ScottyBman

To see Anna return was a huge surprise for me and a bonus. I think that Philece was a good casting move as it was difficult to replace Anna, and the writers wanted to soften up Donna. Early Donna was by far the best and she did get some of her edge back. I wonder did the show come to Anna to return or did Anna want to come back and they decided that it was good to do that?

They never knew what to do with Michael Hudson after Reginald. Vicki was becoming the center of Bay City and the on again off again shenanigan's of Donna and Michael made it difficult to have them as a power matriarch and patriarch. They could have been the power couple. Money, social standing, successful business. I guess that was always going to be the Cory's. With the reintroduction as a wealthy power woman in Iris, Donna lost that spot. Then she lost her money....again. But it is easy to be a Monday Morning quarterback.

Although, I did love the banter between Peter and Brittney in the Love Mansion. Was it not correct that she had played the schemer on another show and wanted to do something different, but they kind of just threw her into the "intregue" of life in the Love family.

The "recreating" of Donna. Making her more a victim, more someone who was in adventures with Michael, John and Felicia. Who was a "mom" and supporting character to Vicky, who became the "b" that Donna was...for a while. Then when Iris came, we had two kind of the same upper crust entitled powerful women, but Donna was fighting her guy while Iris was taking over companies and going after what she wanted.

I saw this on a Social Media feed. And while the talk of a Soap resurgence I feel may be a bit premature, I also think that unfortunately if I were the powers that be, I would not bring back a Soap like Another World, that while this message board (and myself included) did enjoy, it really never had the daytime zeitgeist or cache to bring enough eye back in a business/ratings sense. And I understand it may be an unpopular opinion, but just my thoughts. And if you were to pick it back up, from a relevancy/ratings/logistics standpoint, where would you start? I would say personally, I would omit most of the story from like 1994-end. https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/726808/another-world-reunion/

Donna, Peter, Nicole and Marley (for at least 18 years) 🙂

I always felt like the Cory Mansion and the Love Estate were outside the city and not something one would walk past on the way to school.

I got to meet Jensen one time here in Ohio. She was very nice and gracious. But I also understand that they needed Vicki to "mature". It is difficult to keep that chip on your shoulder after a while. She got comfortable with the money. Her style matured as they moved the character into a more mature position. It happened with all soaps. But by this time, I was dropping in and out of Bay City. The Lumina stuff may for me have been the last straw. Pandering to the "supernatural" storyline was enough for me to bid adieu.

Christmas 1983. Carl Hutchins arrives as Felicia Gallant's guest much to the chagrin of Donna Love and Perry Hutchins. The rest of Bay City is delighted to meet him. For a while.... I never liked him with Rachel. And that pony tail...

Donna and Felicia bonding over lost daughters.

I have posted this before. One of my favorites. Great dialogue between Anna Stuart, Victoria Wyndham, Constance Ford, Anne Hache, Carmen Duncan and Nancy Frangione. I wish they would have been able to bring her back in full "b*&ch" mode and not as a caricature.

I have to say I bought this song, Big Pig is the name of the band based soley on this promo. I loved the over the top of the 80's early 90's.

I would have been on board with that. Perhaps even at some point Peter buying some interest in the Hudson Group as he would have I guess had some part of the Love fortune back from inheritance from Reg. They could have even retcon a Brittany (recast as Sharon Gabet doubtfully would want to return) and claim Peter Jr's claim to the Love money. I would have ventured far easier to buy than Cecille claiming that Maggie was really Cass's daughter and not a Cory.

The continuous recasts of Nicole were problematic. At first she was the party girl/rich girl/model. That was a good contrast to the uppity Donna and the stallwart Peter, who you knew came from money, but was a smart, level headed hard worker. Nicole Part Deux was some sort of combination of smart, level headed and she all of sudden sang. She pretended to be a reporter to get to meet Michael. She was the one who stood up to Reginald. Then we get Designer Nicole. Not as confident. Not as level headed. She never really had much of a base in Bay City and seemed to come in for a storyline and then once that came to an end, they didn't know what to do with her. Once she went to jail and Peter left town, the Loves were really the Hudsons and that was that. It certainly happens as time goes on as it happens in real life....but with the constant change of head writers as well.

