1 hour ago, Mitch64 said:

They were actually thinking of brining...Lucy, the duck, Cooper back? Of all the characters in GL's rich history...you want to bring Lucy back??? LOL..only Conwest!

I probably shouldn't LOL, but I am anyway. Lucy was not one of my favorite characters. I'm not particularly partial to helium balloons.

9 minutes ago, GL95 said:

To be clear, I don't think they succeeded in highlighting AM/Rick well. Tangie couldn't have ended up pregnant because AM/Tangie never had sex-they were about to and realized they didn't have condoms and AM went out to buy some and while he was gone Alan showed up and AM caught them together. I was a bit amused watching the recent 1993 episode where AM blows off the model to help Gilly at the hotel because if I'm not mistaken he was in for a very long dry spell (at least onscreen). (I wouldn't normally keep track that closely but it was obviously a significant plot point for Lucy/AM.)

I wish they hadn't messed with any of the Tangie/AM/Alan stuff and toyed more with Nick/Tangie. It's funny but I found Nick the most tolerable with Tangie/Susan and thought he had decent chemistry with Tangie. Alan continuing to pursue Tangie while with Nick actually would have been a more interesting plot if Alan had tried to go scorched earth on Nick.

I've mentioned it before, but what I felt would've helped that plot was for Blake to discover AM and be part of hiding him. Not necessarily for anything romantic to happen, but to throw Blake into the AM/Alan story more and cause some tension with Ross. Blake/AM having some vulnerable moments about their respective fathers and bonding would have made that story a lot better, and Blake having flashes of jealousy to add non-Alan conflict to AM/Tangie would've helped.

I figured Tangie/Alan-Michael were over long before her exit, I just thought it would have been an interesting story, as Alan-Michael had never had any kids (and never would).

I agree Nick worked best with Tangie and Susan (and his friendship with Fletcher).

2 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I figured Tangie/Alan-Michael were over long before her exit, I just thought it would have been an interesting story, as Alan-Michael had never had any kids (and never would).

I agree Nick worked best with Tangie and Susan (and his friendship with Fletcher).

I get it-I still think Blake should've gotten pregnant from the AM/Blake Bauer cabin tryst. The other way I would've given AM a kid was to have AM get swept to sea (no body of course) rather than saved by Zachary and Lucy ends up pregnant rather than go through a recast. I would be mostly amused by the elephant in the room of Reva surviving driving a car off a bridge into the ocean as everyone tries to convince Lucy to move on since AM couldn't have survived. (I don't get why you wouldn't have just given Lucy/AM a kid offscreen especially given the Cooper/Spaulding focus late in the show.)

Took a break from 1993 when Youtube pushed February 6, 1990 and I was curious why it looked like Harley had been in a fire. It turns out it was the episode right after the Fifth Street Fire where Pops was killed. AM saved Dylan from the fire and also a box of Harley's keepsakes and found a love letter from Harley to Dylan (Harley/AM were already separated). He's in shock from the whole thing and goes to see Blake and she takes care of him and runs him a bath and the whole thing is filled with sexual tension-they are making out at the end of the episode. It was interesting to watch AM/Blake first get together and her initially trying to fight her feeling as I had always thought Blake was scheming to ensnare AM from the very beginning.

10 hours ago, Reverend Ruthledge said:

I'd be cautious. I've never given them money but have emailed them asking questions several times and never got a response. It just didn't seem very professional so, at this point, I would not give them money even if they responded. I've been ripped off by other sellers in classic soap opera material.

Ahh good to know, I appreciate it! That's a good idea too, email and ask questions - if they aren't willing to respond, dead give away. Thanks :)

1 hour ago, GL95 said:

Took a break from 1993 when Youtube pushed February 6, 1990 and I was curious why it looked like Harley had been in a fire. It turns out it was the episode right after the Fifth Street Fire where Pops was killed. AM saved Dylan from the fire and also a box of Harley's keepsakes and found a love letter from Harley to Dylan (Harley/AM were already separated). He's in shock from the whole thing and goes to see Blake and she takes care of him and runs him a bath and the whole thing is filled with sexual tension-they are making out at the end of the episode. It was interesting to watch AM/Blake first get together and her initially trying to fight her feeling as I had always thought Blake was scheming to ensnare AM from the very beginning.

