to take off his shirt for Brenda at the docks (an exaggeration of course) would have dated pretty quickly as she became involved with (and her airtime totally consumed by) Sonny soon after this would have originally aired (and also wasn't Steve Burton rumoured to have had a no shirtless clause in later years?).

     

  4. On 1/24/2024 at 10:10 AM, carolineg said:

    To be fair, Carly has been like this 20 years longer than Diana was around and was killed off.  We will never rid ourselves so easily of Carly lol.

    Yeah and after the Phil Brewer murder was resolved, Diana wasn't really a lead for the remaining 5 - 6 years of the character's run. She was of course involved in the Steven-Lars mess but mainly in a supporting role. Her reign as the drama queen of GH was relatively short-lived.

  5. On 1/18/2024 at 10:03 AM, AMCOLTLLover said:

    Ive decided to watch June 81 and I’m halfway through coz it’s so exciting BUT does someone know when the campus disco will be gone? 

    The closure was announced in September which was where I got up to...I don't think I saw the actual closure but talk of it basically came about as a result of...well I'll let you find that out :)

    On 1/14/2024 at 10:05 AM, AMCOLTLLover said:

    1980 was such a strong year for Alan and Monica and now they are taking their time with that Susan-Alan story. It has become such a snoozefest which is a damn shame.

    Yeah at this point it's basically the Luke and Laura Ice Princess show and the Joe and Heather Diana Taylor murder mystery show. With only a sprinkling of Monica/Alan/Susan and a side dash of Hutch. And speaking of...

    On 1/14/2024 at 10:05 AM, AMCOLTLLover said:

    And what the actual hell ? What is this nonsense with the Hutch trying to stay alive in jail story? I know we all loved Hutch in 1980 but why do we need him? Why is his story needed? I mean they could’ve used him more in that Luke against the Q’s and Cassadines story but nah. This is the most unneeded and most boring storyline in 60 damn years of GH. It’s a shame coz they could’ve done more with Hutch!

    Oh gosh that went on for months!

    18 hours ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

    I don’t know which pairing was worse Felicia and Luke or Anna/Luke ? Anna and Luke always looked uncomfortable lol They are as bad as John and Hope from Days.. ugh.. 

    I hated that Laura and Anna's long awaited - by me at least lol - first interaction was Laura seeing Anna kiss Luke.

  6. On 1/3/2024 at 11:25 AM, Errol said:

    I believe one of the main reasons episode counts fell for some *ahem* actors is due to episode guarantees being reduced in contracts over the years and Frank Valentini taking over as EP in 2012. Previously, you could see out of hand it was to have actors appear in roughly 95% of every episode aired in a single year.

    I remember that for years and years Sonny would always seem to have Wednesdays off...no such luck with Jason though lol

    Thanks @jcar03

  7. On 12/22/2023 at 3:31 AM, DRW50 said:

    What are you thinking of the current show?

    I haven't been watching tbh, seen bits and bobs but it hasn't really attracted my attention. I'll likely watch the last week or so before the show returns in February.

    On 12/22/2023 at 5:34 AM, AMCOLTLLover said:

    OMG! Thank u so much. I am finally able to see episode 50 onwards.. God I love young Chris Warner and I do love my Kirsty.

    U made me the happiest men alive right now with this. I started downloading them episodes straight away lol

    That's nice to hear. I'm glad you have a chance to see them. Just a warning though, episodes 135 and 136 and the following few weeks may be a bit of a hard watch. I won't say why, though its possible you already know or could guess.

  8. A particularly grim UK one:

    On Coronation Street Martin Platt entered into a relationship with 16 year old Katy Harris, who was roughly the same age as his (adopted) daughter Sarah. They'd gotten close as Martin, a nurse, helped Katy deal with her diabetes diagnosis (which these days would probably rightfully considered grooming, though not illegal then or now since Katy was above the age of consent in the UK). As you would expect, Katy's parents - Tommy and Angela - weren't happy about this, particularly Tommy. After about a year or so, Katy fell pregnant by Martin, which angered Tommy even more.

    Meanwhile, Sally Webster was cheating on her husband Kevin with her boss. Tommy grew suspicious about her behaviour and after Angela overheard Gail (Martin's ex wife) and Sally talking about the affair, she and Tommy came to the erroneous conclusion that Sally was having an affair with Martin since Martin and Sally had previously been in a relationship before Sally had gotten back together with Kevin.

