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Another Scott Hoxby ad early in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UDVm9BOGwM

Such a handsome guy. GL really misused him, complete with slapping a bad wig on his head for most of his run.

I think they finally tore the wig off sometime in December of '94, about halfway through his run. He was (still is, actually) hot with or without it, but he got much finer without it.

Thanks for sharing the ad! I'll gladly take anything I can see of Hoxby. He and Irizarry were on Y&R together for a few episodes, right?

I honestly never understood how Cutter never got a pairing. They tested him with Holly, he had great rapport and chemistry with Tangie, and there was even some chemistry there with Lucy (who was crippled by CLEARLY being for Alan-Michael all along) and Wendy Moniz's Dinah as well.

Can you imagine a Cutter/Dinah pairing for sheer opposites-attract value?

I really adored Time Heist.

Now if we can just get Danny into the TARDIS...

Thanks, Moffat!

I can't put my finger on quite why, but I'm enjoying this Doctor a lot. In a way, he says the same things the other Doctors did, but he's less charming and more abrasive and he lacks some of the qualities that made it so easy to ignore or excuse Ten or Eleven.

He reminds me a lot of the 9th Doctor, but he's not quite as harsh as the 6th, in my opinion.

I'm watching the German DVDs from late 1979 again. Great stuff, even though Ben McFarren was an idiot.

I really adored Time Heist.

Now if we can just get Danny into the TARDIS...

Definitely him.

For me, it's gotten better by episode. I had to resort to reading a transcript for Deep Breath. And it wasn't the accent for me, it was a combination of some mumbling going on and a lot of fast talking.

That being said, I'm thoroughly enjoying this season, and Capaldi's take on the Doctor. I think the change has also been good for Jenna Coleman's Clara. I'm starting to get attached to her for the first time. I'm also really enjoying this Danny Pink guy. We need a new Team TARDIS.

Thanks for posting the link to the video Carl.

Rewatching some of that stuff from 1995/1996 just makes me angry again, aside from the Roger storyline, I stumbled upon scenes where Frank discovered Nadine's body and Cutter's death. There doesn't really seem to be a bright spot on the show around this time.

I'm keeping up with the regular uploads and, yeah, it is difficult to get through.

Then and now, I can't understand why Amanda was so "awful" that everyone was lined up against her.

Blake was unbearable (and had been since Dinah's arrival) and I'm once again looking forward to watching her lies blow up on her face.

The whole Roger/Dinah/Hart thing was so mean-spirited all the way around. While I did start off rooting for Dinah and Hart to nail Roger to the wall, all three parties have acted so disgusting that it's increasingly hard to figure out for whom we're actually supposed to be rooting.

Fletcher and Holly just completely fell off the map after they got saddled with that baby who was barely mentioned again.

The Spauldings were a complete mess with that blowhard Buzzard constantly getting the upper hand on them. This Phillip/Alan-Michael feud is pretty much "been there, done that," and we'd already just sat through it with Alan-Michael/Alexandra/Nick and then Alan/Alan-Michael with Alan doing some pretty disgusting stuff even for him.

The lack of Ed at this time blew a hole in the show that was always there when he wasn't around and we're still some time from Mary Stuart's debut as Meta, who did a little to fill in that hole left by there being NO steady, sane patriarchal/matriarchal presence of any kind, as we had already lost Henry and HB had already made his last appearance months before. Rick was nowhere near ready to take on the mantle of being the "elder Bauer," and his time before Phillip's return was completely wasted by throwing him into the Josh/Annie story. And then when Phillip returned, Rick returned to playing second banana to him.

This Vanessa story was horrible. The only saving grace was it brought Billy back temporarily (and opened the door for his permanent return later). It hardly helps that, upon rewatch, I've been finding a lot more to dislike about early Matt than I remember.

Reva is absolutely terrible and I still hate that they kept making Annie more and more pathetic and evil to prop her up.

What was done to the Grants was unforgivable and I'm still trying to figure out the point of Griffin and Marcus Williams.

At this point, I'm wishing Brent Lawrence could have made a return engagement to torture everyone some more at this point. What a tumbledown from that glorious (though not without some major flaws) period that was 1989-mid 1995.

Let's just hope Lindsay's Hallmark character isn't anything like Theresa!!!

