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I agree.

You don't remember the other CVE? He's the vet who lost all of one leg and part of another while serving in (I think) Afghanistan, and who was hired likely because he shared CVE's exact name. ETA: I've looked it up. He played Chet Driscoll?

Thanks, @Vee. Of course, I shouldn't be surprised that I didn't/don't remember Terry. As I've said before, there are more actors working today at GH than there were at MGM in the '40's. Was Terry the one who dated Chris Van Etten (the actor, not the HW)?

YES!!!!

Well, they did work together on "Ambitions," so I'd consider it a foregone conclusion.

His taste in clothes but NOT his taste in men.

Who the F is Terry?

I can see it now: THE GATES Written by MICHELE VAL JEAN SUSAN DANSBY CHARLOTTE GIBSON LYNN MARTIN MICHELLE PATRICK (...and probably Jamey Giddens).

Speaking of...? ENOUGH WITH THE DAMN WIGS. It was bad enough when they had her running around looking like Tallulah Bankhead on a bender, but now she's looking like Janet Green!

ICAM!

And I think she was, too, before James Comey and his stupid press conference. To me, that was the moment when they effectively sunk her. Sinema's is a cautionary tale for anyone looking to enter politics. She got seduced by big money and paid the price.

So, what the hell was the point of Seth?

My fear: Drew will leave feeling bitter and vengeful, then return down the road having restored his face to look like Jason's.

No relation to Love Don't Pay the Rent or Love Shoulda Brought Yo' Ass Home Last Night. (I'm sorry.) Whenever I see Jeff Kober, I can't help but think of "China Beach." And I worry that if they DO explore that history, it'll culminate with Laura welcoming another "forgotten child" that she never told anyone about.

He could've portrayed the "guru" that Laura supposedly ran away with as a teenager. Also, AH just as easily could've played a new character, whose sister once worked as a stripper for Sonny and later o.d.'ed on drugs or committed suicide out of guilt.

Well, now that O'Connor and Van Etten might be out the door officially, I'm sure one or both will land on Ron Carlivati's staff at DAYS in no time.

I vote for the latter, lol.

Wow, I can't believe any soap, let alone AW, played one of my all-time favorite songs, "Sugar on the Floor," by Etta James, as background music in one of their scenes! I definitely think it could be the lack of direction. Even an okay director who had more time with the actors could modulate Jackee's performances better.

I think I read somewhere that Gloria Monty had plans for a Scotty/Amy romance set against the world of ice skating and the Winter Olympics, but I guess Kin Shriner's departure scuttled those plans, along with anything else they might have had in mind for Amy.

It's as if the networks said, "Well, if it worked for Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows...!".

Don't get me wrong, @vetsoapfan, I can understand (in retrospect) how viewers who'd been watching the show for decades felt or might've felt about all the changes that took place on-screen and off- throughout the '80's. I also wouldn't suggest that the quality during that time was as good as or better than the previous decades. Whenever I re-watch stuff from that period, however, I feel about as much nostalgia for back then as I do whenever I re-watch anything from Marland's period, or even the Dobsons', if that makes any sense. I guess what I'm trying to say is, I loved GL - the good, the bad, the ugly, the HIDEOUS - because, in the end, GL, like AMC, feels the most like home to me, regardless of who might have been the HW, EP or principal cast members at any given time.

So the austere-looking Mormon number she's wearing in that screenshot was NOT Lila's dress?

Granted, my memories of GL only go back as far as 1981 or so, but I definitely agree with your assessment of the Irna/Agnes years, @vetsoapfan. At the same time, though, I'm not sure I agree with you that 1985-88 were unwatchable - at least, not for me. There's still much about that period that I love and love as much as I love everything that came before and after it, too. In general, I love anything and everything GL-related* from its' earliest days on radio to, at least, 1998-99, which was/is the point I stopped being a regular viewer of the show. (*Although Megan McTavish's crap really tried my patience, lol.)

Thank you, @Vee, for the clarification. Maybe I'm remembering a different show, lol? Yup! "Millionaire" came along at the right time for ABC. Unfortunately, I think the show became a crutch of sorts for the network, who scheduled it on so many nights that, I think, the public became sick of it and wanted it gone. I feel like the only ones who truly enjoyed MAY (both the original series and the revival) were Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt. Everyone else couldn't be bothered.