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Okay. That's a good one but he was still lesser to Jesse. I think Lorenzo actually got to be the more fleshed out character of the twins? Cousins? Lookalikes? which is rare. I am not a huge Alcazar fan but I feel like the show tried with him moreso than most.

To be fair, you knew the show was going to try it. I am shocked they never tried TB's Kim with Sonny. It's just weird because Claudia isn't even the type of woman Sonny would be attracted to.

I can't even think of a twin I liked. Maybe Lorenzo/Luis? I get the temptation on that. Put her with her old screen partners and it will just be magic. I thought Claudia was good with TC's Nik.

At least Days is doing a good job of promoting things to come post-olympic break. I am actually excited about it.

I have never doubted Sarah as an actress. I think she is very specific though. I think she does need the right character. She can come off cold if the character lacks. I liked her as Claudia. I just hate the "we are going to pretend she wasn't another huge character on this show crap". And the wink, wink they do despite that. It immediately takes me out. I don't think I have ever liked the 2nd character a major actor has played on a soap. The TBC....on todays show cracked me up too. Like, man, I was really hoping this would continue on Monday. Like it has for the past 50 plus years.......

Was Sabrina wasted? Or just heavily pushed in the beginning like Courtney and the show just lost interest in the same way? I don't feel like she was a good character we were just told she was awesome without seeing it. Although I liked her and Michael.

Sam talks about everything like she's talking about the weather lol. That's how KeMo acts.

No, I feel like they still pretend it's about his dead wife. I swear there was a scene where Orpheus talked about hating John for killing his wife in his return. But that's not true. Or maybe it's the 1986 stuff and RoJohn being a thorn in his side because John, you know, wanted his wife back lol? I don't think the show has ever taken the time to explain or backtrack on the original reasons.

Right? Hey maybe he's divorced and him and Jessica have rekindled their love affair.

His lip still looks messed up. Is he still with his wife?

Well it's the most anyone's talked about Rohm in years lol She still works on things I have heard of so yeah? Sort of? Anyway, moving on. Can I nominate GH's Kate? MW's Kate was such a breath of fresh air with lovely hair and then KSu took over and it was an entire different character 10 years too young.

At least with Marlena they set up Stefano having her in that weird faux Stefano-Deidre Hall didn't decide to sign-fake Marlena story in 1988 with Diana and RoJohn. I don't think Steve even knew Stefano lol. Hope did peripherally but nothing major. So, you know, I'll buy it because of the Gina story. And obviously they set up Steve being alive with his casket? getting switched. But did the show ever explain why/how Orpheus gave Marlena to Stefano? Did he lose her? Because his revenge plot hasn't ended even though his OGBEEF is with Roman not John. RealRoman killed Orpheus's wife not John.

100%. Rohm seems so unlikable in all roles. I am sure the actress is lovely in real life, but I am surprised she's had such a solid career. Are we talking about good characters in idea or good actors in bad roles? Or both? I think characters like Miranda and Gina Cates on GH were characters that had ton of potential, but were played by bad actresses and never revisited. But then I think of Lindsay Hartley or Sarah Brown on Days and they were bad characters with good actresses. Actually Sarah Brown just probably owns this thread in all roles outside of Carly.

Did Genie and Charles interact a lot on Days? I think they have some chemistry. All my memories of Diana are with Drake or John Aniston

Sarah did have good chemistry with EM. It just got so weird when Duke Lavery was her evil ex husband. GS was bad and (I know he's practically a kid) but not cute either. I THINK everything would be a lot better if they didn't give him the faux Stone dying story. Yeah, it could be a fan theory that caught fire. I remember thinking some things Oscar said made it seem like Brenda could possibly be his mom, but I might have made that up in my head to continue the theory lol. I mean, I would not want Brenda to be Oscar's mom, but I can see actual usefulness in Joss/Oscar's story with Brenda and Sonny seeing it as a repeat of Stone and bringing all that up again and finding each other again. And I think I just wrote an outline for Sonny/Brenda fanfiction, so I'll stop.🤣

I tend to believe some of the Brenda/Oscar stuff. I have no idea if it was ever a true thing the show pursued, but I think it was someone's idea at least on the show. The TB/Kate stuff had a lot of rumor traction. I tend to believe it because Kate was forgotten and the show was going for something big post-Sonny/Brenda for Sonny

I think the Dev stuff was literally about the fact he was what Sonny/Brenda's kid would look like. I liked Madison on Days. I thought Claudia was very ill conceived, but SB did well with what she was given.

I think both are true? But I am not even sure it got to the point where Vanessa was ever in serious talks. But they kept talking about Oscar like his mom was a big deal and.......it was Kim. TB was heavily rumored to be Nukate so given her reappearance on GH I believe it.

For sure about SH-it's wiki so it's probably wrong or a half truth. Lol! The mysterious patient Barrett that was just hair and a tattoo. That with the Cooper Barrett appearance made me think it was going somewhere. What a fake out and not in a good way. I am not going to lie, the red herrings did make me tune in. Poor Sarah Brown, never had a good soap role past Carly.

I never knew that about SH-interesting. Wiki said she declined because she was pregnant. Anyhow agree about the weird Vanessa Marcil tactics. But sometimes she was literally unavailable when the rumors came out. I honestly think the show would be much more likely to pull the recast trigger now. Guza seemed to be the one with the most adoration for Vanessa.

I mean, obviously, I think there's no recasting Brenda but some names have been better than others. Gina T and RB to name a few. Lisa LoCicero said that they initially offered a Brenda recast to her and she declined, which was wise. Sarah Brown for some reason feels a little young to me to play Marty. I wonder why Susan turned it down. If it was storyline I wonder how she felt about what she did end up having to play.

Budig just has such a different energy as a performer than KMc. It's hard to imagine anyone else playing Robin, but definitely not Budig. I think VM/RB are much similar in acting styles and it still wouldn't have worked but I could see the idea behind Budig being Brenda. Sarah Brown might have refused to play such an iconic character? So I guess OLTL just went in the complete opposite direction and hired Chambers? Poor girl.

Now that you say that I have a vague recollection of that rumor. RB would be so wrong as Robin lol. I just remember the soap mags bandied about the idea of RB as Brenda a long time ago. I could possibly see RB as Brenda, but could not see her as Robin at all. I think Sarah Brown might have been able to pull off Marty. Lol! I know. I never thought of RB as much of an actress to begin with. More of a charming performer.

Sorry. I liked Hayden. Sort of. I think I was so scared RB would be a Brenda recast I just tried to really like her non character because she wasn't Brenda.

I am shocked they haven't brought RB back as Hayden yet. I thought that was coming the minute CM was cast.