4 minutes ago, Speed Racer said:

Not sure I agree. It would have been more fun to have Reva pregnant - with the question being was Josh the father - or was it the result of some totally random hookup?

THAT would be a truer Reva story than Josh or Kyle.

On paper, Reva should have been a character who had casual hookups, especially given her lifelong issues about men and how men treated her. I wonder if this would have been the case if she hadn't blown up so quickly and if Long hadn't so strongly felt a connection with her.

3 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

On paper, Reva should have been a character who had casual hookups, especially given her lifelong issues about men and how men treated her. I wonder if this would have been the case if she hadn't blown up so quickly and if Long hadn't so strongly felt a connection with her.

Well....I cannot say what I really want to say. But it IS hilarious! (I might get sued for defamation - and no, it doesn't involve yourself or any other poster on this board.) Sadly, discretion sometimes really is the better part or valor. Such a drag.

22 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

I'm a little fuzzy on this, but I THINK Bradley found out while in prison that Alan had lied about Beth being dead. Then Alan told Phillip because he was trying to make up to him for, you know, shooting him at his own wedding. IIRC correctly, it's why everyone was skeptical, because Alan and Bradley were both congenital liars.

Yes, he was trying to convince Lillian and later Beth that he had changed. For a long time Rehborn was one of Hollywood's best character actors, so yeah, it's another case of a soap wanting to keep a really good actor who was playing an irredeemable character.

There was something like a con going on. I'm not sure on the deets, but the guy running the con might have been in prison at the same time as Alan? He dragged his girlfriend into it, getting her to impersonate Beth, having her paint in Beth's style and paint canvases that would definitely trigger Phillip. Phillip even wants to pay a "ransom" for Beth, but Blake pulls the plug on it, even persuading Van and Henry that Phillip is having a breakdown even though she knew Alan had lied and set up the "proof" that Beth had died.

Anyhoo, for some reason, Bradley is in the hospital at the same time as Mindy (who Will had nearly killed by forcing her to take an overdose). Beth is for some reason wandering the hospital, and reacts to seeing both Mindy and Bradley. Mindy briefly wakes and sees her, but because she's recovering, no one quite trusts that she saw Beth.

I think Alan telling Phillip was more about trying to keep him from marrying Blake, because he distrusted Roger's influence on her.

I do think P&G loved James Rebhorn, because, as @DRW50 mentioned, it's kind of close to the reveal on ATWT. But, it was a good use of history, especially as Daniel Pilon, bless him, wasn't a hit as Alan. (Although, I'm fuzzy on when the reveal on ATWT was. This brief return on GL was the fall of '89, and the ATWT stint started in '88, and the reveal might not have been until '91)

53 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

Let's face it, there are a lot of baby storylines on soaps.😂

RIGHT? :) Like Larkin didn't know his character was going to revolve around Reva's various moods and hairstyles?

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

@P.J. I think Vanessa and Lillian also interacted during that random scene where they were with Annie bitching about Reva (which led to some GL fans writing letters to SPW trashing Lillian as a hypocrite). I'd forgotten that they interacted at this time. I'd also forgotten about Billy's role here. It is delicious that Billy was the one who helped Vanessa see some sense - I wonder if Rauch was trolling a certain fanbase.

I am going to preface this by saying I don't think Matt is a horrible person, I think he is just very immature, but [!@#$%^&*] hell does it annoy me to read Matt reacting to any slight with Vanessa by shoving his tongue down Beth's throat and Beth repeatedly being the one to stop things from going further. I think you had to write that out about six times! He clearly wanted to cheat, and he likely would have gone all the way if not for the show's wariness about that fan base. I'm not saying I wanted Vanessa to be cheated on, but...is this really any better?

Matt is lucky that Billy was older and more worn out with life by this time as about a decade earlier he probably would have kicked Matt's perky little ass all over Springfield.

Van and Lillian would randomly interact. Not long after Mo died, Bill was in a car accident with Mindy (thanks to Eve) and of course it's Lillian there at the hospital--mostly because she's the only nurse Springfield had for quite a while. And while I'd expect Van to be polite, there's not one hint of resentment or irony given that Van's in the hospital awaiting news of her son's injuries (it's even a head injury, but it's in no way serious).

Even though we think of Springfield as a community, it had serious story bubbles back into the '80's.

C'mon...don't you want to come over to the dark side and hate ****? Just a little? I don't know if Rauch was trolling ****ressa fans or throwing a dig at Maeve, if those rumors are true. But yeah, #### clearly wasn't all that immune to Beth.

Not only would OGBilly have kicked ****'s ass, but he would've melted Van's panties with a silky "Darlin'.." and that would've been the end of that blasted saccharine pairing.

Hey AlwaysAMC -

Have you watched the Locher Room interview with Rebecca Budig? It's great throughout, and the second half is pretty funny. A few other GL cast members also appear. A must-see viewing for you.

PJ said:

"RIGHT? :) Like Larkin didn't know his character was going to revolve around Reva's various moods and hairstyles?'

LMAO! Perhaps Larkin thought that Reva was going to revolve around HIS various moods and hairstyles?!

17 minutes ago, P.J. said:

But, it was a good use of history, especially as Daniel Pilon, bless him, wasn't a hit as Alan. (Although, I'm fuzzy on when the reveal on ATWT was. This brief return on GL was the fall of '89, and the ATWT stint started in '88, and the reveal might not have been until '91)

I think you are right. IIRC, we always knew how controlling and off Henry Lange was, but the story becomes more blatant during 1990.

Regarding Matt - I really couldn't stand him at the time. I try to be more understanding now because Vanessa ultimately got the ending I wanted for her and I think he was at heart just a stud who probably should have never been in the rich life (which the show finally acknowledged years later), but I do enjoy your commentary about him. I think the peak of my dislike was the several times they teased his relationship with Dinah, although reading these recaps is kind of pissing me off years later more than it did at the time (by this point I think I was mentally on autopilot with GL).

41 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I think you are right. IIRC, we always knew how controlling and off Henry Lange was, but the story becomes more blatant during 1990.

Regarding Matt - I really couldn't stand him at the time. I try to be more understanding now because Vanessa ultimately got the ending I wanted for her and I think he was at heart just a stud who probably should have never been in the rich life (which the show finally acknowledged years later), but I do enjoy your commentary about him. I think the peak of my dislike was the several times they teased his relationship with Dinah, although reading these recaps is kind of pissing me off years later more than it did at the time (by this point I think I was mentally on autopilot with GL).

It’s been said before but I wish instead of Matt busting up Ross/Amanda that he comforts Blake and they hook up instead of Blake/Rick. Kill Bloss and Mattessa with one stone.