GH: Classic Thread

[Paul Raven]

@depboy appreciate you and others that are gathering factual information about the past, unlike some who rely on inaccurate sources and their own faulty recalls.

[Contessa Donatella]

Personally I've found offering corrections to wikis is pretty painless, unlike trying to correct something on imdb.com or wikipedia, which is incredibly difficult to accomplish & as frustrating as one can imagine while attempting it. Correcting one factual error on Beverlee McKinsey's pages took 4 attempts on each site. An attempt to correct a factual error on Patrick Mulcahey's pages failed, utterly.

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[depboy]

@cassadine1991@Paul Raven

Here's a better snapshot of writing credits (from the Dobson Papers).

GH Writing Credits

[MissPalmer]

God Bless you!!!!! Thank you very much!!!!!

[Forever8]

I always wanted Lucy or Scott to point out that Cody reminds them of his aunt Katherine. Not to mention, still not having Serena on canvas is another missed opportunity too.

[j swift]

In a convoluted soap opera way, it might've made more sense if Cody was an embryo that was made at the same time as Serena, and later implanted by Rex into another woman to hold onto the family fortune.  But, that would've made him Scotty's son, and goodness knows, Scotty's already had too many long-lost kids come out of the woodwork.

[cassadine1991]

Thank you so much. 

[dc11786]

Ned and Julia are fun, but they didn't stand a chance under Levinson. Ned may be sexually attracted to Julia, but he is still in love with Jenny. I'm in late May, 1993. Tracy has just run down Jenny with her car at the Port Charles Hotel parking garage. The tension in May is just insane sprinkled with beautiful moments of characters reflecting. While Jenny is in ICU, Julia sits with Ned in the waiting room after they have broken up romantically and Tracy's words echo in Julia's head how Ned will always be in love with Jenny. It's an emotional, underplayed moment. 

I haven't seen any of A.J. and Julia as a couple yet, but I look forward to it. Crystal Carson bears a slight resemblance to Camille Cooper (Nikki) that I could see how A.J. was drawn to her. I wonder if Cooper possibly auditioned for Brenda because the Brenda groundwork starts in December, 1991, and Nikki arrives in January, 1992, when Linda Grover seems to have introduced more elements into the show. 

When is Julia out? Is it November, 1993? I don't think Brenda's story heats up really until February when she and Sonny start and I don't think they knew how big that story was going to be. It is surprising they didn't look to bring back Julia because Brenda did become so big. Regarding Ned and Lois, Labine ends up redoing her bigamy marriage story from "Love of Life" slightly inverting some of the roles and adding the musical element. I think the Julia / Lois contrast would have been appealing (and would have been a great 1995 arc after Katherine is removed from the scenario). Especially given the Brenda/Lois connection.  

I hadn't considered that piece, but that would be intriguing. There is a brief period (late 1989) where they explore Audrey's paternity lie when Simone isn't sure if Tommy, Jr. is Harrison or Tom's. It is a rather interesting angle that gets quickly dropped after Tom has a brief bout of depression and starts to go off the rails (but not too far). I wish Audrey's past was explored more because when it was (during Liz's rape, for example) it was incredibly well done.

I'm on the edge of Ryan going after Audrey and Steve Hardy in my viewing of 1993. I cannot wait. Bernandino and Ames are just great. 

 I'm approaching Tracy's departure and I'm curious to see what, if any, pivot we see in the Paul and Jenny story once Tracy is gone. I think there was potential involving Damian in the Paul and Jenny story given Paul was a lawyer with a complicated past with the Cartel, Damian's posh demeanor and his family's criminal ties, and Jenny as someone who had been drawn by men with power before. I could see Levinson's Angela Eckert clucking over the idea of Jenny and Damian now that Paul was becoming more of a suburban dad type.  

I think there might have been a slight chance but the age difference between Josh Kelly and Carly Schroeder (if she were ever to return) would be noticeable. But isn't Cody Dominique's son in order for Mac to have a kid?

[carolineg]

You know I struggle to accept men were so crazy of Jenny lol.  Considering Jenny/Ned were obviously never going to be endgame it would have been nice to see Ned slowly fall for Julia after she broke up with him.

I liked AJ/Julia.  It was sexy and fun.  Not a love match or anything, but enjoyable still.  I saw more potential with Ned/Julia/AJ.  Ned dropping Jenny realizing he never had her to begin with and getting jealous over AJ/Julia.  

Camille Cooper auditioning for Brenda makes a lot of sense to me.  I would assume the show was initially looking for someone that actually looked liked CC.  Nikki also has some similar characteristics to early Brenda.  Glad the show held off on that casting and found the right actress for Brenda.

November 1993 sounds about right.  I would have to look it up.  The Sonny/Brenda romance was obviously a happy accident that blew up.  I was just thinking Brenda was being tested with AJ and Ned at this time so Julia would serve a purpose and an even bigger one once Sonny/Brenda took off.  Maybe the show wanted Julia out of the way if they did decide to pair Brenda with one of Julia's exes to make it less creepy?  Idk, the thought of Brenda/Ned always felt a bit weird to me, but I don't know how serious the show was really considering it.

I really think Julia being in the bigamy story over Katherine would have added so much more drama and conflict.  Katherine was always the bad guy, but if you bring Brenda's sister in as the 3rd wheel there is instantly conflict with Brenda, Lois, Sonny, Ned, Julia, the Q's that Katherine just didn't bring.  Everyone just hated her lol.  It might have been difficult to dig Julia out of that situation without her coming off looking bad though.  

[DRW50]

I think the age difference would not be as big a deal in this case as he should be several years older than Serena anyway (I see he's about eight years older in real life but there have been bigger leaps in soap). 

[Franko]

According to the Curlyqgrl summaries, Julia left on Friday, Nov. 19, 1993.

[Khan]

You're not alone, lol.

Granted, I wasn't watching GH everyday at that point, because my 2 pm (CST) viewing time was split between GL and SaBa, but I did watch semi-regularly; and what I saw of Jenny, I found to be incredibly dull.  Even the retcon with Senator Kensington, or whatever his name was, was just so dull.

[carolineg]

Exactly.  Jenny isn't an awful person or anything, she's just boring and wishy washy.  She either creates silly problems for herself or just lets things happen to her and waits for some man to save her.  She obviously was attractive, but she didn't have any stand out personality traits that would make me believe men would be fighting over her.

[j swift]

Jenny, Decker, and Edge Jerome are all examples that a character needs more than a unique haircut.

[Franko]

Okay, this isn't my exact reaction whenever the conversation drifts back to Jenny, but it's close ...

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No, but in all seriousness, I wish they would have hung onto Dawn a little longer rather than try again with another short-lived young female.