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[DRW50]

I have a vague memory of Mindy having a flashback where she was in a soda shop or somewhere with Lujack, to try to imply she'd had feelings for Lujack which would I guess further give motivation for her being with Nick. 

I remember Nick and Lillian also having a talk soon after his arrival. 

It's too bad they didn't do more, but I don't know what they could do anyway - the only part of the story which had juice was Beverlee's responses, and the show took that for granted. JFP really was deluded enough to believe the only person in that story GL fans cared about was Vincent.

[tonymidnight]

So why leave us hanging ... who would you have paired her with? 

[Contessa Donatella]

What are you speaking of here? I don't recall anything like this. My impression of Curlee is delightful. I love her Southern accent & she is one who words seem to like. 

[Mitch64]

It was way too soon to bring Annie back....(I can see how Zimmer may have taken her frustration out on the actress, by that time she knew that Reva had become a plot point and not the main character in the storyline, in terms of the clone, and now Annie having to be back to give Jeva a storyline and make them remotely interesting, but Kimmer, you bitch about airtime, you get it, in bad storylines) but I could have bought the character as a psycho Annie seduced off screen and convinced that she was the victim and Jeva needed to be punished. I liked Signy's cold insanity, she could have been a real threat...and yes, the only time I loved Marj/Alex was in those scenes so what did Rauch and the writers do...not  have another one! 

Annie is on the run and sees Holly kidnap the kids ("And they think I'm crazy") and calls Reva cause, you know St. Reva has to save the day and Kimmer was actually off camera for three minutes that week. She then kidnapps Lizzie herself but Alan and India save the day.  And Annie just dispears (though we find out later that Alan has been keeping her in an asulym in a replica of Jeva's house.

[Maxim]

About BM and Nancy Curlee... all I know is they referred to her as her "favorite writer" in her famous interview with Logan.

https://iriswheeler.tripod.com/tvguide19920811.html

Logan: Quitting was the only solution?

McKinsey:  (Getting a little testy) I'm burnt out and the only solution to that is to stop  -- and stop immediately.  It's like trying to doctor a major wound with a bandaid.  If they had said, 'Well, [McKinsey's favorite head writer] Nancy Curlee is coming back and that'll put Alexandra back to where she used to be,' that would have been wonderful but that wouldn't have fixed it.

Edited March 31 by Maxim

[Contessa Donatella]

Thanks for that, Maxim!

[alwaysAMC]

I was gone for the weekend and just catching up on comments here, but this makes me sad!  I guess not being an 80s-90s GL watcher before, I have a bit of a different perspective or feeling towards these characters that I just got introduced to.  But you're right, if all the other soaps were having rape storylines, maybe this wasn't as impactful back in the day.  But yeah, I'm really enjoying Lucy, she's so sweet, and I love how Alan-Michael has fallen in love with her and wants to protect her.  

Ahhh - makes sense with the GL burn out.  That's a heavy Y&R group to go against, but man, I still think Satra deserved a nom.  Her scenes were really powerful to me.

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[alwaysAMC]

How dare you!

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Why didn't fans like Lucy?  Was it the character and her backstory I missed/haven't seen yet, or did they just not warm up to the fans?  

[Contessa Donatella]

No, it's how dare YOU! Hatred of Sonia Satra was universal. EVERYONE hated her.

Edited March 31 by Contessa Donatella

[BetterForgotten]

Satra's voice always irritated me, and I always felt like Lucy was just a poor man's placeholder for Harley when Ehlers first left. 

[Contessa Donatella]

That's because she was.

[Khan]

I agree!

I feel like Nick and Mindy were together for two reasons: 1) Judi Evans wasn't on the show anymore; and 2) somebody believed pairing Alexandra's son with the woman who helped to detonate her marriage would lead to good story.  And it did.  For awhile.  But once I saw what pairing them was reducing Alex to, it was as if a part of me had died inside, lol.

ICAM!!

That's what I mean when I try and describe the kind of woman Alexandra became after Roger.  Telling Billy about Roger and Mindy's affair like that was out of line, and out of control.

[alwaysAMC]

I'm up to the end of May 1995 and just watched JFP's final episode.  Curious to see what change I'll see, if at all.

Eve just died and that was very sad, although I never really got to know her well, sadly.  Ed is clearly upset, but he followed through with her wishes of not being hooked up to breathing tubes.  Rick seems really upset and I'm trying to figure out what Rick and Eve's connection was from before.  

Roger just staged a car accident and is faking amnesia and I'm here for it!  LOL  Although I just started May 29th and the role is being played by a new actor now!  I hope this is temporary.  I don't like Fletcher, so I love to side with Roger and his antics through this storyline.

I'm trying to have an open mind, but please make this ghost Reva storyline make sense.  I could buy Josh seeing her and dealing with unresolved grief, but now she just showed up and is visibly talking to Annie alone, pretending to be a nurse.  I don't get it.

I really like Bridgett and finally she's getting more material in '95, but she's tied to this random guy named Skunk, and he's a terrible actor.  Hopefully he doesn't last long, but I enjoy seeing her struggle with being a mom and being young/dating.  The actress is really good too, when given the opportunity.

Mindy just left the country and from what I read online, this was Crampton's last episode (May 26, 1995).  What a very unceremonious exit, wow.  She just tells Josh she's leaving for a business meeting overseas randomly at Eve's memorial and then she's gone.  I guess she either pissed someone off BTS or asked to leave pretty abruptly and they just said fine, later?  

 

[Khan]

I have a vague memory of that scene as well.  IIRC, too, they even had "Almost Paradise" playing in the background, even though that was Beth and Lujack's theme.  It was weird, lol.