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I never realized it until now - you're totally right. She was not portrayed as a girl's girl - which is a characterization I'm okay with, because at least she had a personality, unlike today's standardised characters. Jill worked well with David as well as Ryan years later. I think the last ones I enjoyed were Colleen & Lily (Leon/Sherwood) and Sharon & Dru (this one was pretty random for longtime viewers but they were great).

I think they used to do lots of man-woman friendships here - see Sharon and Tony for example. I liked it. Here’s next episode - courtesy of the amazing @BoldRestless

Honestly I hated that scene too. First off, it looked dreary. That was the time the show was beginning to fall down production-wise. Secondly, that scene had Jack Smith's shock value stamp all over it. Every week there was: a slap! a kiss! a scandal! And watching classic episodes with Victoria, I'm sorry but that slap was out of character. She slapped her beloved father over glorified extra Diego Gutierrez or something? For Christ's sake. HT deserves my lifelong respect for walking away from that mess.

Thanks! That was my favorite era of the show 😭 I know you might have responded to this a million times but let me ask you again: is there a way to see the whole list of unlisted episodes you have posted on YT?

Oh yeah, I remember that. Nick stormed out, he threw a chair on the floor. When Sharon walked back into the house she fell exactly on the leg of the chair. It was beautifully coreographed IMHO. Plus it was your typical 'blame-game storyline' (a staple in Bell shows) where you would discuss with people IRL who was to blame really. Thanks for the details! I wish I had your memory!

She had had the hots for him for the longest time. Diego used to work at Crimson Lights. Sharon and Nick had broken up because Nick had somewhat caused Sharon's miscarriage (she was carrying a baby but they did not know if it was Nick's or Matt Carter's since Matt had possibly abused her). I think once Sharon saw Diego with Victoria, that was the last straw lol. Somebody correct me, my memory has never been the greatest. PS. loved the porn intro.

ROTFL! Mitch, I think I've read your comments for the longest time (maybe on MediaDomain? Soapy Syrens? it was some old forum, somewhere) and you've always cracked me up. I always look forward to your posts. Speaking of Marland, I think that it was you that once commented on how he came across as sexually prudish on his shows or something. One definitely needs to have an active sexual life to write these shows IMHO

Hi! Thank you!! And welcome. You know what, I've been wanting to pick up German for the longest time. And voice-actors tend to enunciate very well, obviously. Maybe this is the right time

I flagged this video to Patrick Mulcahey since the 1982 Emmys were a topic of discussion on the GL reunion the previous day. He was so gracious about it! Patrick Mulcahey @MulcaheyPatrick·7h OMG. I can't thank you enough for finding this and sending it my way. I never thought to look for it myself because I never figured it could crossed the techno-border to the internet. A beautiful gesture. Grateful for your kindness. All the credit goes to you @Forever8 for sharing the video and the person who uploaded on YT!

I love this.

It's the "Actors who were woefully miscast in their roles, and therefore forgettable, or actors who played irrelevant characters who added nothing to TGL in the first place" reunion LOL I'm joking. It's the Boudreaux family. I think that cool anecdotes can come out of these random reunions, even if the participants had minor roles. However I'm just dreading the tech errors that might have taken place this time (I suffer from secondhand embarrassment). Maybe I'll check it out tomorrow. Yeah, you're absolutely right. I do understand his POV but still. Things like the Zaslow firing happened almost 30 years ago. P&G has long forgotten about this and nobody cares - except for us. I don't see the harm really.

Did anybody catch today's reunion? Was anything remotely interesting said? (this is me blatantly trying to save me 1 hour of my time haha) I find it a bit annoying that Alan tries to keep it so PC. When Denise Pence had the courage to bring up Zaslow, finally something really compelling was being addressed. There was no need to dance around it because the fans were quite eager to get into details in the comments. The people who tune in for these things are die-hard fans and they are already disillusioned to the BTS drama. @antmunoz Yes, they were saying in the comments that the woman was Peggy Fletcher.

I am watching a Portuguese miniseries titled A Herdade (the Homestead). It’s unbelievably good. Unfortunately it’s only available in Portuguese right now but HBO has bought off the rights and they’ll make a US version as soon as they can.

If you search a few pages back, some posters were discussing how GL became unrecognizable by the early 80s. It was very interesting

I agree! As icky as the premise of the storyline was, it helped reignite a feud. In my mind I rationalized it thinking that those women were just looking for an excuse to fight because they hated each other so much. The excuse just happened to be Victor's jizz! lol Knowing Bell's style, I'm 100% that Alden (under Bell's supervision) was going to go for a major custody battle between Victor and Brad over Abby. Imagine the legal details they would have been able to splash around, given how Abby was conceived. The writers used to love those back then. Obviously the new writing team (headed by Jack Smith) was not interested, or talented enough, to go there. As for the potential conflict of having a half-Abbott and half-Newman in Abby and a half-Abbott, half-Jenkins in Kyle, the possibilities were endless! They hinted at some conflict with Abby during Sussman and Alden's 2017 tenure (because of course they knew what they were doing) but as we know, they were not given time to develop anything. There was the infamous lab fight floating around a few months ago. Can't find the clips any longer. So frustrating! Maybe they were included in some hidden playlist? I'm appalled at the thought that MTS and ES might be the cause behind AD's departure. I just can't with those two. In a way they're extremely talented and irreplaceable. But they must have been quite a duo to deal with over the years. I saw the scene between Nikki and CarlyDiane. MTS was lifeless and bored to death. Can't blame her.

He's also dealing with a bunch of older people who are not familiar with technology. I was amazed at Denise Pence's participation: her shot was perfect, she had flowers next to her, her audio was absolutely perfect and so was her picture. The woman is doing everything she can to start acting again. Even if she can be intense at times, I find her so inspiring. I wish her the very best.

I loved this reunion! The technical issues were annoying but lots of ground was covered.

Thanks! That was really sweet.

AD put her stamp on a role that she had been playing for decades and no one else could play Diane Jenkins. It was insulting that they would even recast. Fun fact: I've just found out that AD was born in Frankfurt, Germany as Alexandra Antonia Mayo.

I never really took the time to watch the story from start to finish but I think I read multiple times over here that it got really messy and it was apparent that the writers did not know where to go with the storyline. That they were making things up as they were going along. Was Pam Long the head-writer at the time? Wonder what inspired that story.

Woah. I feel so bad she went through that. Makes you realize the impact TPTB have with their constant, reckless comings and goings.

This is so interesting. Thank you so much for taking the time

Thanks! I'm sure I read the interview at the time but then completely forgot about it over the years. I also think that with the amount of content that was added on YT in the last decade, Curlee's tenure has obtained renovated visibility and recognition.

Hahah that's good to know! I also think that prior to 2002 they used to have add more shade to the Amerigo font but maybe it was my TV set.