OLTL Tribute Thread

[TheyStartedOnSoaps]

Tonja Walker (Alex) recently did a livestream on YouTube inviting fans to ask whatever they want - no topic was offlimits. Politics did come up and Tonja confirmed she is a Trump supporter - was originally going to back RFK Jr. but since he has dropped out, she has gone back to Trump

 

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[Franko]

In preparation for the Rauch-Gottlieb changeover, I went back and looked at our threads on this topic. The article mentioning Linda's casting of unique looking character actors like Paul Bartel and Wallace Shawn rushed back to me when watching Penn Jillette orchestrate Tina's makeover.

Edited August 30, 2024 by Franko

[DRW50]

After seeing him in the role, Chris ended up being my favorite of the Joeys - he was good at the sarcasm but also the heartfelt moments. I don't think the character ever clicks after that (almost all of the material for Nathan's Joey sucks once his initial story with Dorian is over, and the show never invested in the last three Joeys). 

[Khan]

TBH, I don't think OLTL ever found the right actor to play Joey or Kevin.

[NothinButAttitude]

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[cassadine1991]

I see they are approaching Loon Lake storyline. I see many of the comments saying that Craig Carlson is still writing the show and Malone starts August 3 also that Gottlieb’s influence is starting around July 3 or 4. 
 

Hard to know since the closing credits don’t appear.

Kirk Geiger was a good Kevin. From what I’m seeing in these 1991 rewatch Joey Thrower is not as bad as that godawful Matthew Vipond

[AMCOLTLLover]

Ofc she is but that’s alright. She is still a kind person and I mean she was a mob wife on OLTL. Makes sense lol

[Paul Raven]

TV Guide reported April 20 1968 that Sharon Laughlin had been signed for the new serial 'One Life to Lose' !

[Franko]

I have a question about when Jessica was molested. Was it supposed to be during her elementary school years or as a teenager? That plot element was weighing on my mind while watching Viki comfort young Jessica after Loon Lake.

[Vee]

Very young, like pre-elementary IIRC. It's so disgusting to think about. I still don't accept that it happened.

[DRW50]

I still don't believe Niki would have allowed that. I never cared for the huge rewrites to that alter, and it just got more and more grotesque.

[Vee]

My tortured retcon of the retcon there was always that Mitch Laurence had somehow engineered the false memory.

Mitch was obsessed in his later years with identifying with Victor Lord and his empire; he took his house, his wife and was obsessed with taking everything he had. You will recall that during Malone II he even had a psychotic break where he briefly believed he was Victor and Jessica was Viki. (There were some really strange scenes at Victor's secret mansion in the woods where he forced Viki to dance with him while speaking to her as Victor, and she had to play along.) Given that obsession on his part I can see Mitch's skullduggery somehow creating the scenario where Jessica develops an alter and history of abuse, just like the Viki/Victor saga. It's ridiculous, but so was Tess and Jessica being molested.

Were the show on today, I'd just handwave it away in a few lines: Jessica's DID was all just a false memory engineered by Mitch Laurence's schemes which she has undone with years of therapy, done. (But the trauma has left her still a different person.)

Edited September 12, 2024 by Vee

[DRW50]

That's a great idea.

I hate how often soaps need to have children repeat the stories of their parents in the name of melodrama, and the Tess plot is one of the biggest examples of why.

[Franko]

Thank you for the answers and insight, @Vee and @DRW50.

[John]

Rewatching 1991 on Youtube

I am liking Joey Thrower as Kevin

Chris McKenna was great as Joey too bad he never recaptured the role

This Stephanie/Kevin romeo & juliet is BS. When did Kevin start dating LeAnn

Karen Witter did well as Tina