Mitch64

I remember one scene between Reva and Mindy..I think it was Lewis Oil, and Reva was trying to convince Mindy that Will was up to no good with Sonni, and for some reason trying to keep her in the Lewis Oil office, and it got into a pretty good argument as it went back to Mindy not liking Reva...anyway, Reva says something like "Melinda Sue Lewis do not talk to me that way, remember I changed your diapers and I will take you over my knee in a minute" and Mindy storms out but before, she turns around and sticks out her tounge and Reva goes after her to and kicks the door. Funny scene, going back to what would have been the Mindy/Reva dynamic growing up, and fun to see someone who could get under Reva's skin (and had Pam Long all over it) but really accentuated that Mindy wasnt growing out of her spoiled princess period.

I think that is what GL needed post Mo dying, Buzzard ranting, Reva chewing the scenery, some nice lightheartedness and fun, which Mindy and Rick could supply...please no big dramas..we all know Mindy will f*ck up not out of meaness, but being Mindy, and Rick will take her back...MOL could NOT play drama and everytime he had to play.."in love" it came out weird...so they can just be the nice talk tos providing a little humor. I did like her and FD's chemistry, and he was the same...trying to play a Police Seargent was grilling people like Alex and Alan was laughable..he could only play nice ( I just remember him trying to cry when FauxEleni left him...it was so embarrasing.)But I can imagine what Rauch would have thought of having three nice people in a triangle...he would have Mindy go nuts and drug both of them or something. Yea, KT and Zaz..Simms came in at the right time for the story..she had a more mature sexiness and could go toe to toe with Bev/Alex...KT playing the part would make Roger look like a predator, and she would just stamp her feet and pout at Alex.

A more easy going Bob and Kim, and a more cheerful Ed and Mo! I just wish they had brought KT back when Crampton left of was fired...Nick was still on but no need to go back to that dead horse (plus, I dont know if KT and VI had chemistry) Alex was still on but they could have softened her tude towards Mindy, while still being wary of her (Marj's Alex would look like a total monster being mean to KT's Mindy) Roger was busy with the dumb Dinah plot so there would be no need to go back, just briefly mention their past (Zaz and KT would be...weird...) Rick had his head up his ass about Annie (which was quickly forgotten) and I can't think of anyone Mindy could date at that time, maybe that guy who was the cop JFP was trying to make happen but McTavish killed off, so there would be some hills to climb and the two could advise each other while dating others until they found their way back. They would be kind of Bob and Kim as two people who had a past together, became best friends and found their way back to each other as more mature people.

That's just it..the best relationships in the Real World are with people who are best friends..not wanting to bang each other to death or dig up a grave or scream "ALWAYS" at the top of their lungs. The show needed a normal couple and I could see Rick and Mindy as the cute nice suburban couple with their own quirks...Rick telling really bad dad jokes, and Mindy being a sassy princess, (can you see her hanging out at a kids soccer game??) to make them interesting. I never understood the Kurt/Mindy thing, when he was a Rick knock off, and they had this HUGE wedding for Mindy to marry an nobody, who was quickly forgotten. I can only think that they wanted to push Roxie, cause she was Reva's sister so they hung her on Rick, and gave Mindy a runner up (but damn Kurt was cute as hell...) Rick and Mindy could have had the same wedding and issues (Rick wanting kids and Mindy not, etc.) Abby was too saintly, something Mindy was not.

I too love Rick and Mindy..never understood that they did not get paired up..even in a triangle..I can see her being attracted to slick Will while Rick was the real person for her. I think the problem was that MOL and KT had a cute, nice chemistry like real people who would have lasted throughout the years, but soaps were so intent on "PASSION and ROMANCE" People can be cute and sexy and, which I thought Rick and Mindy were. Instead, Mindy got the block of wood Rusty and Rick got...Meredith????? Abby was nice but too young for Rick and, really, even Mo had a past..Abby was just nice, with no evil ex boyfriends to bring back or even family..isolating Rick even more. KT only other pairing that worked was that she did have a nice rapport with Frank, but again, he is the kind of guy that no matter how much GL tried to turn him into a "hunk" was a really cute nice guy you could depend on. Curlee even said it when she took over from Long, and his pairing with Melina worked as they didnt try making him a "stud"

