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I wasn't watching then but I love what I have seen of the boarding house and I think it fit with OLTL's theme and was a natural way to bring characters together. They should have done this again towards the end as the budget was slashed but soaps don't seem to know how to properly do this now.

The post-Edwina and Marco wedding episode posted, including Pat and Bo in Paris. Jacqueline Courtney looks stunning in the still, I'll take what I can get, but would love to see the Gothic side to the Paris shoot. I always thought Carla felt some type of way about Karen due to Karen/Ed so it was nice to see another side to their friendship, I guess.

That's interesting as I was just watching some 1984 DAYS edits where Maggie played buffer between Hope and Julie, was this for story purposes then or did Maggie play buffer for years prior as Julie and Hope struggled to bond? That would have been an interesting story thread to play over the years.

I appreciate everyone sharing memories here, this is my #1 cancelled soap I wish to see the most given what I have read on it.

Love these Amy!

God, you brought some bad memories up now that I purged from my mind. Todd vs Victor had so, so much potential, his 'murder' was disappointing....I also blocked out Jack's involvement in Gigi's OG death...I do still enjoy the Gigi/Stacy mess looking back, not sure why haha...I thought the Jailbait and that whole teen scene was trash but the climax I recall tying into the Todd/Victor reveal and David's movie so while that didn't save the plot I enjoyed the end result...OMG just remembered Tea's random boring pregnancy as well giving Flo nothing to do in the final months. I do have great memories of Vital and Rama and Tina and Cord's return and I felt like Viki was used better than she had since 2008 so I think I am blurring lines on the bad. On Rex/Gigi agreed, supporting couples like them and Vimal/Rama go far for me. I felt Ron did a great job in the fall of 2007 with her intro, the diner and the New Orleans/drag tie in with Marcie on bringing the show back to class differences.

I meant to add for that 1980 video after seeing that 1972 picture of Ellen Holly that I think she read as much younger with the longer hair than the shorter style she carried in the mid-80s.

Has this footage ever been available? Karen vs Dorian Mario and Edwina non-wedding Ellen Holly looking stunning (and glaringly left out of camera range) Uploaded said they had the next episode and Judith Light's last two episodes to post as well in the comments

This was the last time I enjoyed Sonny and it now been 10+ years. As much as they consumed the show in 2009-2011 those dynamics and Dante's intro were soooo good. Had they utilized the rest of the canvas outside of Robin/Patrick/Lisa I would rank the end of Guza's run so much higher. Granted, it fell apart fast in 2011.

Agreed on Gabi and Jake, which socks as Gabi and Stefan with Barash first coming on was fantastic, I could have watched them on repeat. Total opposite with Jake so of course they drag that out. 100% yes to the devil setting Ava up for offing Rafe...that would be fantastic. I am wondering how much of the Possession is going to consume the show as they could do so much to involve all of Salem, they have nothing to lose and between the Cin baby and a fantasy of Ava/Rafe plus Jarlena in family, I hope they go berserk. Still hoping for zombies and a more Gothic tone as we head towards Halloween but tones and soaps don't to together anymore.

I LOVED Rex and Gigi from 2007 up through the disastrous Stacy introduction and then they became sanctimonious and JPL and FF were phoning it in. The jealous sister trope has been done a thousand times and they somehow failed it, I did enjoy Stacy as a villain and Kim's introduction. With that said, Gigi's death and the amnesia storyline brought me back to them and I loved it, especially all the grave scenes, Gigi hiding around town and the eventual wedding. This reminds me how much I actually enjoyed those final months of OLTL, they were really on fire and back on track after 2009/2010 were ROUGH

I would actually be disappointed if we didn't get a possessed Duke. But I don't think DAYS will use the possession plot to off any nuisance characters like Rafe and Ava.

I am grateful that RC made up for the 2008 mess with Tina in 2011. Although when I rewatch the 2008 run, it isn't as bad in retrospect but at the time I was pissed. It is a shame that Dorian and Tina never shared scenes in 2008 or 2011 though. The 2008 run could have been a bit better if they sent Tina back to Llanview and in story with Dorian until Viki returned.

