"Young and Restless" Celebrates 9th Anniversary

[OldSchoolSoapFan]

The writing for Celia and Grant wasn't as bad as the writing for Holly and Scorpio in 1984. The worst mistake they ever did was break up Holly and Luke, in my honest opinion. Holly was terrific as the scheming vixen in 1982 when she was scamming Port Charles with supposed oil findings with her father and Basil (her cousin I think) and I liked Holly and Luke as a couple (despite their tension in that fateful summer of '82). When the writers decided to have Luke "die" in an avalanche and be out-of-action for four or five months (thanks to Tony Geary's sabbatical), they paired Holly and Scorpio together. Ugh---the beginning of 1984 had Holly acting as a sleuth to nab Greg Brady (Barry Williams was playing a slick dance instructor). That was a nice storyline and I thought Holly was great in that role (she was always good at being spunky). But Scorpio didn't want her playing detective and for that entire year she was either window dressing at a spa or moping around her house whining about how Scorpio won't let her do anything. The writers turned her into a shell of her former self, but they also turned Scorpio into a caricature as well. The only storyline that really piqued my interest on GH in '84 was Beatrice (Jimmy Lee's mother) and her self-destruction.

[DRW50]

I've never seen the Beatrice story I will have to look for that.

I guess you heard a year or so ago they brought in a child Luke and Holly had had back in the late 80s.

[OldSchoolSoapFan]

LOL---I haven't followed GH in eons so it doesn't surprise me they'd do that. Did you know that Holly miscarried the baby she had with Luke in early 1983, when Luke was presumed dead?

[DRW50]

Yeah, that was when she was married to Robert and he was pretending to be the baby's father.

I wonder if the time Holly wasn't on much was when Emma was doing both Dynasty and GH, I think she did that for a year or so before leaving.

They've never gotten any of her returns right, you were better off not following those.