1 minute ago, P.J. said:

I still wonder how the Peter story would've played out with Jordan Clarke still there as Billy. I think the goal would've always been to have Bridget reclaim him. But I don't know if it would've broken Billy and Van up.

***the thought of never needing **** on canvas is too delicious to ignore.

Leonard Staub’s accident I’m guessing changed things as well-I would think the plan was to have Hart find out he’s Peter’s father which triggers the custody battle. I’d think the custody battle was planned as the groundwork is so clearly set but the dynamics of it shifted due to casting.

If you think about it the Dinah plot line would’ve worked even better with Billy. There would’ve been a different dynamic with Billy/Dinah of course but Dinah turning to Roger takes on a lot more drama with Billy involved. Plus Dinah would’ve been trying to suck up to Billy once she realized he had money and Ross didn’t, though don’t see her successfully manipulating Billy. But Billy would’ve still done everything he could to get her away from Roger.

7 minutes ago, GL95 said:

Leonard Staub’s accident I’m guessing changed things as well-I would think the plan was to have Hart find out he’s Peter’s father which triggers the custody battle. I’d think the custody battle was planned as the groundwork is so clearly set but the dynamics of it shifted due to casting.

If you think about it the Dinah plot line would’ve worked even better with Billy. There would’ve been a different dynamic with Billy/Dinah of course but Dinah turning to Roger takes on a lot more drama with Billy involved. Plus Dinah would’ve been trying to suck up to Billy once she realized he had money and Ross didn’t, though don’t see her successfully manipulating Billy. But Billy would’ve still done everything he could to get her away from Roger.

I don't think Dinah would've ever sucked up to Billy. She loved Ross, and always blamed Vanessa for growing up without him.

It's hard to judge what the Billy/Dinah dynamic would've been like, since they don't really interact much until Tognoni's in the role. (they're rarely in town at the same time after Van finds her.) And even that isn't until near the end of the show, when she's suddenly all about being Bill's sister.

1 minute ago, P.J. said:

I don't think Dinah would've ever sucked up to Billy. She loved Ross, and always blamed Vanessa for growing up without him.

It's hard to judge what the Billy/Dinah dynamic would've been like, since they don't really interact much until Tognoni's in the role. (they're rarely in town at the same time after Van finds her.) And even that isn't until near the end of the show, when she's suddenly all about being Bill's sister.

If Dinah perceived Billy to soften Vanessa into writing her a check (or write one herself), she would’ve been sucking up IMO. Her long game was definitely to stick it to Van but she would’ve worked any angle to pay off that debt.

23 minutes ago, GL95 said:

If Dinah perceived Billy to soften Vanessa into writing her a check (or write one herself), she would’ve been sucking up IMO. Her long game was definitely to stick it to Van but she would’ve worked any angle to pay off that debt.

Well, she might've tried. But pretty sure Billy would've had that number, and not liked the way Dinah treated Van--at all.

Re: Macully west. I hope you like the song "You belong to the City" by Glen Frey, because you'll be hearing that A LOT.

1 hour ago, P.J. said:

I still wonder how the Peter story would've played out with Jordan Clarke still there as Billy. I think the goal would've always been to have Bridget reclaim him. But I don't know if it would've broken Billy and Van up.

***the thought of never needing **** on canvas is too delicious to ignore.

And yeah, Nick McHenry---world's worst reporter.

Lent isn't over! 😜😘

1 hour ago, GL95 said:

I picked up ATWT in 1993-it’s funny because the promos right now on my GL watch are about Lily/Damian which is about when I first started watching. (It’s a pretty specific memory because I lived overseas 1990-June 1993 and started ATWT that summer.)

I love that many of the episodes in the Vault retained those CBS promos of the other soaps. There were many Lily-centric storyline promos around 95-97 that I always thought looked pretty interesting.

16 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

Lent isn't over! 😜😘

I love that many of the episodes in the Vault retained those CBS promos of the other soaps. There were many Lily-centric storyline promos around 95-97 that I always thought looked pretty interesting.

Not a criticism. A wish---🌟

NGL--love ATWT. '95-early'97, not the best. But you'd love my girl Maura West.

More into 1993:

HB is for some unknown reason trying to play matchmaker to bring Nick/Mindy back together. I really don't understand this at all. It's not entirely Nick's fault per se (and I find him insufferable at this point most of the time) but I don't see how her family is so excited for her to get back together with someone who fairly easily believed some truly terrible things about her. Not to mention, even though Alex is off the radar, you'd think her being completely free of the Spauldings would make the Lewis clan in general happy. They just handed over the Journal Lewis Oil investment to Mindy just to get her in Nick's orbit. (This is after HB "lost" his binoculars and sent Nick/Mindy off to find them.")

Blake is in her period of practically begging Ross to marry her. One thing looking backwards on Blake/Ross is how they really set up Blake's entire self-worth on Ross's opinion of her. She tells Ross she is sure this marriage will work because he's someone too good to leave her, which is interesting because knowing where it goes she's both right and wrong. I think the writing didn't do Blake any favors by having the final death knell with AM be him leading her on/using her given that their marriage falling apart was 100% based on her lying and not him being quick to leave. The focus being on the very end left Blake with no lesson other than picking the wrong men, which really the lying should have been her lesson which she never learns. (Ross is a bit of a sucker for manipulative women so I guess she chose well on finding someone who she can both consider herself unworthy of yet somehow almost always forgive her lies eventually.).

Ed just went to visit Eve in the mental hospital roughly two weeks after drugging Mindy/Nick and injuring Mindy among other things, and she is surprised somehow that she won't get to immediately practice medicine. Ed says she can still do non-patient work which seems exceptionally generous to be employed at all after what she did, but she seems upset by this.

3 minutes ago, P.J. said:

Not a criticism. A wish---🌟

NGL--love ATWT. '95-early'97, not the best. But you'd love my girl Maura West.

It's funny-I always loved Carly/Maura West (even when Carly was making terrible decisions I almost always sympathized with her) and I remember it being one of the first times I started diverging with my mom who hated Carly. My mom pretty much only liked "good" characters on shows.

7 minutes ago, P.J. said:

Not a criticism. A wish---🌟

NGL--love ATWT. '95-early'97, not the best. But you'd love my girl Maura West.

LOL! I see... 😉

Good to know. I do love Maura West (especially on GH now that I've picked that up). For some reason I don't remember much of CarJack during that year I watched ATWT (2007-2008). I mostly remember the younger set and then Katie/Henry (who I liked a lot). I do think I'd love CarJack though, that's definitely a couple I'd love to see from beginning to end.