AMC: Wednesday, 1/7/08

[Adam]

I found Gloria Marsh to be such an interesting character too.... its too bad she is been forgotten by almost everyone in Pine Valley and the fans. I think she was last mentioned when Krystal and Adam's tricked marriage began.... Teresa Blake I thought was a very underrated daytime performer at the time. She was great when her and Adam's daughter died and then when she went right off and poisoned Adam.

[DavidEvanSmith]

Are you sure that you're not thinking of the Laurel Banning recast? Because the first Laurel was a blond and a con artist that was involved with Jackson when Laurel was dealing with her ex-husband Denny and he was killed and Jack helped her get rid of the body, and that's how Jackson ended up adopting Lily... and then Laurel was recast, with redheaded Felicity LaFortune, who fell in with Trevor, and left Jack for him.

I don't remember much about Galen, just that she was blond. So I could be getting mixed up myself. But that's kinda silly if two blond/redhead recasts were both caught between Jack and Trevor in the span of two years.

[cct]

yes, the first laurel was some leggy blonde that jackson almost mowed down in the middle of the road. Later, recast with Felicity LaFortune. (there's a porn name if ever I heard one)

but Galen was also a recast. She was a curly redhead who was only on for a hot minute (about as long as the first Laurel). I remember she was trying to come on to Trevor by bringing a pizza by his apartment (I remember the apartment being used for several characters before Trevor) I think she met him when he had been shot and was in the hospital. This was when Natalie was involved with Dimitri, but of course Trevor was still pining for Nat.

Ah...AMC in the early nineties...it's a good thing.

[cct]

Some of my favorite stuff, because of course it led into what I think was the best storyline since I've been watching, "Who Killed Will Cortlandt?" Everyone in town had the motive and the opportunity, which was what made it such an intriguing mystery, SOW cover be damned (I even BOUGHT that issue and paid no heed). The murder mysteries we've had since then have been so lame. Who killed Michael Cambias? Bianca, in an amnesiac fit...blah. Who killed Greg Madden? Oh, let's see, let's make this up as I go along...aha! Tad. He did it. Stupid. Who Killed Will...the seed was planted so many eps back that when it was finally revealed, it made you wanna smack your head like you should had a V8.

Gloria was one of my favorite characters. Other than Adam and Tad, there's really no one else on canvas who was tied to her. I loved how she kept blackmailing Craig by saying, "If you so much as whistle Dixie..." LOL, I can remember getting so sick of that line because they flashed back to it ENDLESSLY. Gloria Marsh...now THERE'S a flawed heroine, successfully redeemed from vixen. Remember her and Alec McIntyre (played by GL's Grant Aleksander?) by the fireplace. HAWT!

[Cheap21]

oh god, I hated Gloria. The only time I liked her was when she was with Tad but she left him to go be with Dimitri who got the a-hole of the year award during that time

[alwaysAMC]

Oh I loved me some Gloria. Remember her in that Elvira outfit at Tad's house during Halloween?

One of my favorite scenes from Gloria/Craig/Dixie - I remember it being something like Craig went to the jewelry store to buy Dixie some pearls - and Gloria was there. She was blackmailing him, so he put the pearls around her neck and started choking her....or something like that.

And then Craig trying to steal all the money from Palmer's safe while Dixie was sleeping...

I really missed Tad during all that, but damn Craig Lawson was fine - and I loved the triangle/blackmail aspect.

[Jonathan]

Teresa Blake really grew as an actress. It's too bad she's not working anymore. The Adam/Stuart/Gloria triangle was a great storyline.

[EricMontreal22]

The funny thing abotu Galen is I don't remember the original AT ALL but I remember when they recast cuz they still had an announcer back then who would say "the role of... is now being played by". But I do remember the Laurel recast because they took the character in such a completely different character.

I also loved Gloria in all her skinniness. Loved the whole story with her abuse by her mother, the flashbacks to her, then even the sorta cliched good twin or bad twin adam/stuart story I thougth with her was great--or when she began to be seduced by Alec. Great stuff. She did the slut/saint thing much better than Krystal.

[Jonathan]

Concur, cuncur, Gloria was a better slut/saint.