I remember a bit of Mary. She gets revenge by killing people she didn't know and Nikolas and Emily didn't care about. Like Diego getting revenge on Jason by killing Georgie and Coop...we know how close they were to Jason.

Luza sucks.

I hated so much of GH at that time I could not watch. These days it still makes me annoyed but the big hates I had then (Courtney, the virulent hatred towards AJ which disgusted me even though I wasn't even an AJ fan, Emily and the awful homance with Nik, Stefan's assassination, Alexis as Dobson and the show's loathing of her) were much worse than anything I feel about current GH.

I think that was when Pratt was there too. Blech.

I agree with a lot of those things. I never Liked Emily and Nik together...I liked them individually, but together they were borong to me. Courtney really was mean to AJ, even tho to HER, he was never that bad. Stefan's death was a shame. I liked him, but in the end he turned into a horrible cloone of his brother, instead of the relatively human person he once was....(I will admit, his funeral brought a few LOL's with Helena showing up and her commentary). I actually didnt mind Alexis as Dobson (that was the butler, right?)

Speaking of the Butler....What ever happened to him?! Wasn't his name, Reginald, or something (it's escaping me! :/)..He was hilarious, but just disappeared.

The biggest change for me was the character of Rachel on Another World. Robin Strasser played her as a social-climbing, scheming bitch. She was a brilliant contrast to good-girl Alice. Victoria Wyndham made the character much more bland. VW may have played the character longer, but she was far less memorable than Strasser. Same situation with Audra Lindley's scheming Liz Matthews turning into a dotty Irene Dailey.

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Speaking of the Butler....What ever happened to him?! Wasn't his name, Reginald, or something (it's escaping me! :/)..He was hilarious, but just disappeared.

Apparently he was so upset by Lila's death, he took his inheritance from her and left town.

General Hospital - Maxie Jones. Robyn Richards (child to tween) to Danica Stewart (rebellious teen horny for Lucky) back to Robyn Richards (angst ridden teen dabbling in drugs and sex) to Kirsten Storms (Speedtalking, slutty troublemaker).

General Hospital - Maxie Jones. Robyn Richards (child to tween) to Danica Stewart (rebellious teen horny for Lucky) back to Robyn Richards (angst ridden teen dabbling in drugs and sex) to Kirsten Storms (Speedtalking, slutty troublemaker).

That's a good one. Poor Maxie, what has been done to her character.

I think the big ones for me are Vicky/Marley AW and Brad ATWT.

Vicky/Marley AW, Ellen Wheeler really got Marley's heart. Her Vicky was more of a caricature, from what I've seen. Anne Heche, on the other hand, played everything of Vicky, she seemed to make her fly. She was also good as Marley (Marley's rape aftermath scenes were a particular highlight), but it took her several years to make Marley more than Vicky's boring sister with a bad wig. Jensen Buchanan seemed to be a caricature as Vicky and barely there as Marley. JB had little interest in Marley or a dual role, and in the long term this had a debilitating effect on Vicky's character. Marley disappeared and Vicky basically BECAME Marley.

ATWT Brad. Geez louise, talk about changes. Nick K's Brad was a rough around the edges guy who didn't mind taking the morally questionable way but was generally a decent man with scars. John Loprieno's Brad came across as a scuzzy con artist. Austin Peck's Brad was a goofy kid and at other times a self-righteous shouter.

Others...

Sarah Roberts OLTL. She went from being a "punk" and "edgy" scarred young woman to a dreary ingenue who instantly forgave her mother for years of neglect. The only thing they had in common was singing.

Cassie Callison OLTL. This was a big issue for longtime fans when I started watching OLTL 15 years ago. They would complain every time anyone mentioned the Holly Gagnier Cassie. They said she stole Dorian's boyfriend and she went around with her boobs hanging out a lot of the time.

Joey Buchanan OLTL. Chris McKenna's Joey was very earnest. Nathan Fillion was much more humorous, at least until he began to lose his personality. Don Jeffcoat's Joey was a wimp, and a punching bag, the GV Lucky of his day. Bruce Michael Hall's Joey was back to being extremely earnest, and...he had nice nipples. That's about it.

