DeeVee

Yes, Reva was always looking for what she could get from a guy. What he could do for her. Vanessa used to chide Alan about it all the time. She had Reva's number. I don't think it was always about money for her (though it DID help). Stability is a good way of putting it, though in the end she never seemed to find it. That's the kind of pandering shows frequently do at the end. Doesn't matter how toxic the relationship, they're convinced (and they're not entirely wrong) that the audience craves a happily ever after.

I'm a little fuzzy on this, but I THINK Bradley found out while in prison that Alan had lied about Beth being dead. Then Alan told Phillip because he was trying to make up to him for, you know, shooting him at his own wedding. IIRC correctly, it's why everyone was skeptical, because Alan and Bradley were both congenital liars. Yes, he was trying to convince Lillian and later Beth that he had changed. For a long time Rehborn was one of Hollywood's best character actors, so yeah, it's another case of a soap wanting to keep a really good actor who was playing an irredeemable character.

It's kind of hilarious when you think about it because his stint on AMC involved fathering Erica's baby, then fathering another with his ex-wife, then ANOTHER so they could have a donor to save the first one from cancer. Let's face it, there are a lot of baby storylines on soaps.😂

I can understand him feeling that way, but they HAD to do that storyline because Zimmer was pregnant.

I'm familiar with Walker--yeah, I think he could have worked. I don't recall Lockerman that much, but looking at photos of him from when he was young--I TOTALLY can see him as Kyle. (As long as I ignore the awful 1980s moussed-up mullet hair style in some of his pictures, LOL).

He played a New Yorker on AMC with a father who had an American accent. (I suppose they explained he was brought up in Europe with his mother? I don't recall). Nothing will ever be funnier than the character on OLTL who was Dutch or Scandinavian with a strong accent. One day it magically disappeared (still the same actor, too). I keep thinking Kyle has to have that Black Irish look like Malloy. For instance, Malcolm Groome, who played Patrick on RH. (He said in interviews he was disappointed they changed Pat from a bounder to a super nice guy. Here would have been the chance to play against that).

I have always said that the GL canvas could have easily accomodated two mutl-millionaire business guys--Y&R has had that going on for literally decades. And, in fact, could have made the business stories more interesing. (Lewis Oil was never really a contender against Spaulding). So who would have been a good replacement for Malloy? Ooooh, I have to think about this.

Hmm, Lillian. Yeah, she was NOT a good person when she first came on the show. She utterly failed Beth, looking the other way while her husband Bradley physically abused her. She refused to face the fact that Bradley raped her. In the beginning. Later, she supported Beth. Beth, at the time practically a saint, forgave her mother. She forgave everybody, except for Bradley. Even Alan, who treated her like dirt. Then when Alan came back to SF, he treated her like dirt again. I know this is hard to believe because 1990s-2000s Beth is SO different. Anyway, BACK to Lillian: there was a brief time where they were playing around with a love triangle involving Lillian/Mike Bauer/Alexandra. There are a lot of theories around why this happened, but for whatever reason, they decided to fire Don Stewart, the actor who played Mike. So it never went anywhere. After that, Lilian was pretty much the devoted mother and dedicated nurse. Dinah came to live with her. When Beth went missing, she and Dinah were very close. She was devastated, of course, when Beth declared dead (falsely, by Alan, because he wanted Phillip to "get over it" and stop looking for the missing Beth). Beth was eventually found, and they were happily reunited. (For some WILD reason, they brought Bradley back into the story. He was in jail while Alan was in jail. I never figured out the point of that). Then a few years later she was diagnosed with breast cancer. During this time she and Ed, who were always friends, because closer and had an affair. Lillian (who was never the brightest bulb in the chandelier) wrote Ed a love letter. Mo found it. That's when she confronted both of them. While trying to get away from Ed, she crashed her car and died. Of course, Lillian was really, really, REALLY sorry about her part in this, as was Ed. And then...pretty much everyone forgot about it. It was never really brought back into the story, when it should have been. Bridget and Nola adored Mo, there should have been scenes of them tearing Ed and Lillian new ones. Just goes to show how that storyline was used simply to get rid of a character rather than growing into more story over the years. And, yeah, then after that, she was pretty much just the nice nurse lady. It's a shame they didn't use more of her complicated past, with her daughter, with Dinah, with Ed, with the people who loved Mo.

I hate when soaps have that kind of amnesia. No way would Van ever be friends with Lillian. She may not have been directly responsible for the death of the only real female friend Van ever had, but she hurt her deeply. Van would not forgive that. Not only were Dinah and Lillian close, she almost became like a surrogate daughter to her. Lillian was heartbroken when Dinah found out she was Ross and Vanessa's kid and left to go live with Ross. Again, amnesia.

Fletch was ALWAYS romancing some random woman. 😂 That was Susan Piper. This epsisode was The Founding Day celebration, which kicked off the rather dreadful Barbados storyline. She was the villainess in that story.

Bridget and Nola were the wrong characters to take that role in the boarding house. Bridget was too young, and Nola HATED the boarding house when she was young. All she wanted was to get away. Making her the wise matriarch, quirky or otherwise, would have been a waste of her character. She needed to be doing things, not talking to others about what they were doing. Same with Bridget. You can understand why some actresses would have pushed back against playing that role (i.e. Zimmer). Back in the day, Charita Bauer was probably happy to still be a vital character on the show, even though she was no longer embroiled in central storylines. But by the 90s, actresses, especially those who had been really popular, didn't want to slide into that role. And I can't totally blame them. But it caused some serious holes in soaps once the actresses who filled that fuction started dying off.

Yeah, he obviously had some issues. I think Terrell Anthony, who played Rusty, said Malloy was threatened by him and made comments about how he was the male star and don't get in his way, or something like that. I will be forever p!ssed at him because if he hadn't left GL, Alan never would have been pulled into Reva's orbit. I wonder, since they had mentioned both Rita and Hope during that era, if they would have brought one or both of them back into the story if Reva hadn't needed someone to worship her during the Sonni story. Also, Ina, on OLTL. Who ran a boarding house, like Bea Reardon did. They really made a mistake, IMO, when they got rid of Bea. The boarding house was the perfect place to have disparate characters flow through it every now and then and where they could use Bea as a sounding board and dispenser of wisdom. As it was used during the 1980s. It's where Beth and Lujack fell in love, for instance.

Thank God for small mercies. 😂

When Robert Newman (Josh) and Chris Bernau (the OG Alan) left the show, they filled in the gap by hiring Larkin Malloy as rich businessman Kyle Sampson. He had been very popular as Sky Whitney on Edge of Night. They attached him to the Lewis family. My theory for why the audience accepted Reva and Kyle was that Newman left not that long after they had established Reva and Josh as a star-crossed romantic couple. If he had stayed another year it might have been different. When both Newman and Bernau came back in 1986, the story goes that they wanted to keep Malloy and have a love triangle with Josh/Reva/Kyle, but Kyle was going to be the odd man out. Malloy didn't want to play the losing side of the love triangle, so he left. They had Reva become involved with Alan instead.

Whaaaaaattttt? I rarely ever watched B&B, but I do remember when they revealed Eric was really Bridget's father, and she was like 5 or 6 year old? Ridge thought he was her father for all that time! That beats AM and Marina by about a billion miles. The only male Spaulding Blake missed was Gus. Olivia slept with Alan and Phillip. Cassie slept with brothers Richard and Edmund (and didn't she almost sleep with her b-in-law Josh?). Didn't Vanessa sleep with Justin early on? Or am I hallucinating that one? (It seems like a safe assumption, LOL).