GL could've expanded the Grant family by making the Bordreauxs cousins as opposed to a completely new family. Remy was basically a David recast-- iirc he became a cop and essentially had the same vibe that post-Monti Sharp David had.

I didn't like Mel and her family. Although I'm not sure it's anyone's fault, the show didn't do anything consistently with them. But Mel was a stick in the mud, and Remy was annoying.

Was converting a 1986 episode of Guiding Light and did a double-take halfway through: Fiona Hutchison was playing a nurse named Molly Patterson. I was shocked as I assumed that her first soap role was on OLTL, but there she was and it seems to be her first appearance. It's not listed on IMDb or anywhere else online. I just uploaded it to the vault so everyone can check it out there.

13 minutes ago, Search For Yesterday said:

Was converting a 1986 episode of Guiding Light and did a double-take halfway through: Fiona Hutchison was playing a nurse named Molly Patterson. I was shocked as I assumed that her first soap role was on OLTL, but there she was and it seems to be her first appearance. It's not listed on IMDb or anywhere else online. I just uploaded it to the vault so everyone can check it out there.

Fiona was on GL in three different roles. Her first was in 1984 or early 1985 as a student of Quint's.

4 hours ago, P.J. said:

I didn't like Mel and her family. Although I'm not sure it's anyone's fault, the show didn't do anything consistently with them. But Mel was a stick in the mud, and Remy was annoying.

The way they introduced them was terrible. Rick literally picked Mel up in a bar. Their "romance" was SO blah. You would think there would be something sexy about meeting like that, but they had the most insipid conversation. Like what kind of movies they liked. So boring.

I don't recall the parents being used signficantly in storylines. (Though I DO remember the mother ending up in one of Reva's past lives during the time travel story, ugh).

It was the same losing strategy they used with the faux Bauers: stick these people in and hope they click with the audience.

The fact that they had to make Rick suddenly dying of a heart condition no one knew about before--to the point he needed a transplant (and don't even get me started on THAT) shows that they had to make it entirely plot driven because there was little to nothing to draw on from the characters.

The reason the Lewises quickly became a permanent part of GL is because they immediately wove the characters into storylines: Billy and Alan's rivalry, which was both about Spaulding and Vanessa, Mindy dropped into a quadrangle with Phillip, Beth, and Rick, Josh feeling like the odd Lewis out, and then Reva rolling into town and throwing a grenade on the whole thing. A lot of this came from character.

I want to give them credit for introducing a Black family to the show, but just doing that wasn't enough.

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