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I still believe Travis and Erica might've gone the distance, had someone not f'ed up things royally with some of the most hideous storytelling I'd ever seen on AMC. (When Erica hooking up with the man who kidnapped her daughter makes more sense than reuniting her with Travis, you know things have taken an awful turn, lol).

For God's sake, couldn't someone issue some sort of gag order, preventing her from issuing any further public statements? It's not helping her case any. If anything, it's making her look even more unbalanced.

@Vee ?

Wait, what? Earl Holliman was gay?

Now I know why I didn't like "McMillan & Wife" after the first season.

What if Rick Hearst and Billy Warlock had swapped roles, with Hearst playing A.J. and Warlock playing Ric?

I see Dee still was in her "Angie Dickinson" phase.

No, it wouldn't, lol! The only crossover that might have saved LOVING (for awhile) would've been to have none other than Erica Kane herself decide to pull up stakes and relocate her business, Enchantment, to Corinth. And I'm not even sure about that, lol!

I agree! For all the things Margaret DePriest might've done wrong during her brief stint head writing AMC, one thing she (and Lorraine Broderick and Victor Miller) did right was to lay the groundwork for maturing Erica after a decade of increasingly outlandish storylines. Erica finally had someone (her daughter, Bianca) to love besides herself, and a husband (Travis) who understood (or at least tolerated) her, even as his machinations that had led to Bianca's kidnapping threatened their marriage. And even though the "Barney the Clown" storyline might've been one of the show's all-time dumbest, nonetheless, it led to Eric Kane's return, a reconciliation between him and his daughter, and an opportunity for Erica to put that particular demon - meaning, of course, her insecurities stemming from Eric's abandonment - to rest. Then, Agnes Nixon returns as HW; and before too long, Eric betrays his daughter (selling his Enchantment stock to Natalie) and skips town once more; Travis turns into a sanctimonious PITA over Erica and Jack's affair (while sleeping with Barbara behind Erica and Tom's backs, so little Molly could get a sibling and bone marrow donor); and Erica winds up losing custody of her daughter because Jack AND Travis decided all of a sudden to take the high road, making Erica look like a wanton slut and uncaring mom in front of a judge. (That, right there, should've been the end of Jack and Erica. Alas, it wasn't, because both Agnes and Susan Lucci were/are enamored with Walt Willey for reasons that still escape me, lol).

Well, I recognize longtime GH producer/director Jim Young, but who was the man escorting Rosalie around the nurses' station at the beginning of the video? Was that Tom Donovan? Thanks, @SoapDope , for posting (or reposting)!!

ICAM! Was Angela Shapiro in charge when Faison/AH crossed over to LOVING? If so, then it probably was part of Shapiro's scheme to turn all the ABCD soaps into one "super-soap" ("synergy," as she called it). Plus, the network still wasn't ready to give up on LOVING, so they were trying everything to bolster the ratings (although, I think they would've been better off asking Ricky Martin to crossover instead, lol).

I agree. I also like your idea of Pat Falken Smith collaborating with Nixon, though. I mean, you're probably right that the two working together would've been a behind-the-scenes nightmare - more so on PFS' end than on Nixon's - but I also think a LOVING (or any new soap) penned by PFS would've featured the kind of bold characters and provocative issues that defined her work pre-GH.

I would've made Roxie Shayne or Harley Cooper nurses before I made them a model and cop, respectively.

Shemar and Vivica are trying hard enough, but Christel looks completely checked out.

Talk about characters who are unlikeable and are existing past their shelf dates! I still don't know how a short-term(-ish), one-note villain like Cesar Faison wound up making such an impact on GH. I mean, was he really that integral of a character that they needed to keep bringing him back AND build an entire family around his basic ass? Were viewers really missing him THAT much? Even worse, when they had him pop up briefly on LOVING, I was like, "Who in da hell was asking for THAT!?"