Mitch

If only the entire show was as good as Lynda Carter as WW! I would love to see if they made the show with today's budget and writers and a young Carter..though now WW would have to have an "edge" and it would be dark and we would loose the WW Diana Prince end credit smile once everything was put right!

Soapsuds...I love your Wonder Woman clip...the iconic "tree spin" (and yes, I am a dork!)

I love how Marland could make a whole storyline about a letter, and who had it and who was going to get it!

LOL...SC always looked so orange to me!!! Like he would get his QT (remember that...) all over you!

I think that is all that needs to be said about that particular promo! But damn it, it made me have to watch it again!! I love that they threw them playing basketball and boxing gloves to let us know that , no, no, these guys are all men!!! Damn, I would love to have heard what Eplin and the guy who played the lawyer with the deep voice had to say about this!!!

Now I am addicted to it...it friggen hilarious, and I love that the blond guy, Matt Crane, acts like this is stupid as hell. Now DAM doing that dance, I heard rumors but for sure that guy has sugar in his tank after watching that dance!

Oh..wow...uh, how old is she I wonder!!! Yea, killing him was a bit rough..just send him off somewhere...(and we GL fans were stuck with Buzz Cooper when he could have easily bit the dust..)

Glad you came to your senses! : ) I know a lot of people on ATWT hated him but they didn't like the AW characters coming in, but I thought he fit well in Oakdale and Eplin had chemistry with everyone he worked with, the ladies of course and guys (It seems to be hard for soap actors to have any kind of chemistry with another on screen guy, if they are friends it comes off as stilted and wooden..see VI....but maybe its that soaps dont know how to really write guy friendships...) Also, I have heard people say.."What happened to Eplin, he got so fat.." I thought he looked better with a bit of weight on him. What ever happened to him?

LOL..that was part of the show? Not a bad commercial? This is the height of a soap trying to be "cutting edge!" and failing miserably. DAM was so hot, I hate that he got stuck in dumb roles..I like his Edmund on GL but I think I and most of the viewers hated San Crud so much that we coudln't over look that. I thought it would would be cool to make Eddie the first gay villain on soaps...(I remember Carmen breaking into his apartment and looking at his tapes or CD and saying "Edmund..just WHAT do you like to watch in your sparetime," and I thought for sure she would have some blackmail material on him but no..this was MADD and Rauch and a gay villain would have been too cutting edge. I always thought Eplin was hot..in a real "guy" kind of way and not the usual pretty boy model type soaps push. And JFP did the all male episode bachelor party first on GL, with Hamp's bachelor party. I remember VI trying desperately to act human and "buddy like" and it was so uncomfortable for him and the viewer!

Nosy Nola was like Buttinsky Lisa on ATWT, she could have fit in with anyone even if she wasnt the lead in the story. As mentioned above this was just before the Haunted Cottage story and it was weird to give that to boring Annabelle...and Hot Tony. Its weird that she and Reva werent friends , you would think that the Clothes Horse Wild Woman would be friends with the Eccentricly dressed former bad girl who still gets into trouble Nola. Even better would have been Nola and stuck up India as weird friends. Ah well, if we could have written the show at that time.

LOL..I remember that little snippet with Brown. This was the last time Nola had any story..it was weird. Did Brown piss someone off, was it the Reva effect starting or did Brown want more time off?

They actually did make Quint a professor at the college...and they had that dumb storyline (or sorts) with a student chasing after him...but it really wasnt much of a storyline. I just think Quint is one of those characters who was created for a specific reason and ran on too long. Maybe a writer could have brought more depth to him but he was just a kind of stiff, intelligent guy who loved Nola and ...that was that. It would have been interesting to see him develop a shade of grey like his sister...( I think he had more of an edge during Marland...) maybe Henry could have one of his innumerable heart attacks and while he is recovering leaves his Spaulding stock to him instead of Van, etc. I do think the Haunted Cabin storyline should have gone to Nola and Quint, with him first skeptical but then bringing in some tech to see what is going on etc. I also think they "de-sexed" the two of them as soon as they got married and she had kids, etc. They just should have gotten rid of those damn ascots!!!

