Santa Barbara Discussion Thread

[NothinButAttitude]

 

Didn't it turn out that Elena was also CC's child too with Pamela?

[DRW50]

Yes. A part of me thinks they made a mistake not keeping her on, but then I think that that full level of crazy is best left on a short term basis and they were better off not trying to tone her down. I do think that they should have extended her story to have her more with Mason and Pamela. That whole story with Mason's mother and family should have been big but it never seemed to work out.

[GSGfan2017]

Elena Nikolas was such an evil woman!  At least the promo doesn't contain any footage of Eden Capwell in a wheelchair!

[John]

wasnt this right after sherilyn left GH as Cecilia? Maybe she did not want another long term contract?

[slick jones]

Had she not been written into a corner, Elena could have easily filled the place of Eden when MW CHOSE to leave. Between Elena and Kelly, they could have had filled Eden's place--Kelly the heroine and Elena with Cruz.

 

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[GSGfan2017]

 

Celia Quartermaine was a nice lady, right?  Elena Nikolas was a wicked villainess.

[GSGfan2017]

Um, what would Elena have done if she had successfully courted Cruz after Eden had permanently left the canvas?  Would Elena still have been evil?

[Wendy]

If you get the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel [separate from the regular channel] and have insomnia or a DVR, there is an episode airing at 3:00 a.m. ET called "Blue and Broken Harted" from 1982 - meaning, before Santa Barbara - that lists both Nicolas Coster and Louise Sorel as part of the guest cast. Cool!

[GSGfan2017]

A Martinez appeared in a 1983 episode of Hart to Hart known as "Straight Through the Hart."

 

Speaking of TV guest appearances, would it have been a good idea for Marcy Walker to appear as a guest star on Murder, She Wrote?

[NothinButAttitude]

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[Wendy]

Ah, I LOVED the Mason/Julia Baby Contract and the sloooooooow burn with Mason and Julia. Soaps have no idea how to do that anymore. People fall in "love" now in the span of a day.

[Soaplovers]

 

It's funny that Julia was on the shoe a year and a half before the show started the process of pairing them.  I often wonder had that not worked, would Julia have been written off?

[DRW50]

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They have the second part on their channel.

[Wendy]

 

Can't say. But I'm not so sure. I mean, she was still to be a part of the story, but as interloper to Mason/Tori as originally envisioned, until TPTB took note of the chemistry between NLG/LD.

 

I recall reading somewhere that Julia was eventually supposed to be paired with Robert Thaler's Pearl. I liked the guy, he was offbeat. But it seems like all of Julia's dalliances pre-Mason seemed firmly B-level, sidekick level. I think her pairing with Mason definitely helped her to break into the "big leagues", so to speak.

[Soaplovers]

 

I didn't know that Julia and pearl might have been paired...i saw some episodes from fall 1986 after her latest fling didn't work and she and pearl were hanging out...and I did note chemistry.

 

I also thought that she and Dylan (the guy she found on the beach fall 1985) had chemistry..and was surprised the show opted for him to go with Kelly.