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Very little, but he's played by a very talented young actor who was outacting half the cast even when he was first hired. He should be put on a contract but he's already getting a lot of outside work, I think.

And another: The original spot, which like the others so far featured the audio above in reverse:

Andre kind of got off pretty light after working with Faison on the Two Jasons, didn't he? Just hanging around with his very tall hair. I remember the days when he was the navigator on Star Trek: Enterprise who they totally gave up on writing for because back then he had no ability to act beyond grinning and saying 'warp 9!' @AdelaideCate007 will back me up!

I've been deep in a '79-'80 binge of EON along with other soaps since COVID began. It's very interesting how much they played with stuff with the longer-running characters (so many Edge characters were transitory). Miles and Nicole are now cemented as a tentpole couple or seem to be after the brutal slaughter of Donald May's Adam (and preceding Nicole's own harsh demise in a few years), but they definitely play a new angle when Derek Mallory comes on. Dennis Parker plays Mallory as an absolute militaristic shitheel and chauvinist for much of the early months, but his clear infatuation with Jayne Bentzen's Nicole humanizes him and allows for some layering. Meanwhile they seem to be teasing something with April and Logan while she's cemented with Draper. More and more I think EON nailed what Dark Shadows could've done had it adjusted to the '70s - it also had an often transitory, sometimes rotating repertory cast of people who would come in, interact with the foundational cast and then leave from genre story to genre story. The Madison clan including Margaret Colin has fulfilled several story purposes and is almost entirely gone, leaving only Nola to wreak havoc; Eliot Dorn is still around following his cult story a couple years ago making mischief. This sort of modular formula is one EON perfected.

As I said last month:

Cody had one of the most unpopular character introductions I've seen in a long time last year. People still call him "Truck Nuts" for reasons I don't understand but find hilarious. Given that, I don't think you need to do anything profound except tread lightly and let him be a classic soap staple: Local mischievous hunky stableboy, and maybe loves his dear old dad (Mac). He can be a fun fling for Elizabeth, he can be slotted in other places (or written out) but you can figure it out later. Dante and Lulu never did it for me but they were, in their original incarnation with Julie Berman, a pretty popular couple. By contrast, Dante and Sam are a C-tier snooze button pairing designed to fill the actors' guarantees while the show clearly has little to no active interest in them. I thought pairing them was a nice idea on paper that didn't work, and I think Sam as a character is spent and should be written out. Dante I would move to Brook Lynn at least for awhile given their shared history and potential for fun mystery stories, and then I would reintroduce Lulu with Marci Miller or whoever. But I'd need to find a better version of the Lulu character to situate on the canvas - lean into the adventurous journalist thing that they briefly introduced before firing Rylan, maybe - and then you can see whether she and Dante work anymore, since I never loved their original story.

Whatever, I'd still have Cody the mischievous stablehand blow Liz's back out to get her groove back!

You're not allowed to read my posts before my edits! 🙃 I think Mark Lawson gave a very visceral and heartfelt performance on OLTL but he had no purpose on GH other than for Frank to give more OLTL alumni jobs. Kelly I think has real charisma and fits in better. It's the indistinguishable Willow/Sasha unit I can't tolerate, along with cryin' Dex.

I forgot the weird reason they gave why poor Dev lost his accent, lol. I loved Mark Lawson on OLTL as Brody and I'll defend his honor. But he had no need to be on GH. Josh Kelly OTOH has a lot of possibility, Cody was just poorly introduced. ETA: Please ignore the fact that I typed 'Josh Kelly' twice while defending these two actors not being interchangeable.

I had completely forgotten that Stella Stevens of all people played the elusive 'Jake,' BTW.

What? It was?? Good God. That explains the stupid pub of Julian's and Curtis' place. When the hell did Mac become chief of detectives again??

Mac I think still runs the Floating Rib (formerly Jake's). I thought he'd left the PCPD for good about a decade ago, but now I think he may be back again in some capacity? I'm not sure. Felicia is still an active private eye, which is why she's so active in story.