I remember thinking the same thing, Nola should have been having the visions, and with her being Nola no one would believe her. Tony and Annabelle could have still owned the cottage and the triangle with her and his brother could have continued. I don't think a storyline with psychic things was necessarily bad on GL..but a bit more subtle...(start with Nola having bad feeling and then seeing things out of the corner of her eye..) I would have toned Ms. Piper down or had her move from LA or someplace...(it made no sense that she lived in mid western SF. all this time and no one seemed freaked out by her.) And of course, I would have had the pay off be something better then the dumb thing that happened..

In Long's defense I think she did a great job on the Reardon's for the first year or two. They seemed like a real family...(and she transitioned the Irish Reardon framily from Marland's typical waspy Protestant to Catholic..) and she did a great job on Nola's wedding and the little touches...(I remember the bridesmaids getting ready in the Church basement, complete with vollyball net, etc, much to Van's dismay.) Something just happened and her writing on the abruptly changed. And yes, Tony Reardon was HOT. I never understood why they didn't make Nosy Rosy Nola a reporter..I hated Jay Hammer's Fletcher but a triangle with Quint her and a hot reporter would have been good. I don't think Quint was made to be a long term character. He was too stylized for GL and he instead of Hillary should have been killed in the cottage bomb which would open Nola up for more stories. I actually don't think it was Reva who watered down Vanessa but actually Alex. I think they thought she took over the aristocratic rich, driven. "botch" role and left Van with nothing to do. I think Long's second tenure she got Van right...not a bitch or a wimpy wife to Billy but a strong woman with her own identity.

Thanks! Good question. I see Hope as a more conflicted woman then the Hope we saw...not bad...more sophisticated and not so sugary sweet. A woman who wants to live up to her grandmother's legacy but can't seem to do so and is frustrated by that. She would be an overachiever...(having a dad like Mike would make you that way and could explain the alcholic thing..) and I would have her created a successful design company in NY, and she returns home to follow a romantic notion of recapturing her youth as the Bauer Princess, and to raise her son as she was raised in a small town surrounded by family and friends, and with Alan "Dead" or missing, she feels safe coming home. But then life...and Alan gets in the way, and Alex uses her in her ongoing struggle with Alan, with Mike getting involved....Again, thinking she was going to become the heart of the family and community but pulled into a different direction because that is just not who she is. Ironically, I think Rick, when played and written well, was really the one who could become like his grandmother, he was always a big mensch! For Mike, I don't know. I do know that I would have screen tested and gotten the approval of Bev as I would make him the real love of her life eventually, they just can't seem to agree on anything. I actually think Raines would have made a better Mike but I don't know if he would have had chemistry with Bev.. Maybe Jed Allen???

Oh, did not know that...was a kid when that was going on..but yea, I did mean the Paul character.

Bert's death and funeral were the perfect time to turn the ship around and reintroduce some Bauers. I would have recast both Mike and Hope (sorry, ER never did it for me..) especially with Alan headed back to town. Mike could have gotten with Alex and Hope with Ross..both enough to bug Alan. I would also have brought back Meta, and all this could have been handled as they came back for the funeral and decided to stay (I would have had Bert leave Hope her house in her will, a house which Hope always thought of us "home" and Mike would decide to represent Ed and Mo in the custody of Michelle.) Meta would have taken over the Boarding House so she could dispense advice to all the newbies who would invariably live there. I am one of the few that like the Nursery Stalker Story Line..sure it was a stretch but I liked it and Holly didn't do anything unredeemable...( I think Days got the Salem Stalker idea from this.) But it just ended...(with her brother no less wandering around the woods never to be heard from again.) and we were thrust into San Crud. Some people wanted Ed to be the one who talked Holly off the cliff, er bridge, but I thought that it made sense for once for Reva to be the hero..she was there before, she knew what it was like. People keep forgetting, Bill Bauer had an boy with Simone..so a new side of the family would have made sense that way...( I think a hot guy, maybe a cop, could have been involved with Reva at the time she was involved with that goofy doctor/spy guy.)

