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What a surprise to see two of the most pro extremist "respectable" outlets carrying water for their god.

Too bad they have one of the most offputting hosts in the history of TV...

A good interview with Barbra I'm not sure I'd seen going around before.

Dee's main problem was how quickly she seemed to burn out from being put right in the heart of the show. Annie I never feel like is an actually important character, even though she was heavy in story for a few years.

I remember Corday supposedly being involved with the huge changes for the worse at Soap Opera Weekly because they had some mild criticism of the soaps. I know soap magazines, like all other magazines, couldn't have lasted, but still, if a genuine place of constructive criticism had lasted longer, the soaps might not have careened so far off a cliff in quality and arrogance to any real change over the last two decades. Of course so many these days are so busy trying to have "shade," get likes, and have their pals laugh as they go on about an actor being too fat for them to get hard for, the constructive concerns are drowned out, but that's partly because the middleman between unfiltered fan views and a brain dead show was stomped out.

That's probably about the best summary I saw on Twitter. If he was kinder offline then it's another reminder of just how toxic and detrimental social media tends to be, and also a reminder of why you should not base your life and personality on that type of persona as so many soaps fans or bloggers tend to do. Anyway, I hope he is at peace.

I had forgotten about all of that. Eesh. My heart breaks over everything Kristoff went through.

That's terrible news. Nelson's columns were so widely discussed when I got on here and I will always remember that period of time, which was exciting and interesting, much moreso than anything on the soaps themselves by that point, even when I had my own criticisms of the whole thing. I'm sorry to hear of his passing. This whole month has felt like another closing of a door on soaps, but we keep them alive in our own individual ways, generation to generation, as Nelson himself did. Rest in peace.

Thank you so much for finding all of this and sharing it with us @jam6242 I wish we were in a world where these shows were readily available, but this is nearly as good.

In past years this would have happened. I can't imagine how Bill Bell or the Cordays (not Ken) would have reacted in a similar situation. I know the industry they worked in is gone, it's not just about soaps and lack of respect for them - look at the ugly way those working at the Discovery properties have been treated this month - but you can see the lack of care in everyone involved being blindsided by this move. There's no way this dogshit is going to attract paying customers, unless DAYS has a billionaire fan out there who can keep things afloat. It's something I just try not to even think much about because the whole thing is sad. No soap should be set up to fail that way. I guess this is the monkey's paw of the production schedule that has kept DAYS on for a decade as, essentially, a zombie soap, but it still feels wrong.

Susan Plantt-Winston auditioned for the AMC role of Edna Thornton before they instead cast her as Claudette.

This made me laugh...nice that something can these days...

Ah yes, Broadway legend Kelly Sullivan. That brings back memories I'd blocked out for a decade. I remember the devotees pushing and pushing people to eat that [!@#$%^&*] up because it was supposed to be camp heaven. Garbage.

Oh there were so many, I was just curious how fans felt about what the critical moments were, and how many were down to him (like if it was him or Valentini who needed to keep bringing back Howarth and Easton).

What would you say the other mistakes were?

It was the Netflix deal that kept them going more than flop Riverdale.

That would have been a good spinoff. It's too bad. There are some characters at present I think have personality (Mac, Felicity, some of the new band, and the vets), but I get what you mean, especially the plot-heavy element.

Good eye.

This is one of my favorite (maybe my favorite) periods for Laura, for the reasons you describe so well. It's also why to me Laura was always one of the most honest and believable characterizations on the show - contrast this to later years where characters in the workplace who want and need tend to either be babied a bit by the writing or are treated as bitches. I had forgotten Chip was still there as some of these other stories were starting. He and Sumner are two very different forks in the road.

I see the remaining Bernie deadenders are cheering because he held the whitest rally possible in Philly, and are making yet more empty promises about youth power...the same youth who never showed up for him in 2020. Posted and deleted by one of Bernie's cowardly team members. Their obsession with Pete will never leave.