56 minutes ago, Spoon said:

Until Jeff comes home to her. lol

Jeffrey married Edmund and they lived happily ever after.

1 hour ago, alwaysAMC said:

They were ahead of their time back in 1996 :P

Actually, McTavish read in the paper about a similar case, so she copied it for GL.!!!

12 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

Actually, McTavish read in the paper about a similar case, so she copied it for GL.!!!

Hey, as long as it's possible, I'm game! :)

43 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

Hey, as long as it's possible, I'm game! :)

Ha...I don't mind the..idea of it...despite trashiness of it...there can be really a lot of drama that could be wrung out of this as the cuckold husband can't just dump the woman (as he would in real life once finding out) as he still has a bio kid involved. Also there is history of Blake mirroring her past, there is Ross not only being betrayed by Blake but by Rick who he has become an uncle figure to, throw in Ed knowing the truth and feeling for all sides (feeling conflicted and dredging up his own pain of his past, maybe tempted to hit the bottle again) Ross feeling betrayed when he finds out his best friend kept it from him, Holly also remembering her past but still helping Blake to cover it up..maybe enlisting Roger's help in it, and finally Roger, not a fan of Ross, but not happy at all that his oldest enemy is now going to share grandfather status with him.

But none of that was played out...it was actually played like a bad sex farce at first..playing into MOL's worst tendencies, and making Rick out to be a real prick as they called him on the boards, not the least bit guilty on what he did. Ed wasnt around for the baby part of it, and the past was never mentioned.

Plus, it makes Ross look so stupid, that he....uh, could not tell that Blake...recently had been with someone...which is really as Abby says, "GROSS"!

There are things that occur IRL that don't necessarily lend themselves to believable or exciting drama. And if you don't believe me, just ask any GH viewer out there what they think about Liz Webber's eye mites.

I remember Liz Keifer questioned that the pregnant with two dad's story and TPTB showed her proof that this was based on something that happened in real life and she almost fainted that this wasn't a far fetched story LOL

Unpopular opinion, but when Reva married Buzz and worked/ran the diner.. I didn't actually hate that story. Not to say I loved it, but I think Buzz/Reva running the diner and being involved in the Fifth Street story with Alan was a decent use of Reva's character. What I didn't love was that the two married with Buzz being in love with Reva.

I also though the ghost Reva story could have worked had it just been in Josh's mind because he also didn't deal with a full deck in terms of his mental state and he trashed his relationship with Harley and Tangie, not considering possible contenders like Jenna, and being a bit of closed off with Annie all due to the hold Reva had over him.

The problem was that other people could see her and the way that the writers tried to twist it once the show managed to get her back full time never made sense to me.

3 hours ago, Khan said:

And if you don't believe me, just ask any GH viewer out there what they think about Liz Webber's eye mites.

Im not even going to ask WTF that is...okay, yes, I am!

1 hour ago, Soaplovers said:

Unpopular opinion, but when Reva married Buzz and worked/ran the diner.. I didn't actually hate that story. Not to say I loved it, but I think Buzz/Reva running the diner and being involved in the Fifth Street story with Alan was a decent use of Reva's character. What I didn't love was that the two married with Buzz being in love with Reva.

Someone on here said that Reva and Buzz had crazy sexual chemistry but I did not see it, (manic energy yes, that had the residents of 5th Street plugging their ears no doubt with those two big mouths..)I can see them being friends and once Alan kicks her to the curb and Josh and Annie get married then I can see him giving her a job..so yea the marriage thing did not work especially as her deal with chipmunk Marah was to just let Josh and Annie marry. Three men with hard ons for Reva was not needed.

17 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I don't think anyone in Springfield liked Vanessa those first few years (even Ross eventually moved on), so I could see Justin changing his opinion of her.

Thanks for telling me what interaction Philip and Vanessa had.

No, they don't. Except for Trish, who at times seems to internally cringe with some of Van's behavior. Oh, and Ed, until they broke up. Even Josh dislikes her, which is funny. Sometimes I wonder if she and Jackie ever really interacted. You think they would've known each other, since they both grew up in Chicago, and Ross and Van must've been dating while Justin and Jackie were married.

I didn't mean to make it sound like Van/Phillip weren't friendly, they got along. They just mostly interacted through business, or occasionally around Mindy. They weren't adversarial like Van and Alan-Michael were.

