DeeVee

Two things about this: Doing the math, it made me realize Heather Tom is FIFTY YEARS OLD. OMG, I feel so old. 😩 (I am old, but I didn't need the reminder, LOL.) As to the comments about why they killed off Maureen, gee, unless I missed something, I don't remember anything memorable involving Ed dealing with her death. Not like Jack on Ryan's Hope when Mary died, or Tony on GH when his daughter died. When Cassie died on Y&R it impacted the show literally for years. They screwed up bigtime and couldn't even be bothered to at least write something compelling to make her death worth it, story-wise. That would have been great! Or why not have the guts to write a real love triangle with Mo/Ed/Lillian? Or have Maureen not really die somehow but everyone thinks she's dead? She could have had amnesia (that would have been necessary, because she would never leave Michelle). Maybe Roger could have found her and kept her from Ed out of spite. There were like a million possibilities that did not have to end with her dying.

Thanks everyone for the kind words of welcome! LOL, I admit I love when soap women vanquish soap men, too. I've been watching these recently uploaded episodes and have wondered this for DECADES. It made zero sense to me that he married Jennifer and not the oh, so willing Amanda. I think one of the uploaded episodes might of answered it: Amanda told Jennifer she was leaving her stock in Spaulding to Jennifer. Maybe the plan was to kill Amanda and then Jennifer so he could get the stock? Still seems it would have made more sense to have him marry Amanda and get her to change her will in his favor. Possibly they were trying to find a way to keep Jennifer in a major story once the paternity storyline was over.

Hi, popping in to introduce myself. I have been lurking as a guest for a little while. I LOVE the discussion here! Was stunned to find out people are still talking about even the vintage era of soaps. I guess YT is keeping them alive. I started watching soaps as early as the 1960s, mainly because my mom watched them. (Except for Dark Shadows, that was totally a me thing). Over the decades I've probably watched almost every soap at one time or another, even oldies that have been gone for a while, like The Secret Storm, Somerset, and Love of Life. My mom's soap viewing was very much dictated by whichever male actor she had a crush on at any given moment. We started watching GL during the early part of the Dobsons era because she had a huge crush on Michael Zaslow. I was a fairly consistent viewer during the late 1970s and the 1980s. Somewhere during the 1990s I became a less regular viewer, but still checked in occassionally until the end of the show's run. It's been amazing rewatching episodes on YT. It's nice to confirm the good stuff is a good as I remembered (and the not so good stuff is, well, you know...) Anyway, looking forward to taking part in the conversation!