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This guy looks a bit too old to be a recast of Tate.

I don't see how it could when it's mostly actors still on the show.

i've always heard he was and assumed that was part of what he'd long been dealing with. But I'm hesitant to make assumptions about a personal history that was so troubled with someone who passed away under such tragic circumstances.

It’s kind of ridiculous they’re not playing more flashbacks. Hearing Lynn and Kin struggle to churn out endless clumsy exposition about Bobbie’s past and then Becky like a clickbait soap site with zero clips is arduous to watch. Kin looked like he was passing a kidney stone having to remind the audience that Bobbie brought Luke Spencer to town and ruined his life for the 300th time. I'm hoping they're saving the clips for today and tomorrow. Sonny and Dante have had slowly decomposing variations on the same conversation for over 10 years. "You okay?" "You're a cop!" "But I'm your son too!" Their relationship has barely moved an inch and is so weak. Say what we will about the Guza years, but both Dante and his relationship to his hated father was dark, complex and layered for awhile before just settling into the apologist comfort zone. It's criminal how Frank and Ron discarded him, like most of the male leads that predated them, as a male-presenting spare part to plug into couplehood or clueless vacuity. Dante used to be a soulful character. Even Michael had an edge and layers. Cody/Sasha scenes are unbelievably boring. Sasha is like a genial test pattern onscreen. Josh Kelly is talented but this vacant expository material is not his forte, and despite the awkward explanations I have zero idea what they're talking about. Just let him be the jolly stable stud boffing lonely ladies like Liz! Laura is doing great but I’m sorry, these scenes with Becky would just hit different with Sarah. Carly's paranoia and hatred towards Elizabeth was boundless in those days.

The show featured Bobbie and Jackie pretty often as a supporting family player in the last 10-15 years, IMO. There were points where she was appearing as often as the semi-regular recurring vets. Frankly her face issues got in the way of some of it, I think. The 2000s were much more on-off depending on the time. I do think they need to show a lot more flashbacks and I think too often Frank or the network eschew that because they don't want to remind people of a preferred past vs. the now.

I remember seeing a few instances of that. How long/often did they play Andy (DeFreitas or otherwise) with his grandparents before Chris died? I'm assuming Andy was not seen much at all before Wagner and McLaughlin first left pre-Marland/Horgan in '81, so was it only over the course of the prior year or two before McLaughlin's death? I am glad GH, for all its flaws, took pains to show Jackie Zeman's Bobbie with her grandchildren, relations, etc. all through the years. In recent times her being there for the children or her family was often the bulk of her appearances. So when both actor and character have untimely passed, their honoring her this week also has weight for all the generations.

That blog entry is wonderful. And Amber nails it here: This is the first time I learned Emily was originally just a 3-month role.

That monologue and his entire hosting run was one of the worst I've ever seen at an awards show. He bombed like nothing else. It was up there with Doug Williams getting clowned by Jamie Foxx.

I have reason to believe B.J. will appear, but I expect it might be the original actress (Brighton Hertford?). I am still holding out hope for other surprises, not limited to TG who I'd be shocked not to see soon in some capacity but also Sarah, Tamara, Brad Maule, etc. The press release suggests there may be some.

This poor temp. The latest Faux!Maxie in the trenches for reasons we needn't enumerate. Sitting here having to toss out exposition about the biggest storyline in the character's history. It’s too bad they couldn’t get Molly Burnett back again, she would be my first choice for a Maxie recast in a pinch even if I think the character needs a long rest. If Guza was still here Sonny and Lois would 100% fúck. The UK soaps might do it too tbh, they love pairing up the spare ends of supercouples. I'm not saying it's a good idea (it's not at all, at least not long-term) but it's there.

Oh man. You can tell they're all barely holding it together.

Jo Koy's set was as bad as advertised. Wow.

Very glad Anatomy of a Fall was recognized. Possibly my best film of the year.

I highly doubt Tyler Perry fired Jamey. I've heard the dialogue on Tyler Perry shows (I still remember people on this board insisting The Haves and Have Nots was good). If anything he did his show and got out, or the pay over there just isn't that great.

Daniel Cosgrove is a talented actor but the fact is any time he turns up a show is not far from the grave, lol. It's not his fault but it is what happens every time. There's no point in pretending otherwise.

I always forget that it wasn't Marland that brought on Amanda and Lucille Wexler but the Dobsons. How much did they set up with Amanda being a Spaulding, etc? IIRC the Jennifer angle and Morgan were all Marland.

Connor Paolo (Travis O'Connell, OLTL and Gossip Girl) and Jonathan Bennett (J.R., AMC) are playing(?)* gay again in the dreadful-looking slasher Fire Island for Showtime, which doesn't look nearly as fun as the underrated Hulu romcom of the same name and also regrettably features str8 couples on Fire Island. (* - we all know Bennett is gay, I just assume the jury was out on Connor Paolo)

(I like the dead leaves opening.)

I would argue losing Michael Malone not long ago was up there, but that's me.

I'd never seen this Series 2 promo piece with Tennant, Piper and Lis. Thought @DRW50 might like it. Click and zoom in to enlarge: Meanwhile: Radio Times mentions this was cut from The Giggle:

Oh my God, that is Sebastian Roche! Wow. Per silent film, I remember the rumors a few years back that people found F.W. Murnau's 4 Devils. Sadly didn't pan out.

I always enjoyed the idea of GL calling back to Reverend Rutledge and the lamp/lighthouse/etc. near the end of the run. I just think the execution of it was very poor. If GL was ever rebooted it would be nice to find a way to tie all these little details together - maybe a location bit or someone's correspondence, or a character from Selby Flats or Five Points, etc.

What a eulogy! Khan, any SB episode recommendations are welcome; I've never really dug into it vs. her '70s GL which I have enjoyed. I'll admit based on her deeply eccentric online interviews I often thought about crafting a young female writer character for GH based around some of her notoriously outsize reputation. But it felt appropriative (or inappropriate, I guess), as I was never a Dobson scholar.

You'll have to tell us in a GH thread sometime what kind of character you think he should play. I do think it could be gold, though I'm not sure he'd be interested in returning to daytime this point.

This recent loss enables me to dig back into my dive into the Dobson-era GL I began early in the pandemic. It is fascinating, labyrinthian stuff.