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"Longstanding cast members" doesn't really count for much at Frank's GH, where they often refuse to cut anyone. Willow and Sasha have been here for over six years - that's insane. Chad worked hard for a long time, then stopped a long time ago. I have been wanting a rest for the character and recast for a long time, but I'll settle for a recast. I am willing to bet everyone has.

My suspicion is Frank offered him a take it or leave it pay cut which has so often happened with exits here and OLTL, but I could be way off.

Robert Adamson is equally weak. They need a strong performer in that role. Chad used to be quite good but has been checked out for almost a decade.

Bye!

Never sure how I feel about colorization of DW. I still need to see the Daleks edit. Cutting The War Games specifically down to 90 minutes seems egregious - I'm sure it has plenty of fat, but it's not the same as cutting down a classic Terry Nation runaround. I'd at least give it 120 minutes. And we'll see how the 'new regeneration' comes off.

That is news to me. I've never really seen Gary talk about OLTL since being fired. It is for the best they dumped Skye. Crazy he was told Andrea was 'too old' to play Tina.

Most of Jax's remaining personality is the accent, lol. I see no reason to recast him, let alone without it. Adam Harrington was always mediocre to me except for that one speech. I could not have seen him as Jax.

Exactly. Ater all the lies and philandering secrets already layered onto him by that point, it was not off-brand.

Those dreams were not that early at all. Sloan died in early '95 IIRC and Viki's alters broke out very quickly after in February, I believe. The Victor/Dorian case revisit had been going for at least a year if not longer, but they had been slowly having it percolate since Sloan's arrival in '92 because of his fascination with Victor Lord. I can't recall exactly when it hit high gear but it was only after Robin Strasser came back in spring(?) '93, maybe 6-12 months after that. Erika and Agnes Nixon can think what they like, but when I started watching as a kid and they began broaching the issue of Victor, who it was clear Viki idolized, I knew something was off from the jump in how everyone talked about this dead man and this was long before any dreams or the like. They were very clever and subtle initially, but I had watched Twin Peaks with my mother so I was primed to be suspicious. I never spoke it aloud but I was not shocked when the truth came out, only shocked that they'd gone there. It was inevitable to me.

That's what I thought, yes.

I mean, he wasn't a dead man walking for the duration of his time on the show. People like Sloan have lived with their conditions for years. And as you say, he was in remission for some time. It was not, in '93 or '94 a situation where people were like checking the clock waiting for Sloan to die, at least not IIRC. Had Clint Ritchie stayed healthy and other factors not intervened they might have sped up the timetable on Sloan's demise as was allegedly planned, but we really have no idea.

LOL, maybe I'll look it up in the Wayback Machine. They did have some horny-ass scenes though. I think we saw some of their mostly naked wedding night or honeymoon.

Yeah, I'm not sure George Reinholt being a down on his luck piece of male arm candy is the same thing as Stephen Martines, known scammer.

Oh God. I don't remember that.

Sure, but that was also a very different time. Almost no soap had anything like that. Having Billy was a huge step in '92-'93. Yeah, the Ben and Blondie fanbase and the Viki/Clint fans despised each other at the time. I was never a part of that but I remember some real psychos in the mix. Nonetheless, while B&B had a vocal fanbase they were not a supercouple and a lot of the audience just hated all the Rappadavidsons period.

I forgot that one lol. Another story that will never be explained, and I was sure they would during the writing changeover in the spring.

I agree. I still think they should at least have a fling. The complete deletion of memory re: either Pikeman/Brennan or the Wagger plot is baffling to me.

Ben did turn out to be Asa's son, which JFP clearly thought would cement him forever. Except he had little to no relationship with the Buchanans following the reveal (who he'd spent the bulk of his run actively despising) despite a lot of lip service from Asa and even the visiting Clint Ritchie once Ben was comatose, and he also lasted barely two years with minimal story after the truth came out. I don't believe Sloan was dying at the time. They knew he was ill but it didn't become terminal til much later, IIRC. The original plan (supposedly, depending on who you ask) may have been to kill Sloan regardless and have Clint win the triangle, if not for Clint Ritchie having a serious accident IRL which kept him offscreen for a considerable period starting in the summer of '93. This supposedly led to Viki and Sloan being extended and becoming more part of the firmament. But that's a lot of he said/she said BTS, and I can't be sure what's true. I like and have always liked elements of the Sloan saga and Roy Thinnes, and I think restoring Viki's primacy as an individual was important. But I do think Clint would always be the better man and I've always understood why people hated it. I think it would've been more interesting in the long run to see the Gottlieb/Malone regime reckon with restoring Viki and Clint, which for various reasons they never got the chance to do as they allegedly planned.

At this point if we get Lulu reuniting with her family by Turkey Day (they've got to, right?) I'll call it a win. This is a classic example of the FV Taping Struggle.

Re-upping this post because hoo boy, at this point in late summer '91 he can't leave soon enough for me. I always admired NW as a very different but strong Max when I saw him in scattered eps here and there in the past (particularly with Fiona), and maybe it's just the gross Lee Ann story that is making me react like this but he is so extra, effete and hammy all the time even in casual scenes that it feels eyepopping and exhausting, and him putting the moves on Lee Ann is so skeevy. You can see why they became determined to get someone not trying so hard on-camera nonstop. Very curious how contemporary viewers felt, though I'd always heard reaction to him was fairly positive.

"Kevin can't satisfy her, but Curtis can! Get away from me, wife!"

It was designed to neuter Shawn by putting him with Alexis. I have a lot of fondness for both Alexis and Nancy but that's just the truth, she couldn't buy real story at the time and was seen as over the hill at that point until Julian came along. I would happily take Shawn the tycoon back but I don't think it will happen. Brennan has a funky witch's nose. I'm just putting it out there.

It does. They expect us to believe Robert and Holly slept together immediately after her return in '92, when he was happily married to Anna (and I think she'd even been kidnapped for her exit by then, but don't quote me). Their stated angle is that Holly realized she was pregnant and had Sasha after Robert and Anna died off-camera in 1992. The problem with this is that Holly was onscreen, frontburner and in several major romances and adventure storylines nonstop from that point until the summer of 1993. It's embarrassing.

They were terrified of using him, which is why he was ultimately abandoned in a way similar to the Ashfords today - a C-pairing with Alexis nobody cared about but that FV and RC could plausibly call a pairing, and barely on for the T.J. 'story' about being his dad which crawled along for several years in the background. SB was the hottest man on the show in his tenure. Imagine them daring to heavily test him with Laura Wright today like they did when he first started.

It's always funny when people at the show tout Liz Korte as the historian of continuity. Under her watch they have retconned both Cody and Sasha as Scorpios in specific time periods where the supposed mothers were onscreen in frontburner story the entire time and could not possibly have been pregnant. The plain fact is the show thinks we're all stupid. I have no problem with Cody as Mac's son but it should've been by some fling from long ago, not Dominique.