I thought I'd open since it's been a week. It still doesn't seem real.

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.

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. 

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. 

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?

 

1 hour ago, Paul Raven said:

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?

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.

2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

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?

 

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.

20 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

In the mid-1980s, there was no one hotter.

I didn't realize until now that Jon Hensley was only 20/21 around this time. He always played as older to me.

 

5 hours ago, DRW50 said:

I didn't realize until now that Jon Hensley was only 20/21 around this time. He always played as older to me.

 

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. 

hard to believe it’s been 13 years…

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! 

19 minutes ago, wonderwoman1951 said:

hard to believe it’s been 13 years…

ugh. I'm still devastated. So much could have been done to say this soap and Guiding Light.

Marland talks about his new soap on CBS that unfortunately never materialized.

Edited September 17, 20232 yr by Soapsuds