Total Recall
So yes, the news that A Martinez is joining OLTL may have sent me into a whirlwind of nostalgia which has resulted in me spending the entire evening watching old Eden and Cruz clips on You Tube.
I suspect that may lead to a longer post at some point, but there's two things that have become immediately apparent:
1. They totally stand the test of time. I've spent most of the evening with a silly grin on my face because while there was tons of drama - it took them three and a half years to get married! That would never happen now - one of the best things about them was that they were so much fun. Which should hardly be a surprise given that virtually everything about SB was fun, but it's still nice to be reminded.
2. I have quite a bit of recall about some of these scenes. Not total recall of the dialogue, but a lot of it feels exceedingly, pleasantly familiar. And I haven't seen this stuff for 20 years. I used to tape SB every day (with Days and Another World) and watch them when I got home from school, but I never kept any tapes of any of it - I didn't do that until the early to mid-90s glory years of GH - so at most I might have replayed some scenes a few times before taping over them a couple of days later. But it so much of it feels like I've watched it far more recently. And given how many brain cells I've killed with beer and studying law in the intervening years, that's quite gratifying.
I so wish they didn't have all the music licensing issues with this show so they could show it again. Though all that music feels so familiar too.