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Nathan is barely sentient, so of course we have to watch him for more years to come. (And Valentin and Charlotte)

A stunningly bad actor. Enjoy!

I like how they credit only themselves for reconceiving Drew, lol. Of course Valentin is back. And his mutant hellspawn.

I've been wondering the same thing. The secret twins angle reminded me of that.

Yep!

It's the Carly insider trading, again.

John Brotherton (Jared) reprises his role from The Conjuring in The Conjuring: Last Rites this week in theaters. I will resume babbling ceaselessly about OLTL '91 in short order.

John Brotherton (Jared Banks, OLTL) reprises his role from The Conjuring in The Conjuring: Last Rites.

I would never have put Drake in the same sentence as Ronn Moss. Drake could sell a scene any day of the week.

Since we still got a few days off and I am about to finally be all caught up, I'll just say I feel like after enduring weeks or months of Alison's actress I owe Michael Michele an apology for all these years of roasts. Damn.

From what JDP has said over the years it sounds like Frons stepped in again on the Max/Roxy stuff, prepping to cut him out of the show. I think they also, briefly, were toying with a potential Asa angle with her either at the end of Tomlin/Whitesell or beginning of Malone II - maybe a triangle with Asa and Max. Then it all evaporated, and we got some very minor hints of Max and Gabrielle trying to make Bo and Nora jealous as they reconnected over Matthew before none of it went anywhere and everyone got fired. I know what I'd do with Max (and Gabrielle) for a short arc but it'd never happen. Ah well! IIRC we had not seen hide nor hair of Luna or Susan Batten for years since Luna's death until SB made the brief cameo in the end credits during Live Week 2002 (as one of the ghosts, like Dennis Parlato, Jessica Tuck, etc.) and then a few months later we got the videotapes of Luna that Roxy found. It was a pleasant surprise at the time as again, Luna had not been seen since '95. Then they had Malone using her ghost incessantly in 2003-04 during the terrible Al/Michael story and we all got sick of her lol.

Why is the bad guy at Funky Puppies always wearing some pajamas? Seriously, every time I bother looking up in these scenes (not often!) dude looks like he is wearing some silk jammies. Is it just me?

"Professor Johnny?!" The things you see on the forum feed, I swear. Johnny doesn't even know how to read.

Does anyone just call the train the Cane Train? I feel like it's right there.

I would say it went in the opposite direction there. The way I remember it, Gabrielle's initial return at OLTL was wildly unpopular with everyone except, well, me lol. I had not been around for Gabrielle's first run, I only knew the legend and a handful of old episodes online at that time, and I found her Annie Lennox haircut and OTT campy ways insanely entertaining. There was no one like her on the show and I was all in. But the story with her marrying Asa, histrionically pawing herself and the furniture horny for Max, etc. was roasted by the mags and most fans, and within a couple months even the show was mocking them in the Trading Places episode where they had JDP and Fiona switch roles and played the Michael Bolton song, lol. Allegedly, one of the two actors found the story so radioactive that they quietly asked for Max and Gabrielle's reunion to be curtailed. That led to Gabrielle being moved to Bo and Max going towards the Roxy thing, which sadly never quite took off for Max. But I actually do think Bo and Gabrielle were fairly popular and a surprise modest success for the show. I certainly enjoyed them and I think it was only in 2002 that Fiona found her footing with the audience again. I do think Malone had planned to put both Bo and Nora and Max and Gabrielle back together, which could've been very interesting as he'd never written for Max/Gabrielle or Gabrielle at all. But instead they both fizzled out when Frons wanted the budget cut and the Holdens canned. I still miss Gabrielle. But I do think her return started a bomb and then became a reasonable success with an unlikely pairing. People were very sad to see her go. As for GH, yes I'd bring back Brenda (and teenaged/college-aged, gay af Alec) tomorrow.

Why didn't they just bring back Bill? Were they playing it cheap or was he busy?

I still don't understand how that happened. Just crazy.

So stupid, the transparent need to meet Mo's guarantee by having the boys call Sonny first when they see a floating corpse lol. What is old man Sonny gonna do? You know he can't swim. And then he just calls the cops anyway. Rocco: "Dad was out of town so we called him first, even though Dad's literally here right now!" The Stella subplot is also dumb. She freely admits she committed insurance fraud while everyone keeps insisting she's clearly being railroaded, followed by Alexis being like 'yes, Stella is being targeted although tbf she has done this between 6 and 200 times.' Okay!

I feel like she only frees up like $6. But yes, agreed, let's fire lots.

We've recently been blessed with near-full runs of many ABC soaps from the '80s on (particularly the critical and long-lost Linda Gottlieb/Michael Malone transiition period at OLTL in the early '90s), and quite a lot of EON, GL, Y&R, etc. But the Marland era still being spotty is just a tragedy to me. I got to see a great deal of '86, but when certain key sections go missing it stings.

But Sidwell's wife is a nice lady and will work for scale and free food! It saves on dressing rooms and parking space!

I absolutely think them hiring Chad is only a matter of time.

Which is why it is so crazy FV seemingly won't even consider it. Paging @Darn since I know he gets even more heated than me about this!

I would give a lot to see the missing month-plus of the climax of the Frannie/Sabrina UK saga. A lot of the buildup in late '86-early '87 is online, but IIRC February sweeps is almost totally absent.

There isn't. I was just saying how boring those actual characters were.