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It's funny because I find Katherine more memorable than Cheryl. Obviously, Cheryl is much more important in the long run. Idk, she's just blends in to me when I watch if that makes sense? Although watching old episodes, knowing how things will turn out, probably affects my viewing. I can't bring myself to care about Cheryl, but she could have been better day to day at the time. Obviously 80's styling did no one any favors, but Cheryl always seems old and plain to me lol.

@dc11786 Thanks so much for your detailed response. I always felt that Colton was basically replaced by Mac as well, but I didn't really recall all that nonsense he went through before he left lol. Both Days and GH in 1992 were chaotic. I understand why Days jumped at the chance to get Lynn. I am surprised they never used her with Wayne to give Marlena/Roman some increased angst with a slight flirtation on Roman's part with someone else. Marlena/Roman had almost nothing to do in 1992 until Marlena gets thrown in a pit and the John/Marlena affair gears up. It would have added another layer to everything if Roman was tempted by someone else. But, alas, that's for the Days thread. Anyhow, Katherine is another character I am intrigued by because her and Robert appear to have a following and she is dumped. Of course, it's probably Monty's vision, but I do think it may have been a poor decision as well. Although it is hard for me to see a character like that last through Labine or Guza's 90's.

I don't think Colton set the world on fire or anything, but there were places to go with him. Decker was more of a dead end to me especially with the revolving door of Dawns. I think Lynn had her first child and then left. Exploring other opportunities was the reason. I believe she went to Days because she wanted to work with Wayne, but Lisanne was a dud and she hated the whole experience. I think she even asked to leave-it was rumored there were issues with her and Sabatino or Chappell or both lol. Besides she may have had a handful of scenes with Wayne anyhow. Lisanne was on the entire other side of the canvas and was never very fleshed out or relevant until she was murdered (by young Nicky Alamain).

It's interesting Lucy had a whole extended family that got a lot of airtime back in the day, but none made it into the 90's really. Decker was pretty much a dud, but I thought Colton was popular. Or am I wrong about that?

It was Courtney's dream IIRC ☹️

I think Jax has a wacky dream as well where Sonny/Brenda make out and both Miranda and Brenda threaten to shoot him? And they are both wearing wedding dresses. This is only a bit of the episode.

Thanks for that!

I agree. And to be honest most of her best material has little to do with Brenda (outside her nice 1997 return). I'd focus more on the business side of things and her romantic life. She can hold a grudge against Sonny because of Brenda and tangle with Carly for the same reason, but she never interacted with either on screen. There are probably too many women in that age range at this point though.

I like Damian more as an adult as well, but most of his schemes outside of ELQ, were plots to destroy his ex-girlfriends lol. And trying to torch the Ward house with Laura and kids inside! to build a shopping mall (or whatever it was) was a crazy level of villainy you can't come back from.

If you are going the Smith route for a Luke exit, Damian wouldn't be as impactful. While I liked Damian and his shameless evil, he's kind of a blip on the radar for Luke. It wasn't a terribly memorable rivalry for me. I remember his shenanigans with Lucy and Katherine and his affair with Bobbie more than any else from his character.

Oh, yeah, Josh Kelly would have been a good Sly. I also don't recall Sly being around by the time Elizabeth and Sarah appeared. I don't remember an exit either. For some reason I had it in my head that Paul/Jenny took him in. I agree that Julia isn't really necessary without Brenda. I just like her more than some of the current players in that age range lol. I think her history works better with the business stories they play. She would never been onboard with Deception being sold on the bootleg home shopping network and laugh at Carly/Olivia running a hotel, for example.

I have talked forever how I wanted Sly back. I am always curious why he wasn't brought back once during the Emily/Nik/Lucky/Liz era. I think I would have paired him with Emily back then though. The Eckerts were long gone, but perhaps the memory of the failure of the family was still fresh enough that Riche/Guza didn't have much interest. I do wonder if a Sly/Jenny/Julia reappearance would have worked in 2014-2015. It would have been interesting to see what happened to them while they were off screen. Well, as interesting as Jenny could be lol. They made her ex-husband a whole serial killer so she probably would have been useful in that dreadful story. I don't recall if the show ever said much about Paul/Jenny's child together. Wasn't it a boy? And I was also under the assumption Paul/Jenny raised Sly after Bill's death as well. A Julia return has always been on my list. There were/are a lot of places a high-powered businesswomen that was always unlucky in love could have fit long term. Julia swooping in and taking over the Metrocourt would have been fun. I think Julia still had enough tethers to the canvas at the time even without Brenda, and Brenda was around recently enough where could have used her as a reference point to build new relationships. Of course, I am not sure CC would have even interested. The show could have recast though.

