1 minute ago, DeeVee said:

I'm familiar with Walker--yeah, I think he could have worked.

I don't recall Lockerman that much, but looking at photos of him from when he was young--I TOTALLY can see him as Kyle. (As long as I ignore the awful 1980s moussed-up mullet hair style in some of his pictures, LOL).

Well, it was the style. :D

23 minutes ago, GL95 said:

I’ll admit my Michelle/Jesse recollections aren’t super strong. I watched all four CBS soaps off and on and changed which was my primary-admittedly Michelle often was fast forward fodder to me by the time Jesse rolled around if I was in a hurry and needed to get through 3.5 hours of recorded soaps fast back then haha.

Hahaha totally get that! Once you get through your watch up to early '95, it's worth going through that storyline when you get a moment :) You probably know this, or read about it, but they brought back Maureen for a bit during their storyline and I really thought Jesse's tie into Maureen was sweet (at first I thought wait, are they doing this haha, but then I ended up really liking it). I think that's one thing that frustrates me today, now that Jesse has been kicked to the curb and seemingly left with Drew, it's like everyone forgot the Maureen connection.

Other parts of their story was Jesse living on the other side of the tracks and Abby being attacked and almost raped, and then she murders the guy and is on trial, etc. Abby's last major story it seems, sadly.

3 hours ago, Mitch64 said:

I know that actors have egos but really, you can't expect to be the "winner" all the time, your an actor, play it. The actor was a very complicated person, and I always felt he just made Kyle seem..unpleasant, he was always going to loose no matter what.

It was more than being the "third" wheel in that storyline. Larkin Malloy had already played a storyline with Maeve being pregnant with his child, and Reva being on the outs. The storyline being pitched to him would be Reva being pregnant, and not knowing who the father was. Kyle or Josh. Larkin Malloy felt he had already played that storyline, and wasn't interested in doing it again. That is what he objected to, being stuck in the same storyline.

1 minute ago, TheyStartedOnSoaps said:

That is what he objected to, being stuck in the same storyline.

I can understand him feeling that way, but they HAD to do that storyline because Zimmer was pregnant.

9 minutes ago, DeeVee said:

I can understand him feeling that way, but they HAD to do that storyline because Zimmer was pregnant.

Exactly, so that is why he left. Molloy didn't want to spend a year doing the same storyline, he'd rather leave.

Well, a) I don't think GL needed to write in Zimmer's pregnancy. It was the easier option, and the show certainly milked it for nearly two years with the paternity switch weaved into the Sonni/Solita saga. But on the other hand, it also moved Reva past the troublemaker phase, which arguably, they could've also leaned into longer.

b) the haste with which Malloy jumped to AMC (wiki has his AMC debut in Feb) suggests he might've already been feeling out an exit strategy.

Although I do understand he might've been fed up with his stories spinning around babies. Even shortly after his arrival in Springfield, he was helping Reva deal with losing HB's child.