OLTL Todd Manning. This would take all day.

OLTL Tina Andrea's Tina was ditzy but had a strong will and could do anything. Karen Witter's Tina was slightly quirky but much more mainstream. Krista Tesreau's Tina was very weak and dumb.

I Agree with on Vicky and Marley!!

Days: Deborah Adair's Kate was a more suave, independent woman who would do anything if someone was SERIOUSLY hurting her kids. Lauren's Kate is just a overbearing slutty mother. Deborah Adair is still my favorite Kate and she had the best Chemistry with Louise Sorel, IMO.

Can anyone give an outlook on all the Jill Abbotts?

Poor Maxie, what has been done to her character.

*cough*AJ*cough*

*cough*AJ*cough*

The sad part is they don't even hate Maxie. They probably think they're actually doing her a favor.

Can anyone give an outlook on all the Jill Abbotts?

Beyond Jess and Brenda (in original good girl mode and in later camp mode), Deborah Adair played her for several years between Brenda's returns. MarkH really loved her work and thought she did a lot to transition Jill into the boardroom and society. Bond Gideon also played her briefly after Brenda left the first time. I don't know much about her.

The sad part is they don't even hate Maxie. They probably think they're actually doing her a favor.

At least she's still alive.

Guza hates AJ even in death.

Well, though her screen time didn't change at all (she always got a TON), when Tamara Braun was recast as Carly's GH with Jennifer Bransford, the whole character changed.

She went from being mischevious and loveable, to annoying and overpowering, to mentally insane, to off the canvas for a few months.

Her whole run on the show was a hot mess.

Also, when Edward Quartmermaine was changed to Jed Allan. That was a mess, he went from crochety, loveable old man, to this hip, ten years younger man, who was just unlikeable, that had affairs with mental lunes. It was a horrible recast. And Jed Allan was actually YOUNGER than Stuart Damon (his onscreen son), I believe. Not only did his personality change, but after that whole mess with Heather, he got even LESS screen time than John Ingle (hard to believe, isn't it?!

Correct. TB's version was a vast difference for me. She owned up more and I found her tolerable (not lovable).

Caroline Benson played by SJB wasn't mischievous and loveable

she was horrid (like SJB but loathed Carly) can't remember early on

but she banged her mother's husband and destroyed nearly every character that

came across her path...eg Bobbie, Tony, AJ, Jason, Robin, became her never-ending lap dog turned on his brother and entire family to prop her, then when she had carrot top the spawn from hell they continued to hog air..

ate up the screen it became all about MyKill when she betrayed Jason and handed him over to Sonny.

What I see in Carly ver. 4.0 to pimp her more from Jason's ho to a more sister-like quality which makes sense

since he put her before his family anyway. For the longest time he had no scenes with Emily they had them run into each other prior to her demise (Black/White) ball to invite him and saw fit to dialog the reason why (she was so busy being a new doctor) they never had scenes together.

This Carly is being pimped as more sister-like than Emily ever was. She always manipulated him into anything. I haven't seen GH in awhile but the last I saw Steven Lars acts as if he doesn't even know her...when he was clearly smitten and did a lot to get her away from being a mob bimbo eg found her an apt in his building gave her confidence in being on her own. He's another one that has been re-worked. Now Carly is a watered-down soccer mom.

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Yeah, the Jed Allen as Edward storyline was HORRID.

The whole storyline of Heather stalking Skye started out really intrguing, as we thought it was Laura, but when Heather turned around in the park and said "Hello Skye...I'm Heather Webber", it was like WHOAH! and it started as a great storyline, but turned into GH changing history, and marrying her off to Edward (BIZARRE).

I wasn't a faithful DAYs viewer during John Ingle's run as Mickey...But I did see some of it, and saw some on YouTube as well...He seemed fine in the role, his storylines were bizarre tho.

I felt that they brought back Heather in Robin Mattson form only to reunite her with Jed Allan and see if they can recapture that chemistry from Santa Barbara.