McTavish made sense with her history with GL (playing Lola, writing for the show) and her "success" on AMC. Brent/Marion...excuse my French but she blew her load on that one and was limp afterwards. I loved B/M and I did not mind the "switching the HIV tests" plot...she could be very "meta" in her first 6 months...the switched tests mimicked the tired and true pregnancy/dna test switches and I loved the scene where Brent unmasks himself virtually to the cops by "The part of Marion Crane is now being played by....BRENT LAWRENCE" as his face morphs like Auntie Em to the WW. She COULD be creative but I think she needed a producer and coheadwriter to reign her in. But the rest of her time was a dud or poor choices. Brent killing Nadine, which nowhere but for one shock scene, Marcus, who we didnt know getting framed, Holly and Fletch and the downs syndrome baby.. It would have furthered story if he killed Fletch (he could frame Roger and Holly and the rest of the town believes it, except Alan, who manipulates more things to get Roger convicted...Holly going a bit wacko in her pursuit of Roger to get justice turning to booze to asuage her guilt, Ed and her slowly getting together as he knows what it is like to loose and spouse and also go off the deep end..) Family relationships were forgotten, (Bridget stopped calling Ed, "Uncle" and was never in the Bauer sphere, Chelle calling her aunt "Mrs. Chamberline") Alex, who did have funny lines during this time, was just a totaly bumbling shrew..Amanda the Malibu Madame and the twins by two fathers was just "ripped from the headlines" type crap..turning Dinah into a heroine, Roger loosing all his layers and the Lonatrat storyline...Vanessa just sighing away with boring Matt, things played for comic relief when it didnt work (Rick and Blakes one night drunken stand was played for laughs...Rick just screwed his stepsister who is married to the guy who is like an uncle to him, but it all yucksss.)And the tasteless plot of Gilly trying to screw her own dad (of course she doesnt know it..) which wasted both the actress and the actor playing the dad (who could have actually been a black romantic lead...) It all fell apart after Brent, and she floundered..and you could tell she had no respect or love for GL and just seemed to hate to be there..(funny you could see that in the material of a writer.)

Instead of killing Hillary off, they should have had her go into a coma, with her face severely burned..they could have had the same effect as it was just a plot point in the Susan Piper thing (and Mike couldnt even bother to come to his own sister's funeral...lets see he had to catch a plane at his Mom's funeral, and then he and Hope were in Switzerland for Mo's funeral, but Ed told them not to come home and they didn't..don't expect Mike Bauer to shed any tears once you croak!!) and they could have recast in 6 months to a year. The problem was dykey Hillary had no chemistry with male actors, but she was a Bauer so they should have kept her.

I remember the viewers at the time complaining to magazines that the Reardons were replacing the Bauers..so there is always someone complaining...

Well, he was sad sack in love with Annie (which was quickly forgotten) so of course, he was holding her purse when she went to the airport to see if Alex's story of Reva being alive was true. They all thought Reva was just jetting off to the good life with Alan (which she kinda was) instead of the sappy, "Oh the world moved on without me so I will just leave everyone to it" which was not Revalike at all. Josh, was acting like a lunatic yelling at his supposed true love being alive, and then he takes off with Annie (after her grabbing her purse from wussy Rick) so when Reva reaches out he judgementally rejects her. Got I hate McTavish, making me feel bad for Reva!!!

McTavish had people saying things..Nola saying that Josh and Annie better lay low now Reva is back in town, and Van and Lillian and Annie saying mean things about her. The bad thing is, people were too mean (Rick sees she is alive and she wants a hug or acknowledgement but he just walks away is weird..if I saw even one of my insane freinds back from the dead I would be all over them. I did like that McTavishs Van was not bowing down to Reva.

Ha..yes, in Marland's world..its the only polite thing to do! And since Kelly and Morgan and Hillary were "good" that meant they were polite and held no animosity. One of the reasons I loved Long and Curlee and JFP era was that good characters would snark on other good characters and people would roll their eyes at "Always" while not actively being mean to the characters. That went away again with Rauch when everyone had to think "Jeva" were the second coming.

As long as I don't see that Frankie D got nominated!!! Then I KNOW the barstools in Company could have gotten a nom.

LMAO...Alma "Well dear, I knew you would end up with one!" Lisa, "One WHAT, Mother?" (she always respected Nancy more then her poor mom." Alma: "You know dear, a man who is..theatrical" Lisa: "Oh, I KNOW, isnt it great...while Bob or Grant had NO interest in theater or musicals..while all they wanted to do is, Bob, watch the Cubs, and Grant sit with his books on history and law! Finally I found someone I have so much in common with!" Alma: "Oh, I think you two have more in common then you even think dear, but if your happy" Lisa, "Mother, I never know what you mean, I wish you would make sense sometimes!!"

I think during the end times of soaps (of which we are still seeing, though I would call the current soaps more as zombies..shuffling around, ravenous for viewers, but not having any direction or will to change their shuffling patterns) ANYONE could get nominated. I think RR seems to be a nice guy in real life (which I think leaked way too much over into Alan, but instead of giving him depth, made him look like a big wuss..) and probably had most of the cast voting for him, etc. I know Toby Poser gave an interview that she gave too much attention to RR's Alan over her supposed target of Ross, as she just loved RR. But three times????

No, it was a way to get Fulton off for her three month time off clause. Lisa gets a call from her Mom, who hadnt been mentioned in years, and has a discussion with Tom about it. She comes back ( after disquising herself as a cleaning woman at the Yacht club to spy on her family and friends to see what was going wrong..and try to fix it in the usual Lisa way..believe me, it was weird then...) and tells him that her mother is doing great, and that was that.