Just catching up on some of the photos I had saved on an external drive before my hard drive died last August. The first is a group shot of Tamara with others from the cast of GENERAL HOSPITAL. In this image we see her with Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos) and I have to say I’m tired of being politically correct about it all. I want her back as Carly. They’ve done very little with Kim and given she gets on average ten episodes a month compared to her twenty when she played Carly, I’m still feeling there is still no investment in Tamara here. I think Valentini wanted her back, but not to give her the storyline she deserves. I know there are posts in some soap forums more or less stating so. They’ve grossly underused her and the fact she didn’t receive an Emmy nomination yet you-know-who did speaks volumes.

Today’s episode. There’s one thing I would like to point out for a bit of consideration or speculation. This is two days in a row we got Tamara in scenes with someone or someones who are in Carly’s life. The first was Joss (Eden McCoy), the second were Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Mike (Max Gail). Could we dare to dream, perhaps, they might be pulling a slip on us? Could we dare to dream what a regular visitor/commenter here to the site CeRon and I have discussed that perhaps there might be a tale of Two Carly’s? With there being the tale of two Jasons (Steve Burton/Billy Miller) supposedly about to wrap up, could we hopefully be given a storyline where we find out “Kim” is really Carly with some mind mapping? Please?

 

Today’s episode. Not happy when they show Tamara with people Carly is supposed to be interacting with. This is the reason I get so disappointed in Valentini’s decision to bring her back. It’s not like it was when she was Ava Vitali and Taylor Walker on DAYS OF OUR LIVES. Tamara had signed so short term for all three stays that to a degree I/we only had to invest for a for a small bit of time. However, she was Carly for four almost five years. This means she made a bigger impact. I really want her as Carly and I’m not going to hide it. I’ve been patient and been a good girl. Also I’m getting a little irked at the lack of coverage of Tamara in the soap books. For instance in the most recent ABC Soaps In Depth, there was one page with a small photo of her, but more than a dozen of Laura Wright. It’s as if she’s more important than Tamara who was on the show before. For me right now it’s about a level of frustration given what we know Tamara can do and also wanting her back in Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos) and Steve Burton’s (Jason Morgan) sphere. I want real CarSon and real Jarly. What we have right now is something distorted and like I said putting her in scenes with Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis) doesn’t help.

 

Sorry for the delay in getting this up. Like I said in my Tweet my host was having upload issues and I had a few computer issues I had to solve. All done now. So finally they had Tamara in a lighter colour and jeans. I think that’s the thing I miss the most about her Carly was her hip wardrobe. I also miss her unique touches on Carly. I think to myself what she’d be doing with Carly’s storyline. I spent about three hours on Youtube just watching old Carson clips and missing that relationship between Tamara and Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos).

 

More scans for the gallery. There is no text to the article as it’s just a picture of Tamara and Maurice Benard (Sonny Corinthos) during the filming of the Nurse’s Ball. Seeing this makes it harder to see her as anyone else other than Carly. Yeah, I know…… Tough.

These scenes were hard to watch. Loving Tamara for so long as Carly in scenes with Steve Burton (Jason Morgan) I was remembering all of their scenes from Tamara’s time as Carly. The parts I was remembering were the scenes where Carly and Jason went out to the island to rescue Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Brenda (Vanessa Marcel) from Luis Alcazar (Ted King). When Sonny and Jason rescued Carly from South America when Lorenzo (Ted King) had taken her there. The scenes where Sonny told Carly about Michael (then Dylan Cash) and what happened to him. The scene in the park where the playground was being named in Michael’s honour and the discussion Carly and Bobbie (Jacklyn Zeman) had about the deaths of children. Such heartbreaking and funny scenes. This one just made me so sad we don’t have that dynamic when it was so clear Tamara was being Carly…without the barging into Jason’s place.

 

Here is yesterdays episode. Sorry it’s so late despite what I said in my Twitter post. Couldn’t be helped. I had the doctors appointment then my rehab. In the doctors appointment I found out I have a vitamin B12 deficiency along with the damned vertigo. I have to take injections now in order to build me back up to be faster, stronger, better than I was before. (“Six Million Dollar Man” reference for those not in the know).

Here’s the media for the episode.