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You could wait until it goes down to 3, 20 minute episodes per week, so trying it out then wouldn't be a big commitment.

It's plot driven soap opera on crack. It can be entertaining, but never for too long. Plus, major story is usually only given to the same tired characters ad nauseum.

She was getting in people's good graces when she was praising vacationing in some BC town I forget the name of, then she turned a corner into this and lost it all.

The article I read on DS said it'll be worldwide.

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Looking it up, it was based on a very successful comic strip that lasted from 1953 all the way to the year 2000! The close up of Pop was strange, but the worst choice was to not end the episode with the reaction from the show's namesake for the series' first cliffhanger. That's just bad soap opera.

I loved reading @Matt's For Now and Forever, which took place in the 30's and was "cast" with classic Hollywood actors. I remember he was admitted some soap writer contacted him through email to try and help him get in the door of actually writing for the soaps, but he ended up turning him down. Matt, feel free to repeat the anecdote again with more accuracy if you feel so obliged!

Paul Wesley used his surname, Wasilewski.

Request: Dabney Coleman (R.I.P.)

Dabney Coleman has passed away

The only good thing about this for me are getting the free hours of my week back, until The Gates returns of course!

Well, that's me ending my time watching. It's been a nice 2 and half months. Bring on The Gates!

"Lucas thinks he doesn't deserve Dillon." He doesn't! It's so sad that the show only sees Dillon as a plot point appendage of Lucas. Oscar Curtis can't act worth a lick, while Nathaniel Dass is gorgeous, has charisma in spades, and the camera loves him. He and Dillon both deserve so much better.

Maybe I'm being naïve, but I feel like the writers have been very careful not to mention Sonny being a criminal whenever Natalia is around and when she finds out, that will be the catalyst to her actively doing something nefarious to get Kristina out of Blaze's life.

They should do with Victoria Rowell what EastEnders did with Pat Butcher on EastEnders. Have her be mentioned here and there for about a year and then bring her on to shake things up. But I fear people are really getting their hopes on casting. The majority will probably be newbies. I want this show to have it's own identity. I want The Gates to have The Gates actors, not a smattering of who's who from various other places. They should be sprinkled in. That said, I would cast Debbi Morgan to be part of the original cast initially, like Rosemary Prinz on AMC, and end up killing her off after 6-9 months.

I'm blanking, why would Portia and Curtis be there?

Apologies because I know ya'll have posted it a million times, but what's that site where someone can read articles online even if they're blocked somehow?

Ya'll worrying about characters, and all I can think is, I hope The Gates' opening theme isn't trash. I pray Michele Val Jean is met with people working alongside her that care about the show in all aspects of it's production. No flops please.

How's your OLTL list coming along? Just a few letters remain, granted they're the big ones, P,Q,R,S,T,U!

Sue me, but I don't mind Natalia at all. Maybe I just like Eva LaRue, but I'm hoping now that Ava was seething and sharpening her fangs at her interloping presence that she'll inform Natalia of who Sonny really is, a criminal, and that'll be the catalyst in her making real moves against Blaze/Kristina. As for the mention of a brother ... a potentially sexy latino newcomer ... I'm sensing he's the one that could be brought in for Trina. And no he isn't shredded, but I still think Chad Duell looked like a snack. I wouldn't have kicked him out of bed.

It was an open question, so thank you for answering. And to titan and Vee for confirming.

Regarding the Eckerts mentioned above, there have been a couple instances in current day GH where characters have gotten food from an Eckerts bakery and @dc11786 mentioned they used to own one. Is there a blatant connection there or just a coincidence?

It's funny, because with your typo you could mean Whitney/Leo or Stacey/Theo and it would still make your point for you.

I can't say about the latter, but Doug's funeral won't air until December.

It's the perfect use of him. In fact, if they showed him half-naked anytime Joss started to talk, I'd want her in every episode.