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GL-Phillip Spaulding's paternity-generated storylines heavily from the early to mid 1980s and left repercussions with his relationships, especially Alan, until the end of the show.

True. Joseph. His Alan would never had fallen for town pariah Annie, get involved with trying to murder Jonathan and Harley, etc.

Chris Bernau's Alan Spaulding was touted as daytime's JR back in the day. They were similar in being the tropes of a villain protagonist or anti-hero. This was different than the Ron Raines and Daniel Pilon Alan portrayals as a straight up villain.

So does William Moses stay on?

I hope they don't "Rick Webber" Jeff.

Moses is good casting. Looking at old pictures from the 80s, he had a passing resemblance to Richard Dean Anderson from around that time.

I always thought it was a shame what they did with Sam and Dylan. They broke them up at the time that it would had made sense to have a younger couple generating story lines. Instead They tried to use Sam to try to prop up boring Daniel St. John and poor Dylan floundered for a couple of years as a third wheel in one bad relationship after another.

I always thought Tom Fuccello would have been better as the recast Tony Lord. He would have fit the George Reinholt mold better than the boring Philip MacHale version.

I got to say, the way the character of Phillip was quickly able to organically migrate from lead romantic hero to somewhat unlikable cad (in order to pave the way to a successful Beth/Lujack pairing) was a testament to GA's acting more than anything else.

I think RR could have been a better Alan with better writing. Despite the physical miscast (he had a more stockier build) he was a good enough actor to make up with it, to a certain extent. The problem is he was written all wrong compared to Bernau . The CB version was obsessed with how he looked in Springfield society, often causing him his main problems. While he had issues with individual characters like Ross, Mike and Ed he was never hated by everyone the way Raine's Alan was. He would only get involved with women that had good personal status like Hope, Vanessa, Trish and (once she cleaned up her act) Reva. He would not have a puppy love for a town pariah like Annie. At best, he would have treated her like Diane Ballard, a plaything on the side while he pursued more upstanding women. And he would never let him get implicated in any murders, attempted or otherwise.

Murker certainly had the looks to be Hope, but she looked too young to have been married to Alan and be Alan-Michael's mom (Carl T. Evans is only eight years younger than her).

I always thought Elizabeth Dennehy (GL) would have been a better Beth recast than playing Blake. She more resembled the Judi Evans version in looks and personality than Beth Chamberlin did.

Cady McClain's Christmas Eve 2005 to AMC was pretty much an unleaked shock.

Yea, I think Courtney's acting lacked the "cattiness" that Bev had as Alexandra. It would be hard to imagine her doing that famous take down of Roger at Towers. I would think it would have been cool to see JC as Hope, George Reinholt as Alan (as suggested here), and Robin Strasser as Alex (as once rumored). A total deconstruction of their roles on AW.