OH god, that would have been awful and hilarious at the same time–if Geary had been triple-cast as Patricia! But Dee Wallace is excellent casting. Look forward to her in the new role.

“at least Luke isn’t Patricia” Yes, we dodged a bullet there..

I forgot Emma as young Bobbie and i meant white blouse, not sweater…lol

Oh, my gosh, jimh. I like it, I love it. I am only familiar with a little bit of backstory.
Won’t Dee Wallace as Pat be surprised to find Luke with CUJO characteristics? Perhaps it will take Pat to tame the beast.

Your minds has been in overdrive. At least you’ve added some dark humor to the never ending Fluke story. Why doesn’t anyone mention Luke and Bobbie’s mother? I have to think they had one.

As long as “Sweet Dee” aka, Patricia, doesn’t turn out to be a vindictive, bitter man-hating shrew who was one of those bra-burning radical chicks who emerged from the drug-induced, hippy haze of the 1960’s with a huge chip on her shoulder, jimh! I really hate when that happens! LOL….

Well, if that works for you, jimh, than by all means….LOL!

Jim, you’re hysterical!

you either need less caffeine …. or more ketchup!

bwahahahhahaha

I agree, I would have loved Erika in the role but I think Dee Wallace is an amazing actress and she will be powerful in the role. Anyone who have seen Howling would know she can do emotional breakdown like no other!

It sure would have been great!! do we think it’s going to be full time? if not ES should have done it. come to LA to tape scenes. unless she did not want to. wish she did!!

would want Erika to be long term.

did you ever see the ABC “what if” series of promo videos. They had one of Vicki meeting Luke.

I read in past comings and goings that GH is bringing back past Port Charles residents or characters. I think the character of Dee Wallace it is someone we are all very familiar with from the earlier days of GH. In Friday’s episode you saw the shocked look on LuLu’s and Tracy’s faces when they saw Patricia in the bed.
Could it be Laura? or Leslie? Maybe Laura had an affair with Edward Q’s son and left Port Charles. Wasn’t Laura adopted?

which would have been a great idea… to help AG end this story….

I feel the story concluded with Fluke and Bobbi, when she visited him in jail.

it now all falls on AG to carry to the end a lot of emotional rendering

i wasn’t impressed after Bobbi left.. and we were left to watch Luke “realizing” that something is truly wrong with him

hello, thank u nobody does D.I.D like ES . Her and AG would be Great wonder what Ron and Frank Problem is
do they have amnesia or bran tumor they have forgotten ES

Nothing against Dee Wallace, I have liked her in what I have seen her do – but to me it is really inept of them to have hired someone younger than Tony Geary to play Luke’s sister who is ten years older than he is.

This production team seems to go out of its way to always defer to the wrong, or careless, or disrespectful choice whenever they have the chance to do so.

Laura has to go all the way to Europe to be treated for mental illness yet all of PCs other crazies including her way more disturbed exLuke can get treated right in Port Charles never made any sense to me…jmo

so agree! she does not HAVE TO be overly involved in Luke’s (TG) life!!

hear hear!!!

Anyone going to Genie’s event this weekend on the east coast?

Oh, I do agree, dmr. It just boggles the mind how a mother would repudiate her own son for the sake of a man. It is very unnatural, in my opinion. Considering the fragile state of affairs between Carly and Michael, one would think she not choose sides….Michael is her child. There is no stronger bond. I just can’t come to grips with the lack of maternal pull that Caly is manifesting.
Sonny does not deserve such devotion. She is acting in a very foolish manner …over a mobster? Abandoning every motherly instinct due a son? Go figure.

I would have agreed with you, however, Tony Geary doing a poor impersonation of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal yesterday gives me great pause.
Dee Wallace is just fine. However, why oh why do they not fish out of the deep and fruitful waters which have notable and talented soap veterans swimming around aimlessly?
Erika Slezak was the obvious choice for the role of Patricia. This is all too disappointing.