I have imagined Evans as 90s Tina ad nauesem but I never imagined her being held in the secret room with Dorian. I would do anything to see that. I love the scenes of 1985-86 Viki/Tina/Dorian. And I always felt that Tina made herself the victim concerning Victor so this would have really grounded Tina in that regard concerning Viki and even Dorian. What could have been!

OMG is this online? I desperately need to see this insane time lol

I am continuing my Aremid binge and have seen on and off 90S DAYS I wish they had just moved on from Jack, Jenn and Billie following the recasts as none of them worked. It would have been nice to see a larger focus on the Carvers plus Wendy or maybe a new family. I have only seen minimal of wacky Vivian Era during a Secret Room DVD watch but it was pretty unbearable. I really love everything I have seen of the 1993-1996 tone, I do think Susan is a hoot and a little of that went a long way but watching the 1998 Kristen climax the whole tone was off and there was nowhere to go IMO with John, Marlena, anyone. I wish Passions had a tone similar to that era of DAYS instead of 97-98 DAYS.

That's awesome, I can't wait to catch up. DAYS is typically my favorite but I am so behind due to work.

I was 12 when I started watching in 2006 but even when I rewatched those episodes years and years later I will say all characters (okay maybe not Ryan) had clear motivations and it made the story enjoyable. Honestly at 12 I totally understood JR and Babe as a couple as no one in my family was normal and they were just as toxic as my family so they worked for me (this is not a compliment lol) The last time a soap gave characters clear motivations I felt was DAYS in 2013-14....

I am on board for thinking RSW and VK have chemistry. Do I think they should have paired Ciara with a serial killer? No. But if they were going to do that they should have gone old school slow burn romance and kept them apart for years. After the initial cabin story (which if I blocked out him being a serial killer I did enjoy) they moved into this extremely lame sub plot where Ben moves in with Ciara, Tripp and Claire that did not work at all and then it was psycho after psycho. Keeping them apart because Ben is insecure and Ciara was uncomfortable with loving a serial killer at least would have built them time to adjust versus being thrown in.

They did not miss a freaking beat with the Tony/John plot. I have never seen this or read in great detail but Tony drawing John to the edge by dancing with Kristen, leading to their argument and everyone dressed in their over the top 90s/Aremid wedding party gowns watching them argue from below, Tony theatrically pretending John is shooting him then his camptastic death bed begging Salem to avenge his death as a storm draws in-phenomenal. I will say I was shocked at how quickly it seemed that Bo, Mickey and Peter honed in on John being guilty though they balanced it with Bo simply looking at facts. Peter I guess does make sense. CarolineG-do you think the show had ran the well dry by 1997 or was there missed opportunity? I almost can't blame them for aging Belle, Phillip, Shawn and Brady in '99.

If they built up A/B/C stories then the story arcs/seasons would flow together but they barely do that now. DAYS was consistently good from June/July to August/September and then crap served the rest of the year. I could happily say goodbye to half the cast and only focus on the Evans/Black and Carver families and I would be happy but can't wait to see this new series.

I would agree with this even as someone who wasn't watching then. Roman has not been needed since The Affair. I don't know how they possibly could have flowed from Secret Room and kept the momentum without hitting rock bottom as you said. I can't think of any other period in soaps where they had such a flow of Gothic mystery adventure. I would die to get this again haha

Finally got back into Aremid arc after a year plus away and got to the scenes of Jennifer catching Laura with Jack courtesy Peter. There is so much messiness to this storyline, I just love it. I guess this played out for almost a year with Laura and Jack falling for each other as their sanitarium alter egos, to keeping their secret in Salem to the Aremid build up. Moreso than that I can't help but wonder what it was like for MR to play those scenes given her real life drama at the time. The show had so much going on here with Tony faking his death, this affair and Marlena/John/Kristen playing ever so slowly with Lexie searching for her adoptive parents and its all so Gothic and atmospheric.

Ohhhh I am kind of excited about the Oddjob casting! Looks like lots of pool scene casting which I would associate with the Miami story versus Zurich or New Orleans. Interesting.

I am dying to know if this will have proper production values because the multi-locale search for a diamond can absolutely not go the route of using three different closet size sets. Interested to see who else is announced and wonder how heavily this will tie into regular DAYS.