The reason Susan was drunk in the shower scene with Kim trying to sober her up was because baby Emily was critically ill in the hospital with meningitis and I remember they tried to get her over to the hospital. Kim was finally successful in getting her there.

@@larkpraiseBut back then they called “Baby Emily” just Emmy.

Other than sleeping with Bob Susan was always in the right.

I think we saw plenty that Susan was immature. I don't think she was usually right. She was triggered by Kim and wouldn't do anything to stop her anger from taking over. I don't particularly like Kim, but it wouldn't have mattered what she said. Susan was a broken wheel that somehow kept spinning.

Me too

Susan was jealous that Bob chose Kim. Basically is what happened.

Get off my lawn

I think Susan made sure that Emily and Ali were tied tight to her, and designated the three of them as The Stewart Women. Kim only used the term out of disgust, which was what Susan wanted.

I thought Kim forgave her in 2006 during the 50th anniversary show.

Go to hell! LOL!

It had nothing to do with respecting the Stewarts- it was just lazy writing in terms of actual history. It ALWAYS annoyed me when the last few writers would have Kim say something about the “STEWART women” because they didn’t understand KIM WAS A STEWART BEFORE SHE WAS A HUGHES. Kim loved the Stewart family- David & Ellen, Betsy & Emily. In fact when Emily first came back to town she was closer to Ellen, Betsy & Kim than she was to Susan, who had been a horrible mother to her. Emily even lived in the garage apartment when Kelley Menighan first took over the role. Emily was close to the Hughes until the late 90’s when new writers list track of historical character personalities and relationships. In the beginning, Kim was patient and compassionate towards Susan when no one else could have or would have been. Marland actually was the first to allow Kim to get angry with her. Marland also didn’t try to make one right and the other wrong in the Bob/Susan/Kim triangle he looked at each character’s perspective.. The last few scenes ( from the 2000’s) where Kim seems judgmental & mean are just the result of writers who didn’t get Kim. Kim and Bob, neither one, ever thought of themselves as saints or above anyone else. They both were very aware of their own mistakes and shortcomings. While it was fun to see the ladies argue, it was a departure of who Kim was before 2000. When Kim & Susan fought over Bob, it was still very much in character- Kim had a history of being victimized by Susan. It made sense that Kim couldn’t believe Susan and in the end she was right, Bob had developed some feelings for Susan. He always wanted to be needed and Susan needed him. It took him a long time to admit that but once he did, he and Kim reconciled and Kim and Susan buried the hatchet. By the way, Kathryn Hays and Marie Masters were good friends in real life.

@@roberthall5533 I think they screwed it up long before HS wrote for ATWT. When they had Emily turn on Margo and sleep with Tom, it through everything off. Besides Kim thought of Betsy Stewart as her own daughter.

Yes, she was terribly boring, but not with holy Kim and Lucinda 😂.

@@clabals may they RIP 🌹

@@Manuel-zo3wg indeed, may they be in the Light. They gave us such great entertainment; after all these years I can still enjoy the episodes. Just found out that I share the same date of birth with the late Kathryn Hays (Kim) and that she was also married to Glenn Ford for three years!

Susan was a doctor and there was NOTHING boring about Susan, lol.

@@roberthall5533 yes, she was a doctor, but terribly boring apart from the confrontations with Kim and Lucinda. FFW while watching the scenes without confrontations.

What? Oakdale was that cozy, little midwestern town where everyone knew everyone. All the rich history in these families. It wasn’t a glitzy or a scary place. It just felt like home.

@@hotgritz4sho I was and still am a loyal Guiding Light fan

@markc-ru4qz what about atwt made you not care for it??? I'm only asking because I felt the same way about All My Children. I thought there was not a lot of character growth on that show. Just curious to know how why.

@@samuellavon4846 I couldn't begin to explain it there were many reasons. But one thing I really hated was how Guiding Light was seen as a poor stepchild of ATWT (at least to me) which is absurd.

I loved the Craig Montgomery era and when David Stenbeck with plastic surgery as a fake psychiatrist and started messing with Julia Lindsay. Lol.