I hope she has a dog named Cujo…lol

Well, given DW’s acting experience with the “twisted and darkest,” Port Charles is the perfect place for her these days, Elite Advisors! She’ll fit right in!!!!

You’re right, Su. I think RC is using humor. Not only is he employing the house of horrors on the so-famous/infamous Elm street, but also the fact that Dee Wallace was the mother on both CUJO and ET.

I agree, his work is superb.

Agreed. And the funny thing is Dee Wallace looks so much like Erika in the above picture.

I think we’re in for a treat, Mary Ellen. It seems that RC has a taste for the macabre sprinkled with humor.

Totally agree with you about the recast for Kiki.

That would have been an excellent choice, Alan!

WOW! None would have been great. It’s a shame that we can come up with so many excellent actresses of a certain age who are currently unemployed.

OH jeez!

Kathleen Noone would have bar none usurped eclipsed and solidified that quickly

does any one remember Ross Chandler… whom she married.. played by hottie Robert Gentry

Who knows but the lawsuit brought by Prospect Park is still unresolved so they may be under orders not to hire anyone who had a contract with them.

Not only is it a great casting, Dan, but also the wit behind the casting. All the movies you mentioned share similar SyFy/metaphysical/supernatural, and a bit of “crazy” thrown in for good measure. What irony !!!! DW certainly fits right in with ease into THE TWILIGHT ZONE that is Fluke.

Please–there were some terrific characters, but “real”–the ice princess? the aztec jewels, Casey the alien?
GH has, since Gloria Monty been a mix of adventure (that has hit its most charicatured with sonny and the mob), camp and fantasy, and some heart wrenching drama. It always stretched reality far more than AMC, and mostly more than OLTL (although…eterna, the wild west…).

The 80s were no more real than today. AJ’s trying to connect with Michael was real, Robin’s coming back (initially) was real, Luke’s struggling with his DID has the potential to be very powerful (as will the exploring the spencer childhood rather than glossing over why Bobbie became the hooker with the heart of gold and Luke had it in him to be a rapist).

This is what we’ve got–object to stupid plots (pickle lila), celebrate that actresses of a certain age are given great roles, keep your fingers crossed that some quite good child actors will be allowed to grow into their roles like Robin and Lucky did, marvel in Rebecca hearst’s complexion, tolerate that there have to be plot lines for each generation, and accept that there is a sizeable portion of GH’s audience that likes the humor just as there are those that like the mob. At least we have a complex range of reactions to the Sonny/Carly/Julian/Duke mob hypocracy rather than having the crooks simply seen as villians (and there are some consequences for their actions in their day to day lives).

Certainly there are plots that provide time to do some chores (I pretty much have to FF anytime Carly is on–with the exception of having the sense to send Morgan away while he was Sorased (as opposed to being in a coma like Michael), she is the worst mother of all time! (she doesnt’ even have consistent help to be a surrogate parent for Joceylyn like Anna did with Robin when she was little and Elizabeth has with the off screen Audrey). But I get that there are people who like Sonny and Carly’s dynamic and put up with that for the characters that matter to me.

I wonder if Patricia will ‘Phone Home’…lol…yeah, the 80s were GHs golden years…Days was at its best in the 70s when Bill Bell wrote it and the 80s revamped Days was its second best decade…now its Dull Of Our Lives and too much with Daniel on too often and
Eve/JJ but loved the return of fiesty Jen in those Jen/Eve confrontation scenes!!!…see ya!!!

My late mother was a big fan of Days in the 70s too…i watched with her since it began in 1965 and briefly quit during the 1980 revamp and firings of so many favorites…picked it up again in the early 80s…i even skipped school sometimes just to watch…now i skip episodes…it was romantic when Doug sang ‘The most beautiful girl in the world’ for his beloved Julie…the romance and interaction of family is rare in daytime today and the reason so many no longer watch imho…loved Addie, Doug and Julies storyline…Doug and Julie remain my favorite couple!!!

