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Members vetsoapfan Posted February 18, 2022 Members Share Posted February 18, 2022 There were so many potentially-great ideas/relationships/stories that could have played out...and yet we ended up getting The Ghost in the Attic, the Dreaming Death, and Susan Piper. Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted February 18, 2022 Members Share Posted February 18, 2022 It makes me wish that Bill and Bert had one more son (or a daughter) after Ed in the late 50’s, maybe around the time Bert’s bossy mother was living with the Bauers? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 Hillary Bauer's brother, Paul, could have ended up being Bill's biological son, but the show seemed to completely forget he ever existed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 I actually liked those stories -- but, you know, to each their own. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 I fully acknowledge that there are viewers who enjoy "camp" material, and I can get into it, too, depending where it's served. John Waters? Sure. But clones in Springfield or The Great Gazoo pestering Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey? Nooooooooooooooooooooo, thank you. LOL! There's a time and place for everything. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 Okay, you don't have to bring up the clone, even I couldn't get behind that mess, lol! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soaplovers Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 At first the Susan Piper story had promise.. with her mixing it up with Mike, Tony, Annabelle, Hilary, Reva, etc at first... but it went over the top. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victoria foxton Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) The Susan Piper story feels like GL made it up as they went. I didn't mind DD since it gave Hilary her first big story in forever. She was out of Cedars nurses station. Mixing it up with Fletcher. In the fake Latin America country of San Rios. Then my girl Hilary gets blown-up in the SP story. I'm just indifferent towards TGITA one. Edited February 19, 2022 by victoria foxton 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) Don't even get me started: Reva the Ghost, Reva the Amish Amnesiac, Reva the San Cristocrapian Queen, Reva the Illegal-Immigrant Savior, Reva the Blind, Reva the Clone, Reva the Time Traveller...EEEK! When TGL went over the top, it plunged into the abyss, and it plunged...hard. TGL was never created or presented as a show to tell wildly-unrealistic fantasy/camp stories. The combination of slaughtering the pre-existing cast and resorting to Saturday-morning cartoon material was the series' downfall. Of course. I know various viewers who vehemently disagree with me. There are those who loved Casey the Space Alien on General Hospital, Marlena Possessed on Days, Viki's Trip to Heaven on a Space Ship on OLTL, etc., which (to be honest) just baffles me, LOL. But, as previously noted: to each his own! Edited February 19, 2022 by vetsoapfan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 (edited) To my memory the Susan Piper story started off strong and ended with an interesting revelation about Brandon Spaulding, but it lacked logic. First, Susan was one of the villains who had an unlimited budget, yet she terrorized a young couple for a memory box in a cabin worth one million dollars. Meanwhile, she's got a lair in the Caribbean with a quicksand pit that must have been worth ten times the amount! I mean if she cared that deeply about her secrets she should have used a vault, not a quaint Victorian cabin. Or just start a Caribbean spa and use the quicksand for guests who don't tip well. Second, while the Brandon twist was a shock, it had very little long term impact. Not only did they die immediately after they were found, but their child suffered from recasting and reconning, so she was never a fundamental consideration in the overall Spaulding plotlines, like Alexandra and Alan. And, creating a biracial character without giving them equity in stories is just tokenism. Edited February 19, 2022 by j swift 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 As I've mentioned in the past, there really were plans to do more with Brandon's second family; however, P&G nixed those plans for obvious reasons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 But even within the plot, Susan's relationship with Brandon and her motives for keeping his secrets were never logically explained 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TVFAN1144 Posted February 19, 2022 Members Share Posted February 19, 2022 They sort had a daughter figure with Hillary and Bert treated Peggy like a daughter. If only they would have kept these characters on canvas 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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