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@RavenWhitney someone here pointed out to me that Calhoun was still EP when this GL opening premiered, not Phelps. I also thought it was her work.

I think the opening credits she show had post Gottleib were the best ones on ABC at the time. Every time they got updated it wasn’t glaringly obvious. Punchy, modern music, good graphics, the Banner and the Sun being utilized. I loved Faces of the Heart on GH, but it did start to look rough with the edits over the years. I hated the white AMC opening, and was so happy when they put the early 1990’s theme back in place. I think the tour of Llanview works better without the lyrics. The instrumental version is great though.

Oof. Now I have punished myself by watching the daughter’s defense on IG. The problem with Missy, and now clearly her family, and a lot of fundamentalist Christians is that they write themselves a get out of jail free card by praying on it. Even if they are wrong, which they are, god will forgive and that allows them to forgive themselves without actually doing anything about it. She is just flat out wrong. And I have no issue with her only appearing in Kirk Cameron productions going forward.

After the GL reunion, I would happily add to the voices of Beth as a recast Jennifer. Or Kimberly Simms. Both still look great, although Beth at least has an understanding of working under the current production process. Even DAYS today would probably be better than the last year of GL. I know Sony and Y&R will not rehire Victoria Rowell, at least not until some execs are gone. Which is awful for her and for the viewers. Latham may not have written good material for her, but she certainly knew the value of keeping Dru front and center. And much like Ellen Holly- she deserves every opportunity to speak about how important those stories were for the show and the audience and the performers. If that means fans and TPTB have to confront their racism by not believing, ignoring, or wishing it away so be it.

I think Monty had the right idea just forced everything too quickly and didn’t hire strong enough writers to execute that vision. There was no Marland or PFS to make her vision work. She wanted a more grounded version of the show, with more economic diversity amongst the characters. Which we got under Riche. She just forced all the people we liked off to the side, and forced Mac and the Eckerts down our throats, and then lost Robert and Anna due to her own control issues. I think if Bill had been played by somebody else, and the show had spent more time getting there, what she wanted would have worked. But it is funny how everyone suddenly had money and no longer cared about challenging the system.

I think Katie had the potential to be a Lucy Coe type. Not the focal point character but also in the mix, scheming and lying her way in and out of trouble, trying to get more money, status, a better job, a man, etc. Instead they made her the focus too much. And when you already had Carly there treading similar ground in the scheming department and better at it in every way, she just seemed silly and got too much attention.

If you mean Frank’s tight jeans and the possibility of seeing Chelsea in increasing danger- then yes. The only thing I like about her is Maureen lol. Thank you I will look for it!

So the YouTube account I have been watching classic episodes on has some gaps, which I was expecting. However, they have covered almost all the major events of “The Fan” stalking storyline with Chelsea, except the ending. Does anyone know where I can watch those episodes? I don’t even really like Chelsea all that much, but I was enjoying the storyline.

I watched the other clip. That was an awful thing to say to Margo. She should have laid into Hal.

I’ve been trying to watch as much vintage OLTL as possible. Sometimes characters people rave about kind of fall flat when you actually get to see them. Karen Wolek is not one of them. It’s not just the court room scene, which is way over the top. She’s great in every scene I have managed to watch. So is Marco Dane, who I only really remembered from his late 80’s stint on OLTL and GH in the early 90’s. i really wish these networks would figure out a way to let us watch their vintage material. I would love to watch her entire storyline unfold (once Judith Light arrives), and Jenny’s too. Not to mention Carla. I remember Larry as the beloved doctor. It’s cool to see him in a leading man role. He’s handsome. Brad Vernon is too, but I know he is a bastard.

F*ck Missy Reeves. Jennifer used to be a favorite, but she can be written right out and go make training videos for Chick Fil A.

His side is going to work overtime to spin no matter what caused his audience disruption. I also saw AOC and others commenting that this was a small way for those fans that are not old enough to vote to demonstrate they don’t want him or his politics. A form of protest. The media will look to any way to keep this a story, so with or without the Fox spin there were going to be days of justifications. The main thing for me is that nobody was outside either. The overrun crowd didn’t exist. It’s a failure on many levels.

