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Agree... and as it turned out, Lynette also was a link to the Impaler story and the reason why Lia sold her soul to the devil to work with the Impaler because her money was taken.

It's why she excelled playing Marley on AW and Cindy at AMC.. because they were sweeter and more gentle individuals... though her Vicky was pretty good because that character was more about anger, resentment, and being a trouble maker.. less about being sexy or glam. Karen seemed more like a fashion plate from the few episodes I saw. At the same time, when watching the episodes that her character was in.. .she seemed more like she was there to provide commentary and to scheme without a long term plan for the character.

As the world Turns also had a poisoning story back in 1993 through early 1995 involving a character named Janice that wanted to 'All About Eve' Kim Hughes.. and she spent weeks inserting herself into Kim's good graces, gets the poisons from an ex love, has a relationship with a guy, eventually poisons Kim when she doesn't get a job she was seeking, ends up having a fling with a guy that was a drug runner, ends up dating Kim's son Andy, gets mad her new boss is controlling her, poison's her new pregnant boss, gets exposed, tackled by Kim, than hauled off to prison. All of this happened over an 18 to 21 month period.. and it was the rare bright spot during that time. Hayley's story going slow wouldn't be such a problem if MVJ and co inserted her into other stories/situations. They teased her with a few random scenes with SPS/Leslie, a few flirtations with Iziaiah (that got dropped), and flirty with Kyle Abbott... but other than that, she is in a holding pattern. I wonder if they're dragging this out to November sweeps?

She mentioned in the interview the small role on Dark Shadows... she said the money was really good and to play a comatose patient so she took it :) Genie Francis talked about Ceara, and she knew from the write up that Agnes Nixon shared with her that she knew the backstory and what the story angle was going to be. Ceara was a perfect representation of how someone could potentially be that was abused: Someone that was a social climber that focused on financial security over emotions... it was a way to regain control after being violated in such a horrible way and how she dealt with the past and how to move forward in learning to love herself and others.

The actress was the one to pull the plug on playing Karen per her interview years ago: https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/ellen-wheeler?chapter=2&clip=101997#shows She said she had trouble with playing the character of Karen because she was materialistic, sexy, and glamorous while she didn't feel she was those things. If a performer has trouble believing she could be, or play, those aspects of a character.. you can't expect the character to work.

Anyone I've ever introduced the original Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 2 movies to have always asked one question 'Kid drowning in a lake becoming an adult killer in the follow up doesn't add up'. I always said that Victor Miller kept it vague about Jason drowning in the original. No one ever said that a body was found, just that he drowned... and it's possible that the body was never found and that he ended up hiding in the woods and becoming a hermit. From the trailer, it looks as though they're going that route with Jason not being found when he 'drowned' as a kid and that is why Pamela becomes driven to grief.. because she doesn't have closure.

The closest Guiding Light came to royalty was Alexandra, who had married a Baron and had a step daughter India. I think they were characters that came close to being integrated into the show. The difference was that their country wasn't featured 24/7.. it was talked about.. but the focus was always on them in Springfield and never in the other country. San Cristobel, on the other hand, was a place no one asked for and no one really wanted. Any forum/message board I came across proclaimed how much this locale was hated. The Santos family could have been better integrated and there were attempts to do so with Michelle (a Bauer) being with Danny, Bill (a Lewis) being with Pilar, and when their brother Mick was alive.. interacted with other characters like Blake, Meta, and Ken Norris. Carman could have been an interesting anti heroine that could have had antagonistic chemistry with Vanessa, Holly, and Reva.. while being chemistry tested with some of the other men in Springfield. Making her a Mob boss limited the character and she was kept on far too long.

I think the idea in season 5 of hiring a non-cop could have worked if it was someone that had grown up on the streets and/or had been a private investigator in the past. And I agree someone a bit younger (like how Cheryl Ladd was in her mid 20s when she was hired) would have been good. There was one actress that was part Latina that I think might have been interesting to cast.. Julie Carmen. She ended up doing a tv movie called 'She's in the army' in 1981 and she did well in that.. so I could have seen her become an angel. Or Ana Alicia would have been good as well.

The show is called The Young and the Restless so it should be a mix of younger characters, as well as, older characters/veterans. The problem is that the majority of the legacy/veteran characters have been featured/used so much that they've lost most of their appeal. Phyllis needs a reset so write her off the show.. plus a few other characters. And I think it's time that we get a new family established on the show. Just because the Rosales family didn't take off doesn't mean new blood/new families couldn't work.

To be honest, that is the least of their issues. Pacing and character focus/development should be what needs to be fixed. The pacing and inconsistent scripts are still going to be problems rather there are outside sets or indoor sets.

I often think about when Guza was co-head writer during the first six to seven months and how so much happened in all the stories in those months that we all kind of wish that things could slow down so we had a chance to breathe. I ask myself what if Thomson (Guza's replacement) had been the co head writer from the start how long would it have taken for Ted and Nicole to find out that Eva was his daughter, how long till we found out that Hayley was a con artist, or how long before Eva/Tomas would have slept together and Kat discovered them. My guess would have been that we still would have been waiting for those things to happen. I'm all for anticipation, but if you drag things out too much.. people will stop caring. Lastly seeing MVJ praise Thomson on Twitter makes me wonder if maybe she might need to start formulating successor plans since she is in her mid 70s and her Twitter feed can sometimes come off as looney tunes and the soap could last several years.

KMH as Emily in 1992 was a complete 180 from the Emily she played in 2010. I would say the first year or two was when she had a more serious and subdued way of playing Emily. Once Royce left her at the altar and she went neurotic during her relationship with Jef with the panic attacks.. the writers decided to hone in on that for Emily and abandoned the more serious and cold Emily of her first few years. I believe even she was questioning why she was hired once she found out who had previously played Emily LOL

Hack didn't get an episode focused on her until episode 11 of the season, and it was after there were two episodes that featured Fawcett as guest star. And in those two Fawcett episodes, it seemed like it was Jill/Kelly/Kris that had the rapport and chemistry with Hack barely in it except as support. And there were episodes where the three main angels were hardly together as a trio.. which didn't help to establish chemistry or rapport amongst the three. And I also don't think the writers understood how to write someone from the East Coast, especially from New England.

I think the incoming new head writers are caught between a rock and a hard place because they can't just drop stories that were started and/or ongoing with JG. They have to wrap them up and/or transition the stories/arcs to places that will work in the long term. Maybe JG and the new writers worked out a transition plan and that is what Giddens and O'Connor were talking about. Or maybe it's just a PR move to not concern/worry the customer/viewer.

When the five did the UGT during their season, they had Kristen.. who provided an interesting contrast/foil to the five women as the sixth person during that season.. and it provided some of the most organic conflict because she'd kind of outgrew the other women. I'm just not sure who the sixth castmember would have been for this show.