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Haven't listened to it yet. I'd love to know that too. Always bummed me out and then she showed up on AMC and was kinda wasted. Phelps probably drove her away. But then I remember that's when we had a slew of soaps for actors to hope back and forth from. They should have done a better job keeping Monti Sharp and Amelia Marshall.

I skipped this one lol. I popped in for like a minute and then hopped out. They all looked the same.

Ed and Nola could have been fun but not in a romantic sense, IMO. I can't ever imagine that. LOL. Nola was essentially swapped out with Selena. I still wish Drew were Stacy Chamberlain. I love me some Lisa Brown but I really never saw her have any chemistry with any of her leading men (or planned to be leading men), IMO, except Tylo. She and Deas were DOA. I did like Brown with Tom Wiggin on ATWT. A better cast/written J and Drew being Stacy would have helped tremendously. It all writes itself. But once the Buzz thing faded, they lost interest and Brown saw the writing on the wall, clearly. They had no idea what to do with her. Maureen, Nadine, Nola, Selena ... they were all swapped out with each other.

lmao!!

Me too and he does ruin it. He fanbois out. I get it but let them talk. I'd love more one on one interviews/discussions. It may end up going in that direction, he did with Susan Lucci.

This is honestly the reunion I didn't realize I needed or wanted. It's been a lot of fun lol LOL it is Joy seems so chill and she looks fantastic. BTW I can't reply in messages for some reason on Chrome or Firefox. Not sure what's wrong so I wasn't ignoring your birthday message and yes on that on certain poster. Anyway ... back to the chat

lol yikes. Maria sounds like a fun person. NOT. Yeah. It's a little strange she killed those two characters, and they happened to be named Brad and Colleen. If Lorie were on the show at the time she'd have probably died too. If you were a real writer with any care for the fabric of the show you don't kill off Traci's only child. Side note, and because I just happened to randomly watch clips of Lily and Dru over the Malcolm reveal .... Davetta Sherwood was so perfectly cast as Lily I remain irked to this day they fired her for that Valley Girl. Valley Girl would work fine as a different character, she's never been Lily to me. She did sort of work fine initially. I think I was just really turned off by her Lily after falling in love with Davetta's. I didn't mind Christel in her very first run as Lily. She worked as the teenage version.

Denise Pence looks amazing in that thumbnail. I wish she had been brought back to GL but it was so far gone from what it was ... Elvera and Hope would have been great to have over the years. I know many cling to Maureen as the matriarch and she was wonderful in that spot but I wanted more for Maureen (especially seeing the chemistry she had with Michael Zaslow in 1992) than stuck in a marriage to boring Ed when I'm watching now. Hope would have sufficed. Matriarch of the Bauer AND Spaulding clans? Sign me up. Of course Alex is the matriarch but you know Hope would have been there. Sigh. What could have been if a writer cared more about the history of the show. Watching the Santos family reunion now. Another one who looks amazing: Saundra Santiago. Paul looks good too and Jordi always does. Jordi looks better scruffy, IMO. I don't often say that. I know the Santos clan is hated. I share that hatred. But I really like each and every actor that was in the family. I have nothing against them. What pisses me off is the lack of ability to truly introduce a diverse family onto a show. Carmen Santos could have been a much better, less one-note character who could have been a bitch to be reckoned with for YEARS. PAS and Laura Wright had chemistry and they should have used that. Danny and Cassie made FAR more sense. And you have Father Ray, who could have been a symbol of the early years of the show. But ... nope. The writing sucked. Only Danny lasted because of PAS. Why is a hispanic family wasted as mobsters? That's my big gripe. And then they introduced the Boudreau's, who could have really been interesting, had the writers wanted to actually write for Black people. They didn't. Mel was instantly paired with Rick. No drama over their mixed relationship from what I recall. If there was it was a blip on the radar. Felicia could have had a past with Alan or Roger. What if Remy was their son? And he were gay? And Felicia didn't approve but Clayton did (yes I'm kinda channeling Haves and Have Nots, just less ... ugly), etc. Or vice versa. But ... nope. They were replacements for Vivian, Charles, Vicky and David (although Charles appeared for several years after that I believe, in pop up spots at Cedars). I do believe they had some writing for them with Richard Biggs and Shari Headley in the roles but they were ultimately wasted and wisely bailed. What a waste of them! And Vicky Spaulding was a non-entity. Lost potential. Circling back to Hispanic families on soaps, you have Y&R introduce the Rosale clan. Shove them down our throats and expect us to care about them without actually writing for them as characters and giving them depth. Arturo wasn't hated when he was boning Nikki and circling around Abby. Rey fills a purpose I suppose but he's not being written for. Mia had the most potential so of course she, the woman, was fired. Lola could have been a bitch but she had to be written all over the place and now she likely has one foot out the door. Shame all around. See a pattern? Anywho ... sorry about that but just been on my mind lately. Really? Lord ... no. While the show still looked very good under him, you could see a shift from even Jill's years where she did some refreshes and got rid of a few sets but it wasn't nearly as bad. It was actually weird watching a 1999 episode and remembering the diner still around, etc. I just got so numb and used to like no sets that I was sadly surprised they were still around when I was actually watching. Sets matter on soaps (and shows). You'd think they'd know that. They matter. It's familiarity. I think that's also contributed heavily to what loses folks over the years. They turn on the show, see tons of people they don't know running around sets they don't remember. You don't give The Golden Girls a new set and expect it to work the same (it didn't).

