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Love in the Afternoon.  ABC's all-time best promo.

Nothing will fix GH.  It's a shadow of it's former self.  Unless ABC gets serious about an overhaul (i.e., firing Frank, etc), this show will continue it's dismal placeholder as ABC's only soap - new headwriter or not.

I don't even know who Ben and Ciara are.  Granted, I haven't watched DAYS in years but you usually hear about ultra popular characters from other soaps.  Never heard of them.

15 hours ago, carolineg said:

Alexis is the only weird inclusion on the list.  I would barely put her in my top 30 GH characters.  I don't know if I would rank Scotty that high either.  I would put Robin, Robert, Holly, Felicia, Tracy, Alan, Monica, Leslie even Carly, Jason, Liz and Brenda ahead of Alexis and Scotty.  And I don't even like Jason or Carly lol.

THIS.

And NO Robert Scorpio?!?!  Crazy.

Who wasn't at GH's 30th Anniversary?  So many people were there.  Loved it!

I just get mad everytime I think about JFP killing off Alan Q. 

On another note, I love the pic with Gloria Monty, Kin and Jackie Z.

^^^^ Man, what I'd give to have these ladies back in charge at GH!

I didn't realize how good we had it in the 80s.  Soaps were so good.  So ahead of their time.  The stories were feel good stories that women could relate to.  Now I just feel like soaps are low-end stories run by men trying fulfill their teenage fantasies.

Beautiful ladies.

On screen and off screen GH couples:

Kin Shriner & Genie Francis (Scotty & Laura)

Tristan Rogers & Emma Samms (Robert & Holly)

Jack Wagner & Kristina Wagner (Frisco & Felicia)

Wally Kurth and Rena Sofer (Ned & Lois)

I detest the character of Carly.  That said, Sarah Brown was the best.  Best actress too.  Loved to hate the early Carly.  Now I just hate Carly.

I really liked the Stefan/Laura relationship.  They had some smokin' hot chemistry.  And I say that as a huge L&L fan.

20 hours ago, YRBB said:

Shemar Moore responds:

 

 

This is the one that broke me. 

So sad.  RIP Kristoff.

On 1/5/2019 at 11:48 AM, ironlion said:

The Riche era was the second best in the show’s history (after the Monty 80s). It brought humanism and emotion to the  more the raw action packed and “sophisticated” tone of the 80s. And basically post 1996 Riche/Guza set the foundation for what we have now. Its also intresting that despite it’s greatness it also planted the seeds for the shows impending transformation (Sonny, Jason, Carly , mob etc..) Furthermore it basically began the excusing and sympathy toward Sonny & Jason’s mob activity. The charachter, though very compelling, is constanty shown in a moral heroic light despite the fact that he kills people for a living.

 

The destruction of AJ was also upsetting. AJ admittedlybwas a screw up, but the only person that had a right to mess with AJ was Jason because of the accident. Otherwise his own family plus Sonny & Carly did a number on him. AJ didnt push Carly down the stairs, she jerked back and fell. And yet again Sonny killed an innocent AJ in 2014? for Connie’s murder. 

 

I might be in the minority here but I think the Liz rape/ Luke & Laura rehash in 1998 was one of the shows greatest plots. Powerful emotion from a young couple and the confirmation that Luke did rape Laura in 1979. The only part I hated is that once again Luke & Laura were driven apart. The writers just couldnt let the Spencers be a unit, and the biggest couple in soaps be together.

Love this post.  Every part of it.

On 12/28/2018 at 5:42 PM, Soaplovers said:

I've always wondered... were Robert/Anna really that popular of a couple?  I know when I was a kid back in 1991, Soap Opera Digest were running stories about how the couple reunited and were married in a nice elegant wedding in the summer of 1991 that Faison tried to crash.  

 

However, I've always believe that the two were just thrown together due to the writers not knowing what to do with them vs the reuniting and wedding being organic.  If I can recall, wasn't Robert more popular with Holly (I know my mom was pro Robert/Holly in the 80s with Anna as a potential spoiler)... and his pairings with Cheryl/Katherine were more embraced than any with Anna.  And of course, Anna/Duke were the tortured couple you were rooting for to get together with Robert as an early spoiler than Olivia being a more dangerous spoiler.

