8 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I know Doug Hutchison was praised highly for his work, but like Pelphrey I just thought he was very hammy (worse than Pelphrey).

While I readily admit to being a die-hard crusty curmudgeon, I am being honest and straightforward when I say that I never heard anyone praise Hutchinson for his work on TGL, let alone highly. Was it in a soap magazine? On the internet?

8 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I do wonder what may have been if they'd culled some of the people who were just there because they were cheap and hired some stronger talent. This is another reason why soaps being an hour long and needing to fill so much time hurts them.

Soaps should have been cut back to 30 minutes each a looooooong time ago. Cutting the casts down to 18 or so players would free up some money to pay writers who can actually write.

6 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

While I readily admit to being a die-hard crusty curmudgeon, I am being honest and straightforward when I say that I never heard anyone praise Hutchinson for his work on TGL, let alone highly. Was it in a soap magazine? On the internet?

I remember seeing this at the time, maybe in some soap magazine as I wasn't reading any GL board at that point.

10 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I remember seeing this at the time, maybe in some soap magazine as I wasn't reading any GL board at that point.

Oh, okay. I was just curious. Thank you.

If I were held at gunpoint and forced to choose, I'd keep Tom Pelphrey on the show over Doug Hutchinson. Or Bradley Cole, LOL. 🤭

3 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

While I readily admit to being a die-hard crusty curmudgeon, I am being honest and straightforward when I say that I never heard anyone praise Hutchinson for his work on TGL, let alone highly. Was it in a soap magazine? On the internet?

Soaps should have been cut back to 30 minutes each a looooooong time ago. Cutting the casts down to 18 or so players would free up some money to pay writers who can actually write.

I didnt think DH was so bad..it was just...an odd choice to play Roger's son. He came off very smarmy...I swear, he had a scene where he and Jarsh were talking about teaming up to take on Spaulding, and he was visibly flirting with him (that is all we needed, a rejected male lover of Josh going crazy when he want back to Reva...)

I thought that having some characters floating around made it seem like a real town, but they could easily been recurring...Rick, Frank, Buzz, that D.A. none of them needed contracts but they made the town seem bigger having characters like that around once in a while.

I know newbies are less expensive, and at the end, especially budget-friendly, but lord....keeping the likes of Ava Peralta or Remy or Ashleigh relevant was painful. Just because Ava was the rotten kid of two rotten parents didn't mean you needed to keep her around.

19 minutes ago, P.J. said:

I know newbies are less expensive, and at the end, especially budget-friendly, but lord....keeping the likes of Ava Peralta or Remy or Ashleigh relevant was painful. Just because Ava was the rotten kid of two rotten parents didn't mean you needed to keep her around.

Ava was egregiously bad. Beyond. I've always felt she was a poor man's replacement and her intro to the show was just ridiculous. Why would Jonathan pay a $3K debt for a random girl he just met? Like, he just gave the loan shark all the cash. Then she was Sandy's secret wife, Olivia's daughter and then went into her bad girl era by hooking up with Bill. I don't remember if she made it to the end of the show. All I know is that she should've never been part of the show, but alas, she's also forgettable.

2 minutes ago, CrazySexyQ said:

Ava was egregiously bad. Beyond. I've always felt she was a poor man's replacement and her intro to the show was just ridiculous. Why would Jonathan pay a $3K debt for a random girl he just met? Like, he just gave the loan shark all the cash. Then she was Sandy's secret wife, Olivia's daughter and then went into her bad girl era by hooking up with Bill. I don't remember if she made it to the end of the show. All I know is that she should've never been part of the show, but alas, she's also forgettable.

No, she didn't. I think she had a brief return after Max's death, but Remy moved on to Christina (played by Karla Mosley now on BTG) in the final months. I think the writers tried to recreate a Holly/Roger/Blake vibe with Olivia/Jeff/Ava, and of course, it failed miserably.