GH: Discussion for the Month of May

[SweetPea36]

LW wears extensions for fullness, not length. That's the same thing they did with KS. On BH, they do both fullness and length.

[R Sinclair]

I dismiss this whole "LW Wears Extensions" theory. Otherwise, whoever puts them in needs to be fired, because most days, LW's hair looks fried and untamed.

[frequentsoapfan]

Most actresses wear extensions, now not everyone styles extension well and I've seen women pay alot of money for them and they looked fried and ratty(a rich girl I went to highschool with as an example)

[Ann_SS]

Megan Ward's hair was perfect. I can't remember the last time that a woman on the soaps actually looked as stylish (hair and wardrobe) as her Kate did.

I like JL's hair. I see no reason for her to cut it.

[Cheap21]

I LOVED MW's hair. I love how versatile her look was despite it being short for most of her run

- she looks like Olivia here

and then there's this raggedy bitch

[DynamiteKiddo]

I only started watching in '00. I've since watched parts of older stories on youtube, namely the baby Michael saga. I've seen an amount of the heart transplant and I loved what I've seen. I remember really liking RR's Maxie with Zander, because I loved Zander and everyone turned on him but her, lol. I didn't think recasting Maxie was necessary at ALL and I was horrified when KS was announced and I thought she sucked in the heart transplant 2.0 and Jesse stories, but like I said, I thought KS owned after the Maxie-narrated episode in Sept. '06 and the deal was sealed with Metro Court hostage crisis for me. But it was my understanding that Maxie wasn't recast because "RR wasn't sexy enough," but because of a decade-long casting war between GH and "Days." Maybe I'm wrong . . . ?

I don't know how Kristen Alderson or (and I know this is an unpopular opinion) her brother stayed employed at OLTL through the finale, and I can't believe she was transplanted to GH. KA seems like a sweet girl, but she's a disaster actress with no recognizable appeal, IMO. The only thing about Starr I liked was the theoretical concept of her "Starr X'd" romance with Cole. And good God I hated Starr as a little hellspawn girl.

[Skin]

The Maxie character was changed a lot under Storms. It doesn't surprise me that a sizable amount of fans don't see JL as Maxie, when you look at how Maxie as a character was changed under Storms you begin to see how much she exemplified that Maxie compared to the character JL is currently playing.

[DRW50]

They really killed Maxie as a character when she became all about Spinelli. She's never recovered.

[DynamiteKiddo]

I guess if you weren't into KS it wouldn't matter much, but from my POV, KS/Maxie was a situation where the actor became synonymous with the character. So many of my opinions about Maxie were influenced by KS' look, mannerisms, and, yes, voice. LOL. Like I've already said, I like JL, I just came to equate KS and Maxie.

Snarly is an iconic character played very successfully (according to the soap press) by three different actresses (and ummmmmmmmmm Jennifer Bransford) and I think they've all worked and embodied the character in different ways. TB's my favorite, and even though I felt/feel so assaulted and offended by SB and LW's Carly (though I even felt that way about TB's Carly, God what a bitch of a character), I think they're great in the roles. LW doesn't seem to be tolerated around here much, but I do really think she's everything Carly needs to be--a horrible subhuman.

I never understood this and think it's highly inappropriate because of Georgie. But I've never had much use for Spinelli.

[frequentsoapfan]

You're wrong Maxie was recast to make her sexier because the first recat was a hot mess! Danica Stewart was horrible as Maxie and didn't last long and then Passions scooped her up and then NBC gave her a short lived web soap Coastal Dreams. She was the sexy new rebellious Maxie. She was sexy new prostiute Jessica on Passions

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRFdhwzUuyANYdV3gxNRLW2uIox6r8up39MY6XUSYmMFBKpl3LQIARfDH_CIQ

[Skin]

It really depends on your perspective I thought the character hit rock bottom when she was forcing Lucky to sex her up in exchange for pills she stole from the Hospital. The Maxie that we knew up until that point in the story would never have done that. It just progressively got worse until the show tried to redeem her with Georgie's death. Maxie underwent tons of changes. The bad girl overhaul, the fashion apprenticeship, Spinelli's girlfriend, her rivalry with Lulu, etc. so many things changed for her in such a brief amount of time that KS just sort of became that version of Maxie even if the character was completely different from what RR's Maxie was. I can definitely see why viewers are having a hard time with JL. KS' Maxie was definitive and impressionable even if her Maxie was completely different then the one GH viewers grew up with.

[Mr. Vixen]

I'm done. Oh my God.

I loved MW and miss her so much.

[frequentsoapfan]

I'm pretty sure some of the JL haters started watching in 2006 since someone said KS is the Maxie that was on the show from childhood to an adult like Lucky and Robin and a bunch of people agreed.

[DynamiteKiddo]

But then they immediately rehired RR (and RR was playing Maxie when she was mixed up with Kyle and the drugs and stuff). RR also didn't have a storyline for forever and there was talk of her leaving before KS came around because she wasn't on contract and wanted to be someplace else where she'd have job security. She allegedly auditioned for "Days'" Belle in '04 when KS left that role. Was RR's last appearance for Lila's memorial?

[DRW50]

At least Maxie was driving story at that time. She has done jack all in recent years aside from squeaking SPINELLI! and bitching with random female characters, and occasionally being used as a whore.