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Nah, it was floating around a lot in the rumor mill that year from some reasonable sources who had followed that team from OLTL and over the last couple years had almost certainly been inside. Take it with a grain of salt of course, but I 100% believe it. The wilder thing that DC had a line on at that time and revealed years later (and they were close to Ron) was that before the baby swap story got truncated the plan had allegedly been to pair up Sonny and Téa Delgado, leaving Sonny forced to choose between Jason and his new love when it turned out Téa's baby was Danny Morgan. (It is no contest who Sonny would choose IMO, but bear in mind Ron did write that Carly sided with Todd over Jason at the time which would never have happened.)

Looking at those eps with fresh eyes recently I feel like Damian had his fingers in a lot of things (uh, aside from Bobbie). I remembered him just hanging around too, but they got a lot of mileage out of him for story and Leigh McCloskey was so good at that kind of role, not unlike Peter Boynton as Tonio on ATWT, sexy but so clearly sleazy. It would be interesting to introduce a character like that today to challenge the Qs and/or Sonny - a young magnate, possibly another Smith who (like Damian, IIRC) has supposedly sworn off the family business, who is more in the mold of the rich white-collar sociopaths from Succession. That's the real criminality today.

I had a decade worth of chances lol, I was just busy and lazy. I go back fairly often, so I hope we both get a shot.

They know he's not on the rise, but a lot of media still need the illusion of a horse race in the GOP primaries and something other than the same old party death spiral to try to goose ratings as well as boost their own spirits - it's getting much harder for Beltway journalists to keep pretending their friends or relatives in the Republican Party are the 'good ones' vs. a few bad apples. They also were briefly infatuated with the idea of another Great (Fake) Moderate GOP Hope, which of course DeSantis has pivoted far away from. He is flailing and fading and will be put to the sword like all the other Trump opponents, it's just a matter of time.

I have no idea, but I think that's around the time she came onscreen. I always meant to visit the Paley archives when I lived in NYC, but over the long years I just kept putting it off. Maybe when I stop back.

What's odd is that even though Jamey idolized the deranged Nikki Finke, I believe he used to consistently mispronounce her name as "Fink-ee".

I think so too. It's a matter of time.

Caveat: Haberman -

Degrassi will also stay remembered. Euphoria won't.

Willis is right about this.

Holy shít. Every Fox News personality who people think will survive and thrive outside of Fox, doesn't. I remember when Glenn Beck ruled the right wing world for ten minutes. This isn't Tucker's first time in the wilderness. But this is shocking since he is the linchpin of their entire network. And any time these guys try to create their own start-ups or make them mainstream they fail. He can't make Daily Caller over into Semafor, for example - for one thing, its laundered, newly-respectable Beltway alum like Kaitlan Collins would run for the hills. So I have no idea what he could possibly do other than stay home and sit on his money, which is probably the best thing for the country. Whatever ousted him must be very dire.

I was thinking of that too, yes.

I would be more than happy if they tied it into Orpheus, lol. They actually did intend to use the Robin arc in 2012 to bring back Alan and Stuart. When Frank and Ron thought the show was going off the air within a year and brought the OLTL characters in as well, the idea apparently was that Robin was going to explore her prison and discover it contained (at a minimum) Alan alive a la Stuart Chandler at the end of AMC, along with Trevor St. John as Victor Lord Jr./Todd II, who had been revealed to be alive and imprisoned at the end of OLTL in January 2012. This would allow them to tie up the plotlines of both soaps in a grand finale when GH was presumed to also be coming to an end. They might well have ended up revealing Starr's boyfriend and daughter were alive too, something I think Ron always intended to keep in his back pocket. Allegedly, Stuart Damon was not up for the strain of performing for such a twist. Then of course they saved GH, and the OLTL stuff all fell by the wayside when Prospect Park took control of the rights. Maybe it's me but Labine always seemed to relish writing those Mac/Felicia and Mac/Felicia/Robin romantic and family vignettes. They would just roll and roll on that stuff, even more now when I look back at those eps. I understand why they had to break them up at the time for the drama, but I'm not surprised they ended up back together. And I'm so glad they are today. I am glad the attempted redemption of Katherine never really came to pass. I've never liked her introduction stories.

She sadly wasn't mentioned as passing at the time AFAIK, but as has been noted recently Lucy paid tribute to her with a giant picture while memorializing her at the 2013 Nurses Ball.

Anything that keeps Garrett Wang from crying in public at conventions any more works for me! I highly doubt she will ever return again but I would be super onboard for a two-parter with Ro being sprung from a Changeling gulag or whatever.

I don't disagree on that. I just think Mac and Katherine, woof. I thought Rex Stanton was Dom's uncle. Which is a tangential connection to Katherine as is, I guess. I have said it before but I would happily accept Zombie Katherine returning for a brief (brief!) arc to make Lucy, etc.'s lives miserable, and I suspect using Katherine was something Ron had considered back in the day. Major stories for Katherine almost always failed but MBE gave great villain with Lucy and others.

Oh, they definitely tried to make her into a heroine at several points including then. But ultimately she had scummier storylines than not.

Did she? She came on as a scammer, albeit a softer one and it was a liar and vixen she remained.

I never understood breaking up Mac and Felicia for Mac and Katherine or Tom and Felicia. I can barely remember Mac and Katherine were even together; it took me a while to remember Mac and Felicia were even broken up for a few years. Mary Beth Evans was excellent in the role despite Katherine's intense unpopularity, but with the exception of Richard Culliton's brief infatuation with pairing her and Stefan it seems like they only held onto Katherine because of MBE's cachet as a soap star and perhaps a very well-negotiated contract.

I think Tom is pretty much a lost opportunity now, sadly. I would introduce his son Thomas/Tommy as a doctor and a male lead, and therefore have Tom and Simone appear played by new people at some point, sure, but as I think caroline and I have discussed in the past both Tom Hardy and Steve Webber/Steven Lars fulfill the same function on canvas - legacy doctor with strong family ties. And if I have to choose one to bring back in a more permanent fashion it would likely be Steve (recast). Simone I don't think was ever more than a cipher after a certain point in the early '90s, which is also sad. I have next to zero memory of her material. I do recall her being with Justus briefly.

God, no. I have some dignity. Poor Tony. They need to bring back a reasonable facsimile of the original Brownstone exterior. I'm not just saying that bc I used to live in one with a near identical facade!

I'm saving the silly "Helena got 'em on ice" excuse for Emily and Georgie Jones and the next anniversary event tbh. After the whole Robin caper it makes perfect sense to me: Emily and Georgie both had deep ties to powerful families and/or the WSB. Emily was a doctor and IIRC Georgie was very bright and (I could be wrong here) also considering a medical track - Helena's cabal abducted Robin for all the same reasons, to force her to assist with their experiments. Keeping Emily in cryofreeze or Georgie imprisoned also allows Helena, Victor or their cohorts to leverage Frisco and the WSB in secret (the agency has been compromised at least half a dozen times by the baddies in the last ten years) and allows them to potentially leverage the Qs/ELQ if one of them is told Emily is alive. To say nothing of Nikolas finding out. You wouldn't need to bring either character back on the show full time after this, of course - Lindze Letherman is retired, AFAIK and Georgie Sr. is not super necessary to the current canvas. But I feel it was a fundamental mistake to kill both of them, Emily especially, and I would make it a point to resurrect them in some adventure story and then promptly write them out happily to get their lives back somewhere else. You could then reintroduce them or their children or whoever any time you liked in future. As a regrettable aging shorts wearer I resent these remarks. 😞