All My Children Tribute Thread

[Khan]

Here's my scenario: Rae, as established, got pregnant while in college and had her baby at the Fannie Battle Home for Unwed Mothers (per SoapCentral). Unfortunately, she learns her baby, a boy, died soon after birth, and that his death, the result of the physician's basic incompetency, was covered up. And the page from the Bible that supposedly named Skye as Rae's biological daughter? That was a complete forgery, thanks to Rae's ex-hubby, Daniel Faulkner.

Althea is, indeed, Skye's real and true biological mother. However, Althea feared her daughter might have been fathered by another man she was having an affair with. Ergo, in order to hide her infidelity, Althea checked herself into the same home as Rae, gave birth to her daughter (Skye), then basically adopted her own daughter. Yes, she passed off Skye as Adam's daughter anyway. However, Althea reasoned, if Adam ever suspected that Skye was not really his, she created this scenario to throw him off-track.

(And the man who'd been sleeping with Althea...? Edward Quartermaine. Or, Palmer Cortlandt. Whichever has more impact.)

Not a perfect scenario, but one that works with established history, for the most part, and restores Skye back to being a full-blooded Chandler w/o having people behaving completely OOC.

Edited November 29, 2012 by Khan

[DRW50]

Yes, that was already ridiculous, as she was apparently having sex around the same time with Alan, Adam, another man, Tony Jones (?), and someone else who was on OLTL briefly. Then Stuart, who was homicidal at that time. It's going to turn into that old SNL sketch where Gilda Radner invited homeless men up to her room for sex and cheap beer.

Edited November 29, 2012 by CarlD2

[Cheap21]

It was revealed. The entire basis of her going to GH was to make it Alan. The current uncertainity about her paternity is a retcon that happened years later but definetly was not a part of the original storyline which had Rae crossing over. FYI, She crossed over to 4 shows, not 3

[Khan]

All this talk of Rae "crossing over" makes me think of "Ghost Whisperer." (Go into the light, Gretel Rae!)

[BKuzak]

And don't forget poor Jessica to Victoria and Clint Buchanan on One Life to Live. We assume for the first 14 (well 18 in soap land) years of her life that she was the prize daughter of Viki and Clint. then in 2001 they made it that Alison Perkins switched the babies and Jessica was not Clint and Viki's...Natalie was. Then in 2002 they decide to make Jessica and Natalie twins by different fathers...still not Clint's daughter. Then in 2012 on the final episode they finally made Jessica Viki and Clint's daughter again.

I'm just glad Ske mentioned Pine Valley.

[Khan]

And I still say the story should have ended right there. Everything else...well, that's for another thread about another cancelled show.

[SFK]

I really like this! And it sounds very soapy believable. It gives never seen Althea three dimensions, and I'm imagining her as this sort of Tudi Wiggins-type actress. Constance McCashin would have made for a good Althea had the character lived.

[FrenchFan]

Why did Rae appear in "Port Charles" ?

[Khan]

Actually, SFK, I think McCashin would have been perfect on ALL MY CHILDREN as Brooke's long-lost half-sister, either by Ed English (with another woman), or by her mother. Just imagine, too, if her character had hooked up with Tom Cudahy or Tad Martin.

[BKuzak]

I don't think she went to the show Port Charles. She went to General Hospital. I don't remember her going to "Port Charles" the show.

I was just making an example.

[SFK]

She was definitely on PC too, that was the whole hoopla of her coming to ABC, so she could be on all four soaps. But I need to look up what she did on that show opposed to GH.

[Khan]

No doubt, she wasn't there for anything meaningful. Honestly, her whole cross-over-a-palooza was about as bad as Liz Taylor rummaging through the CBS Monday Night lineup for her missing pearls.

[DRW50]

She was on PC in her quest to find a desk that contained papers about who knocked her up. It was implied that Dr. Eve Lambert would be her daughter.

That was one of the reasons the story was panned at the time - Kelly Cramer, Eve Lambert, and Skye Chandler were not exactly in the same age group (Kelly was only supposed to be about 23-24 years old!).

[SFK]

Carl, you just beat me to it. I looked through old PC synopses and I finally stumbled upon the whole Rae/Eve thing. Had totally forgotten about that. Also mentioned was Lucy's hunch that Alan and Rae were more than just friends which of course paved the way for Alan/Rae/Skye.

[Khan]

I don't know why Rae's quest was limited to the ABCD soaps. She easily could have appeared on "The View," asking whether Elisabeth Hasselbeck was "the one"; or shown up on "Dharma & Greg," with a clue tying Dharma to the Fannie Battle Home.

I mean, the possibilities were endless.