Members Contessa Donatella Posted February 20, 2023 Members Share Posted February 20, 2023 I recall reading that Frankie was an imitation of Luna Moody on OLTL. Of course, I have no memory of who said it, so who knows if they knew what they were talking about. But, I believe that both Frankie & Luna were linked to all sorts of New Age trappings, which is not true of either Lisa or Remy. Now, I completely bought Lisa as a genuine psychic. And, I am sure she had the abilities from the get-go. Didn't she experience things that were proven? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted February 20, 2023 Members Share Posted February 20, 2023 (edited) Frankie was created over two years before Luna. I do see the similarities but I think Malone based Luna more on his own Southern Gothic touch. @Neil Johnson @Xanthe @AbcNbc247 Thanks for answering my question. I guess we were meant to believe she got the powers through abuse and trauma...? If so it makes sense they faded out after she started a healing process. I can't remember what her last bout of visions were. Maybe Vicky's car accident. Edited February 20, 2023 by DRW50 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mona Kane Croft Posted February 20, 2023 Members Share Posted February 20, 2023 Yes. But I still didn't find it believable. I wasn't crazy about Frankie being a psychic either. I don't mind psychics on soaps, but I prefer they be supporting characters (rather than major characters), and somewhat exotic -- giving the audience a chance to either believe them, or write it all-off as hocus-pokus. My three favorite soap opera psychics were Magda on Dark Shadows, Tante Helene on Search for Tomorrow (two complete stereotypes, I admit), and the lady on Y&R who helped Katherine remember she had done something nutty with Jill's son Phillip when he was an infant. That lady was a REAL psychic, fairly well known at the time. So she was no stereotype. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted February 20, 2023 Members Share Posted February 20, 2023 Excellent! I always resisted that because Frankie seemed like such an original, not a rip-off of anyone. And, no matter how whoo-whoo Frankie would seem at times, at other times she was solid Frame, salt-of-the-earth, grounded in reality!! At least that is what I saw in her. Okay. I see. I was already leaning toward believing that Lisa had this ability & then proved things just brought it all the way home, to me. I was a big Lisa fan & I was the only Lisa fan I knew! My girlfriend of 21 years & I would find ourselves squaring off over Vicky versus Lisa at times & we never once had any other argument over anything! It was hilarious. That is so cool that Y&R used a real known psychic! I don't guess you recall her name? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Xanthe Posted February 20, 2023 Members Share Posted February 20, 2023 I don't remember any of Frankie's psychic episodes, just that she was some kind of new age flake with crystals. Did she sense or predict anything? Or how did her psychicness manifest? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted February 20, 2023 Members Share Posted February 20, 2023 I never thought Frankie was a psychic. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted February 21, 2023 Members Share Posted February 21, 2023 Frankie was new age, but she did have psychic abilities as well. This came into play again in her final episodes, IIRC. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mona Kane Croft Posted February 21, 2023 Members Share Posted February 21, 2023 Sorry, I do not. She was so well known at the time. She had a deep voice, and was aging. She died a few years later. Her name is on the tip of my tongue, but not coming out. Delores, Doris, Phyllis, none of those . . . Just looked it up. Sylvia Browne -- that's her. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted February 21, 2023 Members Share Posted February 21, 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Browne#False_predictions 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted February 21, 2023 Members Share Posted February 21, 2023 Oh, yes, I remember her! Excellent. Very interesting little tidbit. So, was she really giving a reading in the scene? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mona Kane Croft Posted February 21, 2023 Members Share Posted February 21, 2023 It was all scripted and fictional on the show, of course. But Sylvia played herself. She made several appearances during that storyline. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted February 21, 2023 Members Share Posted February 21, 2023 Well, that is just clever, the kind of "stunt" shows that soaps should do! Eddie is a very good, long time friend of mine & I sent him a "settle an argument" email: Frankie: Psychic or not? And, I am willing to abide by his reply!!! Which was, ... yes, but not as much as Lisa. So, I stand corrected! 🫵🫰 Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mona Kane Croft Posted February 21, 2023 Members Share Posted February 21, 2023 Who was the boy-toy who lived with Millie Marbury in St Tropez, when Iris visited a couple of times in the late '70s? Wasn't he related to the Matthews family back in Bay City? All I remember is, he was tall with dark hair. And in every scene, he wore either a Speedo or a towel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jdee43 Posted February 21, 2023 Members Share Posted February 21, 2023 It's amazing how hollowed out the show had become by 1987. The only thing left from the Agnes Nixon years was Ada/ Rachel, while the only thing left from the Harding Lemay years was Mac/Rachel. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted February 21, 2023 Members Share Posted February 21, 2023 It seems to me that most soaps were very different in the 80s than they had been in the 70s. Like the whole genre & lineup went through stuff from clothes to music to montages to supercouples, although AW didn't do that so much. I think culturally we went through changes & I think pop culture influenced soaps & soaps were themselves a big part of pop culture for once. When I think about the shoulder pads we wore I sorta cringe. Although musical montages became very popular, I think, and I have always enjoyed them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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