16 hours ago, INFJWill said:

Y&R is especially bad at keeping up those ancillary connections. Both in the case of former friends/lover but also extended family & step children. 

For example if you weren't watching back then you'd have no idea Paul & Lauren were once married. I can't remember a solo scene between them post early 2000's. 

Also thought it was a missed opportunity ignoring the connection between Kyle & Victor. They shared some really sweet paternal scenes during the Blake Hood/Maura West era. I can't recall MM's Kyle ever crossing paths with Victor.

Ditto for Jack and his former stepchildren. I get why he and Nick wouldn't be super close given the love triangles. But Victoria  and him seemingly never interact. Likewise Noah and Jack grew close during his marriage to Sharon, which the writers have collectively decided to pretend never happened. 

Other examples...Chance/Chloe, Sharon/Devon & Lily

 

Sharon and Lily do interact on occasion, but where else but at Crimson Lights?That's why I didn't mind when Neil died and willed Drucilla's jewelry to Sharon, knowing she admired it. though I wished they would have those two and Devon interact more.

I also wish they would have Ashley in scenes with Nate since she and Olivia are our best friends. It would undoubtedly go a long way toward humanizing him after the shenanigans he pulled with Devon. Before DD was acting a fool, I wanted scenes with Paul and Nate since he and Nathan were best friends and colleagues for so long too. 

Edited January 23, 20232 yr by Forever8

12 hours ago, Vee said:

I seem to recall Erica and Janet getting a lot of airtime together in the last year or two when they did that Erica double storyline or something (the double's name was Jane). I think they were in a hospital together? I may be wrong. I know that part of the aim of Agnes and Lorraine Broderick in the last few months was clearly to re-humanize Janet more. She was still very loopy but she was presented as the daffy mother trying to be there for her daughter with cancer or whatever it was Amanda had. I thought Collins was very good, though it was a world away from the Janet Robin Mattson had played.

Thank you, friend. I grew up on Robin's Janet and only saw Kate's years later on youtube so I was pretty pissed at what they turned Janet into. Killing Trevor? Go to hell. I know you're gonna say something like "I never bought her redemption, she always had this in her" but the Janet I knew would NEVER. *plugs ears*

1 hour ago, ironlion said:

You'd think Sharon would be a close aunt/unnofficial surrogate mother to them especially since Olivia, Malcolm (and now Neil) isn't around but nope. They've just erased any idea that Sharon and Dru were best friends--a friendship that I must say felt random.

That show pretends Dru didn't exist so this doesn't surprise me. Neil had an unnamed wife who died. Lily and Devon had an unnamed mother who died. Neil, also dead, gets mentioned often because they liked Kristoff. Even on other soaps where actors were fired for misconduct their characters still get mentioned. But Victoria Rowell wanted better working conditions and dared to say something while black? Let's act like Dru had no friends and that her children wouldn't miss her terribly and talk about her all of the time (Dru was the head of that household, Neil was a mealy-mouthed do boy). They can fück off.

 

Edited January 23, 20232 yr by Darn

I feel like, in their final years, Carly & Emily just stopped interacting on As the World Turns, and I can't recall of any instance that might have caused this. Same with Blake & Cassie on Guiding Light.

30 minutes ago, Darn said:

Thank you, friend. I grew up on Robin's Janet and only saw Kate's years later on youtube so I was pretty pissed at what they turned Janet into. Killing Trevor? Go to hell. I know you're gonna say something like "I never bought her redemption, she always had this in her" but the Janet I knew would NEVER. *plugs ears*

I think Robin was great on the show! I always did, but I also always was terrified of Robin's performance and thought Janet was nuts. Her work still holds up as a tour de force like when she read the town to filth. That being said, she and Kiberd 100% sold their romance and chemistry despite my misgivings. Doesn't mean I thought she should kill him off and stuff his body in the freezer! That was too far. I was glad Broderick, Agnes, etc. squared the circle a bit at the end between both versions of Janet with Collins in the final months.

