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I haven’t seen much of The Doctors. But was Althea more rounded? I know So much of Lucinda involved complicated relationships with her kids, both Sierra and Lily. Yes she had business stories too, and love affairs. But the meat of her part was tied to her kids. Maybe that is what she doesn’t like about Marland’s writing for Lucinda.

I’m a big fan of using pockets when a character was not onscreen to add to a backstory we did not see. Bill’s involvement with Kate should have been after he left and Laura had been institutionalized. I’m less concerned about the SORAS required for Lucas than the weird continuity patch of merging the original Kate into the new one. One of the reasons the Nikolas story worked so well on GH was that we had the missing years, and when Laura returned, she was frightened and not her feisty self. She was traumatized, and she did hide from both Luke and the Cassadines goons at first. It fit the narrative they told pretty well, including the death of Lesley being caused by Helena retcon. It also fit her history of breakdowns and her desperate love for Luke. She left Nikolas behind for selfish and unselfish reasons.

That is inspired and I would absolutely tune in for that!

I really wish ivy had more of a spark, because Lisa Brown plays that so well. She is so much fun as Nola, and such a drip as Ivy (from the episodes I have seen). Although I did like the stuff I saw with her and Craig.

I liked her on GH. She and Wes Kenney added some grit to the show that was usually not there during the late Monty period. She created the Jerome family, and Cheryl Stansbury, and I believe was also the HW during one of my favorite stories, when Grant Putnam kidnapped Anna. She also greatly improved Knots Landing during its final year, but it was too little, too late there. But I haven’t really heard many fans loved her as a writer anywhere else.

In a great interview two years ago she said she works better in a full leadership position where she can strategize, partner and get systems running and revamped than in the type of role being a Senator would require. After Kentucky two years ago and now, she absolutely should be in a leadership position for the Dems.

Looking at all those photos Jason47 has posted make me wish so much that I could see more of Bell’s DAYS. Was Rosemary Forsyth well regarded as Laura? Flannery is in a class all her own of course. It just seems like Laura was so important and then just faded away.

All this THE Guiding Light talk just reminds me of JFP, in multiple interviews, trying to push One Life as a talking point, instead of One Life to Live. She tried so hard for about 6 months worth of interviews between two sweeps periods to get the soap press and fans used to it now being just One Life cuz that was so much more hip! I think the same thing happened at Another World, she kept calling it AW, or am I remembering that one incorrectly? What a waste these people were to the genre. For all his faults, and I am truly not much of a fan, Reilly was the only one bringing in loads of younger viewers. And he did it the old fashioned way- he used vets, love triangles and slow moving stories that played every beat and had payoffs, he just told those stories in new and gothic ways. What these shows needed was the tropes and types of stories daytime does well, focused on characters people liked, and told in new and interesting ways. Instead we got a lot of hacks.

Was Kristina Wagner on another soap? I know she was on PC for a few episodes as Felicia, but I kind of think that doesn’t count. Also what about Brynn Thayer and Judith Light?

Sad news!

My dream Jeff Webber is Robert Newman.

And again. I love Holly, especially with Robert. But this is even worse than the Robin is dead storyline because Robert is literally the only one left who cares that is on the show often, and he isn’t under contract. Ethan is a guest star. Holly is a guest star. Wtf GH. Tell a story like this with a current cast member that is under contract. You have both Liz and Carly right now just twisting in the wind. Anna too(I mean Alex faking as Anna while she is held captive is just waiting to be told with the Peter implications).

Throw longtime viewers a bone by having a character pop up from the past that is meaningless, and then say things like honoring history or like you’ve never seen them like this before. At the least, she should be Chase’s mother. That ties her to today. But in the grand scheme of things Jackie only matters because Demi played her, and she and her sister Laura were blips with little impact. You say history and blank slate. I see lazy and pointless by making her Jackie. Especially if she isn’t going to be around for a real contract. I do credit GH with hiring someone with actual talent that hasn’t been on soaps since their 80’s peak, and someone that has had a steady career in primetime.

How wild! And @amybrickwallace, you have no idea how ready for that call I was then 😆! After having experienced Monty, Labine, and Guza, and with the cast as it stood then, I had so many ideas for GH that still embraced the genre while adhering to the human drama GH had become known for at that point. It wasn’t until YouTube and I finally got to watch GL with Curlee/Demorest/etc at the HW helm that I found out the tone I was writing as fanfic was what they were doing then, and really well. The more grounded realism and darker character exploration, but with a sense of hope and still some excitement, mystery, and soapy fun all in the mix.

I would have loved it if they had kept her in that way, letting her evolve into an actual PI. Like Felicia on GH did with Anna and Sean. Add me to the people that could not stand Lynne.

Wha? Why bring her on as Jackie but not have anyone really connected with her left on the show, especially if she is not there for Robert. Oh GH. Don’t you change.

Well it didn’t help that JFP tried propping Jensen in favor of JZ. That had potential. Let Melissa come between Roy and Bobbie. You could even have still had Bobbie be neurotic about it and do some questionable things, but eventually coming around to herself and recognizing she was just panicked about losing Roy again and revisit how traumatic the original loss was and formative to the Bobbie that wasn’t trying to steal Scotty or fig he all the time with Laura. And then I would just turn Melissa into a slow burn maniac, that ends up holding Bobbie hostage or something soapy and fun like that, while Roy is clueless. They could have even had Jason and Carly rescue her, still allowing the show to revolve around them lol.

It’s like they got the casting right, just as the show settled into a couple of years of really shallow storytelling.

Correct me if I am wrong, but by the time Ed Scott arrived as the senior EP, was there any real independent power there? If there was cleaning house, it was done on Bell’s behalf. From everything I have read, Conboy was the only EP that did what he wanted, and would piss Bell off when he saw the air shows.

I also have never enjoyed Jackson. Give me Dimitri or Travis any day.

I thought everyone like Laurel. I seem to recall people being upset when she was killed. I wasn’t. I didn’t enjoy her at all. And truthfully, I didn’t like Trevor either!

What I remember most about Sunset Beach was I thought the cast was pretty great, with a couple of duds that were quickly rectified. And that original theme song. I thought it was incredible, and did not at all suit the show I was seeing. The updated one fit much better, but I kind of always wanted that show- sexy, filled with intrigue. And I have always found Gary Tomlin’s production style to look incredibly cheap, even on a Spelling show. I think it’s the lighting he prefers.

I didn’t start checking the show out until the Annie Dutton story, and then this year I watched as much of the Curlee/Demorest and company I could find. So Buzz was really annoying to me back then, but there are moments when he first arrived that I do enjoy. I think loosing Nadine really did the Coopers a lot of damage. She is just a delightful character. She’s a mess, and I really like her, and it was a shame that they killed her off and from what I read nobody in town even knew for months? What a shame.

Michael Logan loves that Greta Garbo of daytime line. He used it here and in his interview with Beverlee. I like a lot of Deas work that I have seen on YouTube. He was adorable as Tom Hughes and in Ryan’s Hope. But Buzz is a drag.

I didn’t mean they had their own story. They just had a part to play again in story involving their family. Instead of generic hospital scenes and commenting on stories they were really removed from. ”I hope Robert can figure this out.” Type of stuff. Once Tom came back they had scenes about the Hardy family again.