Dang, another Fifth Street Fire! Springfield has so many fires LOL!

I know that opening was pretty iconic for those fans at the time, but this is a good example of why you need a more dramatic music/opening... to tell someone their dad is dead and then immediately go into the sitcom-style music opening, just takes away from the emotional fallout.

Edited Thursday at 05:48 AM1 day by alwaysAMC

6 hours ago, GL95 said:

With how connected Blake/Frank were when AM/Eleni first got married I actually think they wanted a period of a quadrangle of Blake/AM/Frank/Eleni with Blake/AM eventually getting back together after learning things from "good" people-softened some but still coloring outside the lines (because of course AM gets sucked into Roger's empire plans haha). I do think they were floundering a bit once Blake was taken away as a long-term option for AM.

I think Sherry S leaving the show in mid 1992 kind of derailed those potential plans because LK had a totally different vibe and approach to playing Blake.

More musings while the thread is dead...

GL Pay or Play contracts. After Edge ends, move over Ann Flood to GL as Trudy in 1985 to compensate for the loss of Charita Bauer.

My dream re-casting for Mindy in the late 90s would be Karen Witter. Been watching her as Tina on OLTL and I think she's just terrific- can play sexy works well in comic subplots as well as more serious soap fare. She took over from fan favorite Andrea Evans and held her own, physically stunning and can act- the perfect combination.

I still would bring over Marcia McCabe as either Hope Bauer or Trish Lewis in 1987, after SFT ended. If Ann Flood doesn't work as Trudy, bring in Mary Stuart in early as Meta.

Just thinking about the fake Bauers. Maybe if they cast Mary Stuart as Johnny and Lanie's grandmother it would be easier to accept the Bauer expansion pack-- given the goodwill MS had with longtime soap viewers (or soap geeks) as Jo on SFT.

Barbara Crampton (as Mindy) seemed out-of-place on a NYC soap, she should've stayed with Bell. She'd probably fit okay on Santa Barbara as a new character.

On 3/12/2026 at 12:46 AM, alwaysAMC said:

Dang, another Fifth Street Fire! Springfield has so many fires LOL!

I know that opening was pretty iconic for those fans at the time, but this is a good example of why you need a more dramatic music/opening... to tell someone their dad is dead and then immediately go into the sitcom-style music opening, just takes away from the emotional fallout.

It's not the theme, it's the arrangement or maybe I mean orchestration. The switch from the original to the synthesizer version makes it more "zippy" (for lack of a more technical term.) At least imo.

I don't think they would've put Blake and AM back together had SS stayed. There was just too much bad history between them. While that true with a lot of couples, GL wasn't going to pin AM and Blake down with each other.

22 minutes ago, P.J. said:

It's not the theme, it's the arrangement or maybe I mean orchestration. The switch from the original to the synthesizer version makes it more "zippy" (for lack of a more technical term.) At least imo.

I don't think they would've put Blake and AM back together had SS stayed. There was just too much bad history between them. While that true with a lot of couples, GL wasn't going to pin AM and Blake down with each other.

It’s funny because to me it feels like they were setting it up in pretty typical soap couple form for Blake/AM. She manipulates and lies which leads to their divorce. He leads her on to help him succeed at work. They each enter a relationship with someone “good” in their eyes and learn some lessons but stay friends and confidants for well over a year, setting it up for a “real” relationship with them ostensibly as their better selves and the power dynamic even.

It just feels to me like a lot of organic character driven drama comes out of Blake/AM between their internal struggles to want to be better people than their fathers while also fighting their worst instincts and the external struggles between their families (and Ed being a father figure to both of them while their actual fathers loathe each other).