So I watched the soapnet marathon/special, and my sister's Tivo of the wedding and Laura's last episode.
The funny thing about the retrospective is how many of those scenes I remembered, and I wasn't even born yet! We had a video Luke and Laura: the greatest love of all...it was made in honor of their return, there was 2...one was summer on the run, this one showed highlights of everything that happened after that. I saw the wedding many times so I knew that, and the dancing in Wyndham's but it was funny how I remembered the last part in bed, and when Laura wanted a job at the disco, which I think I remember from my sister's best-of-GH weddings tape.
Damn, the things I miss on the show from not having watched since like '98. (with the exception of Vanessa Marcil's brief return which did nothing for this diehard Sonny & Brenda fan...ulgh)...since when is Dan from Charmed Lucky? Weirdness. He was cuter on Charmed. No one will ever replace Jonathan Jackson for me.
But hey Tyler's at least much better than that awful Nikolas replacement they had. I think of all the kids his goodbye scene with Laura was best because they had worked together and such in the past. My sister said that Genie herself added that whole thing about the heart. Aww.
What Luke and Laura said to each other in their final good-bye I felt could have been better, but the acting made up for it. (On that subject, I still crack up when I see Anthony's first emmy win). My sister at least bought it, she was crying hysterically. I actually didn't tear up till Jason called Monica. Go figure.
I thought the stuff with Tracy at the wedding was funny *shrug*
Awesome that Robert Scorpio was back for this (wasn't he the original best man?) but aww if Laura never talked to him.
It was cool on the special seeing Jackie talk about those of them that were at both weddings and such.
Oh, and way for me to be jumping around everything, but I really enjoyed the second episode of the retrospective. It was the one episode I don't think I had seen any scenes from before, and it was cute. I can imagine how impatient the fans must have been for that moment.
I was a little disappointed that Maxie caught the bouquet and not Scotty. (of course to me I was like whoa, why is Belle catching the bouquet and what is she doing there?)
Ooh, it was also cute to see their actual first meeting in the retrospective and the scene where they realize they were pregnant with Lucky. And aww, little Jonathan at Lulu's birth.
It's also weird what an old-timer Becky's become. She went to GH just from playing Suzee in Space Cases when I watched and loved both, and I guess hasn't left. It was cute seeing her say hello to Genie, when she mentioned how Genie took her under her wing, I remembered the parallels of the rape storyline.
Who was that Pirelli guy? I read the GH history scrapbook years ago when I got into the show and I can't rememebr him.
Considering Laura was saying good-bye to 2 people we've barely seen ehr work with, it would have been nice for her to say bye to Lesley.
Ah well. Fun to see everything and reminisce and going back to missing the Labine years at GH. I can't believe Guza's still there...ick.
Ooh, did anyone see Anthony and Genie on the view? I watched that on my sister's tivo as well. Rosie was talking to them and Joy said something about what kind of name is Tracy Quartermaine? and Rosie was like do you watch or know about this stuff and Joy was like no, began to say but she'd like to, and Rosie cut her off and was like okay fine, then don't talk to them. Ha! Actually as i was watching i was saying it would be nice if Rosie was the only one who talked since she was the only one who knew what she was talking about. It was really funny.
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