today's Ryan's Hope

[gwynnega]

On today's Ryan's Hope...

JACK: Aha! It's Joe who's setting me up! Which means...Rose, you need to leave town to please Ellen Barrett, the executive producer ensure your safety.

ROSE: No! I'm not leaving the show you! It's not fair that I should suffer because Ellen Barrett's running amok during the Writers' Strike!

MATT: Come on, Rose, it could be worse. They could've bumped you off like Michael Pavel, instead of just writing you out.

ROSE: Oh, you're a fine one to talk! They're not writing you out!

MAEVE: Yay!

ROSE: Goodbye, Jack.
[leaves]

GWYNNEGA: Poor Jack. Oh well, you'll get another love interest...in another eighteen months or so.

JACK: Eighteen months?!? Damn you, Ellen Barrett!

Comments

[10zlaine.livejournal.com]

eighteen months?

oh, my.

[gwynnega]

We're sometime in 1981...Leigh Kirkland appears on the canvas in March 1983, and she and Jack get together pretty immediately. I love Jack/Leigh.

[gwynnega]

Leigh Kirkland!

[10zlaine.livejournal.com]

Oh, awesome!

And, not sticking him with any ol' girl is great! He's too awesome to stick with cardboard after the great actors he *was* paired with!

[gwynnega]

Unfortunately after Labine left that time, the new regime wrote Leigh out, and Jack got stuck with a bevy of uninteresting women. But when Labine came back, she brought Leigh back, and they got married on the final episode! I think Jack/Leigh are my second favorite Jack pairing, second only to Jack/Siobhan. (Jack/Mulgrew's Mary had great chemistry, but he was such a prick to Mary during most of Mulgrew's run!)

[usedtobeljs]

Oh heeeeee. :-)

Your retellings are always wonderful, Gwynne. [hugs]

[gwynnega]

Thanks, Lori!

I feel a bit sorry for Jack, though... :-)

::hugs::