1 hour ago, titan1978 said:

You had me up to Liz Keifer. I don’t think she held a candle to what Sherry Stringfield did with Blake.

2 hours ago, Spoon said:

I found Beth Chamberlain's Beth pale in comparison to BE's Beth. BC fared much better in her 2nd stint when she played tbe role as a trouble-making vixen.

Bethany Joy Lenz was instantly accepted as Michelle. Quickly pivoting her to a brand new love interest was a smart calculation.

Gina Tognoni was good on Y&R, but she didn'tfeel like Phyllis. MS always played Phyllis as sultry- using sex appeal to get her way, GT's Phyllis did not.

On Days, Billy Flynn as Chad and Marci Miller as Abigail.

If I had to choose, yes, Sherry definitely blew me away as Blake. Keifer's Blake was less jagged and self-destructive. But I think the audience accepted her readily, in part because of the physical similarity to SS and because SS quickly moved on in her career with NYPD Blue and then ER.

I know you mean Judi Evans. Personally, I like BC's first run better than her second, where Beth turns into a neurotic mess. That the audience accepted her and Kimberly Simms as part of the Musketeers so easily is either because they made it work, or maybe that the audiences were less critical at the time. (Although the massive failure of someone like Glynnis O'Connor as Margo around that time suggests otherwise.)

2 hours ago, Planet Soap said:

Justin Hartley and Mark Grossman as Adam Y&R seemed to slip into their roles easily. IMO Groaaman channels Michel Muney's darkness and mysteriousness. Did you all accept them?

How quickly were GH'S Laura Wright and Tamara Braun accepted as Carly?

I feel like Laura Wright was accepted, especially following the misrecast of Jennifer Bransford, who was a good actor but not for the role of Carly.

I remember Laura being immediately accepted. Tamara had a tough introduction and rough audience response given the BTS circumstances of Sarah Brown's exit and unfortunate changes wrought on the show in 2001, but the audience quickly swung to her side following the unpopular Angel story starting up and Carly being railroaded onscreen, as well as Maurice Benard actively tanking the Angel SL and very vocally coming out in support of Tamara. By the fall of '01 it was a done deal for her winning the audience over, and better daily writing when the Guza team returned the following spring sealed it.

IIRC it also took them time to integrate TB’s Carly because she was intended to be a short term recast to write the character out. And the actors liked her, the audience didn’t react like they did with Jennifer later, and as @Vee said, the Angel story was a dud. The whole show was pretty much awful when JFP had the most control over it.

Laura Wright also benefitted from a terrible Sonny story/romance, the Reese character.

12 hours ago, P.J. said:

If I had to choose, yes, Sherry definitely blew me away as Blake. Keifer's Blake was less jagged and self-destructive. But I think the audience accepted her readily, in part because of the physical similarity to SS and because SS quickly moved on in her career with NYPD Blue and then ER.

To me, the losses of Kimberly Simms, Sherry Stringfield, and Beverlee McKinesy were pretty brutal to the watchability of the show. Then follow that up soon after with the Ellen Parker debacle and also Beth Ehlers? Curlee and that writing team did their best, but a more bland Blake, terrible recasts for Mindy and Alexandra (and I love both actors, it just wasn’t the right fit), and then Lucy Cooper overload are just not the same quality and it showed.

9 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

IIRC it also took them time to integrate TB’s Carly because she was intended to be a short term recast to write the character out. And the actors liked her, the audience didn’t react like they did with Jennifer later, and as @Vee said, the Angel story was a dud. The whole show was pretty much awful when JFP had the most control over it.

Laura Wright also benefitted from a terrible Sonny story/romance, the Reese character.

To me, the losses of Kimberly Simms, Sherry Stringfield, and Beverlee McKinesy were pretty brutal to the watchability of the show. Then follow that up soon after with the Ellen Parker debacle and also Beth Ehlers? Curlee and that writing team did their best, but a more bland Blake, terrible recasts for Mindy and Alexandra (and I love both actors, it just wasn’t the right fit), and then Lucy Cooper overload are just not the same quality and it showed.

oh, Crampton was just so terribly cast. I think better of Keifer and Dusay, but the writing declined precipitously after Curlee's departure.

Christina Bennett Lind as Bianca on AMC, she was pretty well accepted. I often read people saying they liked her Bianca better