10 hours ago, Mitch64 said:

That's funny as that is a line from BevAlex, she wanted Phillip, non bio but raised a Spaulding to run the company with Lujack, bio but not raised one. I think a silbing fight over the company would be great with Hearst really being able to hold his own with Phillip. Throw in Amanda as the wild card and it woudl be a refreshing spin..(though Amanda might use Roger, and screw him once in a while, she would not be manipulated by him.)

I think the sibling fight would be a good refresh because there was tension between AM/Phillip but not not any bad blood so bad that you’d think they were insane to try to still maintain a bond-it’s a much more believable push/pull than either son vs Alan. One of the problems with Alan is there’s basically no reason for the viewer to even want peace/reconciliation between Alan and any family member. But with Phillip/AM them acting like brothers is rootable for a viewer even if their Spaulding instincts kick in to sabotage things.

6 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

Can you imagine having Kevin FREAKING Bacon on your show and thinking--nah.

TJ/Tim/whatever was never going to be anything but one of the roadblocks for Kelly and Morgan. That was basically his only function. They kept him on longer after they got married, but never really did anything with him. Partly the recast was not great, but the character's usefulness had faded.

I suppose Kevin was not staying (didn't he leave for Diner?), but I do wonder if Chris Marcantel would have stayed if they'd given him more to do. He was cute and likeable, even if the soaps never knew what to do with him (I think he was moved over to an ill-fated AW role). The last TJ looked about 30 and I have only seen him once in the available episodes.

1 hour ago, DeeVee said:

1 hour ago, DeeVee said:

Can you imagine having Kevin FREAKING Bacon on your show and thinking--nah.

TJ/Tim/whatever was never going to be anything but one of the roadblocks for Kelly and Morgan. That was basically his only function. They kept him on longer after they got married, but never really did anything with him. Partly the recast was not great, but the character's usefulness had faded.

No, TJ was not killed off. He left SF to be with his girlfriend who was going to an out-of-state school. Sara might have mentioned him once in a while afterwards, but that was it.

I find it hard to believe that Anthony Call was the problem--he went on to OLTL and became very popular even though the viewers hated him at first because he was the attorney who harangued Karen Wolek in the famous trial scene. He and Robin Strasser were a great pair.

Maybe they wanted to leave Sara free for the Justin/Jackie story, but she didn't stay in that storyline for that long.

It's funny--I think one of the very first scenes I ever watched on GL was Joe, Sara, and TJ celebrating Christmas. They were so happy. And then of course soon after Joe had a heart attack and died.

I think TJ (recast with a different actor, natch) was the officiant at both of Phillip and Blake's ceremonies. Why the show chose to bring him back with a connection to Phillip, I don't know.

You'd have thought TJ would've been a better dupe in the Nola/Kelly/Morgan triangle than Floyd.

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I suppose Kevin was not staying (didn't he leave for Diner?),

He had already done Animal House before GL--he was never going to stay. I guess he did a soap so he had work while trying to get his movie career going. It's just funny that they didn't seem to know what they had.

It's also bizarre that of all the teen/YA characters of that era, he was the only one with a real connection to the canvas and he was treated almost like an afterthought.

1 hour ago, P.J. said:

I think TJ (recast with a different actor, natch) was the officiant at both of Phillip and Blake's ceremonies. Why the show chose to bring him back with a connection to Phillip, I don't know.

Oh wow. I never knew that. I wonder if they mentioned Sara.