DramatistDreamer

I doubt that would provide the answer l, but thanks for responding anyway. Maybe if Alan Locher (or somebody) has a livestream with ATWT producers like he did with GL, I could ask? I wouldn't watch the whole thing but I might watch long enough to ask the question and bounce, lol.

Gotta love Lucille Bluth! I'm really curious, mainly because P&G has used the old excuse that digitizing their episodes would be too much work but I suspect that the workload, while not insignificant, is likely less than what they claim it is. Certainly, had they allowed the SoapClassics people to continue their work of digitization of episodes in 2012, they certainly would've made considerable progress by now. Could you have imagined how many episodes that could've been in a ten year span? I imagine that, at the very least, some of the most requested episodes in the show: last 30 years would have been digitized and either uploaded to their website or sold as DVDs/downloads. That would have been incredible!

Question: When ATWT used AOL's online portal to stream episodes of their show, were those episodes uploaded as digitized episodes, or were they analog episodes that were streamed digitally on AOL's service? Does anyone know?

Here is a pre-Marland episode where you can judge for yourself what state you think Lily and Lucinda's relationship is in.

Amanda Seyfried is set to appear in a special featuring POTUS #44 and #46 encouraging vaccination.

If you were a Black and/or Brown person coming into adulthood during the mid to late 90s and connected to NYC, DMX's emergence on the music scene was inescapable. It also seemed to show the ascent of Black biker culture out of the shadows onto city streets in a big way. It was unforgettable and a sight to behold! R.I.P. DMX

That makes it even more incredible that nearly two years later, that whole bathtub scene would not only occur but lead to this shocking elopement. The thing is, Lucinda didn't always dislike John. Lucinda used to taunt John's former wife Karen about being ill-suited to be Mrs. Dr. John Dixon. It seemed to come from a place of jealousy, as if to say that Lucinda herself would have been better suited to be a doctor's wife and that Karen was not good enough for him, I think she as much as said so. This was in '84, early '85. So there was some sort if attraction/revulsion element at work, seemingly from the beginning. The thing that is most unfortunate about what soaps have become over time is that there no longer seems to room for complexity in how characters are written or how they interact. Everything now is so obvious.

Watching November 1, 1985 episode and there is a scene between John and Lucinda, where John makes a wisecrack about Lucinda's bathtub. I wonder if this scene was a consideration for the infamous bathtub sequence almost two years later? If it was, that would involve some memory, especially considering all the story that happened in those two years. It's just one of those minor details that one wouldn't expect to play in such a major way so far down the road. That's one of the things I find fascinating (from a technical perspective) about the writing during this period. Little scenes that appear to be about something completely different, but when you go back, you see seeds being planted, whereas, in real time, as you watch, you would never figure this out.

Years ago when #Brexit looked like a fait accompli, I wondered aloud (i.e. posted here) how this could adversely affect the situation between Ireland and Northern Ireland, speculating that Brexit could heighten tensions, and eventually lead to riots, that I hoped wouldn't be a new "Troubles". I still hope things won't get that far as The Troubles, but unfortunately, I was right in the other regard, with obvious tensions spilling into riots.

ICYMI:

When I saw FAA at the Nadal Academy with Toni Nadal in the frame, I knew something could emerge out of that. By the way, FAA has been to the Nadal Academy to train in the past.

I love how Cullum speaks of the theater- how he loves performing night after night, and if you're bored with it, basically you need to do something else (because clearly you're not doing it right).

I've never had to work with him directly but apparently a producer I once worked for had co-produced a play with him and others that ran on Broadway at the time I was working with this particular producer. The fact that someone who worked for him fled to work with Harvey Weinstein, an ogre, is a pretty vivid illustration of how much of a hellscape it must have been to work with him. Has anyone considered the possibility that the arts and entertainment is always on a knife's edge in terms of success and failure because of the rampant toxicity embedded in these industries?

It seems like Ms. Charles touched so many lives, IRL and across the airwaves. Hopefully, her loved ones can be there to help and take care of her mother and each other. So sad. R.I.P.

