Mitch64

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.

Yea, I think Mo "owned" but the writers didnt give it much thought. Hawk talked Kurt into a job and then managed it, (there is a scene at Company where Mo is bemoaning the BH loosing money as Bea insists on making big breakfasts for the boarders, but at least Company is making money)and then with Johnny's parents. And yes Ed, give Bridget Company after the custody battle to show that he trusts her. Later Buzz bought it with a lottery money win, and was going to rename it "Talulla's"after Jenna, but luckily didnt. You woudl think they woudl have given Mo more to do by running Company instead of sitting around and waiting for Ed to to be sour.

Yes...it so nice to see people talking to each other and not the stylized dramatic convos of the Rauch era. Mindy and Beth in "normal" clothes to have coffee with your friend. Only Van could agree with you, while belittling you "Yes, I am sure that is right" Dylans a piece of ass and has great chemistry with Little Bill..though I can't believe this mellow guy is Billy and Revas kid. Who the hell owns runs Company at this point, I seems like people just walk behind the bar and starts serving.

Well, that is about every actor on earth...but Block (as much as he was annoying as Craig) was a sexy guy. I always got that vibe from TP's Jonathon, (but his would be more to have power over someone then fun) but as we see TP damn well likes the ladies.

There were multiple times he said things like that to Carmen. I think it was Ben's way of letting her know she doesn't intimidate him, and I think it was Block's winking at the audience about what a cartoon she was. SS always rolled with it, which is why I wish she had better material.

I think it was Block adlibbing..on ATWT when he and Carly were in a car, and she ducked down to hide he said, "Well, while your down there.." which I have to say made me laugh...

Rauch should have kissed MH's ass to get him back on GL when he first took over. It was not going to happen but imagine RealEd/Holly dealing with Roger's ALS? Flashbacks, etc....(Fletch can go take a hike...) Should have been end game Patriarch/Matriarch. Agree on Quala...Quint should have died and left Nola to put her life back together. Henry and Bea..I am amazed to find out Lee Lawson was in her 40s at this time...and really, we all knew Henry was gay. I thought DAM was sex on a stick..but his cartoonish writing killed it. If Cassie and Eddie had a sick relationship and it was show as dysfunctional...hell yes. LW always had a hard trashy edge to her...and there is no way that Cassie's past and he rpoor choices were all someone else's fault...she had to have some kind of thing that would openr her to a dysfunctional relatisonhip.

No, this is at Wired for Sound...the maid is actually Sedaka's real life maid, appearing in her own uniform. GL was her favorite show, so he agreed to do this.

Haha...I just thought of Datalounge here!

Didnt Rauch want the actor from OLTL, but they were not paying ABC salaries so he said no...so Brown was cast and they had to rush on it. Too bad..as I said, I would have been cheering Blake on to "jump the hell on that!"

Hold on here...I had a crush on PB since he was the big brother on the Doris Day show...I had no idea at 4 years old WHY I wanted him to be my big brother, but apparently I had good taste cause look what he grew into! Wasnt he supposed to be Ben on GL? Now THAT I could see Blake dropping Ross for!

Ha...glad to see someone else who loves Post Resurrection Reva as much as I do! It's "Murder on the Orient Express" as EVERYONE did. "Murder in Company's Parking Lot" where you see a car running Reva down, and then everyone gets behind the wheel to do a run over of Reva! I would have just had Zombie Cleva do it..that was the inevitable end of GL/Reva's dumb storylines..and very apropos that Reva its herself just like she did the show.

Why TPTB did not tell Zimmer to stay in her lane and get ready to have a bit less airtime is anyone's guess. Kimmer had her dollies on the string like her crazy fan base who would write in any time Kimmer told them to and she also had friends in the soap press, which may have been because Zimmer gave them the poop on the other actors behind their backs. But it still is weird, she was well past the point that everyman in town would fall in love with her, and her storylines are always about situations and not about Reva. This would have been the perfect time to give Reva the menopause or cancer storyline to bring Reva down totearth, and I think Kimmer would be great at it and happy to act a storyline ABOUT Reva and not a silly situation.

I didnt think DH was so bad..it was just...an odd choice to play Roger's son. He came off very smarmy...I swear, he had a scene where he and Jarsh were talking about teaming up to take on Spaulding, and he was visibly flirting with him (that is all we needed, a rejected male lover of Josh going crazy when he want back to Reva...) I thought that having some characters floating around made it seem like a real town, but they could easily been recurring...Rick, Frank, Buzz, that D.A. none of them needed contracts but they made the town seem bigger having characters like that around once in a while.

I think the JC time was that Rauch met her...and talked her into it to go out in a big bang (he was heading for retirement...) The push was to get GL to be "GL again" (i.e. island gone, stepping back from the mob) so it made sense to bring in this star to play a iconic character, but I don't think they thought it out more then that. I think once the ratings didnt' pop and once Rauch left (he knew how to handle a dive like JC) both sides were like, okay were out. And then we were subjected to the return of Marj and CRAZY ass writing which ruined Alex. The only storyline they had was that Gus was going to be Rita's son...which they changed to that weird nun thing with Conwest

I actually think that this COULD have been a good idea (wasnt Roger sterile after that...) as so many of Roger's issues were with his own father. Take also into account that Roger always had pissing contests with other men, and he had to ALWAYS try and be the alpha, that sometimes men put their daughters on a pedestal and are harder on their sons, it could have been good.

Not to mention, the ability to raise 7 Irish kids after her husband disappeared and converted her house to make end's meet. Originally Marland wrote her tougher, but it was more stepping on Nola's dreams, and Long got wrote her as the loving non judgemental mom... I wish they brought her back as a combo of both..a tough woman who was everyone's mom down inside. She looks so much like MH it is scary, I wish they brought her back for a guest appearances just to see them together.

