I frankly don't think Labine's Brooklyn spinoff would have lasted. Rena Sofer was not going to stay on daytime forever (she became ubiquitous in primetime in the last '90s and 2000s), her relationship with Wally Kurth imploded soon after and they were supposed to be the linchpin of that show. It was a lovely idea I would've liked to see, but I don't think it had long legs. The issues RH had as a homespun NYC soap would've persisted.
I think PC as a pure concept (the young doctors of General Hospital) worked. But it was rushed out of the gate so they could get a spinoff, any cost-effective spinoff cheaper than Claire's on the air ASAP, and Riche overextended herself and got involved more than she probably should have with a pretty weak setup and stories. It didn't fully coalesce onscreen for several years, and then only briefly for small periods; the talented veteran cast and GH stars/past soap stars like Lynn, Jon, Kin, Debbi Morgan, etc. held it together in the meantime. It could've been much more. And I say that as someone who liked a lot about PC and would happily reintroduce some of its characters to GH (like Kevin/Scott and Lucy's adopted daughter Christina, or Rachel and Livvie Locke, or even Chris Ramsey if Nolan North didn't hate daytime).
That's an image! What kind of PC are you envisioning there?
Before they're both gone I want someone to pick the brains of Racina and Susan Horgan and get them to tell us what they had envisioned at OLTL 2.0. Rewatching some of GH '81 or DAYS in that decade you can see traces of the Triskelion tattoo caper on the more recent streaming show which seems very much his style. We know they had more scripts than were filmed, per the actors.
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