P.J.

This is a completely ignorant question, but are Leslie/Mike GL's equivalent of ATWT's Penny/Jeff? I'm much more aware of early ATWT history than GL's. Morgan and Kelly's wedding is beautiful, and I remember thinking that when I saw it as a kid. All I can think now is that it must have been a logistical nightmare. Winding through the woods and everything. lol.

Were weddings not really "events" until Quint and Nola's in 1983? I've seen a couple from the early '80s and they seem like tepid affairs. Kelly and Morgan's is picturesque, but devoid of drama. The only drama at Ross and Carrie's is Vanessa's choice of couture, and Ed and Mo's is in the Bauer living room (from what I can make out). Even Quint and Nola's (while grand in scope) is a little lite on subplots. Related question---did the country club set not exist before Quint and Nola's engagement party? If characters need to cross, it's mainly at the hospital, Spaulding, The HideOut or Wired for Sound.

I just didn't like Mel. It seems that at some point (after a couple of years of hapless romances) TPTB would remember that Rick was a Bauer, and would try to meld him into the tentpole he should've been all along. This usually resulted in a boring romance with some "suitable" boring woman. There was a lot wrong about his co-dependent relationship with Beth (in the last decade of the show), the least of which was it always felt like he was doing it more out of some weird need to fill Phillip's place.

It seems like Tom Tammi was only there a year or so. Deas was there longer. Maybe it's just the fact that Deas made a bigger impression on her that made him "her Tom". And no one's memory's infallible.

I don't remember what my reaction was, but I'm sure some didn't like it. I don't recall why Barbara focused on Margo and Tom. Other than some lingering friction with Margo over her affair with James. I think it served Barbara better in the long run. Love usually sparks an about face, so I guess losing at love should too.

I guess they tried with both of Reva's "surprise" children. But she only had a year with Dylan (Billy shouldered most of the burden on that one). By the time they tried to sell her bonding with Jonathan, I was so over Reva I didn't give a fig.

I suppose a general reluctance by writers/suits to risk alienating a segment of the audience who watched legacy children grow up. And the inability to create well rounded characters. Specifically in Reva's case, I suppose dealing with the affect of her tumultuous life on her kids was too "small" a story for her. Reva was certainly never going take any of her kids blaming her for their less-than-stellar decisions. Or let her fail at connecting with her kids.

I never quite get why so many soap kids are so much blander than their parents. It's not like we don't know all the little traumatic events that would've shaped them.

The irony is---while I know I watched Deas and Marx, it's really Holmes I remember in the role. I liked Dolan more as Margo. But that's about her chemistry elsewhere on the canvas. I loved her friendship with Hal (and later Jack) and in cop mode.

HBS tended to get on my nerves as Margo, so I can't recall ever reading any interview of hers. If that's the case, I wouldn't call casting her forte.

I didn't particularly like Michelle's stories when Bethany Lenz played her either, but at least Bethany had some inner fire in her. *sigh* the challenge in watching episodes in German is you can't always discern the subtext. I'm in early '82, and can't decide if Josh is trying to tank Trish and Vanessa's friendship, just out to irritate Vanessa, or trying to undermine Tony. I think it's mostly undermining Tony (who's asking questions about Josh managing Floyd...rme) but there are moments when Vanessa seems to be poking into what Josh is up to at Spaulding and he doesn't like it.

I just can't believe that from all the East Coast, that's the best Betty Rea could find. I really didn't feel he had romantic chemistry with anyone. Neither of Tom's parents were that boring either.

I will never understand casting Scott Holmes as Tom. Never.

I'm sure she's a nice person, but she ruined Michelle for me.

That certainly sounds like Lisa.

Lucinda may have had some kind of feud with Whit McColl. Anyway, it was Whit's death that set the Lucinda/Lisa feud in motion. Lisa actually discovered that Martin Guest had illegally adopted Lily, and I think threatened to go public with it.

That's a lot of satin bridesmaids' dresses. And I don't like those colors.

i never would have guessed that was Millette Alexander on the floor. It's a little weird thinking of Sarah having a sex life. I was shocked when I read she and Justin had a thing back in college. I just remember her as the sympathetic (if seemingly ineffective) psychiatrist listening to everyone's problems.

To be fair, he did try and get them to discuss some of their disagreements with the suits, some of which they briefly and vaguely skimmed over. Sometimes he would come off a lot better if he would just ask a question and then let then just shut up.

Watched Alan Locher's interview with Stephen and Nancy Demorest last night---and sweet Jesus, he really hasn't learned to interview any in the last three years. And of course, the one question I really needed him to ask when they got around to Roger/Holly --how/why could they not acknowledge Roger's rape of Rita, which in the recaps seems as brutal as Holly's---isn't asked. Or even hinted at.

She reminds me of Sandra Smith (she played Dr. Janice Lester on Star Trek: TOS, and apparently was also Julie Conrad Bauer on GL), but I don't think that's her either.

LOL...not by much. I remember Lucille scaring the bejeebers out of me as a kid. Her and Vanessa Prentiss on Y&R.

The movie advertised, "A Perfect Match" with Colleen Dewhurst premiered 10/5/1980. So this has to be sometime the preceeding week.

I agree there was plenty of story for Justin, but part of the reason why I didn't miss Justin is that GA kept leaving. It would've been very interesting though to see Bev McKinsey and Tom O'Rourke kind of fighting for Phillip's soul, so to speak.

Does anyone know who what singers/groups appeared on GL in '82? I've caught the B-52's, Judy Collins, Jennifer Holliday, Ashford and Simpson and Bertie Higgins. (The cast seems to enjoy Jennifer Holliday the most, imo) I read somewhere that Huey Lewis and the News also appeared. Does anyone remember if they did? I love them.