ALL: If only they'd done it this way...

[Gray Bunny]

Guiding Light's Reva had breast cancer in 2006. But years prior in 1999, there were plans to do a breast cancer story for Reva, but they dropped it in favor of a more "sweeping, romantic" storyline of her being a princess in San Cristobel (apparently their efforts at keeping potential eyeballs from going over to new soap Passions). Without San Cristobel, there would've been no Richard, Edmund, Olivia, plus no split stories between Springfield and San Cristobel for three years. Hmm, come to think of it. No Richard would've meant no Jeffrey O'Neill...

[YRfan23]

Let's see....

Well first thing's first, I think it would have been better off on Passions just to make Theresa a flat out Bitch rather then the main heroine/anti-heroine. I liked Theresa don't get me wrong and I always thought Lindsay Hartley was one of the best actresses on that show, but I just feel like they tried too hard to justify all her actions and should have just made her more vindictive about them....not that she wasn't but, I guess it also would have made Gwen's actions seem more tolerable since it always seemed like her and Rebecca outing Ethan's paternity to the tabloid and then framing Theresa for it is what kept viewers (myself included) from feeling sorry for her.

Too many to mention for Y&R.....I swear if we can just erase the last 10 years.....

on B&B I got to thinking that what if they had just decided to not kill Phoebe off and she was the one that ended up fighting sister Steffy over Liam etc....That would have been so much better then this contrived idea to do the next generation's Brooke and Taylor with Hope and Steffy. It's a classic Bell staple for sisters to fight over the same men (look at Leslie and Lorie, Ashley and Traci even Brooke and Katie ) so I just think it would have been better to see sisters fight over the same men then to see the same Forrester vs Logan crap played out.

[cassadine1991]

Does that mean there also wouldn't have been Jonathan?

[All My Shadows]

I loved Kevin, and I thought he and Luke had an interesting friendship, but looking back, I'm glad they never went the "he's homophobic because he's gay!!" route with him. I do think they should have kept him around and had he and Luke rebuild their friendship after everything that happened that summer.

My main OLTL one is pretty simple. Jess/Brody vs. Nat/Jared should have been focused squarely on the custody of the kids. Natalie and Jared versus the unstable Jessica and Brody with Jessica and Brody up against Jessica's sister and the guy who supposedly "killed" their father.

[DramatistDreamer]

Oh, okay, I actually remember him now. Boy, it's insane how little remember of the last decade of the show?

I didn't know GM was gay. I guess I know little of the actor's personal lives though. Not that this means anything because many people marry and then come out (even after children) but I seem to remember coming across some photograph of him with a woman next to Finn Carter and Steven Weber. Maybe I'm mistaken. Makes no difference. GM and HBS were hot and I was sorry that GM left.

[Soapsuds]

Here is Luke and Kevin..and Luke feeling uncomfortable when Kevin invites him out on a double date with another girl and then Kevin puts his hands/arm around his shoulder and interrupted by another friend while Damian watches it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdXBZP3N1l8

[Soapsuds]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kLjbcL5F7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRsm1jPh4x4

Only thing I think Pissy did well....

[Soapsuds]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx5vWo7PIrU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV6FsUhRWt8

Later Kevin returned and I guess Pissy forgot they had patched things up somewhat because Kevin couldnt stand Luke once again.

[Soapsuds]

Kevin returns and Noah meets "The Kevin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlf8JIu6SwA

[John]

If you watch the whole Kevin Vs Luke for Student Body Prez its Luke who never got over Kevin's reaction to him coming out

[juppiter]

Kevin was a good actor and he was so sexy too. I think that was a missed opportunity for sure. He should have been developed into a main character. Noah was always too stiff, wooden, and unbelievable. Kevin struggling with his gay side could have been a great story.

[cuzIsaySo]

I am probably gonna be stoned for this but I liked Ameera or at least i liked the actress i just really hated the whole storyline just like i did about every cartoon vilains that were thrown Nuke'ss way to make them seemingly viableas a couple.

I lucked out by missing most of the wonder twins mess thank god

I wish i could say the same for the Lucinda/Lucinda's boyfriend/Luke storyline.

I wanted Levin so bad and wish the show had done something with this unexpected pairing.

[Paul Raven]

To undo the Kay/Jill mess on Y&R, have it that Bill Foster had an affair with a local woman that resulted in her pregnancy (not a stretch considering that Bill was a portrayed as a dead beat dad). The woman dies in childbirth so Bill arranges for he and Liz to adopt baby Jill.Therefore Jill is a Foster again.

As for Kay's child, rather than the convoluted Tucker/Devon mess ,have Katherine discover that her daughter became a nun, who ironically chose the name Sr Katherine and devoted her life to good deeds before dying young.That would wrap up that side of things rather than introducing a new character that only reminded viewers of the nonsensical rewrite.

No need to kill off Liz.

Another story beat was Lauren marrying Scott when Paul was presumed dead. In fact, Lauren knew Paul was faking his death so it seemed mean of her to be deceiving Scott. It would have been better had Lauren not known and married Scott believing Paul had been taken from her, thus creating genuine conflict when he returned from the dead.

[Steve]

I thought the concept of Erica having a son was just unnecessary. I liked the Kane women being there for each other through all their adversity. If Erica had to have another male relative, I wish they'd made Leo her half-brother, which would've further explained the animosity Vanessa had toward Erica if she'd been in love with Eric.

As far as stories they could've done better, there are so many I could choose (I know I mentioned Brooke finding out her new love interest/minister was Josh in another thread awhile back), but I'm going to go with the D&D run and Erica's doppelganger. If the writers had researched the show's history, "Jane" could have turned out to be someone with a grudge against Erica like the faux-Silver Kane or Adam's former assistant Joanna. Having her turn out to be just a fan from Erica's modeling days diluted the impact for me. Not that it would've raised the ratings enough to prevent cancellation, but I can't help but wonder if the show might've gotten a ratings bump if they had given long-time fans reason to be excited about this story.

[ellabelle]

I would have LOVED Leo as Eric's son, and it would have explained Vanessa's hatred for Erica far, far better than did the stupid retcon that she was in love with Richard Fields and witnessed him rape a child but didn't intervene.

There was so much wrong with the doppleganger story. I didn't want Jane to be Erica's long-lost twin or anything, but SOMEONE with a history with the character made so much more sense than a crazed fan. Why couldn't she have been related to Erica via Mona or Eric in some way? I know that LB didn't start that story, and she opted to wrap it really fast and go in a different direction for the show's end, but the whole story from start to finish was so unsatisfying.