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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.

I really appreciate that we get to hear the use of popular music by the singers/songwriters like Al Jarreau, Barry Manilow and Janet Jackson. I doubt this would be possible if these episodes were being sold.

Even though I don't eat meat, this bothers me. But hey, life goes on, I guess.🥴 People here seem to take exception to even opening a window. And an unacceptable amount of schools and municipal builds, and public buildings were designed with windows that don't even open, or few windows at all. Not smart.

Another thing that's admirable about how Japan is handling the pandemic response now is that for the past year, they have been redesigning and retrofitting homes to be more anti-viral. Putting a discreetly located hand washing station near the front door, making natural air filtration a more prominent feature. Companies like the Japanese sportswear maker have made improvements to the fit and feel of face masks. This are even examining their metro and other public spaces to see what improvements can be made to mitigate virus spread. That, is learning how to live with something. The U.S. is not taking any genuine measures to live with a virus. EDT. Uniqlo is the name of the sportswear company. I forgot to mention their name.

I think most of the Black male characters on Y&R in the past 15 years had potential, no? Including the character played by Lamon Archey, who they refused to write for. But let's take Nate, a character born on screen and compare him to Nicholas Newman, another character born on screen. Compare the first year each adult character was on the canvas. Lord knows JM was no Olivier (neither Laurence nor Martinez) when he first arrived but they gave him story, surrounded him with highly competent and talented actors (Heather Tom and all the experienced adult actors) and oh, Nick was involved in plenty of story (his own and others). What did grown Nate get? Even compare Devon's transition from teen to adult to Nick's. Nick had a heavy duty relationship, an affair with Grace Turner. Entree into the business world, working for the family business. What did Devon get? A barely visible girlfriend? Languishing until they pair him in a triangle with his adopted father...and his de facto Aunt? One character was written into viability...the others...not so much.

Exactly what I was saying! And it's not only that, it's anyone who has to go into a filled hospital for any reason, COVID or not. Accident victims, heart attacks, gunshot or knife wounds, domestic and sexual violence victims, etc. How do those people get seen in a timely way in a hospital that is damn near filled to capacity? A nurse mentioned finding a woman crying in a corner because she needed medical attention, had been waiting for over 8 hours, yet hadn't been seen. What would someone say to her? Oh, it's "f*CK you because folks gotta party on NYE?" If folks had shown some goddamn discipline in the early going, we wouldn't still be living this bullsh*t. You know what they do in Japan? They wear masks, they wash their hands, they keep proper social distance. And whining folks, let's not pretend this is China, where they throw your as$ in jail if you leave your apartment without permission. Or Russia, where a positive test means a stay in a hospital or locked into a kind of "Hotel California". Get a grip, folks.

Has Y&R had a Black male character that has had any dynamism in the past decade? Fifteen years?

The filled hospitals and exhausted hospital workers would like to have a word.

There's learning to live with the virus, and then there's "learning to live with the virus".

Senator Reid was a fighter, through and through, to the last. R.I.P.

Agreed. It wasn't as if the character was fully formed or given much to do, besides be an appendage- a sister, then a girlfriend. Also, Pilar had the misfortune to be saddled with Mike Kasnoff, a character that was only as good as the romantic triangle that he was in. I thought Roslyn Sanchez did fine with the material she was given. Perhaps she did not yet have the skills or artistic tools to rise above the material, like some actors but at least she left an impression and I always remembered her in the role, which is more than I can say of the actress who came after her in the role of Pilar. Remember that Sanchez went from Miss Puerto Rico straight into the fast moving machine of daytime soaps, which, even experienced actors can sometimes struggled with. I don't have any negative memories of her in the role, only that it was a thin role to begin with.

At least I can say that I stopped watching The Dr. Oz show about a year after it debuted, so I didn't have to be a witness to the rise of this charlatan. It's really a shame though, that someone who could exude such charisma and could have done so much to foster greater trust and connection between people and the medical community seems to have done the opposite. There are a cavalcade of kooks running on the GOP side for the Senate in PA, including a former soap opera actress, who was an ambassador under Trump.

I'm currently reading an article about doctor and celebrity charlatan Dr. Oz, now running for the Senate in Pennsylvania and the article mentions the cavalcade of kooks who have repeated the 'Big Lie', who have joined the race, including Carla Sands, one of Trump's form ambassadors. We had recently been discussing her in this thread.

I have to be honest and admit, I have never been to a Kroger supermarket.

When I did a brief freelance stint in television production, I was taken aback by the expressions of open contempt that some of the production people who I worked with had towards many of the viewers, they would even mock many viewers, not making the connection that ratings = job. I had to guard against falling into that mindset myself. I think sometimes people are treated badly at the job, and end up taking on those same characteristics themselves and begin to treat others badly, in turn. It becomes a vicious cycle imo. And it wasn't just the slap that was missing. In this episode, the video skipped that and another section, then went completely blank at minute 15 or 16 until the end of the video. Just incredible.

Ordinarily, I avoid both (in the beginning, it was just Walmart, which I rarely even ventured into, since there were almost no stores in my area anyway. But over the past few years, I added Amazon to the "no buy" list even though, once upon a time, I used to place orders with Amazon dating back to the late 1990s!) Last year during the pandemic, they were literally just only two places that had certain necessities in stock that weren't charging exorbitant fees and had timely delivery. It pained me but I had to bite the bullet and order. Thankfully it was only about six or seven times for the entire 2020.