DramatistDreamer

@Cheap21 The way the ballroom scenes were filmed (even the rotation around Tyrell & Jessica) reminded me of some memorable sequences from P&G soaps.

OMG, how did I forget about that??! That was so far left-field that I mention an actress that hadn't been on the show in nearly a decade and six weeks down the line we read Val is going to be on the show. Even she was shocked. I didn't watch when tiic decided to kill Heather but that was foolish imo.

Thank you for acknowledging that! Yes, from the time Bill and Dani had that talk in Season 1 about Chelsea being jealous of her friend's bat mitzvah because she didn't have a coming-of-age celebration, I started posting about the significance of cotillions. I wasn't expecting the lurkers to pick up on that and build a C storyline that culminated in an entire episode but I'm glad they did, because it was fun! I will say to the BTG production folk who lurk on this site:

Today's episode made amends for Winterfest imo. The cotillion scenes were fun and the intercuts with the warehouse scenes helped paper over the long-running deficiencies of the plasma ring storyline (which, thankfully, appears to be coming to an end). I know some believe all I do is critique but I am not going to critique how the actual scenes were filmed and edited. It's not 1980s soap operas, it is what it is. There were mixed reviews on a few of the non-debs outfits but I thought they did well and was surprised to hear that some people didn't like Kat's look. Her eye makeup and silhouette definitely made me think of this video. And I loved Deanna's Odile/"Black Swan" look. Very fitting and a nice surprise that she appeared. I enjoyed Jamaica Craft's choreography, she was working with limited time and budget and made it fun and the overhead shots showing the formations were a nice touch. The camera work on the choreography wasn't bad, usually, with non-dance oriented camera operators, they cut off the lower half of the dancers at critical moments, which drives me crazy, but maybe Craft worked with the director. I thought there would be a Daddy/daughter dance like these balls usually have, maybe that's still coming? If not, those scenes with Martin and Smitty practicing would have wasted valuable screen time. Hopefully Nellie Oleson, I mean Francesca doesn't get into a car with her drunken escort. This is purely speculation but Speaking of Jessica, her introduction reminded me of Miss Grand Thailand.

Now this one of the ways that classic soaps should be promoted, though I am sorry to hear that Marcy has been having medical issues.

So Izaiah served macaroni & cheese alone on a plate with no protein and no greens??

They didn't put much time into visualizing the prep leading but the images from the cotillion itself looks good enough to make me want to watch. Finally, a trailer that doesn't give too much away. I've been saying how much I like Iona Morris Jackson and I hope Dr. Monica McMormick will be the new chief of staff once Lia gets hauled away but the way she was pushing Shanice to push past her instincts about not pursuing a relationship with Ted was too forceful. It's more likely that Shanice will get hurt at this point, with the way Nicole has been thirsting for her ex. Shanice is watching out for crazy Leslie but Leslie is not the one she needs to watch out for, at this point. It's a good thing that they are wrapping up this blood plasma storyline but having a storyline where Jacob talks about the people who suffer from the plasma being snatched and ferried through the black market without showing us actual victims who may be patients at Garland, makes it seem more theoretical to me. 🤷🏾‍♀️Oh well, at least it's coming to an end.

I saw tongue. Did you?👀

Hayden Panettiere has a memoir coming out, which reveals a shocking incident that happened to her at 18 which she discussed on a recent podcast, according to this article. I'm not fan of Variety but at times, they do serve a purpose however diminished they are as a genuine trade paper. https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/hayden-panettiere-naked-actor-sex-1236745535/

Bill and Mike best friends? The white best friend on this show is diabolical.🤣It's like that line of The Golden Girls "Mixed Blessing" episode, "...Ever since Diana Ross started marrying white men, everyone's gotta have one!".🤣

Yes, it was indeed 1986, a year that was pretty stacked with storylines, coming off the Doug Cummings storyline. 1986-87 were jam-packed, with storylines being layered, overlapping one another (1986 was also the year that James Stenbeck returned from the "dead"). I miss that type of storytelling in daytime, although I'm not generally a fan of back from the dead storylines, that one in particular was novel at the time.

