Absolutely. @alwaysAMC the worst example was on another world and Jensen Buchanan didn't want to play Vicki and het twin Marley so they had Marley burn up in a fire so Ellen Wheeler (who played both twins in the 80s) could reprised Marley. So suddenly, the one twin is like 10 inches taller than the other one. 😆

The DeMarco plot was just poorly written. If ppl were honest, Annie was probably more popular than Reva despite being the "villain. They really needed to be done with Annie-- rest the character at the very least.

My folks never liked Mallet, or "Adrian" as they'd call him. 😆 Adrian was a Y&R villain who was in with Cassandra Rawlings and the bunch.

I wonder how many CBS old timers realized that Meta Bauer wasn't Jo (SFT).

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6 hours ago, P.J. said:

You do (or at least I do) what Marland thought about Josh's turnaround/Robert Newman after Josh and Reva got huge. I don't think DM was very inspired by him either.

I don't remember him ever talking about Josh/RN in interviews. I only recall he was miffed that they changed Kelly Louise's name to Stacy. I believe he said that was something that always connected him to Nola and was an issue for Morgan, again implying he wasn't done with Kelly/Nola.

The post-wedding storyline for Kelly and Morgan was so flaccid, it was obvious to me he wasn't really invested in them. That may have had something to do with Jennifer Cook replacing Vigard. Tired old "marriage vs. career" story. Then Kelly wanting to have a baby when he was constantly haraunging Morgan about money because they didn't have any.

Gag, I couldn't stand Kelly. He was such a jerk. Nola was too good for him.

I have to say it's pretty impressive that Long came in and saw RN's potential to become a leading man, and then she made it happen. Of course, that had a lot to do with the chemistry between him and KZ. But also the family dynamic with Billy and HB, and you started to understand why he would be different around them.

45 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

I don't remember him ever talking about Josh/RN in interviews. I only recall he was miffed that they changed Kelly Louise's name to Stacy. I believe he said that was something that always connected him to Nola and was an issue for Morgan, again implying he wasn't done with Kelly/Nola.

The post-wedding storyline for Kelly and Morgan was so flaccid, it was obvious to me he wasn't really invested in them. That may have had something to do with Jennifer Cook replacing Vigard. Tired old "marriage vs. career" story. Then Kelly wanting to have a baby when he was constantly haraunging Morgan about money because they didn't have any.

Gag, I couldn't stand Kelly. He was such a jerk. Nola was too good for him.

I have to say it's pretty impressive that Long came in and saw RN's potential to become a leading man, and then she made it happen. Of course, that had a lot to do with the chemistry between him and KZ. But also the family dynamic with Billy and HB, and you started to understand why he would be different around them.

How odd that seems to me....I never once considered Robert Newman/Josh as a leading man. He was always Reva's b*tch.

Did Josh ever have a full-blown story that centered squarely on him? I can't think of a single one. Even where he figured prominently, the story was ultimately about Reva and Reva's reaction.

The closest he ever came when the Josh/Harley story after Reva drove off the bridge.

Then again, I stopped watching in roughly 1998, so maybe something was actually about Josh and his character development,