    After being told of the false news, Katy broke up with Martin and was convinced by her parents to have an abortion. When Gail learned of the rumour that Sally and Martin were having an affair, she immediately went around to Tommy and Angela to set them straight. Angela was regretful but Tommy didn't care. Angela later told Katy who was upset that she'd had an abortion for nothing. Katy went to the garage to confront her father but Tommy was unapologetic and taunted her about the abortion. An enraged Katy hit Tommy on the head with a wrench just as Angela walked in. Tommy was dead.

    In the weeks that followed, Angela and Katy tried to cover up their involvement in Tommy's murder by making it look like it was the result of a break in. Angela even hid the wrench in the coffin and Katy had to stay silent as Martin was suspected of the crime. But eventually, forensic evidence tied Angela to the crime and she was arrested. Katy and her brother were sent off to stay with their grandad but Katy later returned to the street on her own. Feeling guilty, Katy wrote a confession note then destroyed her insulin before overdosing on water mixed with sugar. Katy was in a diabetic coma for a while but eventually died. Angela was cleared of murder but was still sent down for a few years for perverting the course of justice.

  9. On 12/17/2023 at 9:41 AM, AMCOLTLLover said:

    I’m so happy! Today my rare two Shortland Street books arrived! They got released in 1996 and are so hard to get by. I collect like every book/stuff there is from soaps and it’s so hard to get those shorty books!

    I finally got the “Kristy & Lionel”-Book and “Nick’s Story”..

    Now I need the Carmen one and the Marj one. 
     

    But I’m so excited to got these two 

    Those bring back memories, I read all of them in my High School library a year or so after they were released.

     

    Now in other news, I have no idea if it is geoblocked outside of Aotearoa New Zealand or not...I really hope not...but all 159 episodes of 1992 were released onto the official Shortland Street Youtube page last night, from Episode 1 (Monday, May 25, 1992) until Episode 159 (Thursday December 31, 1992)

    Here is the playlist below:

    (I am a bit surprised they are using Rene Naufahu in the thumbnail for episode 1 though)

     

  10. On 12/2/2023 at 6:54 AM, depboy said:

    Under persistent questioning from Gordon, Lesley stuns him by admitting that she was pregnant with his child when she left him.

    Nearly three years ago when they revealed that Cyrus and Martin were Gordon and Florence's children, I pointed out (I think in this thread) that the writers got it wrong when they had Cyrus say that Gordon was behind switching Laura at birth. And this confirms that Gordon didn't know. It was Lesley's father who arranged for Laura to be switched with the Vining's deceased baby.

    Ah well its a minor quibble on a show where they expect us to believe Heather got pregnant by Scotty and gave birth in the short time between when Scotty left Laura and Heather started being released from the mental institution. And of course that later Heather helped Susan give birth to twins and took one of them even though she was actually trapped in the ice princess blizzard in Port Charles with everyone else while Susan was in New York lol!

  11. On 12/3/2023 at 5:58 AM, reallyhateskateonlost said:

    The actor who plays Mr. Brennan was on LOST. I knew I've seen him before.

     

    Charles Mesure, born in England, raised in Australia but much of his early career was actually in New Zealand. Was also Vanessa Williams' love interest in the final season of Desperate Housewives.

  12. On 10/11/2023 at 3:32 AM, Manny said:

    But OMG, I wanted to ask if it is normal in UK that kids are having kids :D Because Stacey is a grandma and she's not even 40! And Ravi looks super young to have such a grown up son. Ben having a 11-12 year old daughter etc. 

    Teenage pregnancy rates in the UK are amongst the highest in the developed world but the rate has actually fallen by more than half in the 2010s so these days its increasingly becoming more of a soap exaggeration thing just like the number of murders, divorces or people returning from the dead lol. That said, Walford is supposed to be a socially deprived area so teenage pregnancy rates would be higher than the UK norms.

    Sarah Platt's pregnancy on Coronation Street (back in 2000 when she was 13, she's 36 in the soap now!) seems to have kicked off the trend of really young teenagers and even pre-teens having babies on soaps though. And EastEnders ended up writing in a surprise baby (Bex Fowler) for Martin and Sonia (who were 15 at the time) as a response to Sarah's pregnancy.

