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I generally find these more enjoyable than the show at present.

I'm glad you were able to watch and enjoy the episode (hopefully there will be more showing up at some point). Roya is always a firecracker, with her magnetism making up for the moments where Ava is just there to move the plot along. I never knew Jack had a beard either. Perry Stephens always looked gorgeous but it was nice to see a different style for him. I wonder if there's some list of the times soap heroes had facial hair (not those who kept it for many years, like Josh on GL). I know Christine said when she was let go from Loving that she wanted to "get her body back" after having a child, but any planned break she took clearly never ended. Noelle was very green but had enough of a sincerity to help her.

@slick jones Thank you for all you do with these profiles. I can't imagine how much hard work they are. If you do find a new place just let me know.

A 1960 sitcom pilot starring Pamela Lincoln, among others. This starts with one of those odd actor/character introductions.

Julie and Carly were friends, although this did not stop Carly from sleeping with Caleb. When Julie decided to leave town, Carly convinced Caleb to join her at the last minute as she was worried he was going to tell people about their one-night stand. Unlike a number of people written out around this time (looking at you, Shannon and Duncan), Julie's last year on the show was one of her best.

Not sure if you can see this if you don't have Twitter but it's very moving.

I'm not sure that's true anymore. TV and soaps have moved away from younger viewers and given the state of the country a lot of young people do not have disposable income.

I can't remember for sure but I think there was an SOD article from 1993 or early 1994 that also intimated this. That's very classy of Robin. I do think Elaine did a good job, and really hit her stride during the Blair/Addie story.

I may be wrong, but I think Robin mentioned struggling with how to play Dorian when she returned. I thought most of her material that first year back was so one-note and plot-driven, making her look as bad as possible (even killing her grandchild) to justify Viki and the sainted Sloan wanting to lock her up. Once we got to the trial and jail period for Dorian, I think Robin found her footing again and the story improved.

Whenever I think of the "Words Get in the Way" scenes I think of @Khan's old post (paraphrasing) which said those were not the best two actors to give a theme with that title.

As I haven't seen the channel that initially uploaded these episodes return to Youtube, I reuploaded them so people can still see them. @Manny I believe you never got to see the second episode. @Franko Thank you for your posts sharing the dates.

It's the polling being so all over the place that makes me uneasy (well, one of the things). Not long ago the Quinnipac state polls showed decent news for Harris, but now the national poll has Trump ahead. I don't have much use for Quinnipac, but they aren't alone in the tightness or slight shift back to Trump. Every time there's a lull in the race, I feel like polls start to slowly shift toward him again. When the polls are so close and Trump is just going around promising everyone everything, with the media cheerleading him (even as they may tut-tut at times), I keep going back to 2016.

Some other poll (admittedly I think this poll was probably GOP-friendly) out in the last day or two mentioned 7 or 8 states where a sizable amount of Biden 2020 voters have moved to Trump. Most aren't, of course, and some would have moved even if Biden had stayed in, but it did make me wonder how many are just not going to vote for a woman, or a WOC. My main fears with the election, beyond the Trump overperformance compared to polling in 2016 and 2020, is how many still don't know or trust Harris and how many still believe Trump is better on immigration and the economy. Beyond those fears, I do think there may be a lot of people who won't give Harris a chance and are just going to become more comfortable making that clear as we get closer to Election Day.

Thanks as always.

I think if Kamala Harris were better known by the public it would not have an effect, but in such a close election, with so many still not sure of her, every vote worries me.

Sometimes I want to just laugh off the "Comrade Kamala" stuff until I remember how effective it is for some voters, no matter how much she has tried to take a more centrist path. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8jg11ynj7o

I don't think it alone is enough to make a difference, I just think a thousand cuts tend to happen when Trump is involved.

Trump is gathering up a coat of many hatemongers. I still think the race is close enough to where it could make the difference.

This is stirring up such a hornet's nest in reviving all the old attacks against Harris, especially due to some who are going so far in attacking Janet, her family, etc.

Thanks. I've heard of it but never watched the full scene. That's very sweet. Wish they did that type of silliness now. I thought it was illegal for any wedding video to be played on Ramsay Street that wasn't Scott and Charlene.

Oh that's right. Thanks.

You're right. They did give Annie a few layers (like saving Abby from the house fire but not Reva) but could have gone further. I remember LBB dancing on a table or something. I think her spark helped make her more memorable but the Reva Jr aspects, not as much. It might have been more interesting to write Marah as withdrawn and fearful, contrasting with vivacious Reva. McKeon probably could have tapped into that if they had tried. I remembered Daisy but I thought that was all offcamera. Sonni also had a miscarriage.

I can't remember any either - there were a number of miscarriages instead. A far cry from soaps now with endless babies. Seeing Bill, Michelle and Ben as friends definitely endeared them more to viewers, at least with the original actors (the recasts never recaptured it). I don't think it helps with your memories that Shayne and Marah never had anything interesting to do as adults anyway.

I wonder if Frank is trying to sabotage Lucky's return. He had to get rid of a number of his friends, and he clearly wasn't interested in bringing Lucky back himself given that it hasn't happened over the last decade. It also seems convenient that they decided to start the story when Genie Francis was away, given some of his issues with her. Then again, they did a lousy job with Jason's return too, so maybe they are just surrendering to complete apathy.

I thought Laura Bell Bundy was OK, but I never cared enough about her or her stories. I think the circumstances of her firing ended up making people rally around her. I do think she was more believable as a Lewis and a Shayne than Lindsey McKeon, but you're right that the writing was never there. When Reva first returned there was natural conflict to be found in Marah and Shayne preferring Annie to her, but the show had to make Annie evil because that was the easier choice (and that probably did save the show from being canceled). Kimberly J Brown was the best of the Marahs, for whatever that was worth. I remember seeing a bit of an episode where she briefly returned, which must have been odd for viewers who had never seen her in the role originally and just remembered a vapid blonde tearing off her clothes and begging to be raped. IIRC he did have a very loud fanbase, which similar to the loud fanbases for Gus/Harley and Michelle/Danny seemed to dominate the show's final years. I remember being bewildered at the time because I actually DID like Bradley Cole as Richard, and I even liked Richard/Cassie (even if he had more chemistry with Edmund...), but I was not sending flowers or doing letter writing campaigns for him, and I sure wasn't interested in watching him [!@#$%^&*] Marah or Beth or whoever it was on the floor of a Chinese restaurant. I liked him at GL too, the little I remember now. I know he had one of those generic "goes overseas and is scarred by war trauma" stories soaps love. I think he did his best with some shocking material at AMC. My good will did not go far enough to watch the retcons of Nina he was involved in on Y&R. I do think having two former AMC men leading in GL's last year is a reminder of how the show had lost its identity, although AMC got their own back by hiring RPG, I suppose.