I recall that too. I don't believe Maria is well liked at all in the Bell family. Hence her killing "Brad" and "Colleen".

I've been so bad about watching the classic episodes. I have all of last week to get through! lol.

Terrible as Greenlee but I can see her as Michelle Bauer. WOO HOO!!! Holy cow Elvera Roussel and Denise Pence? AND Michael Tylo? I've died. I was hoping for Denise Pence too. I remember her being active on YouTube. Hopefully Lisa will be. Unfortunately though I think a lot of the older actors aren't necessarily YouTube/internet savvy. Not saying that applies to her, but a lot goes into these chats, LOL. So I think we may need to remember that when we wonder about where someone is. I'm crossing my fingers she's a surprise like Anna Holbrook was. I was over the moon to see Holbrook. HOW DO THESE SOAP STARS NOT AGE? Elizabeth Hubbard, Anna Holbrook, etc. all look FABULOUS.

I had to think about it for a few minutes, lol. Really hard to believe the show's been dead since 1999. 21 years this summer. Wow.

Yeah it seemed to be a trope they liked to use, for whatever reason. Makes sense in terms of giving her something meaty to dig into. But then he did it again with Michael. Yikes, lol. I was just yesterday watching B&B from that time. Seems cruel to do the 'virgin gets raped' but life can be, unfortunately, cruel.

Kinda ... weird ... to put it mildly. They did one around 97/98 I remember. The Cassie storyline. DAYS had three. I'd love to seem at later times, I think more of an audience could be there, but now it's taken up by news, news and more news.

Yikes. Why did Bill Bell have his daughter's on-screen character raped TWICE?

Exactly! You know Brad loves his Brooke vs Stephanie fetish. I did find it curious they don't list Ronn Moss in the episodes but Thorsten Kaye, even though it was Moss at the time in some of them. What are they going to do digitally replace him? LOL. Yet they list Kim Matula and point out she's played by Annika Noelle now. Weird. They think we're all too stupid to know or remember when they were played by someone else apparently. I think Brad's frequent cast changes over the decades is kind of biting him in the behind at the moment.

THIS! It's live on YouTube. The Locher Room on YouTube. This is the link to it: It's definitely live, lol

lol I forgot about that but yes. They had to be in on the joke, lol. I thought she did too. Or it died or something. I remember Sharlene returning to comfort her. I think we all do that sometimes with actors and actresses, lol. That's true on Joe. I would have killed Joe in the fire or like you said have Tito kill Joe. The actor didn't really bother me but Joe and Paulina were snoozeville and I just didn't like him with her and the writing for Paulina either. I liked him in family scenes, which is what I say about Rafe on DAYS. I just didn't like the angry shouty man thing the soaps adopted in the late 90s.

At lot of things didn't quite work. I do seem to recall lots of interference. Claire was out then back then out. Who knows the real story?? It was messy. I could never see Labine and Rauch ever being on the same page. It was a weird pairing from the start.

I think it would have worked better that way. It does appear they wanted to build towards Eve/Nick. And then ... she gets with Ed. LOL. The potential was definitely there with Eve. I actually think so.

Ah yes I do remember Taggart FINALLY playing on Bill/Michelle but I never cared much about Nancy's Michelle. At all.

Agreed lol. And I just love his website, he did a really great job.

http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/ That's his website. I'm trying to find his "Eddietorials" link, they're a good read. EDIT: http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/eddietor.html

I can agree with this on Fletcher. I think he worked better as a supporting character in the community. Never felt 'needed' but GL was often a 'character' show. They really [!@#$%^&*] on the character in the end of his run. Me neither on Ben. It was disgusting. I also thought it was so great seeing Michelle, Bill and Ben as friends. Wasn't that kind of lost when Ben came on as Matt Bomer? I was on/off watching at the time. I forgot he talked to Bill. That was nice.

YEP! It was SO contrived. I love Eddie Drueding's tirades against Jill. Entirely spot on and perfectly stated.