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The extremely small subset of fans watching to see Carson Boatman in the arms of silver daddy Derek Frye, your moment has come!

Brenda wasn't the one to worry about. Allegedly, Frank originally hoped to recast Robin with Rebecca. Despite Kimberly having made herself available for them many times when Carlivati wasn't ready to finish the endless story. It would've been suicide AFAIC but then Frank had also once had the bright idea of recasting Marty on OLTL with Sarah Brown, and that just wouldn't have worked either.

Rebecca didn't even like the longterm pairing of Ryan and Greenlee to begin with.

I still don't get how Ryan and Erica got together or how long it lasted. I thought it was a potentially viable idea, but not with Chuck Pratt who was largely terrible for the show. (Of course I also could've potentially gotten down with Bianca fùcking Ryan to get revenge on Reese and Zach, which it was rumored that Pratt had floated and may have helped drive Eden off the show, so my taste is subjective!)

God, no. Enough. I like Rebecca but Hayden has no personality beyond "if you squint I am Greenlee".

I don't think it's an either/or, lol. I just think if we're trying to reinvent this show with new leads and new focus you could do a lot worse than having one possible option be bringing Gina on as Dr. Sarah opposite a preferably-bearded Cameron Mathison, since Drew is a Quartermaine who loves his family, served his country and has minimal interest in the mob despite the show clearly trying to wedge him into a Jason-shaped hole atm (and they don't seem to have any other plan for him). When you go a bit younger there's also Lucy/Kevin/Scott's kids for the younger set, Tom Hardy Jr., Anna Donely, Brook Lynn who's already here, and some of the existing teens. You're spoiled for choice and options, but GH isn't really using any of them to revitalize the show. I would 100% still bring Sarah back as Carly though, and Sean Kanan as A.J. opposite her.

Not one they're truly committed to, IMO.

Yeah, the article says they're giving it til September until they retitle/rebrand the show.

Mo has been on autopilot for many, many years now. His last, best work came in those farewell scenes with Vanessa Marcil in 2011 I posted a week or two back, because the writers were brutally honest and incisive in the writing and because he and Vanessa are very tight and she brings it out of him. But that was over a decade ago. I think Watros occasionally wakes him up and cuts into him lately, but the story is disposable and the dialogue is often bad. I have no investment in Nina or real interest in Sonny and Nina whatsoever, but I appreciate that she brings something out of him occasionally when I watch a scene or two. Laura always gives 100%. I don't know of a day in this business onscreen where she hasn't and she's been around a long time. It's not her fault either. They should never have let him shave that beard and it is beyond me why they are testing him with all the wrong people. Just bring someone on for him. (I'd still pair him with Gina Tognoni as Dr. Sarah Webber, but oh well) There are relatively few performers on daytime then or now who can get that ugly that quick. She's a force of nature.

I've watched those AW scenes a lot. Wyndham is scary as hell. I'll have to check out this fight, lol

I can believe it, lol.

You never fail to mention this and it cracks me up every time. I still don't know who killed his sister Kelly, played by poor Cady McClain in one of her all-time worst performances.

Thank you for posting both of those, I looked it up in the video the other day. It's pretty much as I suspected.

Why did Stitch (a.k.a. Dr. Giant Baby Head) go crazy again?

I think this was posted a year ago. She was mistreated.

Anna was basically non-existent until Sheffer discovered the couple when he came on the show and brought her back as well as restoring the classical, more heroic Tony. He talked a lot about them. I'll always be grateful for that choice because it's stuck despite several attempts to undo it.

It wouldn't surprise me at all. The story in the interviews about JP vetoing the Spice Girls appearing in favor of a corny 'roaring 20s' theme for his episode bc of the obnoxious big band revival trend of the year seems textbook to me. (Though I personally enjoyed The Cardigans, who appeared during that episode)

Pretty sure they did all that bc it was part of the big push at the time to bring Thaao back and make Tony (once again behaving OOC) into the big new villain under Brash and Cwikly. I never understood that, though I was always happy to see Thaao.

I haven't watched that season in many years but I recall Brandon and Valerie's quasi-incestuous attraction to each other being a major throughline for that whole season, even during her fling with Dylan. And her closeness to Brandon was a key part of her rivalry with Kelly. Yet after that one cliffhanger it was never, IIRC, touched again.

I don't fault you for reading it. The thing is, I think most of us have seen Y&R do this dance with new hires dozens of times and squander people and burn them out fast. I think people were counting the days on Burgi in the role even before his COVID mishap and RN is no different. So in the end it really doesn't matter what Newman wants or what the length of his contract is; unless it's revealed to be short-term there's no new news there. He's no more secure than the last guy.

How long is this going to go on before they admit she is in no shape to return? Ah, I see the article answers that.

I'm just saying, that's how the contract cycles have worked since before I was an embryo. Some of the longtime vets have protection from that written into their own contracts, but Newman won't.

The length of his contract doesn't matter. He can be dismissed every 13 weeks like much of the cast. That is soap 101.