Search For Tomorrow Discussion Thread

[katie_9918]

Thank you so much! I originally got into this because I’ve been a true blue GL fan all my life and Jerry ver Dorn’s tribute to Mary Stuart on the sad occasion of her passing set me on the trail of Search For Tomorrow.

 

In a happy (or psychotic - YOU be the judge) coincidence, I am also somewhat obsessed with seeing everything that Will Patton has ever done that’s captured on tape. I’ve accepted the inevitability that some scenes may be lost, but you have given me Patton’s last scenes on SFT.

 

I’m also a huge fan of Matt Ashford, so seeing any of his pre-Days or pre-GH work is a plus (even if his character is a complete jerk, lol) and I so very much appreciate everything you have provided and even all the things I don’t properly appreciate yet, having not gotten to them yet.

 

You are simply wonderful in all ways and I so very much much appreciate all of your contributions to the soap community.

[Soaplovers]

TPTB really didn't value the contributions that performs put toward playing a character, or else why would the show insist on recasting Stephanie and Liza in 1984/1985 when both characters were playing by very popular performers that had that something special.

Seeing the three 1985 episodes uploaded with the first two episodes of Sherry Mathis playing Liza and then the last episode played by L. Gideon... it was like seeing two different characters and probably was jarring.

And the Wendy character of 1982 and 1983 is so vastly different then the character of Wendy in 1985.  It did seem as though the writers were sort of restoring Wendy back to the less scheming version of the 1982 in her finals weeks of her stint in 1985.

Jo also seemed to have more focus/attention by the writers in 1983 then she had in 1985... And that Kate McCleary character in 1983 was so not needed... she was too drab/boring.