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That 100% was happening in the late 2000s. I felt Guza had tired of Maurice for whatever reason.

lol I didn't realize that was from her new album (produced by Trent Reznor and sounds like it). Reznor, Halsey and Lindsey are a hell of a combination.

The only good Lydia was the first one, Jessica Ferrarone.

I believe it was an arranged marriage in exchange for her family's money, but I can't be certain.

This is essential detail, thank you.

Stefan had gotten the Cassadines into hock with various shady folks to restore the family fortune after Helena and possibly Nikolas had run it into the ground. He was determined to secure Nikolas' future and for some reason felt Emily was a poor choice of mate; I think he'd planned for Nikolas to marry bigger wealth, namely Lydia Karenin, who was heir to a major Eurotrash family. He tried to push Emily off the cliffs at Wyndemere but mistook Summer for her from behind. It was ruinous character assassination of Stefan. Summer had a whole bizarre con artist backstory with her brother or whatever who turned out to be her ex-boyfriend and a lot of rare ancient coins they'd heisted or something, and she and Luke and Lucky went on some half-ass caper to former Cassadine holdings that had been turned into Russian bordellos, and ultimately they came back emptyhanded. That whole subplot made absolutely no sense and IIRC Summer may not have been her real name, but I honestly can't remember.

Wow, '76!

I always felt it was rushed too. But everything to establish Skye on GH was heavily rushed, by JFP and Megan, and Robin is so arch and old Hollywood, as you said, that it always annoyed me, especially as an OLTL fan who'd seen them supercharge what they did to that show at GH. I've always liked RC regardless, but I never accepted Skye as a Quartermaine calling Edward "Grandfather" within weeks of her arrival, supposedly having instant connections and rivalries with people like Sonny and Ned within days or weeks, and I never will. I was very glad when she was de-Qed by Guza who clearly held all of that in contempt. Ingo and Robin did have chemistry, but I watched their romance in real time and I never bought its evolution. The Skye character only worked on the show, IMO, during her short-term stints in later years after RC went off-contract. She would come in, mix it up and leave. That I'm fine with and it suits her; there's a proud tradition of that with characters like Tracy, Marco Dane, etc. She should still be doing that tbh. But on contract as an 'honorary Quartermaine' or with Luke - please God, no.

It was very notable that Marland canned the whole Lisa-wants-to-get-Bob-back thing when he took over, and I'm glad. It was beneath her at that point IMO, and her friendship with Kim. A fair amount of reference is made to her recent renewed infatuation in '86 but it's from a position of character growth.

I just don't see a reason to take that dude on his word about anything, let alone the inner working of DOJ. Especially when the committee just officially denied it.

I am not inclined to take Rick Wilson, a grifter, seriously on anything.

tbh I think Reinholt came across much more flamboyant in his late '80s AW appearance than he had when he was younger. But Chris Bernau wasn't exactly Burt Reynolds himself, so it could've worked. That being said I suspect P&G were likely still sick of Reinholt on a permanent basis. I know Robin Strasser supposedly used to talk him up to try to get him work.

I always loved Billy on GH and always will. But I don't think it can be denied that Sean Kanan was a singular presence and considerably sexier as A.J. He should still be there today, provided he keeps his mouth shut on Twitter about his politics.

Which Marland retconned, right? Wasn't it that originally Lucinda blamed Whit for her husband's death, but it was a smokescreen for the Lily secret?

I have that memory for a lot of stuff at OLTL. It's a sickness lol. The worst of Riche/Guza's first run was still better than most of the last 20 years. It helps that the exemplary dialogue staff that had been there a long time still helped carry through a lot of dross all the way up til about 2012. 2005 was one of the show's worst years until the 2010s. I thought 2003 and 2004 got pretty bad with the Fab 4, but 2005 is when the show bottomed out on many levels, which led to a considerable reset late in the year with bringing back Kimberly McCullough complete with new love interest (Patrick), a renewed focus on the hospital around the time of Grey's Anatomy and its ascent, and the hiring of LW. Sorry to bump this, but I've been rewatching a lot of '79-'80 during the pandemic and they very often play it like they just had a ONS at the Disco and have like, jealous lover's tiffs over it. It's so strange. They seemed to try to deal with it a bit later but it never fully took.

That's the Frank Valentini Way!

Is there? I don't know one, I thought Gloria purged the Jeromes.

I think it was as simple as it being a vague Barrett/Eckert linkage bc of the Brenda angle. I think they'd intended to have the Jenny, Julia, etc. appearances to cement it. I could've gotten onboard with an Evil Bill storyline, but the way it was told from beginning to end, even before the rewrite, was so silly and poorly done.

I was very young in the '80s, since I don't really have the association with Kristy McNichol.

I knew it was him pretty quickly, when he started mentioning the Outback and Cartullo. Then he went so far as to talk about 'what Tracy did to my sister.' When the L&L2 set were still teens/young adults in the late '90s/early 2000s, I wanted Sly to return as a Cassadine mole, angry at the Spencers for 'abandoning' him. C'est la vie.

LMT is horror royalty too, having done the beloved Friday the 13th Part 2 (the first with Jason Voorhees actually axing teenagers). That's where I first knew her from. In retrospect I'm not surprised to see Agnes come back and refocus story on her again and again on LOV - she's very much an audience identification type. I think she could've had a bigger, longer soap career if she hadn't been harbored on LOV for so long and had turned up at ATWT, GL, AMC or other shows.

I didn't realize how many hands Dusty changed to as a child before being adopted by John. Whoof, what a history. I can't remember McCouch's Dusty and John interacting much.

Axios also wrote a puff piece about Sinema. Manchin says a lot of things, but not all of them happen.