I think I saw that segment on Decades a few years ago too. P&G is definitely the entity standing in the way of getting any more episodes curated and released/streamed to the public. They yanked rights out of the hands of the SoapClassics people, who seemed to be doing a fairly good job taking the distribution of classic episodes in a technologically progressive direction, by not only selling sets and collections but streaming episodes as well, which was the future back then (it is the "now" nowadays). I am surprised there wasn't more collective action to try to change P&G's course of action on that (online petitions existed in 2012/13) but I guess ATWT & GL fans were so used to accepting things being yanked away, that most just shrugged.

Oh, for the love of Debbie Simon, it's Sharon Case! Out of curiosity, when did the show stop mentioning The Pampered Palate?

Good. Now, will Ivanka, Kelly Anne and the rest of the cabal be made to face repercussions?

The PPP program rollout at the beginning of the pandemic last year amounted to exactly what I thought it would. Hopefully the Biden administration can set things right.

If this is truly the case, I hope Senate Democrats run right over Mitch McConnell on the way to get the infrastructure bill done. It would serve 'ole Mitch right after he has stood in the way of progress and tried to block anything good from happening for the better part of a decade. Maybe, just maybe Democrats will be able to show him that his deliberate inaction as an act of sabotage will have consequences that will impact him and his cronies negatively. I hope he gets severely outmaneuvered.

From what I saw of the writing, it showed that he didn't want to write for them, although I know that the Rosales family were her pet project and it was obviously a vanity project. If McDaniel were genuine about integrating a Latino family into the landscape in a way that made sense, instead of shoehorning her wish-list and redesigning the show's DNA, she could have easily picked up on a different branch of the Raul Gutierrez family (they wouldn't have even have had to change the name, could have kept it Rosales). And actually used Raul for more than a cameo when he appeared on the show for the anniversary episodes. He could have ushered in the family, which could have eased the way of the characters and actors, but I guess it was not as showy as that photoshoot.🥴

Remember when "Lane" fanatics practically ran a campaign to drive the character off the show? There have been some characters that I never could stand, but I still can't grasp the idea of trying to force an actor out of a job unless they'd done something unconscionable. Coming from the U.K., one would think that Mal would've seen the value of having a South Asian character, even a family on a soap, since shows like Eastenders, no doubt, benefited from having South Asian characters on that show. Mal Young was passive aggressive AF when it came to writing non-white characters.

That is just all types of messy! Y&R wished they could get Keith David, lol. Seriously, with so-called soap bloggers putting out this level of sloppy copy, it's no wonder this genre has fallen so hard.

Maybe because it was the absence of diverse characters (not just based on the lack of characters of color, but also lack of diversity of ethnicity, country of origin, socio-economic standing, etc. that inspired me to become a writer. When you are a writer, as well as a "double minority" (Black, woman), it is impossible for these things to escape your attention, from a creative P.O.V. Other soaps have had and still have, obvious issues with writing for Black characters but I pointed out Y&R because it not only has many examples in which to draw from (some of which were praiseworthy, and some disappointing, as I have stated) but Y&R was also an "auteur" created/driven soap for much of it's run. What I mean by that, is that, unlike many other soaps, which, at various times in their runs, had a cycle of various HW and show-runners who were not directly connected to the show's creator. Y&R and AMC were like this and only recently has Y&R become a soap in which the headwriter is not directly connected to W.J. Bell, or the Bell family. Y&R stood out, in that respect, as a daytime soap that had a particular autonomy from network "interference" in decision-making that perhaps, other daytime soaps may not have had. It's like that phrase, "Heavy lies the head that wears the crown" and has the number one daytime soap for decades, Y&R has held that crown/responsibility. That's why I specifically cited them. When a show cites how many NAACP Image awards they have received, I don't think it's unreasonable to take a granular level look at how they present their characterizations of their characters of color.

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Because P&G is pettier than Irna Phillips was. Phillips likely would sold a bigger rotation of box sets and collections.