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J.R. giving Gary the lowdown on himself and his little brother's repressed desire for power was a great scene. I have a feeling I know what really kicks it into overdrive down the road, too. I have heard Sid's engine is a key story element next season. I'm excited about that. That is Denise Galik (Rhonda Wexler from GH) as the female mechanic at Sid's. Such a small industry.

I'm happy for them - I like all the couples I know, though I don't know Jackie's new beau. Her vows were very sweet to watch in the clip they put up on YT. I love Ben, but then I lost track of the show around the end of Season 2 or early Season 3. I will binge it someday. I'm so glad they've mostly done the franchise right. It is a little surreal Dan is remarried to Louise too, but it's for the best. The Andy retcon is still so stupid though.

Rachel Talalay clearly directing some of the upcoming Tennant/Tate work, here with DT, Tate and Yasmin Finney: These mysterious images may pertain to rumors that the villain of the special(s?) is the Celestial Toymaker:

Mid-Season 2 has dragged a bit after a strong start. Jane Elliot's incredibly fey drunk husband is a riot, but the story is a bit of a slog. I am beyond over the incredibly mind-numbing Kenny/Ginger story which makes me wonder how they possibly lasted four seasons (the single beat of the story is, Kenny is repeatedly told to stop fücking his psycho sidepiece if he wants Ginger back and his response is to grin, shrug, invade Ginger's bedroom late at night and say nothing of substance about the problem other than 'you're my wife!'), and the mob guys are a bit goofy. Diana's boyfriend follies bore me but Michael's ADHD rampage is a hoot. Everything with Richard and Laura is great. But I'm ready for this show to fully kick into high gear. Right now it seems caught between the character mining of Season 1 (which I found more engaging overall, so far anyway) and the full-on soap it will become, and is struggling to reconcile the two. OTOH, J.R. just showed up and Abby seems determined to get down with him, so we'll see how that goes.

Oh, that's sad. I found her pretty poor and horribly miscast on ATWT, but I have to blame the writing - because when she turned up on OLTL 2.0 as a very different character she was a firecracker, and a lot of fun. RIP.

It would be repetitious of me to note every soap alum passing through KL which I'm sure most people here know very well, so I'll just note how nice it was to see Jane Elliot turn up in Season 2, and also note Allan Miller (OLTL's Dave Siegel) as Laura's boss, Scooter.

There are a lot worse things to go after on this board (including transphobia) vs. us calling Cawthorn out for his own self-loathing homophobia.

Tammin Sursok! I haven't heard that name in many years... There was a big attempt at an Aussie influx into US soaps (and primetime, IIRC) in the mid-late '90s, and again in the 2000s/early '10s in dribs and drabs. I still remember Lachlan Buchanan trying to be put over as Kyle Abbott. I didn't think he was that bad, I liked him, but not very long at all after getting fired from Y&R as part of the then-customary Kyle purge he came out IRL and began taking a ton of gay roles. He's adorable.

Renee Elise Goldsberry (OLTL) is once again hitting it, co-starring in Marvel's She-Hulk. She can be glimpsed briefly here:

Watching the Dallas S4 premiere, post-Who Shot J.R, with its Gary/Val crossover appearance just before Knots S2 starts puts the shows in even sharper relief. I found the Dallas season premiere and its machinations largely tedious, hammy and predictable, while you go to Knots and see an extremely relatable neighborhood, set of families, and relationships which continue to surprise you. It is amazing this show is just sitting in the vaults, let alone the property itself which (like something like Guiding Light, which has some similar roots in its classical eras) could be revived or rebooted anytime, anywhere. And it was very bold of CBS/Lorimar to be willing to do such a strikingly different show as the companion to something as high-flying as Dallas, even if KL did grow more glitzy and hard-driving over time. The core is the relationships and neighborhood. Anyway, I'm sure I'm not telling anything surprising or new when I note a very young Helen Hunt as one of Diana's classmates in the S2 premiere. Abby has arrived but not yet shown her claws. Her kids are a riot. Lord, Eric is trying too hard with that wannabe mustache. Just shave, kid. He looks like Night Stalker, Jr.

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More footage of Yasmin Finney as Rose (likely Donna's daughter), with Donna's husband Shaun and mother Sylvia. Looks like the leak is legit- Donna leaves with Ten/whoever to go on a few more adventures throughout the anniversary year. I'd expect multiple specials, presumably leading to the fall and the regeneration into Ncuti Gatwa.

She wasn't Kimberly McCullough and she had limits, but Richards was capable of growth. It's hard to remember now, but when Kirsten Storms was first hired in '05 her recast was absolutely reviled. People loved RR in the role, but Maxie was brought back with KS as a full-on ho with a very forced insta-pairing with Jesse, the world's youngest plainclothes detective. It dominated the show in the summer months and Kirsten's new Maxie was detested, especially once she began fùcking Lucky behind Liz's back. It was the Spinelli pairing and moving Maxie into a more screwball comedienne role that saved her ass. 2005 was a very bad year for GH, and led to a complete realignment of the show with a quick rewrite of A.J.'s murder, the firing of Kari Wuhrer, Laura Wright being brought in after the Jennifer Bransford mess, and finally Kimberly and Jason Thompson being hired to re-focus more on the hospital, starring Robin and Patrick.

It's ridiculous. He and his mom have a history of being extra, but he's like 15. Aging soap fans don't need to ride herd stanning for Chavez over that little boy. Touch grass.

I think Amber Tamblyn was great, but JFP drove her off too soon. Glenn Walker Harris (Sly) could've gone the distance IMO, but didn't.

LMAO at drunk Gary's greeting of Richard: "Anybody need a bad lawyer?"

I'm wrapping up Season 1. Sid's easy love, camaraderie and wisdom is really striking; Don Murray is as wonderful here as he was on Twin Peaks, and sexy with Michele Lee. He's the river to her fire. I wasn't sure how I'd feel about Sid, knowing he dies and makes way for the powerhouse Kevin Dobson, but I'll miss him when he's gone. His rapport with Gary (who is notably backburnered until the finale) is really touching.

Not really. Neither of them are synonymous with their roles, or particularly stirring young actors. Violet is obnoxious and needn't exist at all. Leo is more winning because of the adorable, sweet kid and his IRL parallel with the character, but Leo is also a baby that didn't need to exist. Robin and Lucky were lightning in a bottle. People said all these things about Bechtel a few years ago - I'm sure Frank never wanted to recast - but he couldn't hack it and he didn't grow enough. Talent aside, just in terms of maturity it happened to Chris McKenna on OLTL, or Jesse McCartney, who I always wanted back as J.R. on AMC (and would today if it somehow came back - bless him, he has visibly aged enough to make that plausible), and it can happen to anyone. Just an actor growing up in a part =/= Robin and Lucky. I'd welcome giving Sweda that chance to see if he can, but none of those other young kids on the show have distinguished themselves on GH so far nearly as much as anyone mentioned from the past. The only exception and close comparison is Hudson West as Jake. He's been more talented than half the under-30 cast for years, and they barely use him.

Who would compare Eden McCoy to Kimberly McCullough? Dude wants a job there that bad?

Lord, that is a very, very young Gary Sinise posing as Eric's contemporary at this beach party in S1 Episode 10.

OLTL's own Laurence Fishburne is reuniting with Francis Ford Coppola. I've been hearing about this project for decades and am very excited: