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If anything, at the time Eddie was the best parts of Ned, let loose from his suits and power struggles and at times underhanded practices to protect the family or make ELQ more rich. Wasn’t Ned involved in the incinerator project that was going to be built on the side of town with the Ward House? He was better than Edward or Tracy, but still capable of being underhanded and power hungry. Ned was the a$$hole, not Eddie (and both were awful for lying to Lois).

@carolinegBrenda would be so embarrassed for him right now.

What a terrible week for me to get rid of Twitter.

I don’t mind the idea, but we needed to see her humbled much more before being reborn as Coffee Carly. Maybe I’m just salty because she and Sonny ruled the show for so long and never really got brought down as far as they should have been. Now she’s pouring coffee and he’s carrying his new lady’s handbag and meddling like Amy Vinning in everyone’s business. It’s rough to watch for me. I have sat through many shaky soap storylines over the years where at least the characters were in character or going on an emotional journey. I actively hated a lot of Guza’s 2000’s work. But at least day to day there was strength!

And a direct result of the networks no longer investing in new talent not long after Riche arrived. I would say certainly by the end of the 90’s it was almost always people we have already heard of, except for Hogan Sheffer.

I will be so pissed if they update Kelly’s and it no longer feels like someplace Ruby would be. This is not supposed to be a fancy or modern location. Who is Carly supposed to be? Because it is wild watching her work at Kelly’s and not being devastated by her turn of events. And all of sudden, without any adjustment. What also doesn’t make sense is that Carly should be finding herself another rich man and blowing up personal relationships to get him. Which creates more story for her and is very in character. This would have required planning ahead and good casting.

The more that comes out and is confirmed the more outrageous I find this. Think how many of these actors have been treated as disposable, even though they are the show. At this point who is watching DAYS for the writing and production? They are watching out of loyalty to those characters and the actors that play them. And Corday still hasn’t addressed these issues appropriately!

Well you missed a lot around these parts then.

That is the question isn’t it? Where is Ken Corday? This is incredibly bad and he was content with making Alarr take some training courses. Ridiculous! Has anyone seen the list of actors that signed? I wonder which long term vet it was that said they had experienced this type of behavior so long in their career, and that it was remarkable that it was actually getting worse.

JFP and the Scabs did a terrible job on GH during the last strike. The completely out of left field Diego back and revealed as the text message killer. Guza’s real killer, Logan, was offed by Lulu not long after the strike was over. Not that it was a good story to begin with. JFP- always killing the wrong people.

Why not just let him die peacefully? Oh Ron.

This timeline of them reaching out to renew talks certainly sits in line with concerns about quarterly returns, considering we are getting really close to 100 days. It will be interesting to see what they are willing to move on. Especially with the actors also out and the public more often than not really hammering folks like Eisner for being out of touch. I think UPS getting a historic contract for themselves and the sheer amount of Starbucks locations unionizing is wonderful movement for workers across this country over corporate earnings and CEO over paying. And as history shows, we can always count on Stephen Amell to voice his opinions and receive backlash for them. From what else I have read he also broke the rules by discussing his acting work at his most recent appearance. I feel almost certain after all these years his favorite book (if he has one) is written by Ayn Rand.

I can’t imagine it being anyone not steeped in the current production model, so those two names and Gary Tomlin seem much more realistic than someone from the outside. And we already know Meng has good relationships with the cast. Corday needs to realize this is not going away, and time will not make it cool down. I wish I could say I was shocked that Alarr is still employed but this is Ken Corday we are talking about. The fact that it appears to be a cultural issue means others need to be out as well.

I keep seeing JFP being bandied about as his replacement. No fan of DAYS should want this. While she would certainly get rid of Ron, everything you love will be gone too. All those vets? Kiss them goodbye. Expect deaths, breakups, propping, and worse. Will the show look better? Probably. Will the quality of the acting go up? Probably. Will she gut everything? Yes.

Blame it on the power of the Twitter algorithm. As bare bones and broken as Twitter is now, it still lead to a combination of that article about ABC hiring temp writers for the show to meet noticeable scab comments by several striking actors and writers, and soap fans diving in to defend their shows. Y&R fired so many writers before the strike, which did get minor play from mainstream media outlets. What surprised me is that DAYS story about Alarr was not really bubbling under the mainstream before Deadline. Usually I see major soap news online before places like Deadline or Variety run anything.

