Mitch64

PS said that on his walk out of the studio, he played TAPS on a bagpipe! So odd, that they got rid of him as they had the Phillip reveal and my Mom thought he was "SEXY" so I am sure a lot of other at that time middle aged ladies thought so as well. Justin's return was the final months of Long tenure..(Reva is just starting to go nuts) so that may have been part of it, though I am sure he had it in more for Kobe as he was mad they were getting rid of all the vets and that was really more on Kobe.

Reading the San Crud start...how the hell did Reva, who had amnesia when she went to Goshen, have a box full of San Crud mementos after (spoiler alert but come on, you see it coming as soon as he appears on screen) Edmund tries to kill her and dumps her body in the drink..only to have the ever convenient fishing boat lug her butt out of the water again...(she had it all wrapped up in plastic bags strapped to her thighs?) Dumb, dumb, dumb...though I do like at the beggining where everyone in SC hates her..."Oh, it her..she's BACK"which mirrored some of the viewers when Kimmer came back. I find Reva so much more fun when she has people hating and annoyed with her. I like Liv and I liked her being tied to the Spauldings, and of course, despite her personal probs with GA, they smoked up the chemistry and she sparring with JoanAlex was fun.) I also thought Edmund was a good addition..an entiteld prince without a kingdom or any money who has to scheme..woudl have made a great pairing with India, and I did like him with SexKitten JoanAlex.

This is why I wanted Nola to find out about the affair and cause of death two years later..when she returned. Michelle, Rick, Bridget and AM would have all had to deal with their perfect "parents" having this horrible cloud over them. Nola who had been gone for years would turn her guilt over not being there for her sister to torturing Ed and Lillian (and give Nola a good reason to go back to her bad ways for a bit.)This could have given PS something to do at the time as Ed finally returns to the bottle, and Holly rushes in to help him (so its Ed causing the issue in the Folly relationship..not Roger, though he would love Ed fall from grace and make use of it.)

Vanessa, Nola or Jenna abusing...Henry??? What, did you find McTavish's storyline projections somewhere? The only storyline like this that would work is Reva slapping that old fool (and cliche) Hawk. Well, I could accept actually Reva and or Buzz being strapped to a chair and the people of SF collectively come and slap the hell out of them, like the citizens of Haddonfield turning on the Monsters that have been abusing(their ears) for years.

I thought they had great chemistry as well. I understand Rauch throwing her in Alan's direction to create a plot to prop up Jeva (who even at this point were tired) but they still could have had that happen..Phillip appealing to Annie's good side and seeing his own edginess in her, while Alan manipulates her from the side and weaponizers her against Jeva..Phillip supporting her but torn between his old buddy Reva and Annie..then the reveal that Annie framed Reva and the fall out of for once Phillip being screwed over. They could have brought in Harley later and had a Annie/Phillip/Harley triangle.

It actually would have been much more interesting if TP's Jonathon was brought back as some kid Josh had...(Sonni's kid when she was Solita and dropped him off at the Catfight Convent as she had better things to do) and HATED Reva...same storyline...and he even seduces Reva to show her as the true Slut of Springfield...Kimmer would have both loved it and hated it...and it would be fun to see Rauch's Soccer Mom Reva shown for her true colors. The show was ending anyway...go Big and Go Home! "The only positive I could find in the show during this time was Reva, and I truly think it was because she wasn't suffocated by weight of 'Bud' and 'Always'. She could function as a character on her own without being judged by her 'true love'." Reva was so much more interesting when she did have the weight of "Always" to drag around. During this time she had a job, she had friends (its Reva so of course they are all men) and yes, he had someone madly in love with her, bit he was a psycho...she was a real character...and then Jarsh came back. TPTB wouldnt seperate them (despite even Kimmer and RN wanting to work with different people) because the audience writing in wouldnt stand for it.) I wish when they brought her back she was not Amish Reva, but part of her amnesia was her free break from Jeva, and she came back as a woman who didnt want to get invovled with that...(but of course she would.)

Why can't I watch THIS alternate GL?!?!?