You are so right, maddiehayes! What critics of the ’80’s GH forget is that interwoven with the outrageous adventures and larger-than-life supervillains were real, down-to-earth characters with stories and relationships, as well. The large majority of the cast had actual histories, deep roots in Port Charles, and family and friends that fit-in and like you say, interacted….nearly everyone knew everybody else and it really was like one big party. (There was even music!) Now you have uninspired newbies introduced willy-nilly, often for no seeming purpose other than to amuse the show runners, and with no true connections to the canvas, sometimes even years after their debut, and their presence makes absolutely no sense. Add that to the choppy, often directionless, nonsensical plots that never seem to reach a satisfying conclusion, and you have a show that is far less enjoyable than in previous decades.

I hear what you’re saying, Maddie. Relationships. Friendships. Great love stories…I miss the days on GH when the characters popped into each other’s homes, met at Ruby’s…loved when there was always something going on at Bobby’s brownstone…the friendship between Robert, Anna, Sean Tiffany…but, that’s the past. Possibly due to budget. It seems they have fewer major players on in the same day…and group events like weddings, funerals, Felicia’s mayoral headquarters, the Nurses Ball…are crowded with background extras. I notice the absence of ” community” all the time on GH. For now, since it’s what we’ve got…I’ve adapted to the “new normal” and watch/ enjoy it for what it is. No choice but to stop watching and I’m not at the point where I’d want to…

Robert LeClair was Dougs French friend who also performed at Dougs Place…yes, i remember him along with the Peters family, The Andersons, The Grants…plus Linda, Kim(Dougs first wife, not the Brady) Brooke, Marlenas twin Samantha, Don Craig and his daughter Donna…and so many more…back in the 70s the actors and stories were so great there was rarely anything about it that i disliked including the character…it was perfect!!!

None of the Luke/Fluke story has been pointless.. it was and is a back trip into Lukes life, what made Luke become Fluke..
A trip back in time to Lukes beginning / The Spencer family ..

IF, again IF Tony is going to leave GH/retire a story taking him back to childhood and bringing his long lost sister Patricia back is very befitting to Luke’s finial ..

We just want ES not OLTL it ‘s gone But ES is not , she would fit nicely in this storyline that it plan in simple . but i see where u are coming from and respect that.

CeeCee Hi !! 🙂
Carly his mother has begged and stood by Michael and tried to help him and he put her out and isn’t letting her back in..
Now he will have to find his own way back, he is grown man no longer a child and Michael has to act like a man not a spoiled kid getting even lol
Michael is head/controls ELQ he needs to control his life, too ..

Michael needs a good old fashioned spanking, if his azz is as strong as head he will not be harmed lol ..

Right back at ya, CeeCee!!! As you well know, “L’Air du Corinthos” would not prove irresistible as an aphrodisiac “pour moi” either. But each to their own! Carly has always been a real piece of work as a maternal figure….she professes to be a devoted mother, but her offspring often come in a very distant second to her “amours du jour.” Not only has she abrogated her duty to her first born son in favor of her favorite wiseguy, but there’s nary even a word about Josslyn these days….unless it references her “Children of the Corn” obsession. (Me thinks she’s a little psychopath lying in wait—just biding her time—to be unleashed!) And yet, Ms. Jacks certainly jumped into matriarchal mode “tout suite” when it came to caring for Sonny’s latest addition. Having said that, yes, I also appreciate many of Carly’s sartorial “choices.” The more classic and basic in style, the better….awhile back she wore an azure silk blouse that looked absolutely spectacular with her coloring!

No, mgb357, that was actually Melinda Dillon, who also played a number of great mom roles in 1980’s flicks. I know this because I had the video of the movie and watched it repeatedly! MD played a similar role in “Harry and the Hendersons,” too, not to mention “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”

Not at all, mgb357! That was a perfectly understandable mix-up…not only is there a strong physical resemblance between the two actresses, but the similarities in their maternal roles and acting styles are also quite remarkable.

I agree with you. Erika Slezak would also have been perfect — more gusto!

There would be one problem. Susan Lucci is forever associated with Erica Kane.