P.J.

I hadn't checked out the vault in a while, there are some new uploads. A couple are from May '83, one of which is Vanessa getting blackmailed by her PI, which I'd only seen in German...so YAY! There's always hope more will show up.

I'm not even positive Billy was ever Josh's best man at any of his weddings. Even the big Cross Creek one. re: Alan---or even some skunk lawyer. I knew about the tape Alex had that blackmailed Alan out...I didn't realize there was such a sloppy explanation of what happened to it. Couldn't Alan at least have stolen it back? Yes, '86 is a bad year. The year of the summer camp. SMH.

I may be way off base---but didn't Pelphrey date Stephanie Gastchet (Tammy)?

That wouldn't be that hard.

I must say--I enjoyed the softer side of Kat as she talked with Tomas (super UGH) about Anita and living with "the grans".

With Marland's death, the show backed off it's social issue storylines. Although on the upside, I think they also stopped the week long celebrations of Lily's birth. I noted, ironically, that Rebecca Hollen, Alexandra Neil and Lisby Larson (all exGLers) were in the credits.

Wow...that is a really scaled down AIDS ball. I remember when that main set seemed like it was a football field long.

snort ... well, technically, Ed's kinda a prick too, but he had Ross. They might've given Josh some long lost friend who tried to bed Reva....if the show hadn't been so obsessed with making all of the Josh/Reva conflict Reva stories.

I actually wish more of that story were up. Phillip's scheme to get Alan out of the company involved setting up a fake merger with Lewis and that fake emerald mine. The fake merger ends up scuttling the HB/Alex romance (well, no biggie), but I don't quite get the mechanics of it. Or how Alan had kicked both Phillip and Alex out on his '86 return.

And the "lone wolf" type of characters like Alan and Roger (and to an extent, Reva) you understand not having that type of friendship. But when you get to a character like Josh (who had been on the show forever) and you can only really think of one person (outside of Billy) who he really called "friend" in the twenty-ish years on screen, it just seems weird. (and that was Will, who was setting him up). (Okay, I'd think of Vanessa, but that's me.) It's not that there weren't friendships shown, it just seems like the majority of them were either very short term, or simply set ups for story purposes.

I could understand Alex being attracted to Roger, to a point. And it seems to be a pattern for Alex, being attracted to users like Roger, Warren and Eric. But it got very uncomfortable, watching everyone in her life try and warn her and her ignoring them because Roger was apparently that and a bag of chips in bed. Was there really a serious love interest for Alex? Fletch and Alex might've worked, had Jay been an actor with more gravitas. As it was, it was sort of like pairing Bette Davis with Jim Nabors.

Well, Bev and Michael didn't let it show onscreen. Whether it was just a personality thing or not, I wouldn't blame Bev for not liking the Alex/Roger storyline. I can't imagine Bev liked the idea of Alex being led into so many bad life choices. As for liking the story with Fletch... it was probably a change of pace for her. I guess that's a reason to like it. :)

No, I cringed through Oakdale Confidential, that was bad enough.

I suppose I sound so dour. lol I think GL always did family relationships better anyway. I suppose the cast turnover has something to do with it--Reva was always so busy chasing men she didn't have time to develop friendships. oh, Ditto. On rewatch, Judi Evans is at times so sweet and pure it makes my teeth ache. I suppose Beth Chamberlain was happier playing a more complicated woman, but her Beth rarely had any self-respect, imo. Which would've been fine, if any writer had ever leaned into it and linked it back to growing up with an abusive stepfather. (which they may have actually tried at one point, I forget) But all I remember is her Beth jumping from man to man, more and more desperate.

The thing about gatherings is that "everyone" usually ends up invited. Josh and Rick probably never had a conversation that wasn't centered on some medical emergency. (This reminds me, when Josh saved Mindy from Will, who had forced her to take an overdose, it was Rick who saved her, but I digress...) Ditto: Vanessa and Reva. Other than Abigail, I can't think of anyone I'd consider Reva's friend. (Ex-husbands and sisters notwithstanding) Beth really has become unlikeable. Ironic that she's throwing the same shade at Cassie that Harley and Vanessa threw at her.

I don't think the writers really cared about the names of secondary characters like cops and secretaries.

ugh...Jenna. Van being her friend is so ugh. Van never would've given that woman the time of day, back in the day. I love Lisa. RME...The show worked triple time to convince us Reva could love that creep.

a lot of mid-89 to mid-'93 is up. I wish at the end, Van and Nola had had a real conversation, and said how much they missed Henry. Surely two minutes of Reva endlessly yapping at Jeff's pic could've been cut for Lisableepin'Brown --one of GL's most memorable actresses. I can't watch Nola's return--it's just too sad. And he-who-shall-not-be-named stinks up the joint.

I think her appearances lasted less than a year. She came to town and around Christmas '98, it was revealed that she had been the one who ran over and killed her husband Bert. (Brad had taken the blame and gone to jail, that was the source of Jack and Brad's estrangement.) Then I remember her living with Brad and Carly after they married, and Carly paying off some IRS debt for her. (around May'99). I doubt she was seen after August, as that was when Brad busted Carly and she lost the $50 million. He left town shortly thereafter and Loprieno was fired.

I'm not sure Perrine was ever a regular, but the revolving door or Brads in '98-'99 didn't help the situation. It would've been nice if Dolores had ever checked in on her kids---Jack used to get shot/injured once a year.

Who has time to jet back when they're sleeping with everything in pants?

Oh, I understand. I remember desperately trying to watch it in those later years and just couldn't sit through an entire episode. The only reason I watch what I do of the later stuff is for Vanessa/Billy and Bill (with his parents, mostly, and Lizzie, here and there.) If it weren't for Vanessa and Billy's wedding, I don't think I'd rewatch the ending at all. I think TP returned because he was grateful for the experience and boost GL had given him. I think a lot of the actors did that. It just so happened that he fit into two arcs---Reva's and Lizzie's.

The only time I remember them mentioning Dolores after she left was when Jack had amnesia. Carly tricked him into going back to Montana, saying that his mother was sick and wanted to see him. Holden later told JuliaII that Dolores and Brad lived in Florida (I think). I don't recall them mentioning her at all when Brad died. I don't think Dolores was a grifter like Iris (Gwen's mother), just kind of a slut and dependent on men. I did hear of her passing. I watched a short film on her not too many years ago about her struggle with Parkinson's. She seemed like a lovely woman.

More like an invasion, but I digress.

Well, I may have exaggerated a bit. But you had Richard, Cassie, Edmund, Olivia, Colonel Dax ( you'll know him as OLTL's Carlo Hesser), Beth down there. Reva and Josh must be there a bit. Phillip would drop by, I think the Santos bum down there now and then...it's honestly ridiculous. But it's been forever since I watched any of it. There was a big common area, and a patio setting that I recall, but there must've also been bedrooms. At some point Richard steps down and moves to Springfield, but it's not long after that he dies.