I was so happy to see you. You handsome devil you, how I’ve missed you terribly. I’m hoping beyond hope that the NG’s have a plan for Erica and Jackson. Historically Erica has had a problem with monogamy when another suitor comes sauntering by so with Jackson in town giving her that patented Jackson Montgomery smile I would think Erica just might turn her head away from Ryan. I like a Jack/Erica/Ryan scenario.
Don’t get me wrong, I do not, I REPEAT, DO NOT WANT to see a Rylee rehash version 5.0. If Greenlee’s last stint in Pine Valley proved anything it was that the magic was gone and the time to move on had come. The NG’s are bring some freshness to the canvas so to see Rylee v5.0 would just cluck this up big time. Hey, I know there is die hard Rylee fans out there but the last pairing of Rylee was contrived and over the top. My jaw dropped a mile when I saw them destroy the Aidan/Greenlee pairing (which was smoking hot) to try and force a storyline with Ryan and Greenlee. The time has passed and it’s time to move on from Rylee.
Which brings me to Ryan in general. Yes, you all know I haven’t been a big fan for Ryan Lavery over the years. My discontent with Ryan isn’t anything Cam Mathison has done because frankly I love the big guy. It is how the character of Ryan was handled since he came back in 2003. Life with Ryan between 1999-2002 was extremely wonderful. He and Gillian were amazing together and even in losing her he lost his way with other women…including Liza (got her pregnant), Mia (Liza’s sister) and of course Kendall. In 2003, they brought Ryan back and things went from bad to worse.
Ryan left town because of Kendall’s infidelity. He had just learned that Chris Stamp was his father and he just had to get away from Kendall. Ryan’s entrance to Pine Valley was via Las Vegas and Alexander Cambias, Sr. which in itself was benign. As time went on he became the Cambias heir apparent and they wrote Ryan to be a pompous jackass that no female could resist. He loved Kendall, Kendall almost got the death penalty and in the end he decided on hooking up with Greenlee. That brings me to the death of anything I could care about Ryan forever. Late 2004 began the painful deconstruction of Ryan Lavery and the beginning of my not so liking the character anymore.
Just a quick rundown for those who didn’t follow Ryan then:
In 2000, Anna Devane came to town and she shared a little conversation with Ryan that her former husband Duke Lavery was a cousin of Ryan’s Mom (whose maiden name was Lavery). In 2002, Chris Stamp realized that Ryan was actually his biological son from an affair that Chris had with Ryan’s Mom in 1972. Chris, in doing a background check of Ryan (or John Ryan Curry – Ryan’s real name) it was indeed true he was his son. Fast forward to 2005 when Ryan has meltdown and Erica gives him Chris’ effects from when he was murdered (Ryan was wandering the world then). In the effects was a journal that Chris details how he lied to Ryan and he was actually the son of Patrick Lavery. Thus destroying all of the history of Ryan with miss using his name. Patrick’s last name should have been Curry even if all of his family took the name of Lavery like Ryan, which of course doesn’t make any sense either that all of the family members went by Lavery. Especially after the whole Braden Rape case!
The character of Ryan went from bad to worse from 2005-2009. Ryan joined Fight Club and talked about it. (Rule #1…Never talk about Fight Club!). Ryan then almost punched Greenlee when she told him she was pregnant, he faked his death, came back from the dead and all this after telling everyone that Jonathan couldn’t have been the serial killer they all said he was…Um Hockett was a serial Killer and your brother Braden was a rapist. Denial, lead to more denial and then he drove Annie McDermott insane when Greenlee came back to town. All that while Alexander Cambias, Sr. was killing the women of Pine Valley. Which of course brought on more denial for Ryan.
Here the NG’s have the opportunity to fix the past and make Ryan a character enjoyable to watch again. With Greenlee coming back, Ryan involved with Erica and Jackson coming home from Paris there is so much opportunity to make the bad go away and fix what happened to a once likeable character.
So PLEASE NG’s help us out here
Here Endth My Jackson Lovefest








