Mitch64

The only good thing about bringing Jenna back and that dumb sting thing(which I had no idea what the plot was but it went on and on...) was to get her and Buzz together and usher them off canvas. Frank and Harley always had a better dynamic without Buzzard around. Reva who was molested as a kid, in love with a rapist...who WAS Cole blowing that they worked so hard to keep him on? I did like that Beth was not perfect and yes, with everything she went through, she would have problems. I thought the idea of split personalities worked, as they made Beth's personalty match the plot, and one of them being dependent on men and sexually compulsive because of her abuse, but they dropped the ball on that one.

Van had more conversations about Henry with Soccer Mom Jenna of all people, but of course Jenna had Buzzard firmly tied around her neck so that somehow made her valued. Yea, Nola as the depressed looser was too much...especially when SlutChelle tells her she is a sad sack in the diner of all places, and Nola just sits there a mopes. But her last weeks scenes made up for it, Nola was back..insulting the Coopers,(and Buzz seems to forget she "stalked" him) giving Lillian the stink eye, needling Van "Are you REALLY glad to see me Vanessa?" and of course, blowing us all a kiss goodbye. But that was all due to Brown I am sure. And I forgot about Reva talking to that looser's picture..like they were a long term couple.

Yuck...they did that AGAIN??? Glad the Island of Cheese turned me off of GL at that time. They really didn't need to bring back Fletch, if anything, it should have been Ed, played by MH. Ed had one foot in his demons and one foot in respectable suburbia, so he would have been able to help Holly come back...(and Fletch was too judgey all the time.) Ed and Holly as the notBob/Kim tentpoles of SF would have worked well.

I'm not a big GH or Maura West fan (I find Carjack second only to Jeva as annoying air hogs of back and forth and who gives a damn anymore) but I saw an episode and I think she is supposed to be a mob boss and she is on a dock and I think, kicks a corpse into the water..anyway West is really good as this tough hard woman, which is what Carmen should have been..a tough woman trying to survive in a violent man's world, who becomes a monster herself, would have been much better then...,what we got. The closest was when McTavish has Nola discover Van is dying, and she helps her cover it up. But then Rauch sidelined her from the 'discover Van is alive" story with again one more flirting with Dinah and Matt working together and maybe more. Jay Hammer Insisted on a three month pay or play contract and they wanted recurring. He was going to help Holly rehab in a longer story, but you can see them getting ready for the Island of Cheese so they ended it early, so smart move on Hammer's part. Company was a house that they were moving which crashed into the BH...so the owner gave it to the Reardon's and Tony turned it into a bar...cause, why not? I do like that the set did look like a converted house for quite some time, and I actually liked how it looked during Wheeler's time/Peapack.

I always loved JL's Chelle, Carmen would threaten to kill her and Chelle would stamp her feet and pout and it just showed how cartoony Carmen was..Chelle wasnt afraid of her. I always thought at this time how this silly mob would get away from killing the daughter of a prominent family in town...especially when everyone has her her threaten her. I always wanted Chelle to say, "Your threatening my family? Bitch I know Vanessa Chamberlin and Alexandra Spaulding, who would turn you inside out..oh and my uncle is on the crime commission, so ..see ya Cruella!" Frank was a bust as a romantic lead...anything other then the nice big brother, son, friend and he failed. But that's not so bad, shows need characters like that.

And around this time Reva took prominence as Van's main pain in the ass away from Nola (cause of course..it's REVA dammit!!!) I wish they had thrown Nola into this scene, first to tell Reva to go to hell (the only time Van and Nola weren't digging into each other is if someone else started on either) and for her team up with Reva on putting this woman away (didnt Reva start a rumor in this episode that the woman had herpes, politically incorrect now but funny at the time) And yes, this was when Reva was fun, and not the sanctimonious soccer mom of the 90s. I kind of can understand Kimmers complaints that they were turning Reva into Bert Bauer..."I even told Cassie..tsk, tsk the other day!"

Which is so stupid..they kept her and let a Hughes go? He and Molly were sexy together, and while he was a good natured guy, it was nice to have a Hughes was wants totally straight and narrow. I read that, he talked about it but said that they were both being supportive and helpful. He did have a big New York accent thing going on..reminded me of that annoying kid who played Ben on GL. Ugh, I just looked him up and he died by suicide..how sad.

Nah, you guys don't get Kimmer...the point was...Jarsh wanted to lay pipe on the middle aged sex goddess that Reva was. Now IF Jarsh couldnt get it up for Reva as he saw Dolly all the time..Kim would have walked like a lumber jack up to Rauchie's office...as he would say, "Kim's PISSED" I actually was always more interested in the family dynamics then the endless love stories and "always" but I know that I what most people tune in for. I wish BTG had been set more in an urban neighborhood with a mix of classes, races etc, with the main family being the same as it is on the show now. The previews always make it look typical soap crossed with a Real Housewives, feel. And okay, if the show had gone with an urban community feel, then it would have been perfect for Kimmer to return to daytime as the hard ass owner of the blue collar bar, who maybe jumped in the fountain years earlier with the patriarch of the show...a smack down between Reva Shayne and Jessica Griffin would be must see!

It didnt help that one of them looked a bit too porny underwear models..no Hughes should look like the could "dance in cages."

I really like Kover's pretty boy Chris Hughes, his acting wasnt the greatest but he really seemed like a Hughes, and came off as this really sweet mama's boy..(Kover had great chemistry with all of the formidable ladies in the Hughes family, Nancy, Kim and Lisa) Why they stuck him in that storyline with that plain Jane daughter ofHolden's??

Are you kidding me...didnt we get to see Beth Chambelin in all kinds of skimpy outfits? (and luckily BC killed it with her bod...) That was all Rauch...but I do recall a weird scene after Dolly died where Reva picked up her wig and put it on..there was "soap crazy" music playing but then nothing. By the end of the Clone story I just wanted someone to give Kimmer he "most demanding role" and make Reva mute for a cycle. I would love to see KZ mugging her way through that but she would find a way.

Wow... Frank at his nice big brother best (he never worked as a Chief of Police) and Harley not being a shrill shrew. I like that Hawk is not acting like the sitcom character he was during the Ryder era, and he is running the BH too? "Just thinking about the fake Bauers. Maybe if they cast Mary Stuart as Johnny and Lanie's grandmother it would be easier to accept the Bauer expansion pack-- given the goodwill MS had with longtime soap viewers (or soap geeks) as Jo on SFT." I know that Long was considering her for a "Hannah Bauer" role...maybe that was going to be Johnny's grandmother?

Love this! But for a minute I thought this was an SCTV skit with Catherine O'Hara as Eileen..that song!!!!!! No one who didnt live in the 70s would ever believe what TV was like!

They were actually thinking of brining...Lucy, the duck, Cooper back? Of all the characters in GL's rich history...you want to bring Lucy back??? LOL..only Conwest!

There was a rumor that they were going to bring Parker on but dumb as hell way, a rough woman, having gotten her heart she has plastic surgery to look like Mo..(EB switched that to Jessie) I still think that Selena should have been the lost Reardon sister, played by Parker (hey we had a clone) a rough woman who was in jail and meets up wtih Abby. I think Parker woudl have loved playing that.