AMC: Damon's father is....

[EricMontreal22]

JR's 30, and he was conceived in 89 or so...Colby's 20 or so and was conceived the late 90s...

[dragonflies]

SOD a little late to the game, but from SOD.com:

Tad's the Dad!

Father's day comes early for AMC's Tad this week when DNA tests confirm that he is Damon's biological pop. "There had been some rumors floating around, but I didn't find out for sure until very recently," Finn Wittrock (Damon) tells Digest. For the full story, check out the new issue.

[Jonathan]

So if Damon is 19 then he was conceived in 1990 or 1991. What was Tad doing around this time? Was he on the canvas? Or did he have amnesia?

[SFK]

I do not buy Damon as 19. He looks more like 27 and I think they'll make him more of a J.R. contemporary. I thought he looked too old to be getting pregnant teen girl whose name I'm already forgetting when he first came to town.

There was that little window where MEK was off for a bit/then recast, my memory is too foggy to pin the timeline exactly. And I don't think he and Hillary getting together when he thought he was Ted Orsini would make too much sense. Hmmm, I guess we'll see...

[Jonathan]

On Friday, the show sort of gave us a timeline of when Tad and Hillary hooked up but it was still a little vague. I guess they're doing that on purpose.

[dragonflies]

I have always thought Damon was 21-25, but I think it was also said Bailey was 15 when she came to town, but they aged her to 18, unless I'm remembering wrong.

[SFK]

Yeah, just physically (and from what I gather, in reality) the actress looked very young, like 15/16. They'd have to make Damon not quite so old if they wanted to avoid those *darker* issues. But you know how these shows play fast and loose with age...

[AMCHistory]

So I guess Carmen's return as Hillary is not tptb's minds at this time:

http://thepinevalleybulletin.blogspot.com/2010/03/rediscover-hillary-wilson-its-crunch.html

[AllMyDaysatGH]

WTH? That is so disappointing..what is AMC thinking???....dumb.

[You're Soaking in it]

I hope they don't have a different actress in mind. It would be a big mistake to not revisit Tad's relationship with Hillary, since they've gone to the trouble of giving him a son with her. But it could be an even BIGGER mistake to cast yet another actress who doesn't end up sharing any real, long-haul chemistry with Michael E. Knight (especially since it seems proven that Cady McClain and Carmen Thomas were the only people he shared a certain spark with).

Maybe they're intent on playing out something in the near future between Liza and Krystal. I really like Bobbie Eakes, but I see just plain NOTHING between Krystal and Tad... it just doesn't transcend. MEK has a decent vibe with Jamie Luner's Liza, but I don't see supercouple-in-the-making there, either. Now instead of Liza vs. Krystal, I would love to watch a Liza vs. Hillary angle... Hopefully, we'll see something change in the near future. Damon's mother / Tad's first love just won't dangle out there forever.

[DRW50]

Why make Damon Hillary's son if Hillary isn't around? This just reinforces how pointless Damon is. Look, his mother is...someone from the Reagan years! Look, his father is...someone who already has 15 children he barely sees!

Bringing in a recast would also be odd. Even after a year I still can't get used to this Liza.

[You're Soaking in it]

Makes me wonder if there's any west-coast based actress(es) in this age-range that JHC had designs on when coming out here...

[DRW50]

I can't say I trust her casting very much.

Maybe they can bring Carmen Thomas in as Colby #5.

[SFK]

That's exactly what I'm thinking. I've had actor friends who I've thought, "Oh man, she could so play such and such", but my "vision" and affection for my friend wouldn't necessarily translate to the audience. You can't push the positive nostalgia angle when you subtract the original actor from the equation. I'd think they'd have learned that from the bumpy road of LunerLiza, it's not the easiest thing to pull off (understatement). They might as well have made Damon's mother some hitherto unmentioned character if they won't bring Hillary back, and it's not like Langley and Phoebe are around anymore to strengthen her bond anyway.

[You're Soaking in it]

We know that Damon was, under Pratt, intended to be someone else. From the cues in the story, Max Santos... which I don't think would have worked all that well, but that's water under the bridge, anyway. But evidently, someone in TPTB agreed that it wasn't the direction to take, and mandated a shift. We know that Broderick pitched the Hillary angle, and we know from Carmen Thomas' own comments that Broderick and MEK were lobbying for her (not just the character - but the actress) to return. But I wonder if, when Hillary was pitched to JHC and/or Frons, that certain available "stars" started flying around in their heads. There seems to be so much frenzy over grabbing one star from this place or that place... You see, I just don't believe that "Hillary" isn't on their radar in some respect. It's the wrong way to go about it... because they should give Carmen Thomas a shot... but unfortunately it would not surprise me at all if they had something else in mind.