Perhaps, but maybe it would have knocked Geary a peg down or two and he would have been more grateful for Luke and GH.

I am not sure it ever would have matter how stable GH was. If Tony wanted to play a different character like Bill I assume other soaps would have snapped him up. This was always destined to fail on GH where he played Luke! The writing nor the characterization were good, and I do agree the editing in the final scene was kind of crappy lol. I don't think I get the deep seeded resentment due to the fact he was immediately welcome back with open arms as Luke. Perhaps it hurt his ego, but it's not like too many people remember the flop anyway.

I feel like there were better episodes to use than TG's last one, but I obviously understand why they chose it. The other storylines were very random and not easy to follow in the episode in general. It was basically Luke's last episode and a bunch of other scenes that were picking up mid-way through (bad) plots. It was nice to see a repeat episode than wasn't from 6 months ago though. I can't remember Tony's exact quote about the Frank Smith resurrection, but it was humorous. Something to the effect that Frank was an old man in the 80's so would have been well over 100 by 2015 lol.

Valerie was wasted potential, IMO too. She's never really likeable even if I think Brytni Sarpi could have done a lot with the role. Wasn't she almost paired with Kristina at one point? Listen, I am not a Maxie/Nathan stan. I can understand why the pairing had a following just because it was the best option at the time lol. That's not a ringing endorsement.

The Denise story is bad. Bad bad. I can't recall what the exact trajectory of the Nina story is but it's not good either. The Valerie/Dante/Lulu situation is also a hot mess. I can actually see why Nathan/Maxie have (had) a following. They truly aren't bad in comparison.

I really do like the idea of Tiffany running Aurora and it's more believable than current options. I feel like it would be played more wacky than serious-much like they play Lucy now, which would be a shame.

Totally. I am just one of those people that knew it was bad, remember hating it and time passes, and I think maybe it wasn't as bad as I remember? And then I watched today and realized it actually was lol.

Woof! 2015 was a rough time for GH lol. The Luke/Sonny scenes were okay and Maxie's hair looked really good, but that's all I got here. I never noticed how Bryan Craig had a hard time looking his scene partners in the eye. Maybe it's just on this episode and he didn't want to look at Dillon. It's strange though.

I was ready for them to find happiness and start anew after Tiffany's depressing stories. If they were kept on I imagine them fading into a more and more supporting role and eventually disappearing all together. They only story I see them playing a big factor in is Robin/Stone's story and Mac and Felicia filled a similar enough role in that.

I am sure I have said this before but I have a hard time seeing where Tiffany/Sean fit post-1995. I know the show could have made them fit, but they feel like the most disposable from the 80's era. I don't think their exit was abrupt. I recall it as mostly a happy ending because Tiffany was pregnant and the idea was Sean would heal and they'd get a fresh start. I saw it as a natural conclusion for them.

Sophia screamed today when Rachel blew that whistle or whatever at her while she was sleeping. She's not very good at this non verbal stuff. What if a nurse made a loud noise? Sydney having panic attacks over EJ's 2 minute kidnapping seems weird. EJ was shot and we heard nothing about Sydney's issues. There is no explanation for Susan's continued presence. She has a home and a husband in Nashville or somewhere. Why is she still hanging around?

As long as it works better than the tale of two Macs. I still have trauma over whatever that was.

I assume in a day to day format it didn't seem as redundant as it does in clips, but I swear every time I popped in to watch the era Bobbie's main story was trying to get a child in a variety of different ways. Tony is a good utility player and Brad Maule makes Tony more likeable than he probably is with his slightly dorky dad charm. I liked Bobbie/Tony a lot in the Labine era as well so maybe I was spoiled and underwhelmed when I went back to their early courtship and marriage. I always did have a problem with him never being able to recover from his breakdown too. He was basically shelved after the story concluded.