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Number of Episodes in 1988: 257
JB got more in one year than KW has gotten in almost 3 under RC :lmfao:
Even RA and EM got a decent amount for the year
I see their point though.

Much smaller pool of vets than today being utilized. We are seeing a lot more vets now than we did then. Just I know back then, and I feel kinda guilty admitting this, I didn't really care all that much about the old vets. I didn't really pay them much attention I guess.
what vets were there to see?
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so who kills Duke?

Shawn?
TJ?
or Anna?
maybe Sloan?

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If you started in 81 you don't know anything about classic, pre-Monty GH. So you excepted GH's vet purge.

Gail was NOT a vet back then. She was an aged newbie hire, just like Lila and Edward, who people like you mistook for long term vet talent.

By the mid 80s the only real GH vets left were Steve, Audrey, Lee and Jessie. And they all her their stories strip down, airtime cut severly, and became mostly handholders for their kids and scene fillers. There were less vets, on less often in total, under Monty than there are by far under Valentini.
IDA Steve & Audrey and Jessie were still shown more by GM ,I think i can count on by hands the amout of times RC has used KW, KS, LH, over the last few years ..
They were shown, but they didn't do much of anything. Jessie probably had a few lines, if any, when we saw her. "bobbe you're wanted in the er" or something like that. Yes, they were seen and no stories.

This.

Vets back then had less to do than vets now.

Hell take a look at even the reintroduced Kevin/Lucy/Scotty triangle. As uneven as that whole thing was it was still more romantic play than ANY GH vets in the 80s got at similar ages. They all became wall paper, babysitters and coffee stirrers.
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Here's the argument:

If you love GH vets in general, like from the 70s-90s, you're gonna be pretty happy. Show is full of them in various degrees. There's lots for you to choose from.

If you love only a select few GH vets who use to be huge, like Robert, Holly, Frisco, Felicia, etc, or you were more of a supercouple fan, you're going to be very displeased with GH today. There's not a lot for you.

Overall GH fans, the ones who can get into a plethora of characters, win out. Those watching mostly for a handful of characters or couples from back in the golden years? Disappointment city.
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That's a hell of a lot more than they were getting prior to this regime. Those are decent numbers in today's climate IMO.
But it looks like the old vets in the 80's got more then, that what RC's giving them now... except for guz'a years he just brought them back to destroy
This is not true at all. Pound for pound vets?

Luke, Sonny, Anna, and Tracy alone have far more story impact now than Steve, Audrey, Jesse and Lee.

And they're on a lot more.

And that doesn't even count the rest of the vets in the comparison.

NOP but you guys are just addressing air time. What about quality of the rest of the show? Did I care that Steve, Audrey, Jesse and Lee were on less and had less impact? Probably not because the show was successful in getting me to care about what was going on in the larger whole. If they weren't able to do that, I'd probably be like why the hell isn't Steve getting a story?
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so who kills Duke?

Shawn?
TJ?
or Anna?
maybe Sloan?

Hoping it's Anna! Would give her a medal is she does cause this guy ain't Duke, Duke died in her arms in 1990!
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The OP specifically referenced KW, KS, LH as the ones whose usage could be counted on one hand (yes, a hyperbole).
A hyperbole that actually makes no sense when you consider how much they've actually been on. Not as much as we want, but nowhere the blink-and-miss level people constantly whine about here.

it's quite obvious a lot of people here don't actually watch the show they complain about...

Very obvious.

It's kinda funny actually. :lolz
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But it looks like the old vets in the 80's got more then, that what RC's giving them now... except for guz'a years he just brought them back to destroy
This is not true at all. Pound for pound vets?

Luke, Sonny, Anna, and Tracy alone have far more story impact now than Steve, Audrey, Jesse and Lee.

And they're on a lot more.

And that doesn't even count the rest of the vets in the comparison.

NOP but you guys are just addressing air time. What about quality of the rest of the show? Did I care that Steve, Audrey, Jesse and Lee were on less and had less impact? Probably not because the show was successful in getting me to care about what was going on in the larger whole. If they weren't able to do that, I'd probably be like why the hell isn't Steve getting a story?
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IDA Steve & Audrey and Jessie were still shown more by GM ,I think i can count on by hands the amout of times RC has used KW, KS, LH, over the last few years ..
They were shown, but they didn't do much of anything. Jessie probably had a few lines, if any, when we saw her. "bobbe you're wanted in the er" or something like that. Yes, they were seen and no stories.
same as now.
No sweety, YOUR fave vet is a nurse Jessie.

But there are lot of GH vets who are not.
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But it looks like the old vets in the 80's got more then, that what RC's giving them now... except for guz'a years he just brought them back to destroy
This is not true at all. Pound for pound vets?

Luke, Sonny, Anna, and Tracy alone have far more story impact now than Steve, Audrey, Jesse and Lee.

And they're on a lot more.

And that doesn't even count the rest of the vets in the comparison.

NOP but you guys are just addressing air time. What about quality of the rest of the show? Did I care that Steve, Audrey, Jesse and Lee were on less and had less impact? Probably not because the show was successful in getting me to care about what was going on in the larger whole. If they weren't able to do that, I'd probably be like why the hell isn't Steve getting a story?
This argument started when somebody said vets aren't even on the show at all.

You can debate all day long about what writing you did, or didn't, like. That's subjective.

But to suggest that GH has less vets now than it did during the hey day is wrong. Flat out, provably wrong. It's just that you, as you admit here, didn't care whether Steve and his kind had any story at all. You were into the newbies and didn't care about GH vets being sidelined. Karma is a bitch.
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