All My Shadows

The first season theme was more swampy lol the bongos and such. The theme was written by Gerald Fried, who also wrote the theme from from Roots, and you can definitely hear similarities between the two. I LOVE the little part with the various homes representing Flamingo Road. The Weldon home, also used on Emerald Point NAS, is in California and supposedly looks like a tiny piece of the south stuck in the middle of Pasadena. He was cute on the show (not HOT like Mark and Fernando, but cute), and they often had him coming into scenes right from the pool, so that was a plus. They didn't really use him a lot, though. He got air time, but his own stories were usually overpowered by whatever was going on with the central quad.

The song they used was I'll Be Seeing You.

Cheap's new signature had me looking for this...GREAT performance by Ms. Marj Dusay. She's sort of channeling Piper Laurie in Carrie.

Brooke was working at the Goalpost, Tom's restaurant, when Erica and Tom were dating, and Brooke was a hot-to-trot mess who wanted Tom, and thus a legend was born. GOD I hate Barbara's hair, too. That ugly triangle 'do...just...ugh. I think Abby had one like that for a while on Knots Landing.

WTF was Hank thinking with that hair?

I heard Edge of Glory on the radio this morning and me and my friends could not stop laughing at the random 80s sitcom saxophone solo

I don't think I've ever seen someone rave about Dawson's Creek that much before! Most people think the dialogue is stilted and pretentious, but for me that's always been part of the show's charm. Most accounts I've read say that there's a nosedive in quality after season two, but I really think all of the high school years are good, my favorite being season three. I'm taking a break from the Creekers now...probably gonna get started on season two some time this summer. I can't wait, though, because Jack and Andie add SO MUCH to the show, IMO, and were very needed. After the initial Joey/Dawson/Jen triangle cooled down and morphed into the triangle, something new was needed to balance that out, and the McPhees were it. Once they become regulars, I just tune Dawson and Joey out and only pay attention to Pacey when he's with Jen, Jack, and Andie.

I'm in season four as well, the very beginning of it. I just watched The Hearing two-parter over the weekend. Some thoughts: ~ Kirby is finally more interesting now that she's starting to spiral out of control a bit. She was boring as hell all through season three, but I'm starting to not groan whenever she shows up now. Her trying to strangle Alexis was hilarious. ~ Jeff/Fallon...eh. I miss bitchy Fallon from the first two seasons, and if it was that Fallon and Jeff getting back together, fine, but this Fallon and Jeff, not so much. I can't believe how easily Jeff cheated on Kirby. ~ Krystle/Blake. They did a really good job of showing that Blake cares about Krystle, I was truly surprised that he didn't allow Andrew to cross examine her at the hearing, but it makes total sense. For the first time in the series, I'm rooting for them. They're really starting to paint Blake in a more positive light, and I like that. ~ Adam. His obsession with Kirby has turned me off of him a little bit, but he's still my favorite male character on the show. I can't wait to see how he handles Jeff and Fallon snooping around in Billings, Montana (because they never just say Billings). ~ Alexis. LOVED her reactions throughout the hearing. And then when she got up on the stand, she didn't even try to pretend to care about court procedure. Just did her damn thing. I'm guessing it was Kirby who trashed her apartment. ~ Steven. You know, I've only ever watched up to this point in the show, but I really think Dynasty gets a bad rap as far as Steven is concerned. Steven is bisexual, not gay, and I wish the world was ready for that in the early 80s so that the scripts could have just said it that way. He has relationships with men, and no one seems to think it's strange that he also has relationships with women. That's a bisexual. If the writers had just owned that, I think the show would be celebrated for breaking that ground, especially considering how rare it is to find bisexual males on television today, on both scripted and unscripted shows. ~ The custody battle. I love a good soapy custody battle, and this one is no different. I don't care about realistic the court proceedings are or if Chris has a conflict of interest or whatever. This thing is delivering the drama, and I'm eating it up. Definitely my favorite storyline so far.

http://www.billboard.com/news/billboard-bits-britney-s-next-single-the-1005179822.story#/news/billboard-bits-britney-s-next-single-the-1005179822.story So I Wanna Go is gonna be the next single? I'm cool with that. I wanted it to be Seal It with a Kiss, though...

This guy makes me all warm inside He should sing lead more often. I love that song, Carl. I love Kate's shrill voice, the suggestive lyrics, the melodrama, etc. Love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr7QvpHsJBg

Damn it, she's being hilarious on Idol and I'm starting to like the hot mess all over again.

I'll miss Mercy. So with her and Darren gone, that leaves Jay, Ben, Abi, Lauren, Jodie, Tamwar, Afia, and Fatboy as the teen/youth set? That's awkward as hell.

Am I the only one who finds dubstep absolutely hilarious? WUUUB WAPWAPWAPWAP WUUUUB WAPWAPWAPWAPWAPWAPWAP WUUUUB WAPWAPWAPWAP. I can't stop laughing

LOL! McTavish can use some of those Purgatory stories on DAYS should she ever get a job there (now I have to hide from angry DAYS fans). For some reason, New England is one of the first places I think of when I think stereotypical soap location even though there haven't been a whole lot set there. I think there are probably some short-lived 50s soaps that were New England-based.

Isn't DAYS set in New England? Passions and Return to Peyton Place definitely were.

That's Maria? I thought that was one of Cord's lovers that I knew nothing about. Yikes.

I was going to say that! Gerald's making a funny face in that picture, but that's how David Gregory's lips look all the time

I'm not even gonna lie, he looks a little bit like Ford in that picture I took a little break from my HamiltonBernique'ing, but once I start back up, I have a few OLTL episodes to watch, and I think he's in a few of them. He's one of those characters that was a huge part of the show at that time that I've never really seen a lot of. I still haven't watched that 1978-1979 stuff with Viki, Tina, and the others.

http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=from+these+roots&f=all&c=all&advanced=1&p=1&item=B:02159 Looks like the Paley Center has an episode. Honestly, I would plan a trip to NYC just to visit that place, just to watch their soap stuff. I'm that much of a geek. They have (relatively) tons of episodes of ATWT from 1965-1968.

Gerald Anthony always looks like he was a laugh and a half. Gone way too soon.

Yeah, AMD/GH, we just like funnin' with you lol You like that screechy shrew with the ugly hair until you're blue in the face. I hates the sin, not the sinner. I defended Krystal and Babe all through the baby switch, so I know the feeling.

I wish the show had brought back Carl somewhere along the way. The idea of Jake and Jesse being good friends is odd to be because of the age differences that they try to gloss over. If Carl was around, Jake would have his age-appropriate friend that he actually did grow up playing with.