7 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

I just saw that Dylan Cash's most recent Twitter activity was retweeting a complaint about the Esme and Spencer story in 2023.

Finally, solidarity.

8 hours ago, BadBoy93 said:

I was thinking about The Text Message Killer story arc from 07-08 and part of me wonders if they had other ideas for the killer than who it turned out to be. Was the introduction of Logan & Johnny meant to have led to that or was it always...who it was?

The original story was interrupted by a writer’s strike. So if Garin Wolf who went Fi-CORE and JFP knew the original plan they changed it into that hack ending with Diego Alcazar.

That whole period of time still pisses me off. They had the best set of young characters since the early 90’s with Coop, Maxie, Lulu, Logan, Georgie and Spinelli. And they never should have killed Emily or Georgie.

I know the rumors about Josh Duhon being difficult, so I still wonder if Logan was supposed to be another victim or the killer. Because after the strike ended those writers came back and got rid of him pretty quickly. None of it made sense, but it did fit the pattern of the show becoming bored with a set of characters after introducing them and letting the dominate.

6 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

That whole period of time still pisses me off. They had the best set of young characters since the early 90’s with Coop, Maxie, Lulu, Logan, Georgie and Spinelli. And they never should have killed Emily or Georgie.

I didn't care about Coop, but I did like that end of the canvas at the time. I think part of the predictable issue was that it was not mob-centric enough for Guza's team or Frons or whoever. So Johnny Zacchara comes in and everything changes. I liked Johnny and the gothic elements of the Zaccharas, but it was also more of the same direction.

17 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

I know the rumors about Josh Duhon being difficult, so I still wonder if Logan was supposed to be another victim or the killer. Because after the strike ended those writers came back and got rid of him pretty quickly. None of it made sense, but it did fit the pattern of the show becoming bored with a set of characters after introducing them and letting the dominate.

I think the show wanted to keep Duhon until he became too difficult and JMB complained. I believed Logan might have been the original killer, caught on, became Scott's son, Lulu's boyfriend and then the show just ditched him when it was too much trouble.

10 minutes ago, Vee said:

I didn't care about Coop, but I did like that end of the canvas at the time. I think part of the predictable issue was that it was not mob-centric enough for Guza's team or Frons or whoever. So Johnny Zacchara comes in and everything changes. I liked Johnny and the gothic elements of the Zaccharas, but it was also more of the same direction.

Again, Coop should have been Julia's son or Brenda/Julia's baby brother, but no. The show never even mentioned they had the same last name.

1 hour ago, Vee said:

I didn't care about Coop, but I did like that end of the canvas at the time.

At the time I thought he was cute, not a great actor though. But I also thought his involvement with Jerry Jax gave him some storytelling possibilities, as did his last name. He also becomes Maxie’s second dead partner (eventually of four, so she has a full set).

2 hours ago, titan1978 said:

He also becomes Maxie’s second dead partner (eventually of four, so she has a full set).

Now I understand why some think she and Spinelli made (and still make) such a cute couple! SPINMAX FOREVER!!

I was digging back into the early GH '78 stuff. Do we know when Mark Dante and Katie Corbin left the first time (I assume they wed after old Lamont passed)? What about Gina and Gary Lansing? I wonder how quickly Monty broomed all these people out. I know Gina was still there in November IIRC, or I may be wrong. I wonder who else they shoved out the door quick.

Katie and Mark left in August 78. Marland/Monty were smart in that they didn't do a massive housecleaning. GH had a couple of years with that previously.

Also it might have been a contract thing. Maybe Gerald Gordon had that clause that he would have to be paid out if he was written out early.?

Gina and Gary were wed in March 78 and there wasn't much story after that. I was surprised they made it till June 79. There was some sibling rivalry stuff with Gary's brother Howard and Gary's decision to become an author and give up medicine.

Gina and Gary realize their marriage is over because they have different goals in life. Gary goes to New York to pursue his writing career while Gina is off to Wyoming and a medical research grant.

Overall, the only character quickly dropped was Lana/Lisa, the spilt personality chick involved with Jeff.