Members Efulton Posted September 16, 2020 Members Share Posted September 16, 2020 Mary Page Keller was great as Sally but I LOVED Jennifer Runyon in the role. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted September 16, 2020 Members Share Posted September 16, 2020 Not only was Jamie's age in suspended animation, but he also seemed to have forgotten any of the lessons he learned from being in a triangle with Blaine and Sandy. One would think that after his history with Blaine, Jamie would have learned to listen to his mother when some new vixen claims he fathered her baby. Also, in the creepy-but-never-mentioned file, he dated Vicky's aunt Nicole back in the day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mona Kane Croft Posted September 16, 2020 Members Share Posted September 16, 2020 (edited) It's ridiculous how the writers forgot Cecile's background -- calling her a social climber and a gold-digger. Cecile was more of an aristocrat than anyone in Bay City. She was the daughter of a French count, a French citizen, an heiress, and only moved to the US around 1978. I wonder if anyone ever told Nancy Frangione about the history of the character she was playing? Good Lord. Cecile was originally the same age as Jamie and Dennis, but when Frangione took over the role, the character aged, even though Jamie did not. Still, I wouldn't say she was in the same age bracket as Donna. Just my opinion. Edited September 16, 2020 by Neil Johnson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Xanthe Posted September 16, 2020 Members Share Posted September 16, 2020 Wasn't her real father Felicia's ex, Louis St George? But even if she came from a good background, she was more likely to marry for money than for love. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Efulton Posted September 16, 2020 Members Share Posted September 16, 2020 Jamie never learned a lesson in his life! For clarification Jamie was in a triangle with Cecile and Sandy. Jamie and Blaine were long over before she got involved with Sandy. Unless I’ve forgotten them getting back together before Richard Bekins left. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Xanthe Posted September 16, 2020 Members Share Posted September 16, 2020 Frankly that whole scene being an argument about whether it was worse for Michael to lose his unborn son vs for Reginald to lose his unborn grandson and have that as the climactic issue that finally killed Reginald was gross to me. The harm Reginald did Donna is what should have been the focus, followed by the cascade of damage to Victoria, Marley, Peter, Mary, the McKinnon family, and probably a bunch of other people I can't think of (did he kill both Zane and Sally?). "I could have had a son!" should not trump "You damaged your existing children and grandchildren!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ScottyBman Posted September 17, 2020 Members Share Posted September 17, 2020 One of my favorite scenes in AW history. Donna being snarky and eliteist. "Her legs are too short..." :-) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soaplovers Posted September 17, 2020 Members Share Posted September 17, 2020 What's ironic is that Donna used Cecile to come between Sally and Peter. Once Jennifer Runyan left..and the following 2 recasts changed the character of Sally...it seemed like Sally's function in the Donna/Peter/Cass orbit fell to Cecile....since Cass and Peter were both interested in Jennifer Runyan's Sally (both characters started around the same time] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Xanthe Posted September 18, 2020 Members Share Posted September 18, 2020 Sally went out with Gil a few times before she got engaged to Peter. I thought the irony of Donna ruining Peter's engagement to sweet reformed Sally only for her to realize she had matched him with pernicious Cecile was a delicious escalation. If Donna had had anything other than class against Sally I think Cecile and Peter would have been just more of the same. I didn't feel like Mary Page Keller's Sally was a damsel all the time. She had a sense of humour about a lot of things and she did run her own life (even if marrying David was a bad idea). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted September 18, 2020 Members Share Posted September 18, 2020 It must have been a shock for longtime NBCD fans to see Anna Stuart play such a bad girl so well, several years after her nearly six-year stint as the sweet Toni Ferra Powers on TD. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members teplin Posted September 19, 2020 Members Share Posted September 19, 2020 Yes, Anna was great as Toni, but she owned Donna from her very first scene on AW ... the perfect marriage of actress and character. And she got more beautiful as she grew older! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted September 19, 2020 Members Share Posted September 19, 2020 Yes! She's still gorgeous to this day. ☺ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ScottyBman Posted September 22, 2020 Members Share Posted September 22, 2020 100% 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted September 23, 2020 Members Share Posted September 23, 2020 For you long time viewers, why do you think Donna was the only member of the Love family (not counting Vicky and Marley) that caught on with the viewers? Reginald, Nicole and Peter were long gone by the time I started watching. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Efulton Posted September 23, 2020 Members Share Posted September 23, 2020 John Hutton's Peter Love was interesting and somewhat popular The recasts and writers changing Peter's personality really ruined the character. I liked all 3 Nicole's. I never understood why Lauri Landy only lasted a few months. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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