Latter day RH - Lizzie should have been with Ben at the end and not John Reid, but of course Ben wasn't a Ryan.

Edited October 18, 20214 yr by amybrickwallace

5 hours ago, Spoon said:

Dana Delaney showed great promise on Love of Life shortly before it was cancelled. Too bad the show didn't last a couple years more.

I forget: did we ever find out if she was Bruce Sterling's biological daughter?

4 hours ago, Chris 2 said:

Dana also had a walk-on on Ryan’s Hope in the late 70s. Definitely a “blink and you missed her” situation. Too bad - she might have been a good Mary recast. Certainly better than the ones we got.

I thought Mary Carny was attractive, a competent actress, and showed potential. Too bad TPTB axed her so quickly in favor of the painfully bad Kathleen Tolan.

Speaking of Ryan's Hope, my unpopular opinion is that Johnny Ryan was a pompous, unlikeable and boorish windbag, and Maeve could be a cold fish. 

5 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

I thought Mary Carny was attractive, a competent actress, and showed potential. Too bad TPTB axed her so quickly in favor of the painfully bad Kathleen Tolan.

Same here. They never even gave her a chance.

2 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

Same here. They never even gave her a chance.

I truly think she would have worked in the long run, had viewers been given the chance to warm up to her. Of the three replacement Marys, Carney was by far the best.

3 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

I truly think she would have worked in the long run, had viewers been given the chance to warm up to her. Of the three replacement Marys, Carney was by far the best.

She also looked a lot like Helen Gallagher, which didn't hurt.

Its not a cancelled show but it's about an unpopular opinion about Y&R:

I always thought Jack and Nikki should've been a proper couple. They would've been more dynamite and a power couple than Victor and Nikki tbh.

16 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

I forget: did we ever find out if she was Bruce Sterling's biological daughter?

I thought Mary Carny was attractive, a competent actress, and showed potential. Too bad TPTB axed her so quickly in favor of the painfully bad Kathleen Tolan.

Speaking of Ryan's Hope, my unpopular opinion is that Johnny Ryan was a pompous, unlikeable and boorish windbag, and Maeve could be a cold fish. 

I'm another who thought Mary Carney was improving and might have turned out well. She also had exactly the right look.

15 hours ago, Nicholas Blair said:

I'm another who thought Mary Carney was improving and might have turned out well. She also had exactly the right look.

Definitely. I wonder if Labine/Mayer/ABC regretted not giving her a chance after Tolan and Goulet didn't work out.

5 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

Definitely. I wonder if Labine/Mayer/ABC regretted not giving her a chance after Tolan and Goulet didn't work out.

At least if Mary Ryan had to die under any actress, Goulet was less atrocious than Tolan. (Damning her with faint praise, I know.)

On 10/19/2021 at 9:59 AM, amybrickwallace said:

Definitely. I wonder if Labine/Mayer/ABC regretted not giving her a chance after Tolan and Goulet didn't work out.

Labine and Mayer didn’t want to get rid of Mary Carney. That was ABC’s decision.

Edited October 20, 20214 yr by Chris 2

59 minutes ago, Chris 2 said:

Labine and Mayer didn’t want to get rid of Mary Carney. That was ABC’s decision.

Hmmmm...

On 10/18/2021 at 12:33 PM, AMCOLTLLover said:

Its not a cancelled show but it's about an unpopular opinion about Y&R:

I always thought Jack and Nikki should've been a proper couple. They would've been more dynamite and a power couple than Victor and Nikki tbh.

!!!!

Terry Lester version yes.

On 10/21/2021 at 4:23 PM, DemetriKane said:

!!!!

Terry Lester version yes.

I have loved Terry Lester's Jack so much.. It was a shame that in 1986 when Nikki/Jack were a thing it got ruined with Victor/Ashley's affair and her cancer (was it cancer? I don't remember but she was ill and Victor stayed with her) and the 'WHO SHOT JILL'-Story where Jack was accused of attempted murder.

 

• I am not sure to which extent this is an unpopular opinion since I wasn't online much then. I gather people clung to their understandable emotional attachment to Erin Torpey but I actually liked Bree Williamson and while we can argue with the retcons necessary for that story and some of the writing along the way, I think she was doing mostly good work with the DID. 
   
• I had then and still have zero interest in OLTL's Marcie and Michael and I cannot understand why the show played them for so long.
   
• A ATWT one would be: I did prefer Scott Holroyd in the role (as many others, I think) but I actually ... didn't mind RH as Paul? I mean, yes, he was playing Roger Howarth as Todd Manning as Paul Ryan but it made sense enough considering the Ryan history.
  I am a bit more sour on RH now after the GH messes, but at the time I confess I was enjoying watching him do his thing as Paul, even admitting that it changed the character towards the kind of material he is more comfortable doing.
   

On 10/21/2021 at 7:23 AM, DemetriKane said:

!!!!

Terry Lester version yes.

I actually liked PB's Jack with Nikki. Their first marriage was and still is my favorite PB pairing.

Edited October 23, 20214 yr by FrenchBug82

On 10/22/2021 at 11:23 PM, AMCOLTLLover said:

I have loved Terry Lester's Jack so much.. It was a shame that in 1986 when Nikki/Jack were a thing it got ruined with Victor/Ashley's affair and her cancer (was it cancer? I don't remember but she was ill and Victor stayed with her) and the 'WHO SHOT JILL'-Story where Jack was accused of attempted murder.

 

At that time cancer was a forbidden word...but it was cancer for sure...