14 hours ago, P.J. said:

I think it was as much due to not wanting to sully **** up. His rather shady past (coughcabanaboycough) along with some unwitting dupe in a black market ring, or whatever it was, meant he now had to be squeaky clean for the fangurl fantasy set. Blake and Ross could be dirtier, simply because they had established histories to fall back on. Better writers might've given **** some kind of purpose outside of Vanessa

Yes, I think they have these two on contract, so they put them in this throw away story with no consequences..ala the Nola/Buzz/Jenna story. Its clear at this point that all energy is to go to the next Reva story, and actually Van gets off easy as opposed to the dumb stuff they give Jeva to do to stay on 4 days a week. I never understood anything about Matt, does he have a life besides Van? The only other character he interacts with is Josh, and that is rarely of any substance. He never seemded much interested in what Bridget, Nola or J. were up to, besides thinking he had the moral high ground in the Nola/Buzz dumbness. He had little to no interaction with Bill, he just berates Dinah, all the while wanting to f*ck her , which if they had gone that way earlier would be make him sleazy but at least a bit more interesting, and given Van Eason to kick both to the curb. Instead of bringing India in as a third we know is not going to last (I LOVE India she deserved more then this) they should have gone with Van Ross turning to each other ( we all know that Jordans issues at this point are going to keep him off contact so Billy is out.)

I just watched a scene of Reva during the Cain storyline, as it was just outed that she was the woman on the bridge in Fletcher's stories, and while the material is still bad Kim is so much better then she is this go around. Reva is still the woman that all these men and characters revolve around (Maeve even apologizes to Reva for marrying Kyle..WTF) but Kimmer doesn't make Reva the sanctimonious bore she is during Rauch..she keeps Reva on earth, and isn't afraid to let us know that Reva is not perfect. The writing isnt as slanted as it is during Rauch so that helps, but what a difference Kimmers' acting is.

16 hours ago, Spoon said:

@alwaysAMC I totally forgot about that day-player that Ross hooked up with, it didn't last long. I think years later I retconned it in my head that that was doris wolfe. I'm guessing that was just a stop-gap until January when a familiar woman enters the Ross-Blake-Ben picture. Overall, January 1999 is a pretty good month coming up for you.

Ohh good, I can't wait! :)

15 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I remembered her mostly because she was played by Ava Haddad, who was one of the better Cassies on OLTL (maybe the best). I guess Rauch remembered her. I wonder if there were further plans for her.

I see that this was her last acting role.

I think the lack of chemistry was one issue and another was not wanting to dirty Beth up too much...and also Matt and Vanessa were not central characters so there wasn't as much story. The next sucker they pair her up with makes more sense for Beth's upcoming story (don't want to give too much away).

Interesting! I can't wait to see who it is :)

@P.J. LOL - you never disappoint with your hatred for **** :) I'm not sure I'm ready to see how bad he can get.... as you know, so far, I think he's a great guy and I really like him. I know that can't last forever though, so maybe one day I'll join in your feelings about him haha.