I dunno, I think Marland and Curlee would be too similar in styles. Marland's more earthiness would be best balanced with someone who would bring different elements, a bland of sorts.
Also, while chasing trends is has its cons, I believe that GL needed to do it to survive. What GL shouldn't have done was tear down its foundations, which they did constantly. They needed the Bauers as a core, Reardons worked as a secondary core. Gutting all those vets in the early 80s did more harm than good, they should've bumped some of them down to recurring instead. Interestingly, sister soap Another World took a similar trajectory but to worse results, mainly due to revolving door/ high turnover casting which outside of 1985-86 wasn't really a big issue for GL.
Isn't it true that Solita wasn't supposed to be dead, but that was an adjustment that Long made after the scabs had Solita's remains unearthed? That's what made the story so confusing.
I liked Danny and Cassie, for one it displaced MANNY and RASSIE for a bit and two LW and PAS had couple chemistry from Loving, three it rescued PSA from the blight of NSA, and four it freed up Michelle for Bill which was needed fan-service. I surprisingly loved Cassie and Edmund together. Reminds me somewhat of Sarah and Xavier on Days.
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