The unfortunate side effect of most entertainment coverage being online these days- they have to generate clicks. And they need a constant influx of new material. Constant. That’s why places like Deadline cover so much soap stuff. We are nothing if not a loyal group of people when it comes to soaps. So it is getting more attention than it normally would. I was genuinely shocked at how much attention Jackie Zeman’s passing generated from media sources. It went on for several days. She deserved it! But 10 or 15 years ago I don’t think it would have been the same. But that’s the insatiable appetite people have now for nostalgia and media stories.

Bless her, I love Donna Mills, but for some reason she does not photograph as well as she looks in those older shots. She often looks deer in the headlights or awkward to me in photos from the Knots era.

One thing I really appreciate about the current regime for the last couple of years is Felicia. Between investing in her by using her and Kristina Wagner leaning in to her character’s personality and connections, she is the most like herself she has been since the horrid Luke affair. She seems like who Felicia would be at this stage in her life.

@LeClerc there have been reports this week that General Hospital is hiring what ABC is calling “temporary writers”. That’s why it flared up.

Thank you for contributing to this. I am shocked at how willfully obtuse soap fans are being about her comments (other people like Warren Leight have also called them scabs), and keep throwing around Fi-Core like it is the same thing as an exemption or waiver. They can either choose to be full union members or they can continue to work by not being full members, designated as Fi-Core. It’s because of a legal ruling that said people that do not want to be in the union don’t have to be- they do, however, benefit from the negotiated contract and must pay fees to their union because of that. The actors on daytime must work if the show remains in production. No writer has to write for them. If soap fans want to celebrate these folks as keeping their beloved shows in production that is their choice. It doesn’t change the fact that they are scabs and Fi-Core is working through a picket line, and these striking actors and writers have every right to call them out. Because legally they are required to, due to the fact that they benefit from the negotiated contract when not on strike. It was a legal challenge involving non-entertainment unions that was considered a huge win for unions, because they may not have to be full members, but they have to pay for the benefits the collective bargaining wins for them.

Just to clarify, Financial Core as a union status was not created by the WGA. It stems from labor disputes involving non-entertainment unions. It began after court cases that were brought about to ensure that workers were not forced to join a union in order to be employed. It was decided that since they benefit from those union contracts and protections, they must pay fees related to bargaining but are not considered Union members. Contracts in the entertainment industry have the most leeway with this because so many people are willing to cross the picket line, and or work on non-union productions. Which weakens collective bargaining for the whole.

You seem really hung up on a term that has nothing to do with allowing anything. It is a status, and pertains to their demarcation within their union. Their status is fi-core, which means they do not support their union but do enjoy their negoatiated terms. The WGA is not the only Union that uses this term. They could be writing a sh!tty Transformers film right now, it doesn’t just mean soaps. It’s still work that violates the terms of a strike. Again, if it didn’t, why are soap writers striking?

If they are “allowed”, then why doesn’t the contract grant waivers for daytime writers? The WGA considers them to be scabs. It’s their industry.

They are still considered scabs because the WGA is striking. They are not non-struck work for writers. Why would people like Michele Val Jean, who works as a writer in this industry, be on strike right now if writers from daytime were not on strike? Make it make sense. The issue that seems to be confusing everybody is the actors- they cannot strike, if the production is not shut down they work or are in violation. That is not the same thing as the writers. Those writers are choosing to break the picket line, hence scabs.

That is not at all what I saw. What I saw was an actor that was calling those writers scabs because that is what they are. Fi-Core is a technical term which means they get the same benefits of their union but do not stand in solidarity with them. They have to pay fees associated with bargaining because they get those benefits, but they are not actual union members. That’s the definition of a scab. Just because the actors on daytime cannot strike does not mean they have to have scripts. That is a choice by the production company, made possible by production assistants and scab writers creating material. I am so annoyed by this tonight for some reason that I keep rehashing the same post over and over again myself but in opposition. Soap fans be wild in these streets!