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But didn't Alan raise him?

I agree. IMO, the only time bringing a former ABCD character over to GH truly worked was when Gerald Anthony joined GH as his OLTL character, Marco Dane; and I mark that one success down more to Anthony and the chemistry that I found between him and JE/Tracy than I do to anything else.

How was he compared to Jason? Have they forgotten that Jason wasn't "born that way," and that his "Stone Cold" persona is the result of extensive brain damage?

Well, I wouldn't say Steve Burton is ugly. I just think he got extremely lucky when he joined GH. Okay, I wasn't sure, lol.

...Huh?

Whatever happened to Robert Dwyer? Were he and Robert Cessna, who wrote for THE DOCTORS during Marland's term there, one and the same?

Plus, I think Taylor Miller was unpopular with fans, and Mary Page Keller likely made it clear she wasn't coming back. I would agree with you, except I think Claudia never truly fit into what became of DYNASTY after its' first season. Without Matthew and Lindsay, she didn't have much of a purpose on the show. But I do think her actual death was one of the show's stupidest, lol.

You know, not that I think Burton is a total snack or anything, but I'll be satisfied if he gets off his high horse for once and plays to his strengths - which means being shirtless and mute in all his scenes. If he doesn't want to be shirtless because it's against his religion or whatever, then - I dunno - go make movies for the Dove Channel or something.

I agree. I always cringe whenever I see or hear about another series that is set at a high school and revolves around members of the student body, because you just know they're gonna do something insane - like have all the characters remain in the same class and/or at the same grade level for multiple seasons, or have a teacher follow them from year to year, and even from high school to college, like Mr. Feeney did on "Boy Meets World" - in order to keep going past the show's natural expiration date. (Plus, I just think classroom scenes are among the worst kinds of scenes to write and to watch, lol). If I were to develop a series about a high school, I'd center it around members of its' faculty instead. As usual, @dc11786, I think your ideas for the Donovans are wonderful!

[!@#$%^&*], and here I thought Y&R had an opportunity before Donna Mills passes away to right a decades-old wrong and make Diane the long-lost child that DM's LIAMST character, Laura Donnelly Elliott, had always wanted.

OMG, has he been hitting the Krispy Kremes again?

You mean you're not dying to see the Ben/Betsy saga from LOVE OF LIFE finally wrapped up after all this time? @Vee says he's done worse. I dunno, I've witnessed only 3 of the 27 characters he played on GH.

I agree. IMO, AMC/OLTL crossovers worked, because of Agnes Nixon and the fact that they were tonally similar, but GH always seemed to me to be a different species, if that makes sense.

Personally, it's much easier for me to handle ELR joining GH as a new character rather than seeing Roger Howarth back AGAIN!, but this time as Blaze's older brother, Pepito.

If that's the case, then I want to see characters from all the other, cancelled CBS soaps on B&B and Y&R pronto.

ATWT really took a tumble, didn't it? I wonder if the Carolyn Crawford murder mystery had anything at all to do with that. That might have been the one time when Douglas Marland missed the mark.

Same here. GH literally employs more actors on their show than Louis B. Mayer did at MGM, lol. Sonny Corinthos is the Brooke Logan of GH?

This is giving me "Flash"-backs to OLTL, if you catch my drift. I, too, am adopting a wait-and-see approach to ELR's addition to the cast. Who knows? Maybe it will lead somewhere interesting? *shrug*

I'm sorry, but am I the only one who has issues with a character named "Blaze"? Like, is she supposed to be a stripper or something?

I've said the same thing about SaBa. I felt (and still feel) that featuring so many characters at the beginning hurt SaBa in the long run, because doing so didn't allow the viewers the opportunity to get to know them all well enough (to say nothing of their issues with the casting of many of them, lol). And I think the same could be said about LOVING. There was much about GENERATIONS that I thought could have been improved upon - but that's for another thread.

I truly think no one in the industry was prepared for how the nation would respond to the O.J. trial.

To me, it just seems like more of the same from the "NCSI Network."

So do I. "We love GH! We got big plans for GH! GH ain't goin' anywhere!" Cut to: "BREAKING NEWS: 'GH' CANCELLED!" (Or worse, shuffled off to Hulu forever).

A year (or two) is better than nothing.

I never thought I'd say this, but when you think about it - I mean, the number of years that ATWT was #1, or how DAYS climbed to the top after being thisclose to cancellation early on, or how Y&R climbed up the ratings charts after a somewhat rocky start, then faltered when it expanded to an hour, then came back stronger than ever and knocked GH off its' perch as the most-watched soap in the country; or how B&B eventually became the second-most watched soap w/ a large international following - you could argue that Bill Bell was the most successful writer ever to work in this genre.