OLTL: OMFG, Fortieth Anniversary Spoilers From TV Guide

[brimike]

We could just bring back Torpey as Jessica, reveal Bree is Natalie (I buy Erin and Bree as twins!) and get Archer out of the Buch house?

Are we in agreement now? :lol:

[detroitpiston]

Like I've said before. Should MA ever leave, ET would make the perfect Natalie recast!

[Vee]

No touchy the Natalie. Despite the drama and misdeeds, she and Jared are the best couple OLTL has had in years, and Nat/MA was being [!@#$%^&*] on year after year til RC arrived.

[detroitpiston]

You know, maybe their's a reason for that LOL........................ MA just isn't leading lady material IMO, at least not the leading lady RC is trying to morph her into.

[Vee]

He didn't have to morph her into anything. This is just her. It's possible to enjoy both sisters and feel for them both. I do. I understand why Jessica is mad and I cheered her slapping Nat into next (this) week. But I also felt for Nat.

[JackPeyton]

I so agree.

Bree Williamson *IS* Jessica. (And Tess.. and Bess maybe.. and others im sure...).

ET was a good child actress, but imho she wouldnt be able to bring the adult side to jessica.

[Vee]

She played an adult Jessica for a number of years and did fine. I like Bree but Erin was just as good AFAIC.

[JackPeyton]

I respect that is how you feel, but disagree. I never bought her as an adult.

[detroitpiston]

I agree.

[TC]

Erin was great. But I suspect she lacked it in the looks department - not that it ever mattered to me!

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I thought she looked more like Erika Slezak's daughter than Bree does, even though I know some say Erin and Bree look a lot alike.

She was a more subtle actress, but brought it when it called on her to be fierce. I thought Bree sucked her first couple of years on the show, her initial interpretation of Jessica was so bland and boring. It wasn't until she became Tess did Bree win me over.

[JackPeyton]

ET & BW are both beautiful girls.

[dm.]

I agree.

[Darn]

Honestly I didn't fully warm up to BW as Jessica until, oh, three days ago. She's a beautiful girl and a competent actress but she wasn't Jessica to me. I spent too many years literally growing with ET as Jessica (I remember when they recast her for a few episodes around the time Jessica got knocked up by Will, I was livid) that it was hard for me to accept anyone else as her. And they gave Bree HORRIBLE story after HORRIBLE story, not until her argument with Natalie last week and her conversation with Viki Monday did I buy her as the true blue Jessica. She was absolutely fantastic in those scenes, gut-wrenching and for me, finally a human being and not a breathing plot point.

And the return of ET to the show, the way they're doing it...it's really bloody brilliant. You mean to tell me that in a matter of DAYS RC can turn a plot on a dime (and not just this but post-writer's strike material) yet the showrunners at Y&R and DOOL and AMC needs MONTH to fix the crap onscreen? It's not that they can't do it, it's that they choose not to. Laziness.

[detroitpiston]

ET is/was sexy as hell! Especially her last year. Now she's even more beautiful.(check out her site if you don't believe me)

And I agree Darn, it is brilliant.