Marland's Tad Channing story was truly a glimpse into the future: A greedy, amoral real estate developer with a penchant for exploiting women, who often uses the world of modelling to prey on young & naive, impressionable women. And said, real estate developer basically bankrupts his own company and tries to extort money, while devising a plan to try to outrun his debt. He also attempts two SA to women before he eventually meets his demise. I think when the casting changed from Andrew Potter to Larry Pine, with the styling, it really looked as if Tad Channing was a thinly veiled characterization of, well...you know who.👀

Yesterday, I decided to watch Nia Long's interview for Playboy. For some reason, it had been floating around my YouTube page for weeks and I hadn't gotten around to listening. Nothing salacious or particularly serious. The only mention of a television show was her appearing on The Fresh Prince, after having been in the movie "Made In America" with Will Smith, Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson but it was pretty much the journalist directing the interview, showing Nia photos of her from various projects that she did. They may not have even been able to easily access stills from Guiding Light because...Procter & Gamble.

And take off the red necktie too.🤭 Someone should've done a video link with the actors watching the sequence and giving their reactions afterward. It's highly unfortunate that Anthony Herrera is no longer here but they have the two remaining actors and I still think it would be entertaining to hear their remarks on filming that sequence.

Yes, you can see the cuts but seeing this as a little girl, it hit different back then and still, occupies a space, rent free, in my mind, from time to time.

I'm not sure if this was mentioned but with a plane full of people, this happened.

Even though I haven't watched B&B for ages now, I have wondered whether the show would ever bring Margo Lynley back, even for a brief story arc.

Interesting that, I posted several months ago (for anyone that cares to scour the old threads to find it) that I thought the show should bring back the shady lawyer that Bill dismissed for sexual harassment from the law firm. At the time, I wrote that Leslie should be arrested and in jail and Eva, frantic to find an attorney who would take her case, would find him to represent Leslie in her criminal trial in the Laura Peterson case. I still think that would have been a better reason to bring him back, rather than to represent someone we have never seen and barely know from a can of paint.🙄 We will see how my other idea that I 'seeded' these writers--I mentioned cotillions/Black debutante balls at least 3 or 4 months before it was ever mentioned on BTG--works out. I wouldn't have written it the way they did but hey, it's their show, right? When I told posted that it wasn't over between Ted and Nicole, I got one or two guffaws but it's writing for the television series 101 and a well worn soap opera trope that these things happen. And I think many people have observed that Daphnée and Keith have screen chemistry, the "Forever Bae" video demonstrated that. I'm not sure what those fantasy scenes were about but they read filler to me.🤷🏾‍♀️ and a reminder that Andre and Dani don't have all that much to do. Grayson has been working with dangerous criminals for at least months, has been gutted like a fish by one of them. You'd think he'd have the sense to carry something like, at least a Swiss Army knife. I don't know if him pulling out the scissors was meant to be played for laughs but a laugh is what they got from me.

If you want to pay the going rate for a professional screenwriter (and I am a professional), I will gladly write a script. Otherwise, I don't work for free.

From what we've seen thus far on this show, it still defies logic as to why Leslie waited so long, especially if Ted is indeed Eva's biological father. I hope the writers explore this because there has to be more to this story than what we've already seen. I've stopped hoping for anything from the Plasma ring storyline, other than that it will end soon. When Dr. Lia gets collared and sent away, can we replace her with Dr. Monica McCormick, please? I know she specializes in oncology but her shifting to COS wouldn't be a ridiculous shift on a soap. Make it work BTG writers. Once upon a time, I thought Bill might run against Martin for a seat, but I forgot about that but recently, I have started to wonder if Bill might serve as a block to Martin's higher ambitions for a Senate seat? Also, it's quite weird that Martin is supposed to be running a re-election campaign and we don't see hide nor hair of an opponent. I remember soaps of the past where characters ran for public office and we usually saw an opponent onscreen fairly early on in the campaign, even if it was an opponent that was onscreen for that storyline arc and then petered out eventually. I don't know, it just doesn't seem real with no onscreen opponent.🤷🏾‍♀️ So as not to sound like a broken record, I will spare you, dear reader, from my thoughts on the awkward dialogue between characters, especially those that wouldn't normally have a justifiable reason to interact. Or the contrived decisions to have characters 'just happen' to bump into each other. It is what it is, I guess.

This is definitely news to me, as I haven't experienced any issues. Then again, I am using Opera browser and cannot remember the last time I used Chrome. Good luck with the investigation, I hope the reason for the issue surfaces soon.

Enjoy, all of you who will watch! Let us know how it looks on your screen. Hopefully the resolution looks good and I also hope they go way back and not just begin in the show's final decade or something. One reason why I never really bothered with Y&R's Pluto TV channel.

Very cool for AMC fans and it speaks to the possibility that Pluto TV, a very popular FAST platform sees value in classic daytime soaps, which many of us always believed. Hopefully this is only the start.

Thank you in advance @DRW50 hopefully this weekend, I can get into this.