Actually, during the Marland years, it was established that Vanessa, Trish and Jackie all had went to school together (I think they added a couple of other actresses who were short term roles) and had known each other well and were friends.

7 hours ago, Mitch64 said:

Im not even going to ask WTF that is...okay, yes, I am!

LOL - thankfully that only lasted a single episode. Super random. But Blake/Rick/Ross and their babies had a great, interesting storyline. I guess I can't hate on it honestly - it was interesting and different. Maybe the only issue was that Blake lied HARD about this and then again later, immediately about Ben. If I were Ross, I would have left Blake many times over, if this were real life haha.

WHOA. Recaps coming later, but y'all - do we really have Rudy Giuliani marrying Phillip and Harley?? I'm sure this was a score for the show back in the day, for New Yorkers especially, but wow did this not age well. I'm not a New Yorker, so I don't want to take anything away from what I didn't live, but as an outsider now, wow he's an ultimate cringe greaser, sadly.

5 hours ago, alwaysAMC said:

I'm not a New Yorker, so I don't want to take anything away from what I didn't live, but as an outsider now, wow he's an ultimate cringe greaser, sadly.

As a former New Yorker, he SEEMED fairly normal back then, though there were red flags (i.e. he divorced his first wife to marry his cousin). 9/11 skyrocketed his national popularity--people even talked about him becoming president one day.

It was not unusual for the mayor of NYC to be a national figure back then. Late 90s, even before 9/11, he was already known and somewhat popular outside NYC, so it's not that surprising he would get booked for a gig on a soap.

8 hours ago, alwaysAMC said:

I'm sure this was a score for the show back in the day, for New Yorkers especially, but wow did this not age well. I'm not a New Yorker, so I don't want to take anything away from what I didn't live, but as an outsider now, wow he's an ultimate cringe greaser, sadly.

You also have to be really young..as DeeVee said, after 911 he skyrocketed to popularity for both right and left voters, as he was (or appeared) to be very much in command and comforting during a time of obvious national crisis. He even opened the SNL first live episode after 911 with the actually funny answer to Loren Michael's question on "But can we be funny" by saying "Why start now?" He really screwed himself by his later..political alliances. This was the beginning of GL grasping at straws tho this one at least makes a bit of sense as I can see Alex knowing him (sadly they would rewrite that later duiring Weston and Kreizman with Alex being antogonistic to Harley.) At least it makes more sense then a soon to be seen appareance during the dumbest trial GL ever had.

4 hours ago, DeeVee said:

As a former New Yorker, he SEEMED fairly normal back then, though there were red flags (i.e. he divorced his first wife to marry his cousin). 9/11 skyrocketed his national popularity--people even talked about him becoming president one day.

It was not unusual for the mayor of NYC to be a national figure back then. Late 90s, even before 9/11, he was already known and somewhat popular outside NYC, so it's not that surprising he would get booked for a gig on a soap.

1 hour ago, Mitch64 said:

You also have to be really young..as DeeVee said, after 911 he skyrocketed to popularity for both right and left voters, as he was (or appeared) to be very much in command and comforting during a time of obvious national crisis. He even opened the SNL first live episode after 911 with the actually funny answer to Loren Michael's question on "But can we be funny" by saying "Why start now?" He really screwed himself by his later..political alliances. This was the beginning of GL grasping at straws tho this one at least makes a bit of sense as I can see Alex knowing him (sadly they would rewrite that later duiring Weston and Kreizman with Alex being antogonistic to Harley.) At least it makes more sense then a soon to be seen appareance during the dumbest trial GL ever had.

Ahh interesting! I was a senior in high school during 9/11, and while super impactful regardless, I had never been to NYC by that point (I've been several times since as an adult). But I guess I didn't realize how big/popular and supportive he was during that time. Only Bush comes to mind, as I was in the Midwest at the time. I just did a quick research and it seems like he left office 12/31 that same year, so was only the Mayor during the first ~4 months of 9/11 aftermath. Like I said, I've heard that he was popular and turned NYC around, but his last ~15 years has been so cringe (the Borat movie taking the cake haha).

Speaking of Rudy officiating the wedding... I was SO shocked to see Marj Dusay show up as Alex! I didn't think I'd see her again for a long time, as I assumed she didn't come back to GL before starting on AMC. I love having her back, if only for a short period of time. What a great surprise :)