Thank you for your kind words and encouragement, vetsoapfan. Well, 1937-1943, as you know, is my favorite time period of the show so I have a lot I like so it's hard to pick one thing. I think my favorite character was Ellis Smith so any of his storylines were great. He was such a complex character. His debates with Reverend Ruthledge were always great. Ellis being a cynical nonbeliever and Reverend Ruthledge seeing things through rose-colored glasses. The debates and the philosophical nature of the show in those early years is what I really missed as the show progressed. It was such a different show in those first six years that I honestly can't imagine any characters continuing in the show at a later date. When the Bauers were introduced, it was just a different show entirely. Now, AFTER that time of the Bauers' introduction, I thought they should have stayed the focus of the show and there were many members of the family that should have come back. Trudy is one of them. But the original characters were so far removed from the new vision of the show that it would be too jarring to have them come back on the canvas. I think that showed with Meta saying she used to go to Reverend Ruthledge's church growing up even though she didn't grow up in Five Points and that disastrous try of having Reverend Ruthledge's grandson move to Springfield or whatever. While I appreciated these efforts to connect the origin of the show to the present storyline, it just didn't work.
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