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^True, and Pritchett finally got an Emmy for his work.

I believe the period shortly after the Pollacks left was a pivotal time for the show, one that the show wasn't able to fully rise up to the occasion for, and thus the start of the overall the downward spiral for it. ABC was busily gaining steam with expanding their shows and the penning several epic stories, or building on them. TD was so inconsistent storywise and with their characters, that it hurt viewer investment, and I can sort of see why someone might tune in to OLTL or RH at the time, which had storylines building or hitting their climaxes.

Really missed opportunity there with having Anna on the canvas in the early 90s. I would've enjoyed seeing Anna go up against a teenage Sami lol

Didn’t see this coming lol I like it

Maybe I was reading too much into the scenes, but it seemed that they were hinting at a possible Jake and Ava pairing at one point. They were discussing Ava's mobster ties, and Jake's knowledge of her family, and they seemed to have chemistry.

Give DAYS to the Cullitons/Broderick, and let Ron have his go at DOOL: Beyond Salem.

The mid 60s must have been quite the renaissance for Secret Storm.

For all their faults, and there are plenty; BK and LN both got Janine. I have no hope that Kate Oates and Jon Sen have an understanding of the character.

What I found interesting, was the pacing of the first episode; Tony/Anna/Austin/Carrie are discussing Austin's plans to surprise Carrie; next we see Tony/Anna arrive at the event and running into John/Marlena who had also been discussing the event earlier as well. It seemed like an excellent execution of what Mal Young had wanted do at Y&R, but it was much less jarring. If this was on the original show, the auction would've taken place a few episodes later.

This weeks worth of episodes (surrounding the trial of Sebs murder) has been well produced and well written.

Maybe Doug locking Julie is a precursor to there being a Night Time Doug. Ron loves ripping off stories from the past 😂

A doppelganger? A long lost child? Infidelity? Got to be one of these three, because Ron's not capable of writing anything else.

I really didn't find SSM's tenure all that bad. It was the best Y&R had been in a long time, going back to the Lynn Latham days.

I think she will lose him once he finds out she's been lying to him about his identity all along. However I think with these set of writers, I can definitely see them playing up the fact that Sonny can't easily turn his feelings off when it comes to Nina, even after the truth comes out or when he regains his memories.

It’s weird I’m finally starting to feel *some heat* between Sonny and Nina, not a whole lot, but some.

Jean already had her chance at Y&R and it wasn't all that amazing.

Bingo. In Ron's world, these are all just plot points, but they don't lead to anywhere or have lasting affects. It really doesn't matter.

I don't doubt it all that Y&R behind the scenes humbled him.

Whew for a moment I thought he was fired. I'm not down for witnessing Jack dying again.

Today’s episode was enjoyable. I’m really liking the direction they’ve taken Johnny and EJ’s relationship. At first I had hoped he’d be a troublemaker, and he could still be down the road, but I like how doesn’t want to be a chip off the old block like his father. DF has also won me as EJ and it’s the scenes that he has with Johnny that have really helped solidify that.

Thanks I'll definitely make my way there and get buried in the plethora of information in that thread. Thanks to you and @FrenchFan for your hard work

Any opinions on how the Shapiros did on this show? I've always been curious about their daytime stint.

I've always been curious about the Labine/Myer era of LOL. Heck I'm even curious about their time on Where The Heart is.

Last night I was thinking why does GH has such a large amount of dead wood. Other than Frank's incompetence, I wonder if the show is just setting up a catastrophic event down the road to take out some of these useless characters that we've in the very least grown to tolerate (or like). But aside from that random thought; Jax and Willow would be the PERFECT characters to have caught in mob crossfire, the repercussions would be fascinating to watch.

At this point he's just making matters worse for him and bringing more attention to himself. I look forward to Jax's departure onscreen 🤣 because I know he's going to keep up with the twitter shenanigan's. I'm still in disbelief they placed Tristan Rogers in time out for something smaller.