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I am pretty sure there was never a need to make a "nod" to Amy Vining.  She was a unique character on her own.  Making newAmy a "play" on the original is just lazy and useless.  She's never gotten her own personality or story and is only trotted out during the time the Nurse's Ball is coming around.  I actually think the actress is charming, but it is a very thankless role.

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Well tbf I did like the growing conflict that was growing between Terry and Amy over Amy's brother Chet (and that his foine self was finally being used). It could have gone somewhere and even now could be used since Terry STILL has issues with Amy. But the actor moved out of L.A. so that story stopped. 

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Oh right. Nurse Amy Driscoll's brother Chet was played by *actor* Chris Van Etten who is a military veteran in real life.  (He had no connection to the then *writer* Chris Van Etten.)  I basically remember this due to them coincidentally having the same name.

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Yes, you've understood & described what is wrong comparing to the past which was definitely right. What in the heck is the problem? Oh, I know it's the way Frank produces this show. 

Did you, any of you, see Mo's IG from Sunday. Well, it's him reminiscing about when he first began, had a crisis & quit but Riche, who is an amazing EP, between herself & Shelley Curtis, got with him, found out what was actually the hell going on & basically said, No, we do not accept your resignation, we are going to get to the bottom of this thing & you ARE going back to work at General Hospital. 

Now, MO has told this tale, true, but still a tale, maybe a thousand times but now he has planned out what to say & when to say it & also he has set it to music. Plus he stressed that he's been at this for now 32 years. 

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I think Amy often felt like a caricature, but Shell did have a sweetness, and viewers saw Amy grow up on the show (not technically, but Amy was a young woman when we first met her). There's no real need to have a replacement.

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I think that by her final years on the show, she had slipped into caricature a bit, but I was watching some 80s clips of Amy, and she seems like a well-defined comic supporting character. There are some clips of her interacting with Duke where they bounce off each other perfectly:

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Back to today's episodes, I'm not a fan of either Sidwell or of Carlo Rota's "Iago in a community theatre production of Othello"-style performance. But I did really enjoy his scenes with Tracy today. Jane Elliott always brings her A-game and brings out the best in her scene partners. 

 

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