Sunday Surgery: Remembering Our Bobbie

 

Today's blog is going to be a bit different than most Sundays. I missed quite a bit of the week and although I did catch up, it really wasn't all that much to report. 

What I would like to focus on is the loss of one great actress; someone that started on GH around the time I really started to watch. She was the one you wanted to hate, especially when she started in on Laura. What a soapy rivalry that was!! Both vying for Scotty and Bobbie eventually losing to the more 'innocent' Laura. Classic goodie/baddie set up. 

I will be talking quite a bit about her and her character on a future podcast with Daytime Confidential. I would like to say that one day I was literally watching One Life to Live and Jackie was playing Lana McClain.  She was only on a year but her story was a whopper. Brad ended up killing her character after she became pregnant with his child. Gloria Monty saw the performance and scooped Jackie up. I think she went from one set to the other in the span of a week! 

Jackie's costars have had an outpouring of love and memories all over social media. Kin Shriner has a great video up on Twitter. I do know that her death was a shock to most of the entire GH family. She taped so close to her death and I don't think many if any, knew of her condition. I know they had a tribute to "Bobbie" at the Nurses Ball this year but I honestly don't think it was all connected. She was actually do to have a private dinner appearance for fans with Lynne and Kin in the fall. 

I shipped Bobbie and Jerry Jacks (number one)...their "thing" was red licorice and he gave her a giant jar full once at the nurses station. 

So many stories that I loved on GH had Bobbie at the center. From Ruby to Luke to Jake and the Brownstone. Jerry Jacks and even the Stefan years when she was matron of Wyndemere. Her performance during BJ's death is iconic.  Even in later years when her character became less seen, she always showed up and never phoned in a performance. 

She will be so missed and I'm thinking about her family. She really relished being a mother and grandmother. 

If you would like to read about the show this week (brief summary) and other news, click on the jump. 

They're HOME!! And Baby Ace just takes the dang cake every time!!  Esme has her kid back and now Spencer can mope around wanting to get custody. I don't need to see that. Sorry, but it's just not a great story for 2 twentysomethings like Sprina. 

I think I heard DREW was hailed as the BIG HERO of the Greenland Story. I think I had to take some stomach medication because it made me ill! LOL. REALLY? Um, not even close. He bungled almost everything! Holly/Anna/Laura and Trina were the real heroes. Drew could have stayed him, imo.  ONE silver lining? The WSB offered Curtis a position, not this guy. 

I'm hoping there's a twist and the DNA proves Trina is Taggert's daughter. We are all expecting Curtis but I think it would be more poignant if her DNA was Taggert's. Period. 

Fans are the BEST ...and this is what the internet is for!! LOL Credit: @spaurromance

Predictions:

Willow's Marrow treatment goes well. She recovers. Yawn

Josslyn gets ahold of Dex's phone, goes into the cloud and turns Sonny in (This is the only thing that can save this story now)

Carly and Drew face charges but really only get a hefty fine. Sonny finds out Nina did the tip (I think she's going to tell him out of guilt) and he throws stuff. They'll be over (for awhile).

Brook Lyn and Chase continue the romance dance until I can't stand it no mo!

Maxie has something coming up with Deception but...?? Not sure I care

With the whole Cassadine/Ice Princess adventure over--what will everyone else do?? 

THE WRITER'S STRIKE will throw a wrench into everything we see--and who knows how it's going to shake out. They will continue to stretch existing material like they did during the pandemic. We will find out if they are going to hire an interim writer. I personally have liked Chris and Dan's visions (if not the produced results every time) so I'm a bit nervous. 

NEWS: 

We already have a recast for Kristina coming and it was announced this week that Molly will be TEMP-recasted with Holiday Mia Kriegal (read more on She Knows Soaps). Unfortunately Haley Pullos was in an auto accident and is recovering. She'll be fine but needs recovery time. 

We are getting Gavin Houston playing ZEKE!! That's Portia's brother. We all loved him during the wedding and it seemed like someone listened. Read it on SoapOperaNews.  YEAH! 

 
We are down ANOTHER Cassadine (sobbing) 

That's it for me! I will be back on schedule this week and hoping you're here with me!! Thank you to David for the blog and Sonya for comment recaps. They keep me going!!