Members Liberty City Posted September 3, 2023 Members Share Posted September 3, 2023 That was another head-scratcher. Yes, it was. Two totally different characters if you ask me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted September 4, 2023 Members Share Posted September 4, 2023 I understood why Wilson was brough on as Meg, given there were more connections with the current characters for Meg than Ellie. It was always canon that Holden and Meg were the closer brother/sister pair, and Meg's previous relationship with Dusty. I don't think Craig had been recast at the time of her hiring. There was also the initial subplot of Lucinda needing a nurse. But no....she certainly wasn't the troublemaking Meg of yore. She didn't even seem like a reformed troublemaker. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted September 4, 2023 Members Share Posted September 4, 2023 If you ask me, I think McCouch looked more like a long lost Snyder than anything else. Had they cast him as Caleb, I could only imagine how the sibling rivalry between he and Holden could have played out. Why did they bring McCouch on as a wannabe thug version of Dusty when Caleb was right there to be cast? And Caleb had something of a shady past, so McCouch could have played the role with almost the exact choices as he did for the role of Dusty and not only would it not have mattered but it might have resonated more as well as made more sense. Oh well. ATWT had talented enough actors in the last decade of the show’s run but the casting process was a mess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted September 4, 2023 Members Share Posted September 4, 2023 Not that I think McCouch looks like a Snyder, but if they had wanted to go that way, he could have been Brad. I never understood McCouch's take on mobbed-up diction, which was hideous. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted September 4, 2023 Members Share Posted September 4, 2023 And wasn't it the case that McCrouch's Dusty had little to do with John but they had been close when Bloom played Dusty? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted September 4, 2023 Members Share Posted September 4, 2023 John was like a father to Dusty. Their relationship added a dimension to John’s personality, who could otherwise easily been seen as an ogre, or at the very least, a curmudgeon, on the verge of a misanthrope. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted September 4, 2023 Members Share Posted September 4, 2023 John quietly disappeared out of town around the time Dusty reappeared. I think they did overlap slightly, but that was probably the main reason there wasn't a ton of interaction between McCouch and Bryggman. Except of course, at the end. This Carly/Jack fan still blesses his black heart for ordering that DNA test that proved Jack wasn't the father of Janet's baby. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted September 10, 2023 Members Share Posted September 10, 2023 Please register in order to view this content 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarlandFan Posted September 11, 2023 Members Share Posted September 11, 2023 In the mid-1980s, there was no one hotter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 11, 2023 Members Share Posted September 11, 2023 I didn't realize until now that Jon Hensley was only 20/21 around this time. He always played as older to me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted September 11, 2023 Members Share Posted September 11, 2023 Me too. Maybe it was the stubble. Or the fact that his early interactions on the show were comprised of mainly Meg, Lily and Dusty, who all seemed so much younger than him onscreen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wonderwoman1951 Posted September 17, 2023 Members Share Posted September 17, 2023 hard to believe it’s been 13 years… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted September 17, 2023 Members Share Posted September 17, 2023 Yeah, 13 years. Happy Endiversary to all who celebrate. Watching a YouTube of the last show, thinking about the ones we've lost, Liz Hubbard & Lisa Brown, ... Personally I still think the cancelation was a mistake. And I very much miss the NY soap scene! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Liberty City Posted September 17, 2023 Members Share Posted September 17, 2023 ugh. I'm still devastated. So much could have been done to say this soap and Guiding Light. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted September 17, 2023 Members Share Posted September 17, 2023 (edited) Marland talks about his new soap on CBS that unfortunately never materialized. Please register in order to view this content Edited September 17, 2023 by Soapsuds 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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