+1

I'm so excited for Capaldi tonight!

Cutter's death was as horrifying as Nadine's was, for different reasons.

I missed Cutter for a very long time. It didn't help that they started phasing out any non-Cooper or non-Cooper-related cops in the months that followed.

Time for a "Why is half of PC suddenly dead and who is responsible?!" story.

Oh, I am so looking forward to reliving and truly appreciating the frakkery of Josh Taylor as Quinton Chamberlain.

One can't really blame Holly for becoming unhinged. Look at that evil SOB Roger. It's just a shame Holly wasn't given the chance to tell Roger to piss off once and forever after the meat grunge he put her through beyond Center.

I loved Holly's chemistry with Billy. I really wish they had gone somewhere with them for a while.

Since we've had some conversation around Hope lately, can anyone tell me how she managed to disappear so quickly with Alan-Michael without a huge custody fight with Alan?

There's virtually nothing I can find regarding Hope's quick exit that justified Alan not fighting for him, considering everything he did to keep Phillip.

Exactly, Carl. According to an interview with Brown and Tylo, I think, Rauch's predecessor, Michael Laibson, had plans not only to reunite Quint and Nola but also bring back Mrs. Renfield for some big, action-adventure-heavy story that was supposed to be reminiscent of their "glory days" in the early '80's. However, because GUIDING LIGHT was in so much trouble in the ratings (I think it was during the Laibson/Megan McTavish era, in fact, when cancellation rumors first began to swirl), Rauch, in tandem with incoming HW's Barbara Esensten and James Harmon Brown, felt they needed to concentrate on stories and characters -- such as Annie/Reva/Josh and Matt/Vanessa -- that were surer bets (at least from their point of view) in bringing viewers back to the show. Hence, Quint and Nola's reconciliation, which had been in the works, was dropped; and Rauch simply let Tylo go. (IIRC, Tylo hadn't signed a contract, which made it easy for the writers simply to stop writing for him.)

And a lot of vocal people continue to insist that Jill Farren Phelps did more damage than Laibson and Rauch did. I just can't with that.

It didn't quite so much bother me that Hope never came back (though that did bother the hell out of me and still does) as much as whenever they did mention her, she was either back to drinking or in rehab. Just don't mention her at all if you're gonna keep twisting the knife.

Is it true P&G wanted Michael Laibson to return as EP at GL in 2004?

Don't know if that's true, but that would have been a mistake even knowing what they got instead. Laibson's GL was far too dark and mean-spirited for my taste. And it was under him we lost the wonderful young actors who portrayed Michelle and Bill and that was around the time GL lost that wonderful umbrella community feel that made it so wonderful from about 1987-1994.

GL never recovered from Laibson, in my opinion and then it just got worse with Rauch and Conboy and, of course, Wheeler (who at least cared).

"Whennn YOU-ou WALLLK, DOW-hown the RO-hoo-oad, heavy BURDUH-hun, HEHHH-eh-heh-heh-vuh-eee luh-OH-who-hoad..."

I LIVED for that theme (the whole show until it outlived its shelf life, around the time Andrew cut off most of his hair), but this is so spot on!

Ok how so I thought his previous ATWT and AW stints were good

I'm not saying he never did any good stuff on soaps, but his GL was horrible. Far too dark, negative, and violent.

When P&G were replacing John Conboy at GL in 2004, they offered the gig to Michael Laibson. He turned it down. Ellen Wheeler got the job.

While Wheeler was a mistake, bringing back Laibson would have been just as big a mistake.

I'm digging Capaldi's threads!

Am I the only one who's come to the conclusion that Capaldi's cameo in The Day of The Doctor came about for the main, if not sole, purpose of being able to fanwank that the War Council's knowledge of "all THIRTEEN!" made them realize that whenever Smith's Doctor's time was up, the Time Lords would need to find some way of giving him another regeneration cycle?

Thus the creation of a stable time loop?

I'm digging the BBC America Matt Smith lovefest, and finally watching The Time of The Doctor all the way through.

Cool! I didn't know they had auditions going on for this role.

bandstandmike is uploading episodes from early 1996 on YouTube. Damn, Rick Hearst is so damn handsome it's distracting.

Agreed!

Though I'm still missing my Cutter, the early days of Dinah and Hart is grabbing my attention.