I am physically ill reading this.

I have some faith from these images that many people (not including the ones that played him for tickets with no intention of showing up) that follow him do seem to be taking the pandemic seriously, and are avoiding crowds no matter what his team says about COVID. Which means they are questioning him. And the tweet about the attacks not working as well this time because Biden is not as good a target as Clinton are correct from what I have seen and heard from my conservative relatives. Fox News has spent 20 years solid painting Hillary as their big bad, only breaking from her at times to target Obama with racist attacks. Biden is a newish target for them compared to the other two, doesn’t seem to generate the same conspiracy mania, and even though he has demonstrated legit concerns over the years they are more nuanced to turn into topics and haven’t had as much time to get their people in a mania about them. It’s not like Fox is going to spend much time on Anita Hill in a sympathetic light to condemn Biden, for example.

There were lots of times they dipped below other shows, but they still had high enough numbers for the year to be number one. Challengers didn’t dethrone them for the season until Y&R later in the 80’s. There were plenty of great characters still doing interesting things- especially the Quartermaines. It’s just interesting to me that the show’s success survived such an awful year story wise and great characters being replaced by bland ones. Laura Templeton was no Laura Spencer.

I was watching a bunch of 1982 eps on YouTube, and I started thinking about the show at that moment. How did they stay at number 1 for the year, and how did their ratings not completely collapse that year? I don’t mean the logical settling after the wedding of Luke and Laura. Their ratings stayed really high anyway, and other soaps had good stuff going on, it’s not like now when they are all bad. Between 1981 and 1982, they lost so many characters that drove major story- Diana, Jeff and Laura to name a few. The major plot of David Grey is also incredibly stupid, and there are a lot of bland new characters all of a sudden. People must have really loved Luke and Robert.

She certainly plays fast and loose with a lot of her facts. I do think there is an incredible TV show there though. Her family life, starting to write at her parents show, GH, and continuing on to Santa Barbara. Lots of rich material there to make a great show out of.

I find them incredibly obnoxious. So your comment made me smile!

Yeah, I’m excited to get to Acapulco. I just had no idea Chelsea was on this much. And so far the first 4 months of 1990 have not been great for Ed and Maureen. They have very little to do. I have watched way more of 1991-1993, and while I can see some of Nancy Curlee’s tendencies, it’s still not quite what we get in just a few more months to a year from then.

I decided to go back further than my original Curlee starting point, so I started a 1990 GL playlist on YouTube. I’m in April now. I had no idea Kassie DePaiva was such a central character. I am in the middle of “The Fan” stalking storyline. She is on all the time. I never hear people talk about Chelsea. Kassie is fine, if a little bland. She shows nothing of the power she would bring to Blair. Her boyfriend is so bland. This is also the only time I have found Frank compelling on his own, not just because of the women in his life. I also had never seen Carl Evans as Alan-Michael. He’s pretty cute and fun in the role with Harley and Blake. But Hearst is better. I just saw some great scenes with Dylan and Reva. And this is clearly a period of time where we are building to her leaving. Blake is even more fun here than later, when she is all passion, wounded and out for blood.

He has Stephen Miller. And if anyone would have a page a day discrimination reminder calendar with 365 pages of trolling marginalized people on their desk it’s that scumbag.

Absolutely disgusting. I used to say I was 100% pro union. But these police unions and the protections their contracts have built into them have got to go.

It really was shocking, even for longtime fans who had seen Nikki Smith, when she went into all those different alters. Jean was calculating, Tommy rage. I also remember watching and being afraid for Dorian. There were moments where it felt like Viki was capable of really hurting her theough one of her alters. I loved that story. And yes, I know it was a huge retcon. But it was a good one. So much lead up to it. Sloan, the book, Joey, their feud. All these pieces of Viki’s life were broken and she was in a lot of anger and pain. Malone’s first stint was really good.

Could not agree more.

When was the last time any of these shows had that many black characters that were actually important to the entire fabric of the show? Generations? In so many ways, the period of time with the Loving Murders (leading into The City), is some of the most modern storytelling I have seen on any of these soaps. It’s feels more like the primetime element the networks, especially ABC are always chasing, and they already had it!