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Agree with all this. They used to tease it out even- during the PC hotel fire didn’t they kiss in a romantic way? It always goes nowhere because Steve is adamantly against Jason being in love with Carly. Which for me made the scenes of his feeling betrayal at S/C hooking up ridiculous back then. Of course, he has less power now, and seems to be just going to work and not as invested IMO.

That whole episode was great. Seeing the BTS stuff, the new opening, and the mission statement and tonal reset back to the hospital being a major part of the show again. I bet John Beradino was excited to get that script, it actually honors him and the history of the show.

From what I recall she chose to leave and was pretty frustrated at the time. She and Matt finally had in-character writing with Beth Milstein as interim HW before Sheffer, but it was too little too late. That was also the last time she had any spark as Jennifer IMO.

I used to love Missy as Jennifer. But her real life antics are too hard for me to ignore for the character. I do admit though that knowing LR and ED are going to be on the new show made me have some nostalgia for MR as Jennifer. I loved the relationship between Jennifer, Billie, and Kristen back then. Ugh.

Thanks for posting @slick jones I wish we could see more of of that early GH stuff.

He also hits on another man that is closer to his age. I’m just kind of happy to watch a gay character that has so much going on, and is also sexual. Which rarely happens, even on HBO. The show is so specific and it took me a couple of episodes to decide I liked it.

I’m pretty sure he kept that vanity credit in the 1980’s too, can’t remember if she did. His name was always in the credits for as long as I can remember. I’m not surprised the network gave in to any of their demands, because back in the very early days they were the whole show. I remember someone saying during the 35th anniversary show the talk of the industry was the workload for both of them. Pretty sure it was Denise Alexander who said it.

She is the opposite of professional.

And the Cruise of Deception before all of those!

I hated Ned as a singer. It was fun for the first part of his story with Lois. It should have ended when she learned the truth about his double life, and they could have let L&B move forward without Eddie.

I hope he gets the chance to play someone dastardly. I think he would have fun with that.

It did have that arc storyline feeling later in her run, like we were getting 4 to 6 month arcs as focal points with little stories building around them, mixed with pure character building. And by that point, they were also using that old Nixon sense of community in that every character seemed to have an opinion on the main storyline, even if they weren’t directly involved. So it felt like a soap. Billy Douglas, Marty’s rape and the trial, revisiting Victor’s death…they were all modified pocket stories that continued in character when the main thrust was done. Even something like Todd stalking a blind Nora was a small part of a larger story, but it had its own beginning, middle and end.

I really wish the show had kept up the pivot in storytelling they were doing when Michael was headed to see jail. There were good scenes where Carly and Jason both had to come to terms with their choices leading to the life Michael had. It felt like they were finally going to address what Sonny’s craving for power and all their decisions to be team Sonny had cost them. Once Sonny and Brenda were breaking up, and they had that amazing conversation where he admitted power is what he loves…it was finally clear exactly who Sonny was and the show was allowing his point of view to not be the only one, let alone presented in such a way that he was right. Everyone could be involved in something new if they had followed that through, even Sonny. And Jason doing everything for Michael and not his own kids is awful. At least talk about why! It’s a soap, he should be rehashing what happened with Michael and how much he fears that happening to his kids. Something!

I felt then, and even more now that Lucky went too far with how he treated Laura. And even though Genie was still on her never ending maternity leave when the story started, I think once she got there more time should have been spent on her feelings about what happened to her. Including the scenes we never got, where she maybe decided to tell him a little bit about what her life was like then, and how she was able to forgive Luke. Just like what happened to Liz often became more about how Lucky felt about her, her rape, and his parents. I do think Lucky’s reaction was realistic for how he idolized Luke and being rebellious teenager aged. But he went too far, and just like the Sonny propping of the Guza/JFP era, the writing was slanted and made Laura look awful. And truthfully, Genie always said it was a rape, that she was instructed to play it as a rape, and the show decided to make it a seduction after the fact. She should have been allowed more than just a couple of scenes with her point of view represented. As stated in another post, we had many, many scenes of Tony and Luke’s feelings about what he did.

When she has some kind of drunken revenge sex with Sonny, and you have a Guza sweeps and baby story all in one. Followed by her death.

I remember liking Terry. But there was no way she was going to make it through Guza had she stayed lol. I also liked Decker and Dawn though…I was very young.

It worked for Sami on DAYS for a long time. And Laura on GH before the ending of the Ice Princess, as Lesley would have described her as troubled. She was a straight up brat quite a bit, but it had a humanity to it and Genie made her rootable. Marland certainly wanted her to remain vain and self centered.

Did Melissa have a sibling, and Bobbie was fostering both of them? I had completely forgotten Melissa until these comments.

One of my soap what if’s- Sunset Beach doesn’t get picked up, so Guza never leaves, and we see how those first stories he plotted with Karen Harris end up. Lesley’s return, Nikolas’ true paternity, how far Luke would have gone with his vendetta against the Cassadines, Bobbie and Stefan, the Cassadines hostile takeover of the hospital…so many threads that were intriguing and had a lot of promise that just didn’t go far enough under Culliton.

I read an interview with her once, where the men working on Secret Storm didn’t think two women could work in production because they wouldn’t be able to tell them apart on the headsets. Ridiculous. I think she even said something to that effect- but we can tell all of you apart so…

Did Shelly Curtis also direct episodes while at GH? Because Francesca James did, and they overlapped during the Labine/Riche era. Marlena Laird was there in the last half for Monty’s tenure, and Monty was very hands on and considered an excellent director.

It’s hard to judge, because they had such a wonderful run at first, then it turned into a hybrid of Rauch’s late 1980’s OLTL and the kind of outlandish and triangle based stories Reilly was doing (much better) at DAYS.

She really starts to soften in scenes I have seen after Roy’s death, and she and Laura have a kind of truce once Luke & Laura are fully together (although Bobbie still gets annoyed by Laura many times over the years.) Somebody else might have more specific info. I know she moves on from wanting Scotty and that takes some of the edge out of her. What I loved about Bobbie as a character is that she could always be bitchy, all the way to Labine’s era. Her insecurities were still there. But she also recognized that behavior and worked hard to not let those insecurities get the best of her. And even back then, she wanted Scotty and to do that had to face off with Laura. But she wasn’t just a vixen. She wasn’t just a bitch. She had layers, and even back then her schemes were not as awful as someone like Heather or even as outright villainous as Tracy was in her original run. She even often had scenes where she recognized Laura was very troubled. Laura was layered too! Which brings me to one of my most hated things about Luke & Laura- just because they called each other Angel and Hero doesn’t mean they were angelic or heroic by nature- she was his Angel, he was her hero. Trying to force them to be that for their entire character personalities really kind of ruined them both at times.

Totally agree. Lois was a character Guza just did not get on a fundamental level. I think he struggled with Lucy and Felicia as well.

One thing Marland did not do well was sexy. And Y&R, especially when Bell was there and the show was at its peak was very sexy. I don’t think Marland would have been as successful with the heightened melodrama and style of Y&R. I’m talking 1980’s- Alden’s first couple of years.