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I read on the old usenet groups that it was AMC's choice to recast. I don't know how accurate they are, but that is what I read. Munecojim's channel use to have all of the first half of 1995 on YT, and it was clear they were shifting the direction of the character as a foil for the Noah/Julia story even toward the end of IR's run by making her more obsessive. Truthfully, I am not sure McTavish really 100% got the character. It never made sense to me that Taylor went from this snooty, country club, daddy's girl type to being a cop. Although, her going undercover as a white woman to expose a white supremist group was an interesting story.

A few rumors I've read going through old usenet archives, was that McTavish and Behr were at odds who to put Edmund with. McTavish wanted to eventually put Edmund and Brooke together, but Behr pointed out that fans were responding to Edmund and Maria more. The other was that part of the reason McTavish was fired in 1995 was due to creative differences. There was a quote from McTavish where she seemed to the think Noah/Taylor and Julia/Anton were gonna be the big pairings, and Noah and Julia as best friends like Jesse and Jenny. Noah and Julia as a romance didn't really kick off until after she left. Many were surprised they show choose to kept Trevor over Natalie when the rumor was the actors didn't get along and they had to choose one. I kept that in mind rewatching some of these 1991 shows, and after the Adam story wrapped, Natalie was basically wallpaper. The story seemed about Trevor with new family members Arlene and Hayley showing up. He seemed to be the one getting more airtime and focus. It's too bad because I preferred Natalie by a long shot, but they really diluted her character, especially once Janet came on the scene. The whole thing was more from Janet's perspective.

Thanks for the analysis, DeliaIrisFan. One thing I did notice was how during the Well story, Hayley was one of the first to put together something was up with Natalie. That "Natalie" was not acting like herself. She put together she was Janet. Flashforward a few months, and Hayley has her head in the sand regarding Will, and the last to realize he's gone off the deep end. I do remember an interview with McTavish from her 1998 return. Someone asked her why Janet and Trevor lacked storyline. She said there wasn't a whole lot she could do with a nice Janet. I got the impression she didn't like the humanization of the character Broderick did. IIRC, the last stuff McTavish had written for Janet before then was setting up a bomb at the Trevor and Laurel wedding, circa 1995? Eventually she did write Harold the dog dying.

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I remember Taylor Miller pushing for the idea of a Nina and Adam pairing when she returned in the mid-90's.

Flashback to that time Tom hit Travis over the head with a barbell Did you watch the Nina's birthday episodes that Eric posted? The ones from 1980. Palmer and his Dobermans. If not, those are good ones to watch. There's also when Palmer takes Adam's entire fortune right out from under him, during the masked ball.

Thanks, I was thinking the strike went further into the fall than it did. Stan Albers as Josh first showed up around March of 1988 ( the second time, the first time he was on the show as another character in 1985. )

The whole "Sally the Waitress" and meeting Dave story, along with Travis faking a kidnapping for insurance, was stuff that happened during the writers strike. I'm not sure how much of that was originally planned out by Broderick.

That was when Damon Lazzare and Goldie Kane were hypnotizing Silver to kill Erica. It was around fall of 1987.

I'm going through some of my uploads, and these are some beautiful scenes with Erica and Nick. She tells him about her father issues. Thank you, BlueRose8506 for originally uploading this.

Yes. David/Lanie was started by Broderick, but continued with Depriest. They were still around after that, but I think Agnes's next attempt at a young love story after she returned was Emily Ann and Joey, which also coincided with the return of Billy Clyde.

Cindy/AIDS and the Laura hit and run stories were under Lorraine Broderick. 1981–82 Agnes Nixon & Wisner Washam 1982–86 Wisner Washam 1986–87 Wisner Washam & Lorraine Broderick 1987–88 Lorraine Broderick March 1988 – August 1988 1988 Writers Guild of America strike August 1988 – January 1989 Lorraine Broderick January 1989 – March 1989 Lorraine Broderick & Victor Miller March 1989 – November 1989 Margaret DePriest November 1989 – May 1992 Agnes Nixon

Yes, Mark was on the show through at least December 1988. The 'real' Silver came on the show as Noelle in 1987, then died May of 1988. So Mark was actually on the show before, during and after Silver.

It didn't make much sense, so I am not surprised. I do know HamiltonBernique has the climax of the Lars Bogard story up. It was during that yacht party where they were celebrating Jenny and Tony's engagement and he fell overboard. Edit: Found it, Lars goes overboard after a fight with Palmer, falls in the water with an American flag toward the end of the video

They sort of brought the Nazi thing back in 1998. Palmer was hiding a bunch of Nazi paintings. Anyone else remember this?

Now that you mention it, Gloria did get more material under McTavish.

