R Sinclair

What's crazy is that I recognized those Emergency Room doors from the old hospital set before I recognized Adam and Brooke!

It's Sunday afternoon, nothing much to do until dinner... so I'm watching my Oprah 20th Anniversary DVD collection and during a behind-the-scenes segment, they show an audience coordinator at her desk with a television set. She's watching All My Children! I've had this DVD collection for six years. I don't know why I didn't recognize this until today, but it did my heart good! It's almost like "Yes! There's someone else who 'gets it!'"

While I agree that Heather Webber's return was a total flop (the story as well as Mattson seemed to be misplaced on that cast during that horrid year), I definitely would've preferred Mattson's Janet. I believe the comedy would've had a more droll, darker bent to it than Collins' gimmicky shtick!

Collins was second choice. AMC intended on bringing Mattson back as Janet, but ABCD was less than impressed with her return as Heather Webber on GH in 2004 and nixed the idea.

I agree.

It's funny. Jack is to Erica what Ryan is to Jack's daughter, Greenlee. A man in love with the woman she isn't, and doing everything he can to make her so.

There was very little of this period that I enjoyed. Phantom Erica was also during this time.

Yup! Because good, loving Tad kept telling Junior how Adam was as horrible a father to him as Ray Gardner was to Tad. I remember after one of the many times Junior ran away and he was found at the boat house, Adam went to go hug him, relieved he was safe, and Junior flinched as if he was going to hit him. Liza took Adam away while Tad hugged Junior with this smug look of "See? He loves me more than you -- so what if I brainwashed the boy?" And then I remember after all of this, Tad says to Dixie "Hmmm... maybe I've been talking too much about Ray Gardner around Junior and Jamie!" Ya think?

My problem with SORAS'ing is when they start mining stories from the character's SORAS'd childhood. In real time, we knew that JR spent 85% of his time with Dixie (and Tad by proxy), yet we're hearing all of these tales of how horrible it was for JR -- now an adult in his mid-20s by the time Jacob Young took over -- to grow up as Adam Chandler's son. It's like, WHEN THE HELL DID ANY OF THIS HAPPEN?! I was THERE for JR's childhood. "Junior" was with Dixie all the time. JR only spent the last 18 months of high school with Adam after Dixie's first death. Yet, somehow, after JR's SORAS'd from 17 to 25 in just five months, we're being told Adam's been grooming and conditioning JR for years and all of his malfunctions are due to Adam being a horrible father and yadda, yadda, yadda... It's like, why didn't you people WRITE that to begin with? Don't write Dixie and Adam as being able to respectfully co-parent Junior for his entire childhood... and then, basically say, "Guess what?! Adam was secretly horsewhipping Junior all those years." However, I think the Bianca SORAS-ing was done properly. None of 16 year old+ Bianca's storylines were based on rewritten aspects of her onscreen childhood. Pretty much everything tracked. I use both JR and Bianca as examples because they were born around the same time (late 80s) and yet their SORAS-ing was handled completely different.

I can't accept it. We're the same age. I can't accept that even in the 1980s you were this insightful about this program, no matter how you package it. Nope. Can't do it! Hindsight, sure. But present in the moment? Nope. You need more people. ETA: However, I agree 100% with your assessment of the Erica/Kendall/Rape Rewrite.

Between you and me, so is he. Shhhhhhhh!

It was Central American Guerrilla Warfare.

John Callahan was a favorite of Judy Blye Wilson. According to her own words in the 1993 All My Children Behind the Scenes video (which I still have), Judy Blye tracked Felicia Behr down in an airport and sold her on JC. FMB agreed to having JC test for the role and subsequently, he got the role of Edmund.

I know exactly what you mean. I had just turned 17, ironically, prior to this particular episode -- and even then it seemed as if they were a little out of touch. Yes, I'm from Connecticut -- whatever that's supposed to mean -- but I even remember Laura Kirk saying "What is this? Pine Valley, the land time forgot?" and my mother and I both fell out laughing because we'd been thinking the exact same thing about these teens. I remember Anita saying something like "Papa doesn't usually let us watch the rock video stations."

Well, praise the lord on high I was speaking my own opinion and not yours, huh?