 

Am I off base in this?

I know there are some die-hard Robert & Anna fans.  And if you started watching GH in 1990 or 1991, I can see why you would be an R&A fan.  But I started watching GH in 1977 and I saw the real-life magic of both Robert & Holly and Duke & Anna play out.  They were the supercouples.  GH was the #1 soap when both those couples were the top GH couple.  Created by Gloria Monty, both couples had that magnetic magic.  For sure, Tristan and Finola have chemistry, but I like them so much more as bickering exes.  Plus, I think the "Robin" thing helped cement them as a couple.  But IMO, they never were a supercouple.  There wasn't that much of a story.  They were two individual extremely popular characters that had chemistry.  They just didn't have that romantic chemistry that R&H and D&A had in spades.

The GH Fantasy Event this weekend.  Love all these actors!

On 7/31/2018 at 9:51 AM, j swift said:

At what point did they stop referring to Tristan Roger's character as Scorpio and started calling him Robert?

 

Was it Holly or Anna who first called him Robert?  Or was it Mac, in order to facilitate the differentiation of the Scorpio brothers? 

 

Bonus points if anyone can answer my other question about what happened between Tristan and the actress that played Prunella?

 

Extra bonus points if anyone can tell me why Kevin doesn't live in the lighthouse he bought from Bill Eckart on Port Charles (besides the obvious that the set was destroyed years ago, I mean have they addressed it in the story)?

Holly is the first person who (consistently) calls him Robert.

I don't think the actress who played Prunella (who was from Australia) liked Tristan.  I think she thought he was rude and brash.

On 7/14/2018 at 1:25 AM, titan1978 said:

Two of my favorite scenes from the Bacchanalia.  I wasn’t really a fan of Katherine, but it is heartbreaking when she realizes just how much Stefan loves Laura.  

 

And the next clip has a scene with Amy confronting Alan about his addiction, and Laura finding the trunk and the infamous painting.  Such a great time on the show.

 

I had forgotten that Luke and Alexis were trying to kill Helena and Katherine “died” instead.  

 

 

 

 

So, I was a huge Patch and Kayla fan and I couldn't stand Stefan and Katherine together.  Ugh.  So forced.  I didn't see any chemistry between them.  But Stefan and Laura were smokin'!!!  I just loved them.  And I was a huge Luke & Laura fan.  So weird how that works. 

13 hours ago, Franko said:

 

Thanks!

 

I should note that by 1990, the crowd at a Quartermaine party was easier to weave through.

 

Oh thank you so much for posting these scenes.  I can only imagine that Stuart Damon and Leslie Charleson had a blast filming that "red bat" scene.  I miss the Qs so much.  And I loved all their parties.  There was always something happening in them and the Q mansion was always sort in the background.  So many storylines got woven into that mansion - even non-Q stories.

I will reiterate what someone else said: they NEVER should have killed off Alan Q.

On 5/27/2018 at 3:56 PM, Khan said:

I really love Denise Alexander and Lesley in those scenes.  As Lesley, she refuses to collapse under the weight of her nemesis, Monica's, venomous insults.  She won't give her that satisfaction.  It's good (and rare these days) to see a female stand up for herself in that fashion.

Yea, I loved Lesley. 

13 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

Alan being gone left a huge hole in the show.  Not just as a Q or his relationship with Monica.  His scenes as a doctor, and his ability as a character to go from caring doctor to manipulative bastard never felt false.  Alan was all those things.

 

The loss of Alan and the diminshing of the Q’s also let out all the tension in Jason.  When he had that Jason Q past as a constant reminder at odds with Jason Morgan, it gave him more depth as a character.

Bingo.  When the show killed off Alan Q, I knew the show had lost it's way.  It hasn't been the same since.

9 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

Throw Leslie Charleson, Stuart Damon and Kin Shriner into that mix and I'm sold!!

Well Leslie was supposed to be there but she couldn't make it so Lynn took her place. 

Yea, JFP should have NEVER killed off Alan Q!  I'm still mad about that!

Now this is the GH cast I want to see!

On 4/25/2018 at 3:31 PM, titan1978 said:

Olivia Jerome was a great character.

She was.  Tonja Walker was great as Olivia.