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I'm for flexibility with casting. I've watched GH for years, but have only sampled other ABC soaps, so all of this Super Mega ABC Soap Universe stuff is lost on me, but glad others enjoyed it. Seems to me in this case they had the character Blaze, a singer who had experienced sexual harassment, whom the audience has learned is LGBT and has a very conservative Latino family. Casting call went out for a Latina woman of a certain age to play her mother. Eva La Rue got cast. The part is the part. They could have made Blaze Maddie and made Eva Maria, but that's just not how the story was conceived. Blaze has been on for a while (if she were new, and they knew they were hiring Eva, maybe they would have made her a Santos). If they decided to make this character Maria, now the story is no longer about an LGBT woman navigating her traditional Catholic family and her budding relationship with Kristina, but some huge retcon story about how Maria has this other daughter who came to be in Port Charles. Speculation will gear up about whether Sydney Penny or Mark Consuelos will appear. It becomes a totally different story. And, IMO, GH already has enough of a fetish of trying to make every new character the long lost child of someone on canvas. It is unfortunate, to those who want more AMC characters on GH, that this apparently closes the door to bringing back Eva as Maria, but I'd argue it doesn't, given how many characters Howarth and Easton have played (crossovers, recasts, and new characters), in quick succession. So, if Blaze's mother turns out to be a short time role, and Eva is interested in a long contract, they can always bring her back as Maria Santos in 6 months, but with a long term story plan instead of shoe-horning her in, and the audience should accept that.

She won an Emmy for that 🤣

I wonder if those execs actually watch the show, or just read the projections? I mean, they might be under the impression that what was written, actually happens on the show, lol. If I wrote you a projection about how Mariah and Tessa would decide to have a child, have problems adopting because they had criminal histories, then get cleared, then meet with multiple potential birth mothers, have their hopes dashed time after time when the mothers changed their minds, then finally connected with one and went through the process of adoption, and then slowly noticed that the child wasn't reacting to things, realized she couldn't hear, and got a cochlear implant... it doesn't sound like a bad story. I would be thinking about all the Camryn Grimes Emmy bait scenes, the anticipation, the joy, the tears when it all falls through... very Bill Bell style... and then finally meeting the birth mother, going through that emotional journey... the birth, holding the child for the first... the slow realization that something is wrong... Except almost none of this ever happened. Updates were just relayed to Sharon at the coffee house once every couple of weeks. We didn't even see the baby for months. They sat in the park and explained how Aria didn't react to silverware falling on the floor. They barely sprung for a doctor's office set for two scenes (I was surprised) and then the story was over. So I wonder if Josh Griffith tells the execs that Tessa and Mariah are adopting a child, or if he tells them the truth, that Tessa and Mariah will be sitting in the coffeehouse telling Sharon about how they adopted a child. I don't expect the suits to care, of course. I am sure they think the audience is dumb and if they can maintain enough of a rating just talking about stuff, that's good enough (and if the ratings fall they won't try to improve it, just cut the budget even more so we see less).

Isn't Sally supposed to be an interior decorator? And they have no sets.... so yeah, I can see why that business would fail.

Everyone can't work at Jabot because everyone, from age 20-85, has to be a "CEO" or "co-CEO." No one can have a regular job. There used to be Neil, Brad, Chase, and Ryan working their way up and it was interesting. Now there's a million little companies so everyone can have a big title.

They love to run these stories to the ground until we won't care anymore. You had Victor faking his dementia, then he wasn't, then he was... Kyle was going to work with Tucker, then be a double agent, then work for him for real, then be a double agent... or something. Ashley and Tucker's relationship was real, then fake, then real, then fake... They think these are "twists" but they just don't make any sense.

I was not aware of this article and just found it. The youngest skewing soap is GH with an average age of 68! Oh my! https://deadline.com/2024/01/daytime-tv-ratings-soaps-2024-season-1235810237/ What accounts for the continued decrease in eyeballs? The average age of the daytime viewers may have something to do with it. While GH remains the youngest skewing daytime drama at 68.1, all three of the soaps have seen their boomer fans age up this season versus last year. The GH average viewer age is up 4 percent from 65.6 to 68.1; Y&R is up 1 percent from 69.6 to 68.7, and B&B is up 2 percent from 68.2 to 69.4.

Yep, the SOD ones are great but I was talking about daily ones. Some of them get very detailed and go scene by scene, which I love. But I do enjoy SODs very much too.

Yes, I think the site I posted is actually a compilation of those, and it's very convenient not having to do keyword and date searches.

Yesss! I would be happy to convert the VHS for you @soapfan770 (and anyone else out there lol).

Thanks. Also, there are 1993-1998 recaps here. https://www.anybrowser.org/soaps/archives/gl.html So it seems that 1991-1993 is largely missing. Would love to find some 80s/early 90s daily recaps.

