Khan

My guess? Roger Forbes. He might've been too young for Lily's dad.

Charles Frank on "Loving"? Talk about a missed opportunity. I'm heartbroken. No joke.

GTL?

And really, in a perfect soap world, even Tad Martin could have become a tentpole and moral compass for the rest of Pine Valley given enough time and the proper evolution. As you've said, though, Carl, Tad just became too damaged by all the bad story and character choices they made for him.

Such a beautiful sentiment, Carl, and I.C.A.M.

Which is exactly why I stopped watching after 25 years. Of course, if you go by GH's current HW, Ron Carlivati, that means I never was a fan in the first place.

Same. And it's a shame, too. In my mind, I saw Tom Cudahy (and Richard Shoberg) as someone who could have carried the mantle of AMC's tentpole character as others -- Joe, Ruth, Phoebe, Myrtle, etc. -- either passed away or stopped appearing as often.

Actually, KMan, ALL MY CHILDREN often played a sort of "romantic roulette" with its characters throughout the '80's, when supercouples on that particular show were the exception rather than rule. It's only in the '90's and '00's that the show began observing the "one character, one romance" rule.

Wasn't Tom involved with Donna, too, at one point?

That's because Jack was a front-burner character, and Tom wasn't. If they paired her Livia with RS's Tom, she feared, she would be effectively shoved to the back burner. Which is what happened, I guess, although I didn't exactly shed tears over her departure.

To this day, I have no idea why Susan Lucci didn't click with John James. Nor can I figure out why she didn't click with Jack Scalia. Those two pairings seemed like no-brainers to me.

Seriously, Erica, give me one good reason why making a baby with this hunk was impossible. Go ahead. I'm waiting.

Now I know what killed Kitty: bad '70's wallpaper.

Someone needs psychiatric help.

It's just as well. The only thing his Jack had chemistry with was a bottle of peroxide.

RKK's statements about "growing up" seem ironic in hindsight, don't they?

Viki saw him, though, and she assessed that he was. Of course, as we know by now, physical resemblance alone means nothing in these situations, and they could explain it away by saying he underwent surgery to look like Victor.

Frankly, it wouldn't have surprised me one bit to learn Irene Manning had actually killed Victor. Just imagine, too, if Dorian had discovered that little nugget of information.

I'm with Dorian: no way could General Sternwood have been the resurrected Victor Lord. Clearly, he was some actor whom Mitch had paid to impersonate him in order to [!@#$%^&*] with Viki once again; and at the convenient moment, Mitch helped him avoid capture and incarceration by faking his death. Damn! Too bad OLTL isn't on anymore! I could so see a story where Clint and Viki, while honeymooning somewhere in Arizona or Texas, cross paths with "Victor," who is working with some local theater company on one production or another, and start to unravel the whole darned mystery.

IIRC, one of the questions RS asked then-EP Joseph Stuart before taking the role was, "Did Dorian actually kill Victor?". Stuart's response: "Yes, but we're not going to deal with that." (Of course, I'm paraphrasing.) So I believe RS has always played Dorian with that information in the back of her mind.

I remember that, too. When they did deal with it, they tossed it off completely like it wasn't a big deal. Yeah, thanks, Bri. She objected, because it (the knowledge that she, and no one else, had killed Victor) was always part of the subtext that RS had created for Dorian's actions. You know how she is about that stuff (not that I blame her).

To me, though, it all felt like sound and fury. Yes, the possibility that Dorian had withheld Victor's medication, thereby causing his fatal attack, was huge, and something that had been in the back of long-time viewers' minds for years. However, unless the writers were willing to go all the way and have Dorian be punished with lethal injection, or even life imprisonment, what was the point? And to be perfect and frank? I would not have minded if Dorian had died as a result of "her" crime, since I felt no one understood how the old girl ticked anymore, and hadn't for a very long time. (Plus, as sick as this might sound, imagine if Viki had learned down the road that she, herself, had murdered her own father...and that Dorian had paid instead for the crime with her life?) Frankly, I'd much rather seen Dorian learn the other big secret at that point -- namely, that Viki was not the one who had voted to have her removed from Llanview Hospital all those years ago, despite Dorian's beliefs to the contrary.

I'll give Michael Malone and his team credit for remembering Ethel Crawford and Lee Chapin. But that's as far as I'll go where that particular story is concerned.

Enjoy it while you can! Because s4 (without giving anything away)? Gets a bit weird.

That [!@#$%^&*] is so "thirtysomething."