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These shows are a business, and the last thing they want is to suffer another shutdown. Once the negotiations are done with the unions, I would expect ABC to be first due to Disney, and then many other productions to follow. We will see if any of the other soaps do as well.

She finally got that summer off deal she wanted when she quit in the early 2000’s. Good for her.

Well, we can look to Frank’s own history and see if he has learned any lessons. Because OLTL should have kept Evangeline back in the day and didn’t (yes, I’m still pissed). I would hope that in 2021 they would not be as stupid. And truthfully, they have kept Curtis in the mix, he’s in a solid B story now, and the show has more Black people than ever before. Trina is easily who you build the next gen around, not Joss.

Summer vacation?

Oh there is no denying American soaps are conservative. This is a genre that used to have frank discussions about sex, abortions, illness, rape, mental illness, etc long before other shows on television. International soaps have had thriving, vibrant stories about LGBTQ and more overall representation for the same 20 years that American soaps have given the these topics lip service at best. Even DAYS, once groundbreaking (for the US in daytime)with its use of gay characters didn’t know what to do with them and wrote them out several times.

I wonder if there will be any questions about whatever happened between him and Geary on GH. I did enjoy his time on AMC, even though it was morphed into another show.

I think what is missing from the Nixon Falls story is a new character that Sonny/Mike is falling for. The Nina angle makes very little sense from her side of things. We need the classic character who is nothing like Carly or Brenda (like Victor with Hope on Y&R, Maggie with Mickey on DAYS), and an interloper that is a true enemy of Carly’s that finds out the truth, that Sonny is alive and is perfectly happy with him never coming home. You know, Ava. It complicates Sonny’s return if he is in love with someone that isn’t lying to him, and compromises Jason and Carly further because they have to deal with anything that happens between them and also with the complicated issues of Sonny staying with his new lover and the related mob issues.

There should have been a service onscreen. She actually had ties to a lot of the show still when she passed. It wasn’t like they had to bring anyone back that the then current audience wouldn’t know (although that would be cool too, but I know how networks think).

Agree with all this. They used to tease it out even- during the PC hotel fire didn’t they kiss in a romantic way? It always goes nowhere because Steve is adamantly against Jason being in love with Carly. Which for me made the scenes of his feeling betrayal at S/C hooking up ridiculous back then. Of course, he has less power now, and seems to be just going to work and not as invested IMO.

That whole episode was great. Seeing the BTS stuff, the new opening, and the mission statement and tonal reset back to the hospital being a major part of the show again. I bet John Beradino was excited to get that script, it actually honors him and the history of the show.

From what I recall she chose to leave and was pretty frustrated at the time. She and Matt finally had in-character writing with Beth Milstein as interim HW before Sheffer, but it was too little too late. That was also the last time she had any spark as Jennifer IMO.

I used to love Missy as Jennifer. But her real life antics are too hard for me to ignore for the character. I do admit though that knowing LR and ED are going to be on the new show made me have some nostalgia for MR as Jennifer. I loved the relationship between Jennifer, Billie, and Kristen back then. Ugh.

Thanks for posting @slick jones I wish we could see more of of that early GH stuff.

He also hits on another man that is closer to his age. I’m just kind of happy to watch a gay character that has so much going on, and is also sexual. Which rarely happens, even on HBO. The show is so specific and it took me a couple of episodes to decide I liked it.

I’m pretty sure he kept that vanity credit in the 1980’s too, can’t remember if she did. His name was always in the credits for as long as I can remember. I’m not surprised the network gave in to any of their demands, because back in the very early days they were the whole show. I remember someone saying during the 35th anniversary show the talk of the industry was the workload for both of them. Pretty sure it was Denise Alexander who said it.

She is the opposite of professional.

And the Cruise of Deception before all of those!

I hated Ned as a singer. It was fun for the first part of his story with Lois. It should have ended when she learned the truth about his double life, and they could have let L&B move forward without Eddie.

I hope he gets the chance to play someone dastardly. I think he would have fun with that.

It did have that arc storyline feeling later in her run, like we were getting 4 to 6 month arcs as focal points with little stories building around them, mixed with pure character building. And by that point, they were also using that old Nixon sense of community in that every character seemed to have an opinion on the main storyline, even if they weren’t directly involved. So it felt like a soap. Billy Douglas, Marty’s rape and the trial, revisiting Victor’s death…they were all modified pocket stories that continued in character when the main thrust was done. Even something like Todd stalking a blind Nora was a small part of a larger story, but it had its own beginning, middle and end.

I really wish the show had kept up the pivot in storytelling they were doing when Michael was headed to see jail. There were good scenes where Carly and Jason both had to come to terms with their choices leading to the life Michael had. It felt like they were finally going to address what Sonny’s craving for power and all their decisions to be team Sonny had cost them. Once Sonny and Brenda were breaking up, and they had that amazing conversation where he admitted power is what he loves…it was finally clear exactly who Sonny was and the show was allowing his point of view to not be the only one, let alone presented in such a way that he was right. Everyone could be involved in something new if they had followed that through, even Sonny. And Jason doing everything for Michael and not his own kids is awful. At least talk about why! It’s a soap, he should be rehashing what happened with Michael and how much he fears that happening to his kids. Something!

I felt then, and even more now that Lucky went too far with how he treated Laura. And even though Genie was still on her never ending maternity leave when the story started, I think once she got there more time should have been spent on her feelings about what happened to her. Including the scenes we never got, where she maybe decided to tell him a little bit about what her life was like then, and how she was able to forgive Luke. Just like what happened to Liz often became more about how Lucky felt about her, her rape, and his parents. I do think Lucky’s reaction was realistic for how he idolized Luke and being rebellious teenager aged. But he went too far, and just like the Sonny propping of the Guza/JFP era, the writing was slanted and made Laura look awful. And truthfully, Genie always said it was a rape, that she was instructed to play it as a rape, and the show decided to make it a seduction after the fact. She should have been allowed more than just a couple of scenes with her point of view represented. As stated in another post, we had many, many scenes of Tony and Luke’s feelings about what he did.

When she has some kind of drunken revenge sex with Sonny, and you have a Guza sweeps and baby story all in one. Followed by her death.

I remember liking Terry. But there was no way she was going to make it through Guza had she stayed lol. I also liked Decker and Dawn though…I was very young.

It worked for Sami on DAYS for a long time. And Laura on GH before the ending of the Ice Princess, as Lesley would have described her as troubled. She was a straight up brat quite a bit, but it had a humanity to it and Genie made her rootable. Marland certainly wanted her to remain vain and self centered.