Thank you. Yes, I see McTavish didn't come until the next year on OLTL. Although, both stories (GL/OLTL) were under JFP's watch. I wonder if it was JFP's idea to make Rachel a killer, because on Y&R Hilary was made a killer under JFP. The Amelia/Rick/Maureen interview should be interesting. I know JFP loved Lucy/SS so I wonder if it was her idea to cut the Gilly/Alan-Michael story or the networks. I do think I read a rumor Patrick Mulcahey quit over them not letting him do the David/Bridget story.

Wasn't Megan McTavish also the one that had Roger blaming Gilly for all the problems at WRCW, so she quit to work as a personal assistant to Griffin, who she almost had an affair with until he turned out to be her father? Yuck. Then not long after she went over to OLTL and made Rachel a killer out of nowhere.

Laurel was pointless, but the culmination of her death, and Janet revealing Jason as a homophobe wanting to kill Michael Delaney on the witness stand was well done. You know, its funny. You go back and watch episodes in the late 80's and Jack actually seemed to have a personality back then, after Travis left so went his personality. Nick Davis and Mike Roy were my favorites for Erica, but Dimitri was okay, aside from when he helped Kendall track down Richard Fields, and he went downhill after that whole Maria affair disaster. They almost turned him into a villain in 1997.

Cady McClain on some of the behind the scene politics of 2006, which lead to the pancake death "I made the mistake of saying what I wanted. Sometimes with a show, you've got to smell the atmosphere, and you've really got to consider the politics, and see what is happening. It's taken me a lifetime to learn this, but I did not recognize there was much heavier network influence at the time, that was playing heavily into the politics behind the scenes. So when I was taken to lunch, I was asked "What kind of stories do you like, Cady?" and I was like "You're asking me?" Instead of saying what I should of said, "Whatever she wants to write is going to be great." What I did end up saying was "I like social justice storylines. I really loved anything what Agnes was doing in the 80's with AIDS and homelessness." And I just watched the writer that shall not be named look at me like she wanted to kill me because she had a story already. It just didn't enter my little pea brain that I was making that story go away by what I was saying. I didn't even realize I had that power at that time. I had no idea. So, that became a very difficult year because I think she was very angry with me, for ruining this great story idea that she had, and I got the brunt of that, and I've talked about that before. I don't think it was right or fair personally to take your anger out on an actor, but I've seen it done before. If somebody doesn't like you, and they have to write for you, that's going to be a tough year for you, and it was for me. I literally had to do a "I wanna kill myself" story for three months straight. And going to work, and doing monologues about how much you want to die is really hard on you personally. We play on a field of emotion, and you can't help when you're doing a very difficult storyline everyday, to take some of that home with you. After three months, I began to get angry, as anyone would that would be forced to do something that was really painful. It almost felt like torture. That's not a good feelings, and you get snarky and bitchy and angry yourself. Then I had an epiphany, which was "Cady, just let it go. Just shut up, and go do your job. Just entertain people and don't let this get to you." By the time I had made that turn, I had a conversation with that writer that did not sit well with her. It wasn't like I was an a-hole, I was saying "Could you please consider..." I was polite, but I wasn't totally in line, which is what you have to do in a job like soaps where they are writing a script five days a week. Its an enormous undertaking for writers. So, by the time I had my epiphany, she had already made up her mind, and poisoned pancakes was going to her final word on the subject. Which I have had to live with ever since." Full interview https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/cady-mcclain-guests-on-digests-podcast/

Gloria Monty on the Luke and Laura rape 🤐 In September 22, 1998 SOW. Gloria said that she helped to create the scene and she directed it, but didn't write it. She says, "I refuse to call it rape. Someone told me that sequence would never fly today because women are different, and they would object to it. That's nonsense." She said she intentionally directed it to have what really happened to Laura vague in the audience's mind. "You heard her scream 'No, but we cut away before. You didn't know what ultimately happened, except that they had sex. I wanted the audience to wonder, 'was it a rape?'" She says the truth came out later in more subtle scenes and THOSE are the ones she wrote, rather than the rape. She says that these later scenes were overlooked. "After the seduction, Luke went to see her in the hospital. He brought flowers and she smiled and said, 'Thank you,' and, most importantly, she accepted the flowers. She acted as if nothing had happened. She could have looked at him the way that she did and accepted the flowers, if she thought that what had happened was a rape. The night of the seduction, this man had one day to live. He was going to die. She came into the disco, and he kept telling her to go away. In an emotional sequence like that, if she had started running out and he caught her and dragged her back, then I would also say it was rape. But if the man says, 'Get out, get out, please leave,' and you stay. . . then you're crossing the line."

Yes, I liked they had Remy's mom come by for the Jesse return. Did they ever bring up Creed Kelly though? Wasn't he the one originally thought to be behind Jesse's death?

What is the tea with Rebecca Budig and Paulo Benedeti?

Yup. Jill Farren Phelps really decimated the Gannons when she took over in the late 90s. I think she was also the producer who put the kaboosh on the interracial pairings of Alan-Michael/Gilly and David/Bridget on Guiding Light too.