I talked about it in the Dallas thread a bit over the last year. I am watching bits and pieces of it here and there as fluff and will watch the dream season in tandem with Knots S7 to examine the Lorimar creative swap with KL closely, but that's about it.

I have been wanting Sonny and Alexis to at least hook up again for years. They could play it like a 'secret' affair a la Something's Gotta Give, lol. It can be a transitional thing for both and also allow the characters to openly evaluate their past and relationship in an intelligent way.

The series overall.

The issue with all of those couples (except maybe Roger and Holly) is that there were times they were, and times they really weren't. Very early in Claire Labine's GH run, actually, there was a very, very subtle and smart nod to L&L's past. I linked it here.

Michael and Maxie both need to go for a long stretch, but as I've said before I'd still put Spinelli back with Ellie and leave him on recurring. That was actually an example of a character evolving and growing beyond past weaknesses, and Ellie helped him raise his daughter while Maxie remained a total fùck-up and Spinelli left the mob behind.

Yeah, I had just recommended @Darn watch most of the first three seasons of KL, because I think there is way too much in those seasons that is important for the character and community fabric of later KL and informs the characters and relationships, especially the families and the parents and kids. But I definitely told him to dump more than a few lol. I might idly browse FC but I am not really interested in committing to that. Dallas I skip around with and browse a lot for the reasons I have enumerated at length in my posts in that thread; I find it repetitive.

I felt the build-up under JFP and Megan was pretty bad, but in years since I think it's a mistake their relationship was never revisited. It's age-appropriate, for one thing. And Sonny was simply in Alexis' blood for years after despite all her moaning and complaining; like Diane but to a much more intense degree, she could never fully walk away. I assume the abandonment of even the possibility of a revisit is because Guza found it verboten. I have always meant to go back and examine exactly how he handled the dissolution of that relationship, right around the time Carly 'died'. IIRC he was ghostwriting the show almost immediately after Sonny and Alexis slept together, before his name was back on it. It showed (in a good way). Yeah, I've never understood her turning her nose up. Diane spent years happily representing Sonny's organization. At least now she admits she had 'fun' doing it.

Honey, life is too short for that. The times were the times, deeply imperfect though they were. I still love Luke and Laura, I still find Roger and Holly's relationship fascinating, I still was very into Todd and Blair and I have a lot of fondness for Téa. What are you gonna do, it's TV history in motion. It doesn't mean we want the show revived as Two Rapists to Live in the 2020s. That being said, I hope you caught Alanis covering the Yellowjackets theme in a recent ep of that show. I heard the first notes and knew that voice anywhere.

It's official:

Wow. That's the power of Shemar for you.

I'll never forget some of the clips of Carolyn Hennesy's role on True Blood. That show did not seem HBO caliber, it verged on a SyFy original series.

A little Diane has always gone a long way for me, don't get me wrong lol. I just don't need Alexis moved back into that sphere. I can handle Diane in doses but I also don't want her paired with Scorpio (and we were recently discussing how Tristan Rogers seems less than enthused as well) but their pairing, like Alexis with Gregory, seems dictated entirely by their age range. I was more interested in Scorpio being re-paired with Anna, or his on-off flirtation with the married Olivia which sort of emulates LLC's IRL crush as a fan. I also think they should give Hailey Pullos more of a chance with this new angle where Molly is the ADA, but that's me. So of course they're instead giving her yet another baby/illness story, because babies still seem to be the only thing ABC will easily greenlight for their focus on their perception of the Facebook-loving senior audience.

I think the Invader thing has surprisingly reinvigorated Alexis who I found deeply stale as a character beforehand. It's an actual evolution. Pushing her with the ailing Gregory is not working but it's clear they're not going to invest much else in her atm. What's still bizarre for me is the insistence on making Scorpio DA, and telling us Robert got his law degree somewhere. It just seems like a very lame device to keep TR rooted on the show and it isn't needed. Just let either him or Anna run the PCPD again and let the other one be a local WSB liaison, the parade of Jordans are terrible.