Characters that we gone too long and should've been on canvas

[Khan]

You, too?

And I DEFINITELY agree about there being little use for Sonny after '97. In fact, I felt Sonny needed to go after the whole Stripper-Karen-on-drugs escapade. But that's just me.

[DRW50]

At the time I remember trying to figure out which soap actors could pull off swinging off a tripod. I finally decided I wanted to see Beverlee McKinsey swinging a tripod. Considering some of her on-set relationships, maybe she did...

[Khan]

Aside from Asa, Bo and Viki, ONE LIFE TO LIVE had a devil of a time holding onto their vets, it seems.

And yeah, Delila should have returned, although I struggle to figure out the proper place for her on OLTL's post-Rauch canvas.

Huh?

[carolineg]

Cringeworthy awful and I love me some Vanessa Marcil. I actually watched Las Vegas for 4 out of 5 seasons and most of her 90210 episodes!! That is how bad I thought her ride on the crazy train was.....

I loved early S&B, so I can't say he should have left before 97, but anything mildly endearing about him went out the window when he returned in late 98.

The tripod thing is in reference to Brenda going nuts during a modeling shoot and using a tripod as some sort of weapon to defend herself against imaginary gunshots.

[Khan]

Wow, I always forget there was a time when Maurice Benard and Sonny Corinthos were off GH's canvas in the late '90's. That's how ingrained the two have become.

[DRW50]

Yes. Poor Vanessa Marcil had to swing a tripod. I haven't seen this in years so I'm probably adding on, and I've convinced myself she went Rambo, but it was just so incredibly bizarre.

[Khan]

I thought "swinging off a tripod" was referring to my comment about Karen as a drug-dependent stripper. And then when you talked about Beverlee McKinsey, of all people, swinging on one....

[carolineg]

There really are no appropriate words to describe what went on except WTF? It was just so, so horrible. I tend to block it out and pretend it never happened. It's not like GH brings it up much except to describe Brenda ad naseaum as mentally fragile. Poor tripod...........

[Khan]

All I remember, apparently, was Brenda freaking out from the flashing lightbulbs and thinking she was having some mild PCP flashback.

[SoapSurvivor]

Well Delila had a daughter (wasn't she a Buke), the child could have been rewritten as Asa or Bo's. Delilah could have been a continous foil for Nora and Renee (For Bo and Asa), and wasn't she Vicki's friend?....One can only imagine now.

[Khan]

Come to think of it, if I had been HW, I might've killed off Rafe and then paired up Delila with Andrew Carpenter. An odd pairing, to be sure, but at least Sami, now a teenager, might have given him, along with Sloan, more avenues for story.

[Khan]

I think Sami was Rafe's daughter (in fact, didn't Delila become a sort-of surrogate for the baby after Samantha Vernon had been murdered?), but I can't recall whether Rafe was related biologically to the Buchanans. Either way, though, I don't know whether I would have wanted Sami ret-conned as Asa or Bo's kid.

Meanwhile, I want to add Larry and Jenny Wolek to this ever-growing list. ONE LIFE TO LIVE never should have phased out all the Woleks. Not even if it meant pulling a Y&R and tying Larry and/or Jenny to other, new clans in Llanview.

[Dr Neil Curtis]

I don't know how Susan was written out, but she was recasted and moved out Julie & Doug orbit. She married Greg Peters, had a child, Anne (VIA rape-by the brother of Greg, Eric Peters) and that's all I know.

Others from Days:

Neil Curtis

Alex Marshall

Marie Horton

Melissa Anderson

Phyllis Anderson

Liz Curtis

Don Craig

Trish Clayton

and My boy Tommy Horton .

[SoapSurvivor]

I agree about Melissa maybe not so much some of the others. Melissa was young and fiesty and just as relevant as Jennifer. Melissa's parents were in town so she had connections. I feel like instead of Jennifer, Billie (I love the character), Frankie, Tony and even Stefano getting to come and go other characters should've been played a second round.

[alexisfan07]

I'm still not sure why Rachel Gannon was offscreen and/or stuck in horrible stories for years. She could've been a wonderful leading lady and Daphnee's stint was also an embarrassment, she had a ton of potential.