Members Huntress Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 B&B: Amber. From 1997 to 2004, she was front and center, was the tortured heroine, and she even had a family built around her. Then after her icky romance with Thomas (Drew Tyler Bell) had fizzled, she was quietly dropped from the canvas in early 2005 ... only to reappear several years later. During her second stint, she was written as a desperate troublemaker and was eventually dropped again. I don't even remember how she left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BetterForgotten Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 Agreed, actually the way ATWT wrote for and treated most of its veteran cast during its last decade or so on the air was pretty unforgivable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Franko Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 Ginny Blake, General Hospital. She came on HUGE in 1984, brought in to disrupt Rick and Lesley's lives, then ending up marring Rick (after Lesley died, of course), forming a bond with Mike, murdering D.L. (and letting Bobbie take the rap for it), eventually birthing a second child and trying to keep Derek Barrington at bay. They burned through a ton of story for her -- and Rick -- and both were gone after Thanksgiving 1986. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DramatistDreamer Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 +1 At times I just couldn't bring myself to watch regularly in that last decade. It was so so so bad! It galls me that people try to make excuses for the horrible writing by saying something like "...well at least it wasn't..." It wasn't what? Good? The standards were so friggin' low in that last decade...! Yeah, I understand that people are willing to pat those writers and Goutman on the back for making Kathryn Hays a glorified day player in the last decade but what if someone had actually written compelling material about a woman facing retirement and 'empty nest' and all of the challenges a mature woman moving into her elder years faces? Hays might have finally been a candidate for an Emmy in her last years but TIIC wasted all that talent of hers! Remember in the 1980s when there was a B story about Lisa facing "The Change" A.K.A. Menopause? All those great pieces of dialogue and that scene where Lisa looks at Frannie (Julianne Moore) and blurts out "Well, you've just got your whole life ahead of you, bless your heart!" without an ounce of irony and Frannie, with concern and a perplexed expression asks "Lisa, are you alright?". It was a brief but meaningful scene and both actresses really played all the beats just right. I just hate how, in the show's last decade, the vets were used mainly as mouthpieces or rendered irrelevant or crazy (Barbara). I don't care what Colleen Zenk says, her character lacked the complexity and cool sophistication that she once wielded. But I guess to her, she had screen time, was placed with a younger man and that's all that mattered to her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 That's "Rappadavidson's" LOL Please register in order to view this content and ignore that Anna had a kid with David who died as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carolineg Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 The Eckerts on GH. They spent a lot of time on the family only to be completely gone a few years later never to be spoken of again. Poor Lucky never got to see his buddy Sly again. I get why, but man, they wasted a lot of screen time on Bill and Jenny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted May 16, 2019 Members Share Posted May 16, 2019 Meg on ATWT, she was a huge deal, they wrote for her, she got a lot of screen time then abruptly she was basically back burner, not leading stories Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted May 17, 2019 Members Share Posted May 17, 2019 What was said about Dimitri? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members titan1978 Posted May 17, 2019 Author Members Share Posted May 17, 2019 (edited) Robert found him in Hungary, and he has personal effects belonging to Alex that might provide a timeline they can use to determine that Peter’s birth and her sexual encounter with Faison are the memories that belong to Alex that were implanted in Anna. The Lockhart family on DAYS! They were literally everywhere for 3 or 4 years then they just all slowly faded away. Except Bonnie, who we saw again. Edited May 17, 2019 by titan1978 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr Neil Curtis Posted May 17, 2019 Members Share Posted May 17, 2019 (edited) Dr Neil Curtis Edited May 17, 2019 by Dr Neil Curtis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted May 17, 2019 Members Share Posted May 17, 2019 Yeah, as far as we know, he's still on rounds at University Hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted May 17, 2019 Members Share Posted May 17, 2019 Chelsea Lawson & Chloe Mitchell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Melroser Posted May 17, 2019 Members Share Posted May 17, 2019 AW: Reginald Love, Mary McKinnon, and Jason Frame ate up the show when they were on then gone. Only Mary made a couple more appearances. I don't think Reg or Jason were ever referred to in later years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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