I haven't watched most of this since it originally aired, so your comments are interesting! I think Y&R deserves a lot of credit for not trying to make Matt a reformed rapist or sex symbol. I feel like on any other soap, they would have caved and kept him on as a romantic anti-hero. They kept him evil and still managed to create a compelling storyline (rich boy goes on trial). In hindsight I'm surprised Phyllis went that crazy so fast! Those were the days. I enjoyed the dragged out divorce and custody trials, her sleeping with Dr. Tim... Danny was always viscerally disgusted by her after their ill-fated remarriage... his behavior today makes no sense. The Hope/Victor stuff is still pivotal today I guess... and it's like.... yes, Victor, why couldn't you just get divorced and have visitation rights? Why did you have to completely disinherit your son and pretend to be a family friend? It was the same thing he did with Cole, except he knew Victor junior was his son... they still could have told much the same story of Adam the outsider. Jeri... lol... I feel like Y&R had lots of random editors pop up as love interests for their various author characters Jed Andrews with Lorie, this Jeri person, and Steve with Traci, which was the only one that suck (barely).

That makes more sense! Would have been fun though. Julia and Barnabas are starting to remind me of Family Guy's Brian and Stewie with the time machine.

For real, they were going to go back that far?! (No spoilers please, I have about 100 episodes til the end).

To me it is so irrelevant that I have no recollection of whether it was revealed or to whom.

That's campaigning in my book. It's just pretending that other people are saying it on your behalf and it wasn't your idea. He brought it up because he's interested in the part.

Darrin Brooks was just on Michael Fairman campaigning for the role of Lucky..

Eric Braeden is on YouTube now: Victor has a message for the world: Incest! We've had this date planned all along...

I'm counting totally new characters - twins and doppelgangers tend to run in the same circles and often morph into the same character as the original. Quinn Redeker on Y&R was the best... from abusive Nick Reed to lovable rascal Rex Sterling. Completely different chacter. As much as I hate her origin story, Hayley Erin is doing a much better job as Claire than she did as Abby (or as she did on GH). I enjoyed Sarah Joy Brown and Tamara Braun as Claudia Zacchara and Kim Nero on GH. Would have rather seen them as Carly, but that wasn't going to happen. Dark Shadows did this all the time. Mostly the actors played the characters similarly, but one standout was Joel Crothers transitioning from heroic Joe Haskell to scoundrel Nathan Forbes. Marie Wallace also showed great variety as Eve, Jenny, and Megan, and I enjoyed all of Nancy Barrett's roles too.

That's a good point, compared to ahem, others. A friend who speaks English as a second language told me she has trouble understanding Eric Braeden sometimes. I explained that most of us native English speakers have the same problem. I don't know how he quite manages to do that thing where he's mumbling all the words together and trailing off and then suddenly puts emphasis on the last word (as in when he said "whogivesadamnaboutthatBITCH" about Aunt Jordan 😅). I have no hearing problems but I need to rewind and listen with captions to him a lot. Mealor does preppy well. He's more like David Tom's Billy than the Billy Miller/Terry Lester archetype, which is a little more playful than Bergman but not especially so.

I can't believe EB didn't get nominated or win for the reunion with his mother and his orphanage backstory and Jeanne didn't get nominated or win for the facelift story, among many others.

LOL perfect description of PB @Broderick I noticed he was just as affected when speaking as himself on the Y&R 50th anniversary special (where he obnoxiously noted that he'd won an Emmy whereas Lester never had - in my view, that was due to his ABC friends as Y&R's actors did not get much Emmy love during the 80s). Sometimes I crack up when Bergman is the one doing the "brought to you by Palmolive" line after the commercial break, as if he's reading Shakespeare.

Hasn't happened to me recently, but it does happen sometimes. I just restart the download manually in my browser.

Sharon and Nick bought Crimson Lights because it's where they fell in love. They hung out there and were crowned kind and queen of the college luau. This was before they found Cassie. I think he proposed there (he proposed multiple times so I'm not entirely sure). They did eventually put a memorial for Cassie on the back patio area and they had Jewel perform with the proceeds going to Cassie's Challenge (a program promoting awareness about underage drinking - I did not remember this until I found the video). This must be what you were thinking of.

The Newman name would have more cache in business so it makes sense to me that Sharon would use that name. I always thought it was funny, anyway, how the women would always keep the most recent husband's name (Mrs. Chancellor then Mrs. Sterling) (Mrs. Newman then Mrs. Abbot then Mrs. Landers etc) even after divorce or death until they married someone new. Poor Esther and Miguel with all the changes. I prefer when they use their maiden name or their longest running relationship (Chancellor for Kay, Newman for Nikki, Abbott for Jill). Those are the names we knew them by the longest. Ray is pretty much a footnote at this point.