Its weird but I thought Bogue was never right for Mallet, but he would have made a good Rick recast. Nice, cute, funny, and kinda looked like a handsomer Peter Simon. By that time MOL was a bloated mess and Rick became a caricature of his old self...mugging and acting goofy or just a sad sack. They should have moved MOL into being a director or something to keep him part of the team. Marina and her cutesy pie way of saying things got on my nerves. and Wheeler shouldnt ever use a couple's real life romance on screen...(word is she saw her and Bogue and thought they had so much chemistry together she put them on screen .so she broke Marina up from that Chippendales dancer guy and put Harley with him, making Harley look like a vindictive slut .and I wonder if part of it wasnt to jab at Ehlers too...) Zimmer had great chemistry with everyone and despite them trying to make her the sex goddess of all time, she had great "friends" chemistry with the guys in the cast..(she made Fletcher tolerable) so it is a shame she was in an endless cycle of men fallling in love with her. Plus, and its no insult as we all age...Zimmer didn't work as the love goddess during the last five years, but she would have worked as a quirky Bert Bauer type because she had the kind of warmth.

LOL..that is great, I love that Zimmer and Newman can make fun of their crappy stories of the later years. But they were right, the original Josh/Reva/HB stuff with Billy being a total d*ck was great, great stuff!

Martha is looking good..she was always so frumpy on ATWT. I liked what she said about everyone working together and can see why TPTB at a certain point considered her the morale booster of the show (I read somewhere that she got the twin storyline for reward for helping to keep everyone's morale up during post Marland, etc.) I like that Brygman called it "The factory" and I am sure he didn't mean it as a compliment. I think Colleen did like the last year as it was lighter stuff, she got to play Babs as more of a real person...and having some fun.

Nothing was quite there with Holmes as he really had zero chemistry with everyone. People who have a natural chemistry with everyone like Hastings, Fulton, Hays, had nothing with him. Terrible recast and I can't believe he stuck around as long as he did.

Very true...can you imagine if they had done that we would have had Lisa and Bob for over 20 years making up and breaking up, or Kim and Dan, etc, etc. I grew to really be disinterested in soaps when they would never break a couple up for good and let them grow. But the audience at that time would complain..they did when Zimmer and Newman on GL said they were sick of Josh and Reva and wanted to work with new people!

I think the thing with Andy is (and for once I agree with TPTB) he wasn't leading man material...I never thought the actor was that great...(he was either surly or looked like he was about to weep) and I think people just liked him as they saw him "grow up" and that he was so tied into the better days of the Marland years. They couldn't recast him or the audience would freak out and so he disappeared. I would have just recast with a better hotter actor or brought PK back for holidays or big events. Though I never got the Jack thing either...the actor was annoying and Carly and Jack were almost as worn out as Lilly and Holden and Josh and Reva.

Uh, that Martinez guy, with the crossed eyes??? I remember when they introduced him and gave him a back shot on the phone intro ala James Stenbeck of Bev Alex's first appearance...like anyone cared and he was interesting...(which reminds me of the scene where they had MarjAlex oooh and aaah over his..tatoos..cause you know tats are real street no matter what.) The Santos were Cuban or at least Carmen was..Tony said he remembered her trying to learn English when they first came over by reading the Night Before Christmas or something stupid like that!

Hated the Santos but damn did I love Granny Santos the real bad ass of that family. If they just hadn't made them mobsters (sorry even if you like them PAS and Tony the underwear model actor were the least believable mobsters since the ones they would have scare the Three Stooges or the Bowery Boys) An ethically challenged family with some ties to the underworld would have worked...with Granny Santos really pulling the strings. I can't believe that they never had Aunt Meta and Abeula have a face off....("I don't know about you Maria, but I have actually killed a man with a gun...I know how to get my hands dirty..") the farthest they got was that in any scene with Carmen or Abuela ,Stuart acted dismissive of both of them, as if Meta thought the family was a joke too.