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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.

Ava was more the Erica/Rachel analog, and came later. But Stacy clearly was more popular with the audience than what they'd set out to do. Speaking of Ava, Corinth goddess Lisa Peluso is apparently doing Locher's show next Friday.

Felicia didn't recover until Ron and Frank brought her back in 2012. They kind of rushed it a little because they rarely write in-depth scenes that last longer than 90 seconds, but they did rehabilitate her character and I am very happy she's back with Mac. I thought it would never happen. I despised her for what she did to him and the girls at the time, but I was equally mad at Luke.

They teased bringing back Julia a few years ago during the Fluke story - they mentioned Cartullo and other stuff connected to the Barretts. Fluke was intended to be Bill Eckert until Ron Carlivati got mad that the fans figured it out, so that was the Julia connection. When they junked the Bill reveal, out went Julia and the other Eckert ties like Jenny who might've turned up. Supposedly appearances by Carson and Cheryl Richardson (Jenny) and someone to play Sly were on the table.

Quinnipiac, give me a break.

Genie has pretty much blamed the GH set and Monty for her drug problem, and IMO she's right.

Oh, them. I think the ATWT finale was the nadir of soap finales, with OLTL's (many flaws and all) being the apex. You can't close a door completely on those kind of continuing worlds that audiences have lived with for decades; I find it borderline unethical. There has to be a sense that world goes on. Even GL, which was a mess, did that.

I've never heard that Casey and Lyla weren't popular - I was under the impression they were held in esteem. Fair enough though.

She's so talented - I liked her on the show but I had no idea how good she could be as an adult. She deserves better star vehicles, though. Her film Faults with her ex (she's now with Ewan McGregor) is especially good.

I think that part was just to give him some work, though he is not acting full-time now AFAIK. I don't think it was ever going to lead that far. I think Lulu should be around for Laura but they've completely botched the character for at least a decade.

I like Casey, and I do like him with Frannie, but it was evident immediately upon his introduction how much chemistry he had with Ann Sward. I wonder when they decided to pull the trigger on that instead. I think Seth and Frannie are immediately more appealing.

The Beltway usually venerates them, but it has been turning up the pressure on Manchin and Sinema in recent weeks and the last month or two with much more pointed questions and confrontations, because they simply have nowhere else to turn and the CPC has held fast. You can tell that's gotten to Manchin. The pressure has changed and is on those two, it's not benefitting them atm. The Beltway has kept casting about for a 'noble centrists' narrative, of course, but at the moment there isn't one to find. When you have Beltway reporters admitting the split in the Dems is only the majority of the party and the president vs. two Senators and a handful of weak-kneed conservative Dems who will side with the party, that's different.

This isn't optimism, it's just pragmatism. If it happens once, it will change everything for the filibuster going forward. They won't be able to resist.

Talk about trying to make her emulate the last actress. I did not recognize Frost.

I'm surprised it took that long. Were they hoping Runyeon would come back? When was Betsy moved on to other men? There's definitely Duncan here talking to Brian about 'the ruins of an old castle on an island' in Oakdale in May '86 (5/19, to be exact). Brian says he owns it, and Duncan says he wants to build his ancestor's castle on the site instead. No clue what it is supposed to be originally. Good lord! No.

Wasn't E.J. a race car driver for years??

Lulu is in a coma due to a mob bombing, IIRC. In a facility out of state. I believe her would-be post-Dante suitor, a teacher played by Mark Lawson, also died in the bomb? DZ came back before Rylan was fired/quit - Dante was in a psychiatric facility trying to undo some sort of supervillain brainwashing for awhile - and I believe Lulu was prepared to go back to him or had gone back to him before the bombing. DZ and Kelly Monaco is a pairing on paper I think could work, but everything I have seen of them together is written and presented in the most grating way possible - from the embarrassing sports outfits and company baseball game shenanigans to her constantly yowling and the terrible face work she's had done making her look very old. If they had actual adventures like in her very, very early days and didn't base everything around her showing out like she's still 25 and a rebel, I might be a little more into it. You know things are rough when Rebecca Herbst propping up Easton #4 is a more appealing pairing.

Pretty sure it was September, but who knows how quickly it kicked in. I was under the impression Angie and the Hubbards being brought in was Agnes, but regardless of whether it was or wasn't - she was still a producer I believe, and had a creative control stake in the show - Guza and Taggert(?) were apparently still writing at the time (and they tested Angie with Trucker, which I still think is amazing).