It would have been great if she was played by the Drew actress...I mean did we need another character not connected to anyone (who we know down the line will be as Drews convoluted story) who is tied to yet another "record producer" storyline (they should have learned after Sampson Records or whatever.) Blanchard looks similar to Brown, and she had that nervous energy Lisa had when she was younger. Plus, in an interview Brown was talking about how talented TB was but seemed to imply she was a handful, which was a perfect daughter for Nola, who then could commiserate with Van about their pain in the ass daughters.

Oh...no more Coopers! They could have brought Stacey Chaberline back..since she is only a year or two older then Chelle, and Bill, and they had Nola back, and she is not Bill's bio cousin (like J. NoDot is not Chelles bio cousing, but someone that still skeeved me out.) But you're right, Bridget does have siblings off camera so a sister can be brought in.

The show was so obsessed with Jeva that everyone else is an afterthought. They are clearing the decks for Reva's next GREAT story, SanCrud, and building newbies around her. Both Alex and India disappear and we are told they are "traveling Europe" together, which makes no sense. Plus Rauch supposedly said MKA was a "dog"

Ha...I think you're talking to me! I think even intense actors need to play lightness and humor, which Malloy seems to have lost in the middle of his Edge run...I could never see what Raven or Reva (who admittedly was into controlling men) would see in him...I can't even imagine watching he and Lucci (with her very stylized acting) together. I thought he was hot as FauxSky for some reason! I always thought a good recast of Kyle would be Roscoe Born, who always just looked sex on a stick to me!

When I was a kid my Mom was watching so in the summer we would see the Dobson's GL waiting for "Match Game" to come one ("on most of these CBS stations.") So that was the GL I knew and "Fat ED' was my Ed (who I still think is a DILF.. PS..not so much!_ I became a regular watcher in high school with Nola's antics, though I thought the rest of Marlands GL was pretty dry. I LOVED early Long/Ryder and still think that was the perfect GL.. there was a mix of families that all got equal time with the Bauers being the center. Reva and KZ was fresh and brought a sense of sexiness and fun, the Lewis were great in first incarnation (H.B. was a total scoundrel, Billy was a force) but they didn't take over the show. Alex was introduced,(the Alex I will always think of being THE Alex, sophisticated, strong, sly, and could be your best friend or your worst enemy..not the son obsessed Alex of the Nick era, or the shrieking shrew of the Marj era) the 4 Ms..etc. Fall of 84 it all fell apart and the show was crap with the recastings, the obscuration of the Bauers, the influx of the Sampson Industry people, the Lewis domination of the show and Van became a sad sack hausfrau. I also like Long's second run, first half of JFP, and thought Taggert/Culliton was damn good!

Not his fault, he just wasn't GA's Phillip..he should have been someone Alex brought in to run the company who...I don't know, had actual business experience. He could have still been at odds with Simon (Alex looks so stupid here if she thinks this Flock of Seagulls guy could be Brandon,the Root of All Evil's son. But he was doomed to fail just because of the writing. He had WAY more chemistry with MKA than he did with JE, and they never had him in scenes with MOL, so who knows there. His Phillip spent time writing that stupid novel and it just looked crazy that India (who was madly in love with Phillip) or Beth would even consider Simon or Jackson before him. He just tutted Alex constantly and his Phillip was just there. Ha.. I remember watching the reveal at the Student Center TV lounge and everyone in hysterics...Didnt dumb Jessie go running out into a field or something when she found out? May you rot in soap opera hell for digging that up! : )

Kurt was cute...he was fantasy boyfriend material for girls and gay boys at that time, but he really was just a hunkified Rick, with no history or ties to anyone on the canvas. Mindy hadn't even been on that long..but it also was weird...the Four M's were college students one day, and then the next Phillip is being played by a handsome guy who looked about 35 years old who is suddenly shirking his "executive responsiblities" to play polo... Rick is in Med School, Beth has a career...doing "something" at Sampson and Mindy is getting a princess wedding, to a guy who basically fits the Prince Charming suit. They must have thought it filled a fantasy for the young demo, but having them as college students having young people storylines(however dramatic those were) made them more relatable. Even being a Shayne, Roxie was more relatable..she was working at Company and going to school and trying to make her way in life.

I always thought at the time Wheeler took over and recast Marina with that simpering cutie girl, that we didn't need another Cooper and they should have brought Sam back as a lawyer. With Dinah back they could have been "sisters" and of course, Dinah would be jealous of the hardworking Sam. Of course at this time I would have made the Marlers the core family (Coopers were never meant to be core, sorry Hurst and the Bauers were un savable at this point) as JVD earned the right to be the patriarch of the show. "When Jordan returns in '97-ish, he's more of the support character. He's there when family needs him. I caught some silly scene when he's helping Bill break out Olivia from a nut hut or something, which is kind of funny...but a little sad, knowing he used to be a force to be reckoned with. As much as Zaslow or Deas were always lauded for their work, Jordan deserved lead emmy consideration for his work as well. He won a supporting actor emmy around '06-'07, which was long overdue, imo." Jordan we know had his issues, even Maeve had a hard time working with him...I think he was just glad to have a job, and for once GL did the right thing by keeping him around (with an out for them.) What made Billy great was he was one of those characters, like Nola at a certain time and India in her return, who just liked to stir sh*t up, and did it with a twinkle in his eye. You need those kind of characters, not bad, not self righteously good, who just liked to throw a wrench into something out and watch everyone scarmble. I think that is why he worked so well with self controlled Van, he needed her to keep him centered and she needed him to remove the stick that sometimes got up her ass.