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There's an episode on YouTube from December 26, 1983, where Luke is wandering around town, saying goodbye to everyone, and a bunch of clips from his first run are played. Interestingly, none of the clips have Laura in it, and she was not in this episode. This is obviously a goodbye to Tony Geary alone. It's much better than his final episode from 2015 (not too hard an accomplishment). Too bad ABC doesn't rerun this 1983 episode on January 1st, or put it up on Hulu as a tribute.

Good writing. Too much to ask for, I'm sure.

The 1987 Christmas Eve episode was interesting. A lot of the characters from when I started watching in 1990 were on. I'm reminded of how hard it was to find a proper pairing for Robert outside of Holly and Anna. The character he's paired with here, Autumn, is not very good. I understand she only lasts a few more episodes! I had no idea John Ingle played another character on the show, at the same time David Lewis was on as Edward Quartermaine! It was interesting seeing a triangle between Ruby/Dan/ and Aunt Charlene! Did Dan ever get a proper exit, or did he just disappear? When was the last time they actually had the reading of the Christmas story at the hospital? It's a forgotten tradition at this point. And to see Jeff Donnell as Stella! I imagine this is one of her last appearances, as she died in April 1988. Another character that just disappeared? And there's a continuity error at the end, as Anna and Robin are at a Christmas party at their house at the same time they're at Steve's telling of the Christmas story.

The best part of the show is Vernon and Anita! They are great! The worst part is the mob crap. I don't understand why they chose to make it so dark. Joey could have been this small time operator injecting a little humor. Instead he's this big man who's ordered two murders with no consequences or comeuppance. Vernon and Anita work because they seem like a moral center. The mob stuff doesn't because it's too lazy and amoral. It's just a dark hole that goes no where.

These shows have seasons? 🤯 Season 2 looks an awful lot like the season 1 of the last few weeks..

It's interesting how Lemay planned to recreate Steve/Alice/Rachel with other characters twice, in the late 70s and late 80s. Perhaps he shouldn't have been so quick to torch the original in the mid-70s?

The trial is boring. The writers should have watched some episodes of Perry Mason maybe.. Hopefully it can still end with Willow going crazy on the stand and screaming I did it, I did it

A solution to the Luke mess might have been to reveal that the real Luke was killed back in 1995 in Puerto Rico fighting Frank Smith, and that it was Bill impersonating him the whole time. It would explain Luke and Laura falling apart, Luke having a son with Holly (it was really Holly and Bill's), and Luke turning into such a bastard at the end.

The end of Wednesday's show was such a joke, treating the reunion of Britt and Brad like it was something similar to the reunion of say Luke and Robert? 🤮🤮

It's too bad that there weren't better writers for Geary's final years with the show, writers that could have done justice and given a proper closure to Luke and the pairing of Luke and Laura. That attempt in 2015 to explain the character of Luke by revealing he killed his parents was so bad. And then having Luke's final adventure be a quick return of Frank Smith; truly horrible and beneath everyone. It would have been interesting to see what Guza might have done to bring the character of Luke to a close.

It's interesting how the fact that he was gay hasn't been given any attention in any of his orbitaries. It's just implied by them mentioning him having a husband. Imagine how different things would have been if his being gay came out in the heyday of his popularity in the early 80s or 90s. Him being a soap superstar who was closeted due to the times is part of his story.

Genie's tweet on Tony's passing gave more closure to Luke and Laura than the show ever did.

It's sad. I never liked the ending they gave the character in 2015 and then 2022. I still don't understand them jumping the gun and killing off Luke in 2022. What was that all about? IMHO, the character should have been kept alive off screen, and officially said to pass when the actor did, especially for a character that was the superstar lead on the show for so long. There's very little way to pay tribute to him on screen now.

I just watched Thursday, and those scenes with Elizabeth and Felicia were so embarrassing! Amateur hour at its best, like wow. They need to stick with the drama.

I 'd guess that the treatment of Lynn Herring these last 2 decades has been a result of behind the scenes pettiness from the producers and network execs. She was the vet star of the spin-off Port Charles and it failed, so time to move on and serve some humble pie. When Frank came in, you'd have hoped he would have an open mind, but he seems to have bought into it and has treated her character pretty much as a barely recurring shallow joke for the last decade or so.

BTG is mediocre. I was hoping it could capture some of the energy of mid to late 90s GH. Instead it's in the boring mold of 2010s B&B. With Guza gone now, any 90s GH energy is even more unlikely.

Wow, this is the first time I've seen footage of Elizabeth MacRae on GH, and in color too! She's great! Lee was such an important character to the show, but you'd never know it watching from the mid-80s on.

Totally agree. If Scotty hadn't become such a buffoon, him in a triangle with Tracy and Lucy could have been interesting. It's hard to believe that Michael E. Knight has been appearing on this show, taking up space, since 2019. He's had less than zero impact. They should have just let him play Tad. And how about Jon Lindstrom, he was on both today's episode of GH and BTG; in some markets they air at the same time; switch the channel and he's still there.

Interesting how they had Ned have his heart attack just when Tracy went on vacation. Great way to wrap up a major story and start new ones, by having the lead just disappear.. From the previews, it looks like Joey Armstrong is stopping by tomorrow to visit Laura. How many middle-aged shady murderers can one show handle!

The Laura/ Sonny scenes the last two episodes have been really disappointing. Laura losing it, and Sonny blandly reassuring her. Maurice is giving nothing, and Genie is overacting. Not only have the writers not bothered to tap into the long history between Laura and Sonny, but it's like they've forgotten Laura's long history as well. Like she's never seen a dead body before or been a party to some underhanded shenanigans. She should be suggesting that they plant the body on Sidwell, not whimpering and going along with Sonny's plans to make it disappear. At this point, Sonny/Laura scenes are best treated as fast-forward material. Maurice also really needs to be put out to pasture.

How many murders and unresolved crimes are they going to do on this show? If they had a budget, maybe they could invest in a mystery, crime writer, to really go to town on this stuff, as I'm not sure this is in the writers' wheelhouse. But then again, what really is in their wheelhouse...

Creatively, he probably should have stayed with The Doctors, where he stood out as an antihero lead. Not sure what happened with GH. He didn't have the same impact. Was it bad writing, not clicking with co-stars? Didn't they gave him a boat load of money to join GH in 1976? Was Mark Dante just a toned-down version of Nick Bellini? Were they basically the same character?

It's interesting to watch this having watched The Doctors. I'm not sure I'm seeing that much of a difference in the characters Gerald Gordon and Anna Stuart played on The Doctors and what they're playing here.

Every time I see Jacinda, I think to myself that the main reason she's on is to save money on budget. Why introduce a real character played by a real actress when they can cheaply fill time with her. I'm all for giving newbies a shot, but I don't think the Jacinda actress is it. She doesn't have enough charisma. They need to go back to the casting office..

I can't believe it's the show's 60th Anniversary. Sadly, the last time I watched was for John's funeral. I didn't really care for it. All it did was highlight how budget-challeneged the show is, with everyone sitting in a set with ultra- fake shrubbery, and especially with there being no old music cues. Has anything interesting happened on the show since, or are they just still spinning their wheels? i don't remember a time when my interest in the show has been this low..