I love short term returns...As much as I love Nola, I think her second stint should have been short term...it actually was a good time to bring her back with her old nemesis hooking up with her nephew...instead of the sad sack rejected Nola...she would be a novelist going on a book tour who drops into town to remind everyone that Van was not always a saint...("Vanessa, did you pull that fur coat trick on Matt..yes, thats right Matt, Vanessa used to come naked in a fur coat to have sex with your uncle Tony..oh, and she also slept with your uncle Ed, which I have to admit, must have been when Ed had some life in him.") cause trouble with Dinah and Van (as in, maybe Dinah had spent time with Nola in those years she was off the show, and Van is a bit jealous) poke stick in his ass Ed trying to mother Michelle "Oh Michelle, listen to your Auntie Nola...your father is a bit of a stick in the mud, you need to have some fun." And maybe threaten Lillian, "Listen b*tch I know what happened and you better hope I don't put your sordid past in my next book" etc and then leave town. You don't have to invent some affair for Quint or bring him back to try to beat the Quola dead horse..they are happy together, they just dont have their heads up each others butts. Jenna should have returned second time to usher Buzz off canvas, and Edmund and Richard were supposed to be short term but they were supposedly SO popular....

GL should have learned from Philliip writes a novel and visualizes his characters failed storyline...though this was the perfect storyline for Nola. Who is the blond at Company who has the greatest mores realistic reaction to Reva..."Oh God," and tries to put her head down. Reva was most fun when people openly were annoyed with her. Toothy blond Bill, who looks nothing like his TV parents.

Claire was around right before PS came back. Its really odd, they had the Meta/Claire lighthouse storyline (loved the Meta/Claire dynamic...Meta giving her a kick in the ass and Claire the only person in town who doesnt treat Meta like a beloved aunt..more like an annoying aunt you cant get rid of.) MS got sick so I understand they had to dump the planned storyline of the grand reopening of the lighthouse for (and substitute Jeva's sixth millionth wedding? Someone really thought they were quite the ratings draw) but PS came back and Claire just..disappeared. Another missed opp. Claire with Ed's old enemy, and also with Rick and his heart issue, having Claire involved...(and Pratt made such a great pain in the ass.) I also liked that Alan and Claire were just screwing and not making anything more of it. I too liked PS much better on his return then during his post Mo death period. Simon played a great, wounded troubled guy trying to do right. Taggert used him really well, as kind of a Judge Lowell character that people bounded issues off of and he came off so much stronger...and really showed that GL needed quiet characters like Ed and quiet actors like PS to ground the show. It was never shown better then Ed's scene with Reva with KZ trying her tricks on upstaging and PS having none of it and it was a really good scene, KZ had to take it down to meet Simon as Reva would have to with Ed and it also showed that KZ was great with relationship scenes of family and friends instead of the OTT things Rauch contantly put her in.

They had a good scene on a Christmas Eve episode, Alex has a glam party and everyone is there dressed to the nines...(and its MKA's last episode during her short stint, who oddly says she is just taking a trip and will be back) and then another scnene and its Alex by herself kind of picking up after the party (I can see a control freak like her not waiting for the help) and Roger, knowing full well that she is alone comes in and asks where everyone is and she tells them they all left to got the the Bauers, and he makes his move. Simple fast scene showing that Alex is lonely and in her own Spaulding screwed up way, wants to make a home like the Bauers were people come to hang out.

Good idea...Rick needed someone with pep..like Mindy or Stacy, a daughter of Nolas would maybe perk that dope up. I think that waitress he was dating (who was later an undercover FBI agent) was supposed to be Stacy..if she was written better it would work.

Too bad that they didn't figure out that some of that was due to production values, and less..."staid" writing, and not the vets. Speaking of Hope Bauer, instead of Joan/Alex, what if it was Hope who came back around the anniversary. A stronger, more cynical Hope who comes back to kick Alan's ass, and punish him for ignoring AM...I just think it would be fun for an. 'ex-wife" to chair the "Ex-wife's" club.

But just as GL was dismantling the Bauers, Marland was building back the Hughes family on ATWT...so I think it really was the producers and the writers who made those choices...look at the Dobsons when they were at ATWT, they totally obscured the Hughes family, while the Bauers were still strong on GL under Marland. Its odd that PG would allow them to do so, ignoring Nancy Hughes, an iconic soap matriarch, so much that the actress leaves is odd.

Lord...Rita all of a sudden is huffing and puffing and shrieking! What about Judith Chapman, who was sex pot Natalie on ATWT and I think was on YR...though she might be a little too cold for Rita?