  13. On 9/26/2023 at 8:17 AM, j swift said:

    IRL it looks a little different now @Joseph

    LDN-L-HOSPITAL-NAME-0504-09-1.webp

    Also CC: @Joseph @Marco Dane

    I'm a couple of days late to this but isn't the image you posted from the south side? In the plaza area between the old and new buildings?

    They used the north side ( N State Street & Zonal Ave) for the iconic Autumn Breeze opening and the establishing shot that Joseph posted.

    (And yeah even though I've never been to LA, I'm such a google maps and soap nerd that I familiarized myself with the layout of that complex years ago lol)

    Still looks mostly the same from Streetview (admittedly June 2022)

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  14. On 9/22/2023 at 7:08 AM, Manny said:

    Looking at the cast list in wikipedia, it is so HUGE.. how do they juggle all these characters? How can they all have stories? I guess they don't....

    As you may have already noticed, part of the way they juggle all the characters is to use block storytelling - that is, a particular set of storylines and characters might be featured in each episode for a few weeks before being rested for a while and picking up later. When well written it is usually quite effective and goes unnoticed with the storyline blocks overlapping with others and being rested when they reach a natural pause. However in periods of weaker writing it can be quite noticeable with characters just up and vanishing for weeks in the middle of a huge storyline

    There are also definite tiers of characters with some of the more high-profile characters being rotated through at more regular rates than others who may end up being merely background characters most of the time with a token storyline once or twice a year.

    On 9/22/2023 at 8:08 AM, LondonScribe said:

    This largely occurred when I wasn’t watching but I believe when actor Lacey Turner went on maternity leave, Stacey was sent to prison, and while in there she met ex-lawyer Eve Unwin and they married out of convenience to assist Stacey’s case for release. It’s well-known within the square that’s what it is. Eve is gay, Stacey is not, but they are best friends, and if you stick with it, you’ll see how clear that is.

    I wasn't actually watching at the time either but wasn't it the other way round? That it was actually Eve (whose remaining family are homophobes) who needed a stable address in order to be released on probation so she and Stacey married in order to make it seem plausible that she would live long term with the Slaters?

     

  15. 20 hours ago, Joseph said:

    Oh no! Yet another they just dropped?

    After months of suffering from fugue states - during which she would commit acts of vandalism such as torching Franco's studio, attacking Chase and moving a portrait around the house. After a short stretch in Shadybrook, Liz returned to work and began to remember seeing a woman who'd been pushed down a flight of stairs. The fugue states and memory flashes had apparently been triggered by the sight of Peter August at the bottom of a stairwell at GH (after being pushed down by Finn) the year before as Liz would continue to have flashbacks of both incidents - eg she'd have a flashback of Peter which would then trigger the older flashback of the woman.

    The mystery deepened when Liz drew a portrait of the woman she kept seeing in her flashbacks, and then saw pictures of Finn's late wife Reiko on his phone, who looked exactly like the woman in the portrait 🙄 (I mean you'd think she would've already seen pictures of her 🙄). Finn revealed to Liz that he and Reiko had been working in the Mariana Islands during the 90s and Liz remembered that she'd gone with her family there just prior to her arrival in Port Charles 🙄

    Liz began to suspect that her father Jeff Webber had pushed Reiko down the stairs. Having been estranged from her parents for 25 years, she broke into their house only to be confronted by them. Jeff (now being played by William R Moses) and Carolyn (Denise Crosby) eventually admitted that Liz had pushed Reiko down the stairs after finding Jeff and Reiko in bed together 🙄. Reiko survived the fall, but needed a blood transfusion that led to her contracting the fatal disease that eventually killed her years later 🙄 (this retconed the earlier explanation that Finn had unwittingly exposed her to the disease while looking for a cure).  Jeff and Carolyn then sedated and brainwashed their daughter to forget all about the incident 🙄.

    Liz eventually told Finn about what happened and he was shocked as while he knew that Reiko had fallen down some stairs he didn't know she'd been having an affair and had never heard of Jeff Webber prior to coming to Port Charles.

  16. 10 hours ago, I Am A Swede said:

    Now let me see if I can get this straight.... 😵‍💫

    Brooke Logan Forrester Forrester Chambers Forrester Forrester Jones Forrester Forrester Forrester Marone Forrester Forrester Forrester Spencer Forrester (B&B

    Granted, a lot of these were annulled or declared invalid, but still.... :P

    At one point Brooke was getting married every year (2001 - 2006 IIRC or the Forrester Jones Forrester Forrester Forrester Marone bit lol)

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