Members titan1978 Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 Hearing the name Dimitri Merrick on a recent GH episode made me nostalgic for when he arrived on AMC, and that lead me to thinking about how that show slowly phased him out. If you watched AMC in the early 1990’s, Edmund and Dimitri were huge characters that were always front burner. An entire family backstory, a significant set (Wildwind), and romantic pairings with important veterans of their shows (Erica and Brooke). But then kind of suddenly they were not. They just slowly phased them out completely. These were not flash in the pan characters, but instead kind of discarded after relatively short periods of importance in the grand scheme of things on their shows. Other examples? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 OLTL's "damn Rappaports" (tm Asa Buchanan). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 Y&R Paul Williams - had a family built around him, married 2 leading ladies (amongst others) and front burner for years before slowly diminishing in importance and then dropped quietly. Back in the same limited capacity (grouchy, ineffective police chief) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReddFoxx Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 B&B: Nick Marone. He was onscreen a lot for years and now it's like he never existed. Although I expect that Bell will make use of his son with Brooke and Taylor at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 Y&R Rosales Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 Probably not big enough, but I'd say both incarnations of Kate Howard/Connie Falconeri on GH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 This is a big one. It’s crazy how important he was for so long and then he just disappeared. I remember when he was on I felt like he’d never leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members reallyhateskateonlost Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 And yet they fail to mention David Hayward who Anna was married to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members titan1978 Posted May 16, 2019 Author Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 I don’t even watch B&B and I know about this set of characters. Didn’t he have a mother and brother that also drove a lot of story? And then just over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 On the Dimitri front, that was due to Michael Nader being on drugs. AMC did temp recast with Anthony Addabo but he was miscast. Then Dimitri & Alex were gone 3 months later Michael reprised Dimitri in 2013 on AMC revival I wonder if Eva & John's divorce led to Edmund being killed off in Jan 2005 And they did nothing with Christian Campbell as Bobby Warner or Natalia Calgulia as Anita Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members edgeofnik Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 So true - and Nick was annoying as heck. As soon as Brad saw the magic with Stuffy/Lame/Dope, the show quickly erased Nick/Jackie/Owen, etc. The whole Marone thing was a huge mistake all because they wanted Joe so much, which bombed from Day 1. Now with Rick vanquished, the only "Forrester" legacy children on-canvas are actually from the Marone line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 ATWT: Lisa, Ellen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 Excellent example, though I can't say I miss him. Same with Bridget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 Y&R: Cricket. Basically ate the show in the late 1980s then all but disappeared 20 years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 John Dixon, ATWT. While some characters on ATWT only seemed to get a lot of story during one, maybe two writing regimes (if they were fortunate), John got quite a bit of prominent storylines over several writing regimes from the late 1970s throughout the entire 1980s. Even in the 1990s, he got a pretty decent amount of screen time, although the quality of the stories could be inconsistent. A few years before he left though, he seemed to be a glorified extra at times. I guess those disputes of seniority and salary pay-cuts were really brought to bear before he pretty much faded and only showed up for a brief story arc right before the show's cancellation to usher Lucinda off the canvas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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