P.J.

It's kind of hard to believe that Nadine and Maureen didn't know each other. I would've said they were about the same age in the early '90's. Then again, the soap convention would've been to make them friends, and I would've hated to see Maureen have to befriend that harridan. I'm not sure Quint was meant to be as quirky as they made him, but he had to have been slated to be Henry's son. No argument from me about Reva---but I know that's not the prevailing opinion.

It was hard for them to even work Annabelle in as a teacher. The Four Musketeers attended college for about a semester (aside from Rick's "accelerated" doctor course) and I think the next teens that went to college for any amount of time were AM/Harley/Dinah/Cam. Alex forced Henry and Quint to sell their holdings in Spaulding, claiming that the SEC was going to investigate Vanessa's kickbacks from the Jocelyn Electronics deal. But Quint was never interested in the running of Spaulding--Henry had offered to mentor him (which upset Vanessa on multiple levels) but he chose to continue his archelogy work. He was briefly a professor--Nola had a jealous snit and her "help" in the classroom was a series of calamities. I really don't think Kobe was interested in Nola and Quint. I don't think she was really interested in any of the Reardons, to be honest. She killed Jim's girlfriend, the haunting of Tony and Annabelle's cottage is lame, and Maureen was the eternal big ol' wet blanket.

They did not have a real direction for Quint after the end of his Silas Crocker mystery and he admitted he was in love with Nola played out. The Rebecca story was dumb. There was a point after Henry's heart attack that he and Vanessa started to bond, but it really didn't go anywhere.

Brittany was probably more popular in the role. It's not that Bonnie Dennison was bad, I remember the mags thinking she was good. I didn't like the stories for Daisy's "later" teen years (lol) a crush on Gus, getting pregnant by this really skeevy guy. And she was stuck in Cooperville. I don't recall her interacting much (if at all) with the Lewises, until after Beth Ehlers left. And by then it was so pronounced, I found myself asking why Daisy was calling Bill "uncle". I forget exactly when Meg went crazy....the end of '08? early '09? I think it was '09. I don't think Holden was back from the dead long before Brad died, for some reason.

Honestly, the Nicole/Vanessa fight is one of the few moments of consequence that's felt really earned since the show began. Other than some of Anita's scenes, it's easily the most memorable scene of the year.

I could see that reasoning re: Kelly/Morgan vs Nola. Especially knowing Nola was created somewhat on the fly. It is surprising Marland didn't give Vanessa stronger schemes and goals. Maybe he thought two (or three, I guess, with Diane) cold-hearted schemers was overkill, and Vanessa kind of jelled into the jealous adult woman/child. Maybe she would've headed back to Ross, as Ross and Carrie sorted out who and what they were after discovering her split personalities. I never blamed Vanessa for resenting Quint--he was such an obnoxious do-gooder, anyone would've hated him. LOL.

I get Lezlie, who always has story. (She's cheating on Justin with Mike, or something around this time.) Hillary's stories never seemed to go anywhere. I was trying to figure out why Nola or Vanessa weren't included. While Lisa had been airing for a few months (but oddly, both Kelly and Morgan are, and they must've started around the same time), Maeve probably hadn't even started airing when this was at the printers. Poor Janet Grey---that is one lousy drawing of her. Sure, Jerry looks sinister, and Stephen looks a little odd...but if they didn't list Janet's name, I don't think I could've guessed that was supposed to be her. Unless someone can think of someone else that might be.

That is one sinister interpretation of Jerry ver Dorn. LOL...just read the bottom, seeing it was in the June 28th 1980 issue. Odd that they'd have Hilary in the add and not Hope.

Roger always had a talent for manipulating women. And finding ones with daddy issues. That Christmas Eve is when they found out Beth was alive, so you can imagine she was also feeling Lujack's absence a little more keenly than usual.

Vanessa has story coming. The parasite is along for the ride, I imagine

Well, there's other warm stuff I choose not to embrace. LOL. which reminds me Lent's over, I can embrace my inner snark and piss and moan about **** with impunity!! cackle

Double post

Now I'm afraid to look at my utube feed. Eek. It's bad enough I'll see a bunch of **** crap suggested because I watch Vanessa's glory days.

It might've had something to do with Schultz's relationship/marriage to Larry Bryggman.

NSA wasn't owed a job. She wasn't even the definitive Michelle in my book. While it wouldn't have made much of a difference at the end, bringing Michelle back without Danny would've been welcomed by me.