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Donna/Matt were so well-received that when Amy Carlson first debuted as Josie, the original purpose of her character (to reunite with Matt) was 86'd because of how popular Matt and Donna were as a couple. And I agree that the show was really working to make Donna pathetic during the serial killer story with her throwing herself at Michael, Michael turning her down, and her acting desperate and trying to do odd things that made her look guilty. It seemed as though JFP/Depriest were going to make her so pathetic that her murder would be looked at as tragic because of how sad and pathetic a delusional older woman was (and this was constructed by two older women). I remember telling my mom about how Donna was the original final victim of the serial killer and she said 'you can't kill off Donna, she's too vital to the show'. Oddly the show decided on Frankie because she scored lower on a focus group test and it was during a time where Frankie was hardly written for and was being written as almost too serious without any of her more quirky and whimsical elements that made her character very unique. The show's attempt at trying her with another platonic guy friend (Joe) didn't work as well as her platonic friendship with Ryan.. and I guess the show just assumed it was due to her and not from the male character (hot as he was).

❤️ just happy to see Lynn Herring getting love for over two pages of this thread

Oh wow. I'm behind on the storylines and had wondered who posters were referring to. A boat!

Thanks so much. I never would have seen this otherwise. Billy is such a talented actor and so beautiful too. He works all the time, but I hope he gets the kinder parts he wants. If we still had romcoms he would be so good in one.

27 years ago today and just 3 weeks before the shows 35th anniversary, NBC announced the cancellation of AnotherWorld

I have no idea if Sigmund made it to PC. I thought they largely dumped the animals when Claire left. I remember Lucy paid tribute to Sigmund at CoeCoe Cosmetics with her "Golden Duck" sales tier or whatever it was. I think they may have brought in another duck to appear as Sigmund II or something in 2013 for the anniversary, but I don't remember at all.

They've been talking about Marcel's wife for as long as we've known him so they arent adding extra characters into the mix. I like the convo bc it provided much needed context as to why Darlene hates Leslie. It extends beyond what she did to Nicole, whom she isnt close to. Leslie is sleeping with the husband of her good friend which and knowing this makes me look at their interactions a bit differently bc its personal for her. She sees history repeating itself again. Leslie could have redeemed herself and tried to do better but she's not and thats what Darlene has going through her head. And of course she's projecting and putting that onto Eva as she feels she hasnt changed either

Sorry for double post/quoting - I forgot to mention that this reminded me BTG has that kind of dynamic with Nicole, Anita and that other recurring character (the sanctimonious woman) who act like mother figures to Laura (those 5 times a year we see her).

Nadia lives in Northern Ireland -- her husband is a citizen there. Christie Clark lives in England - her husband is a citizen there. Nadia and Christie visited each other over there last year or the year before, it was on their IG. Nadia does visit the USA from time to time. Nadia did a film with Kyler Pettis (former Theo Carver) which they filmed in New York, . . . . as well as the film with Joan Collins and Jacob Young. . . . But yeah I don't think she wants a longterm commitment in the USA at present? (Of course theoretically possible anything could change at some point.)

What ever happened to Sigmund? Did he move over to PC too? Or did he escape? I am sure it was explained but I can't recall.

I love that this caught on! This is the only time Ivy has been remotely interesting.

Nadia can return but only for short term visits if she wants to. If they want Chloe back for long term then they have to recast her

Really? Damn, I had no idea. Thanks Maybe that's the reason why Chloe hasn't been brought back into the show.

Nadia lives in Europe

GH: - Jessica Tuck first listed as Director on April 10 Maybe Charlotte Gibson retired. She's 68 years old. I would be surprised if GH fired her.

Bless Lynn for refusing to let Lucy be just another generic character on the show. So many of them are soulless, either by written word or they just can't fill in the spaces. As for who Lucy's soulmate is, it's Kevin for me. I loved Lucy, Doc, and Sigmund. I hate that the writers broke them up and they barely interact. Laura deserved better than Luke, but she and Kevin do nothing for me. Speaking of Luke, he and Lucy had great chemistry. They should've hooked up instead of him and Felicia.

With me sometimes, the audio doesn't match the picture but it always corrects itself. Does that happen to you too sometimes?

I could see that reasoning re: Kelly/Morgan vs Nola. Especially knowing Nola was created somewhat on the fly. It is surprising Marland didn't give Vanessa stronger schemes and goals. Maybe he thought two (or three, I guess, with Diane) cold-hearted schemers was overkill, and Vanessa kind of jelled into the jealous adult woman/child. Maybe she would've headed back to Ross, as Ross and Carrie sorted out who and what they were after discovering her split personalities. I never blamed Vanessa for resenting Quint--he was such an obnoxious do-gooder, anyone would've hated him. LOL.

All the more reason for Chloe to be brought back now

previously mentioned: “sheila” is marcel’s boat. and ita re madison’s mother — too much telling, not enough showing has been a problem since the beginning.

Is anyone else experiencing a weird video transmission with DAYS? Every day for te past couple weeks, the first 5 minutes or so look like the video is doing a stutter step -- I really don't know how to explain it. There's no smoothness. It does resolve itself after a few minutes.

Agree with this completely. Adding extra characters without resolving any current storylines/situations is not good.

The show seems to have no use for Chloe or Nadia, who has always seemed to be gracious and willing to return even though the show dumps her every few years lol. There are so many places Chloe naturally fits on the canvas and yet the show decides to shoehorn certain characters into multiple stories that don't work lol. I still can't believe they brought Joy on after years and years and Chloe wasn't even around. Spoiler

About the only other thing I can say about this week is that I agree Friday was the strongest episode. I felt badly for both June and Samantha, and that scene was earned. I also felt for Nicole earlier in the week, but that was more because Vanessa is a terrible friend and completely delusional than it was due to any real character development. As others have said, Vanessa and Joey's scenes feel like I've accidentally changed the channel to GH, and that is not a good thing. Hopefully some of the new plot twists will lead to something more compelling next week, although probably not the "will Smitty be caught breaking into his beloved mother-in-law's computer to see an org chart" cliffhanger (there's a joke in there somewhere about how many detectives and investigative reporters it takes to change a lightbulb). It would at least been semi fun if the cliffhanger had been that Ashley discovered Jacob and Smitty in the stairwell, and suspected they were having a clandestine affair. Along the lines of what I said earlier about Jacob and Naomi's trajectory, Martin and Smitty are another couple who might have benefited from having their love story play out on screen in real time. The conversations that would have led to given their respective professions would have also helped with the exposition problem (and, in particular, the problem with actors who are earlier in their careers not being well served with pages and pages of exposition that the characters have no reason to be explaining to each other).

The weird Tailsman story hurt the show because the show had managed to find a good balance between the faith based mission and strong soapy stories/characters. It was why the Miriam story was successful and why the Kate Phillip arc was successful and caused a decent sized audience for the soap. The last few months of the show seemed to return back to basics, but once you drive away viewers and affiliates, it's difficult to get them both back. And I think the decision to cancel was sudden because you see a sudden shift to resolve/tie everything up in the final 15 or so episodes even though the campaign story still was ongoing, the Vanessa story was strong, the role playing campus story was getting started, and there was a pregnancy/paternity story that got resolved super quick even though it looked as though that still had legs to it.