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Her work as Kim you mean? Ava was Carly from ATWT. Speaking of that, Carly Tenny and SJB's Carly Roberts had alot of storyline parallels. Child passed between multiple baby daddies while truly in love woth one guy. Blonde, scheming, and the show's outcast.

Ahh yes...forgot to mention Labine in there! The gold standard! I loved the petualnt diva mob wife she brought to the role. I woukd rank her performance above Laura Wright with SJB being the best in the role.

Laura Wright was a solid recast and her early material had some shades of SJB and TB. Now the role has fallen a little flat. She's become an integrated member of the community rather than the gritty outcast she used to be. That's GH's problem, it integrates villains into the town too much, that its hard to hold them accountable for bad behavior. It was a good move as she went from a dying soap the the first female lead on what would ABC's last remaining soap. Broken record but...Phels/Guza GH looks like crap next to Riche/Levinson/Guza's era. YET Phelps/Guza stills holds up better than Frank's current show since about 2015.

Facts! my first memory of GH was Dr Asher Thomas holding Sam hostage with a syringe to her neck while a Carly and a gun toting Jason chased after them. I later came to realize that was Bransford, along with alot of the Reece Marshall story. (random but..Hope almost drowned in a swimming pool on B&B that week!) What did you guys think about the Reece story anyway?

Paris is one of those TV charachters where they try to hard to be fashionable they end up looking tacky. Zoey on blackish does this sometimes when she tries too hard. and she's a good looking woman they just don't dress right... unless that's the actresses' choice?

Zende is shamelessly SIMPing over Paris. The so-called love between Quinn and Carter has been poorly developed all that has been displayed is lust. I give them till December. We see how fast things went downhill for Finn and Steffy. Paris struggled to convey devastation in her scenes. Love seeing multiple storylines per episode! The Sheila Mike flashbacks were a good touch. Mike gives me Dr Tim Reid vibes.

Quinn unbuttoning her shirt on the bike during the sex flashbacks😂😂😂😂. Why is she dressed like a soccer mom today.

Noticed this after my og post but the beginning of Nick and Grace.

during the who shot Victor storyline Nikki calls for a gynecologist appointment and is told her regular doctor is not well so she will be referred to a new doctor, Joshua Landers. interesting to see the set up for the next few years of history, in the middle of an ongoing storyline. Soaps are not good at this anymore!

Speaking of Tracy and Ashley but the pre-scenes to Tracy's hospital fight with Lauren have been uploaded to YouTube. always wanted to see this and I'm not sure if this was posted already. surprised the hospital fight wasn't shown during the anniversary episode.

SAME THINGS I SAID😂

I mean I can see why they're trying to recall Laura she's good friends with the town's gangster amongst other issues lol. This was Mac's problem as DA, he was too close to the trouble makers.

Some good flashbacks even though we didnt meditate enough on each scene. Lol Ashkey kind of embelleshed how Victor came to be Abby's dad👀. The anniverasry episodes have been the best episodes in the past few years, as well as the Diane episode with the heavy amount of flashbacks.

In the beginning Steffy was more like Brooke and Hope was more like (pre 2005) Taylor. Hope was calmer and the nice one where was Steffy was the wilder, villanous and more sexually agressive one.

Agreed that OLTL was great at dark, gritty, crime Riverdale type stories. Charachters like Mitch, Hannah, the Music Box Killer, Lindsay, Powell and others exemplified this. AMC was also good and showing different social classes. On the one hand you had the hood and characters like Noah, while there was the rich Jack, Erica and David. Y&R was better at storyline organization. Because the show had a medium sized cast with clear star players in comparison to As the World Turns per say, it's easier to understand the show's history and character relationships as many characters existed in orbits and did not interact with each other. GH excels at storyline diversity and that's why I consider it the greatest soap. It has romance, crime, action/adventure, medicine, sci fi, fantasy, social issues and to a lesser extent.. business.

I can't believe that Standalone episode was three years ago already!

Diane & Sheila writing aside are great to see again on the CBS soaps.

Special reports ways seem to happen between 12:30 & 4 pm especially affecting the cbs soaps on the east coast.

Yes! ATWT especially excelled at the community vibe and multigenerational cast. Y&R and to a lesser extent B&B was really good at making the cliché corporate drama on soaps interesting.

Alan, Emily & Edward's deaths really killed the Quartermaines until recently.

What are some elements that each soap may do better than another soap. For example I think AMC and OLTL were better at writing causal dialogue than Y&R. For example a lot of the dialogue in old-school Y&R with strictly plot related but on AMC you could get characters discussing general things. I remember a scene where Marcy was explaining to Ryan what peel was when he was trying to scheme at the radio station. Y&R charachters tend to talk in formal diction and it seems like some interactions lack depth. Moreover the AMC and OLTL were better at injecting humor than old school Y&R. Todd in the early 2000s along with Alex, Starr, Asa, and Nikki Smith could make you laugh at times. Y&R was a heavy and serious show. The most laughs I got were the insulting interactions between Katherine and Brenda Dixon's Jill. Finally GH tops Y&R in continuity and acknowledgment of historY. On General Hospital you get flashback scenes of Felicia and Ryan or random references to Peter Herald and characters from the past. On Y&R you'd hardly ever know that Paul and Lauren were ever married or that Jack used to be Paul's brother in law because it's hardly ever mentioned. Young would just drop characters from the canvas like Sharon's mom and never mentioned them again.

What would surprise me? Y&R : Mary Jo returning amid all this Keemo and Diane history re-hash. -Heather Tom returning as Victoria since they undid the Phyliss recast -Drucilla returning since CBS seems to be bringing back blasts from the past -Sheila crossing over and facing Lauren again since she's run her course over supposedly killing Finn on B&B DAYS getting cancelled B&B - Susan Flannery making a guest appearance as Stephanie's ghost

I don't know if this was ever posted here before but the entire who shot Victor storyline from 1996. I remember clips of this being up years ago in lower (VCR) quality:

History repeats itself. 2002, Sheila in jail for "killing" the secretly alive Taylor and wounding Brooke. 2022 Sheila in jail for "killing the secretly alive Finn and wounding Steffy. Now Mike is back! 1990-2002 and 2005 are the only Sheila years I care for.

So in a nutshell... Zende wants Paris who wants Carter who wants Quinn who wants Eric who wants Donna. A love line or pentagon of sorts.