Michele Val Jean wrote a lot of the rape revisitation storyline and monologues during that time. 

On 1/24/2024 at 10:10 AM, carolineg said:

To be fair, Carly has been like this 20 years longer than Diana was around and was killed off.  We will never rid ourselves so easily of Carly lol.

Yeah and after the Phil Brewer murder was resolved, Diana wasn't really a lead for the remaining 5 - 6 years of the character's run. She was of course involved in the Steven-Lars mess but mainly in a supporting role. Her reign as the drama queen of GH was relatively short-lived.

On 1/25/2024 at 12:23 PM, BetterForgotten said:

Michele Val Jean wrote a lot of the rape revisitation storyline and monologues during that time. 

Yes, she was in charge of the story, I believe. She used Laura's rape, Liz's rape, her own ... uh, either sexual assault or rape, ... and they even got a rape that Liz's grandmother experienced into the act. 

On 1/23/2024 at 12:02 PM, AMCOLTLLover said:

I just need like the last week of June and have to wait for my German source to sent me them over. I would watch them in English but don’t know if there was a preemption June 23rd and June 24th.. Coz I don’t really want to miss the anything right now. May and June are so strong again. Thank god

 

If it's a problem with getting the episodes, I had good luck finding a hard-to-find Stavros episode without horrible audio buzz at Daytime Royalty, the Video Vault thread. 

And, in turn I was also able to get 7 DAYS episodes for someone. Quite a bit of giving & getting. 

In the fan communities it's pretty well known what a show's best and prime years were. Bold for example was the best 1989-1993. I was just wondering... What are General Hospital best years ever?

Edited January 28, 20241 yr by OpportunisticSlut

6 minutes ago, OpportunisticSlut said:

In the fan communities it's pretty well known what a show's best and prime years were. Bold for example was the best 1989-1993. I was just wondering... What are General Hospital best years ever?

I would say the Wendy Riche/Claire Labine years

Riche was EP 1992-2001

Labine was HW Oct 11, 1993-Mar 1, 1996

12 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

I would say the Wendy Riche/Claire Labine years

Riche was EP 1992-2001

Labine was HW Oct 11, 1993-Mar 1, 1996

Thank you! I trust your opinion.

On 1/25/2024 at 12:10 PM, AbcNbc247 said:

I’d love to see Patrick Mulcahey write for Lucky, but I still don’t see Lucky coming back… unless he’s played by someone from OLTL 😂

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Tom Degnan? Nathan Fillion? Chris McKenna? 🤣 Again, I've even said Josh Kelly would have been a solid Drew or Lucky, but, we got him as Cody, so....

On 1/25/2024 at 12:23 PM, BetterForgotten said:

Michele Val Jean wrote a lot of the rape revisitation storyline and monologues during that time. 

Crossing my fingers that some how, some way Patrick Mulcahey is about to lure Michele Val Jean away from the dead sea that is Bold to return to General Hospital in some capacity.

34 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

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Tom Degnan? Nathan Fillion? Chris McKenna? 🤣 Again, I've even said Josh Kelly would have been a solid Drew or Lucky, but, we got him as Cody, so....

Crossing my fingers that some how, some way Patrick Mulcahey is about to lure Michele Val Jean away from the dead sea that is Bold to return to General Hospital in some capacity.

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Tom Degnan? Nathan Fillion? Chris McKenna? 🤣 Again, I've even said Josh Kelly would have been a solid Drew or Lucky, but, we got him as Cody, so....

Crossing my fingers that some how, some way Patrick Mulcahey is about to lure Michele Val Jean away from the dead sea that is Bold to return to General Hospital in some capacity.

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She's said that she is legally bound by contract. Of course, all contracts have dates when they come up, so we can cross our fingers for a future date!!! 

40 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

 

Crossing my fingers that some how, some way Patrick Mulcahey is about to lure Michele Val Jean away from the dead sea that is Bold to return to General Hospital in some capacity.

I'm sure he will lure her away at some point.  As a matter of fact, I wouldn't be too surprised if you look up one day and see either Nancy Curlee's or Stephen Demorest's name in the credits.   

Believe it or not, I actually like Tom Degnan.  I liked him on ATWT, and I liked him on OLTL, too, even though, in both cases, he got saddled with bad storylines.  Not the world's finest actor, and probably not at all convincing as a villain or even anti-hero, but definitely someone who could've grown into another tentpole actor/character, if given the right opportunity on the right show.

Edited January 28, 20241 yr by Khan

Just now, Khan said:

Believe it or not, I actually like Tom Degnan.  I liked him on ATWT, and I liked him on OLTL, too, even though, in both cases, he got saddled with bad storylines.  Not the world's finest actor, and probably not at all convincing as a villain or even anti-hero, but definitely someone who could've grown into another tentpole actor/character, if given the right opportunity on the right show.

Believe it or not, I actually like Tom Degnan.  I liked him on ATWT, and I liked him on OLTL, too, even though, in both cases, he got saddled with bad storylines.  Not the world's finest actor, and probably not at all convincing as a villain or even anti-hero, but definitely someone who could've grown into another tentpole actor/character, if given the right opportunity on the right show.

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💯 He isn't the worst actor to come out of east coast soaps. And I like the work he did as Adam on World Turns, but I do feel like whether there or even at One Life he was not even enough time to really dig deep into either role.

I was wondering… Did Laura and JAX ever had something to do with each other? I can’t remember seeing them in a story together or anything else and JAX was a contract player for ages.. 

1 hour ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

I was wondering… Did Laura and JAX ever had something to do with each other? I can’t remember seeing them in a story together or anything else and JAX was a contract player for ages.. 

She didn’t share much time with Brenda and Luke and Sonny were partners in the club. They had a few encounters but nothing lasting.

They kind of islanded Laura after Genie’s maternity leave, probably because she got a first in first out agreement with Wendy and ABC so she could be with her kids as much as possible. Some of her co-stars did not like it. JFP certainly didn’t when she got there. Vanessa Marcil wanted something similar to extend her first return and JFP and ABC wouldn’t agree to that, they just kept throwing money at her thinking that would be more important than her kid.

For a couple of years Laura suffered the Nikki thing with the ranch on Y&R- her house was her set and where she mostly appeared.

12 hours ago, Khan said:

 

That would be a dream if Curlee and/or Demorest were ever to come back to write soaps

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1 hour ago, cassadine1991 said:

That would be a dream if Curlee and/or Demorest were ever to come back to write soaps

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PM’s pretty much the only person who could probably get Nancy especially to ever return to this dying medium, even as just a story consultant or breakdown/scriptwriter. It will be interesting to see how this writing team shakes out with so many of PM’s contemporaries that he once worked being either retired or dead. 

But how great would it be to wake up in an alternate reality to news that Sony/CBS has hired Curlee/Demorest to take over Y&R and given them complete creative control to do as they’d like? 
 

It'll be very interesting to see what plays out here staff-wise. I don't know which of the current crop of writers are solid. And again I believe a number of young writers of color are still on staff at GH brought in over the most recent years; folks can correct me if I'm wrong. As we've all noted, Mulcahey and Korte are the first key GH writers installed that didn't have their careers made by Frank or come from OLTL since before he and Ron took over.

BTW @Errol the quoting system is real messed up.

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