Edited January 23, 20232 yr by Vee

16 minutes ago, Vee said:

I think Robin was great on the show! I always did, but I also always was terrified of Robin's performance and thought Janet was nuts. Her work still holds up as a tour de force like when she read the town to filth. That being said, she and Kiberd 100% sold their romance and chemistry despite my misgivings. Doesn't mean I thought she should kill him off and stuff his body in the freezer! That was too far. I was glad Broderick, Agnes, etc. squared the circle a bit at the end between both versions of Janet with Collins in the final months.

Love you, you silly goose.

11 minutes ago, Darn said:

Love you, you silly goose.

Don't touch me, you slime!

15 minutes ago, Vee said:

Don't touch me, you slime!

AMC: Janet's regression, from the little I saw of it, seems disappointing given the extra lengths they went to redeem her in the 90s. Plus Kate Collins coming back basically undid the charachter's new face.

Y&R: I have to agree on Nick/Victoria and Jack. There's literally no hint that that he was their stepfather at all. Jack & Nikki today are lresented as friends but it's not referenced all that much that they were married. As someone saod earlier its most likely because of all the marital partners they've shared. 

 

Edited January 24, 20232 yr by ironlion

Y&R 

Abby/Nate-they were once involved. I guess it is somewhat likely they wouldn't really cross paths.

Abby seems to have little to do with Victoria/Adam/Nick.

Y & R:

Diane and Lauren were friends in the 80s when both were with Paul/Andy.  In fact, Lauren had Diane come back in 1986 to win Andy back from Faren.

When Diane returned in 1996, Lauren was on B & B... but I would have thought with Michael being friends with Diane and Phyllis... that mention of Lauren being friends with Diane would come up.

Paul/Nikki had years where they didn't interact (from 1984 till late 80s..when she went to see how he was after being accused of killing George Rawlins.  And then not again until the late 90s/early 00s when she cautioned him about Isabella).  And then off and on after that.

Paul/Lauren I was surprise they stopped interacting... though didn't they interact again briefly when Sussman headwrote?

AMC

Gillian/Erica

 

On 1/22/2023 at 1:11 PM, carolineg said:

Marlena/Maggie is the first one that popped into my mind too.

John/Kate interact occasionally, but you would never know they were once in love and engaged.  That was wiped from history apparently.  I don't expect them to talk about it or anything, but the show acts like they are casual acquaintances.

Hope/Claire was another poorly defined relationship.  You knew Hope was Claire's grandma, but most of the time Hope showed little interest in her.

In regards to John and Kate. Not only were they engaged at some point. Kate also worked at Basic Black for years. Their interactions these days are disappointing to me as I was a fan of them as a couple and as friends.

Just about all of Days of Our Lives. Jack is rarely in scenes with Steve. He nor Justin or Justin boys been to comfort Steve. 
 

Chloe and Belle don’t interact after being best friends since High School. 
 

I hate what became of Maggie and Marlena and Maggie and Lucas. 
 

Days lack of Family/Friends dynamic over the years is an eyesore. 
 

Stephanie blew into town have yet to interact with Jack. 

On Guiding Light, Reva met Abigail in Goshen, and Abby met Selena in prison. Her connection to both became nonexistent. Not only should she have stayed connected to them, but Reva and Selena should've been connected to each other through her. The three could've hung out together and Abby could've confided in them. But about after her first two yrs there, she spent most of her time on the backburner. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3 hours ago, Antoyne said:

In regards to John and Kate. Not only were they engaged at some point. Kate also worked at Basic Black for years. Their interactions these days are disappointing to me as I was a fan of them as a couple and as friends.

I didn't like the couple or anything, but it's odd they act like they barely know one another when they have had a pretty intense romance and have had a working relationship for years-not to mention Lucas/Austin/Phillip were married to his daughter/stepdaughters.

The one I still remember years later was from Eplin's time at ATWT. Jake was hired by Lucinda to work at her newspaper and they had many scenes together at first. Seemed like Liz Hubbard liked having a new sparring partner, but eventually the two never had scenes together. I figured that there had to be some BTS story about that, most likely something about Eplin that she couldn't/wouldnt countenance.