I agree, I have been rewatching this period on You Tube and seeing it again don't like that Donna who was always so cold and in control turned into this....

Here is the video of the "makeover/reveal". Mac was not digging it. They are reuploading the summer of 1985 on Youtube. This episode was setting up the Love Family with Kathleen wanting to do a book on her mom and her life as a staff member at the Love Mansion. Peter Love was turning dark and brooding. And suddenly he has money to buy the stables back from Michael. Just months earlier they could not even throw a dinner party as they were so broke. The Love fortune was quietly returning. The softening of Donna. And then the Queen of Tanquir has returned.... I particularly enjoyed this period, but understand how long time fans were not digging this change.

It's one of the "bad periods" of AW. Le Soleil, and the unveiling of the Le Soleil woman. But it was 1985 and everything was over the top as was Donna and her desperate snootiness.

I am guessing with the revolving door of EP and HW's it would have been difficult to have that tentpole rivalry. Of course Rachel vs Cecile/Donna/Sharlene would have been a tertiary storyline at times. On OLTL Llanfair was always a coveted and established home point that was desired. The Cory Mansion never really had that. The Love Mansion burned down. Donna and Rachel had their moments, but not the same animosity. Donna was a nuisance to Rachel at best. Cecile had it, but they wrote her into positions that she could not return to a conventional storyline. She was too over the top. It was good having Rachel and Vicki at odds, but eventually Vicki became too much like Rachel a "bad girl" who with love and money became a heroine.

I actually liked Frankie, perhaps after Donna, my second favorite AW character. No. Donna, early Cecille and then Frankie. I just was going down a YouTube rabbit hole and saw a scene where they referenced Joe and Nancy together and that Rachel didn't like Joe and Paulina starting out.

Snotty Donna was always the best. But this was the beginning of "humanizing" Donna, which for a long term character was essential. Plus the recast while OK, was not the same. Donna had lost her "edge". I am always an Anna Stuart fan, and understood as the years went on the sometimes frustration with where Donna was going. But that's a soap opera.

It took me a bit but I was watching Cobra Kai and didn't realize that guy was Catlin back in the day...I am not the best at that!

And I guess once the show decided to be the Victoria Love Hudson....show. Moving Donna and Michael into parental roles, it would almost be distracting to have her siblings around. Plus the sibling role went to John.

If I am remembering correctly, Peter was a good guy. A good lawyer, stand up guy. He carried himself as though he came from money, but was a hard worker. Then when recast was blond and somewhat of a playboy or cad. Then he became more of a guy looking to rebuild the love and admiration of his father and maintaining the Love legacy. It was a character that had no real definition, but was redefined as he needed to fit a storyline. I loved the Peter/Brtiany banter and tension in the Love mansion. But that can only go so far and then there was little one could do once that drama played out and it had to at some point. As Reginald lost the ability to maintain the control of the Love family, the need for Peter to want his acceptance was less of a storyline. Did he leave via the writers just running out of storyline or did the actor decide to leave and thus the decision to write him out?

This is weird memory, (and not Another World) but I was a very young kid and my mom watched soap operas during the day. I can vividly remember watching which I now know as Search for Tomorrow and the only scene I remember was a like prison setting and Morgan Fairchild was being harassed in jail by some women, I think it was either a laundry or cafeteria scene. I think she was locked in a cooler or laundry room by some women, at the time I didn't know why or the context, but I do remember that scene. Could she have played Iris when the recast came in the late 80's? Granted at the time, she was a "bigger" star than that, but just pondering the thought.

I agree. But the character of Nicole was then repositioned with every recast. Gone was party girl Nicole when recast in the mid 80's as a reporter/business woman/chanteuse who worked with Michael to help get entre back into the Love Mansion after Reginald had returned and taken it back over. Then later Nicole was repositioned as a Fashion Designer, first working under the direction of a mean spirited designer (played by somebody I believe with a name in Daytime TV) then coming out on her own. A woman trying to make it on her own....I mean she was a Love, and a a model but somehow that just didn't matter as she had to work to make a name for herself. Well until she shot Jason Frame and finally cracked. Probably from the multiple personalities throughout the decade...