DramatistDreamer

Admittedly, I stopped watching at that time, the show was so bad, imo.

The World Turns On and On is the type of music that sounds even better when played by a full piece orchestra. I do wonder what a stripped down acoustic version or even a rock-ish version would sound like. Someone could have done something with this. This and the theme song before it sounded like they were composed very well and had great flexibility, kind of like how the 70s and 80s Guiding Light theme songs were. A lot could be done with them, without losing the basic fundamental melody.

You're welcome. Since last night, the Jay-Z/Mr. Hudson cover of Forever Young has popped up in my head. They dedicated that song to Betty White during their performance.

@janea4old you really should consider reading this book. It's very good and discusses White's early life and career success/challenges in depth and presents it in context of the society and industry of the times and side by side with the three other women in the book.

The visuals weren't bad but the actual music, I didn't really care for, it seemed like the hold music I might hear waiting to speak to a customer service representative.

These were the scenes I was talking about. The reason why I mentioned them is because they show the range that all three actresses possess, going to to toe. They were well done but everyone is already showing them on social media and the scenes that seem to resonate the most in social media are the ones where Betty White is being portrayed as a force to be reckoned with. In a way, it seems to help people people in their grief, it feels like she is still very much with us on some level.

Such great comedic delivery by Scott Bryce. This entire episode was so funny, with Ralph Bellamy as Rose's father.

He played the doctor who diagnosed Sophia with a hernia and when she admitted that she had been moving furniture (it was wicker), he shot a withering look at Dorothy and said "You make me sick!"

Did the B&B post any clips of Betty White's scenes with Susan Flannery and Alley Mills? Everyone wants to post those final scenes at the beach, but that doesn't even capture the most powerful scenes between the actresses, which were those combative scenes where Stephanie confronted her mother Ann about the physical abuse she suffered at the hands of her father, which Ann, at first refused to acknowledge, with Pam caught in the middle. Those actresses were going toe to toe. It's a shame if nobody posts those clips because they were so dramatic.

Oh, okay. The show was way too cheap and lazy to put any effort into a final montage of the most poignant and captivating moments, on air or online. Honestly, ATWT's online component was severely underdeveloped. I know people will claim that the show ended before social media took flight but, by 2008-2009, Twitter and especially YouTube had taken off and the show could have put up a great 20 minutes montage on either platform. Slapping up 6 or 7 clips on the CBS YouTube page was inadequate at best. Fans demanded so little of Procter and Gamble for so many decades of devotion, and in the end, little is exactly what they got.

I think even the theme song that they had in the mid 80s could have been stripped down and made into a really good theme, like the ones they did with saxophone and sometimes strings within the actual scenes. They could have alternated between theme song, and just played with tempo and meter, use of instrumentation, phrasing of notes. They didn't have to reinvent the wheel, just mold different shapes on it, see how elastic the original mold truly was.

It's refreshing to see people mention the book by Keishin Armstrong on the women who were instrumental in the development of the early days of television (hint the creation/creator of the daytime soap is also included). People really should read this book and learn just how much of a pioneer Betty White was in the medium of television.

Yes, Susan Flannery and Betty White together!!! That was top drawer drama on B&B!

Is this really true??! Just shy of 100 years old. Selfishly, was wishing for more time with Ms. White.

This was before my time, but I always thought this was a beautiful theme. Grande and sweeping. Someone with half an imagination should've been able to make a contemporary variation on this theme, even for the final big anniversary. Technically, I was alive when this was still on air, but not quite old enough to get into soaps.

B&B question: Since I haven't watched the show in its current iteration in forever, has Carter ever had a full-fledged story that was independent of who he was paired with? Just wondering.

That's way too cool a theme for what ATWT had descended into in its final years. Maybe a fan can put something together on Vimeo. Sadly, that's all the hope we have for something half way befitting the legacy of this show. A very belated tribute video montage.

This and even the one before it were such grande theme songs. I would have thought that, at least for the last big anniversary they would have pulled out a classic theme to commemorate.

Can we just get Hillary Bailey Smith to host these reunions from now on?

Apparently not. With a competent host, this wouldn't be half bad but Alan- screen-20211230-234422.mp4

I think Devon is the rare Black male character that they wrote more than one story for after being so poorly written. The others have gotten numerous storylines after, unless they were short-term characters like Scott. Maybe Nate will be the second.

Paul lit the match. Hey, he already shot his son, he won't feel he has much to lose.