When Josh was first introduced, he was a total creep. Later, he had Billy to talk to as a friend, even when they were in conflict.
The lack of friendships on soaps becomes REALY obvious every time there's a wedding. Who's going to stand up with the bride and groom? It gets awkward sometimes. If they have a sibling of the same sex, no problem. Sometimes they have no one because they can't scrape anyone up.
I saw a picture a while back of Alan and Beth's wedding. RICK was Alan's best man!
WHAT? WHY?
Because he has no friends, and in this situation he couldn't ask Phillip.
But even so...that is SO weird. Like couldn't they have invented a golfing or racquetball buddy for Alan to stand up for him?
I wonder if the scab writers even knew. They had Phillip do a lot of yelling during this period, maybe to cover up the fact that not much that was going on made sense.
Yeah, Alan comes back after two years of faking his death, running away from the Federalistas, then setting up an art smuggling ring in Europe, before easily waltzing right back into Spaulding.
I know white collar criminals get away with a lot, but I'm supposed to believe the stockholders would be O.K. with this? Uh-uh.
The ONE thing they explained was that Alex had a tape of Alan confessing to the Dreaming Death caper. That's how she forced him out in the first place. She planned to use it to keep him out of Spaulding when he returned. She was practically having an aneurysm over it. But like an idiot, she taped over it, and by doing that had nothing to hold over Alan's head anymore.
(1986 was such a baaaad year).
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