You aren't wrong, lol. PFS, in particular, had a lot to do with DAYS and GH sharing similar action/adventure/sci-fi DNA in the '80's - starting, of course, with Luke and Laura on GH, and then continuing on with the Salem Strangler arc and the arrival of the Brady and DiMera clans on DAYS. Thom Racina, along with Sheri Anderson and Leah Laiman, just built on PFS' foundation.
What differentiates '80's DAYS from '80's GH, though, is the former show's stronger emphasis on romance, a carryover from the Bill Bell/PFS I era. '80's GH has its' share of supercouples, of course, but probably not to the same degree as DAYS, which became a virtual "supercouples factory" as the decade wore on. Next to the stuff that Pamela K. Long was writing for GL, '80's DAYS had the biggest "heart" in daytime, which I've always attributed to Al Rabin and Shelley Curtis and their insistence on getting to the emotional or romantic core of every scene.
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