DramatistDreamer

I will send you both my thoughts and my prayers.

It would be nice to be able to see more of the episodes that aired during the show's anniversary. I know we've all seen April 1986, for instance, but what happened on the anniversary episode that aired April 1987? From perusing @Brolden's episode archive thread, I can see that there were many preemptions due to the Iran-Contra hearings but those began in May, not April, which makes me curious. Another random question: was ATWT the only soap that has an episode featuring a family sitting down to eat Easter dinner in the 1980s? Or was this common among the soaps during that era?

Has he been studying Shia LeBeouf?

Sounds like a plan.👍

I forgot to say that, in a large state, it might be better to check with the specific county, but you might also reach your state Secretary of the state via social media to get a response quicker. But I'd advise that you verify the locations of your drop boxes.

Does your city have a listing of where all your drop boxes are located? You may want to verify that. Also, if your state has a website where you can track your ballot, you should definitely use that. I did this for the primary and I just verified receipt of my ballot for the general election. City Hall or your Registrar of Voters might have a website or number to call to get your concerns addressed. Also, be thorough, as you are clearly doing so that you can make informed choices but don't take too long-- get your ballot in as early as you can.

It seems like RG didn't do as good a job as the U.S. Open in providing a secure bubble.

Just end it already.

What a thorough waste of my time. I should have stayed ignoring this tournament.

Oh, I remember that episode too.

I love that Debbie Allen tweeted this.

I meant this year. I just assumed that NBC had given the whole thing over to TC. I guess TC hasn't broadened it's subscriber base wide enough to exclusively handle a Grand Slam, which is just as well since wing nuts now own and operate a considerable share of TC.

NBC has the finals? Yeesh, shows you how little I have been following the tournament this year.😳

Hey, Martin Verkerk got to a final, so the men's side has had its share of duds going the distance in tournaments too. This year's U.S. Open, the women had higher ratings than the men. Overall, both finals nosedived compared to the previous year. It will be interesting to see what this year's RG rankings yield on U.S. Television. Last year's U.S. Open was decent mix of veteran and new prospects all the way up to the finals, while this year, it was tipped too heavily in one direction. I honestly don't know what it means for the future of the sport, except maybe tennis digging deeper into niche status.

Neither was Majoli and yet ... Regardless, it has still got to sting, given the fact that Aga reached a final.

Women's tennis is far more interesting to me than the men's side, which is entirely too hierarchical and predictable.

Deep down, you know Aga has got to feel some kind of way. The women's side always has new champions. It's the men's side that is in desperate need of new champions.

How could I forget the ageless Ming Na Wen?? Lea Salonga, who took up the role originated by Ming Na Wen, didn't do another daytime soap, I am pretty sure, at least not on American TV.

Has Patricia Bruder been on any soap other than ATWT?

I suspect that many people would be buying videos or even downloads, which have become more the norm than they were 8, 9, 10 years ago. I think the consumer base might have increased with time had it kept going. The people who try to make the argument that the digitization process would have been a "cost loss" for P&G don't understand how business actually works. For 20 years, Amazon operated certain aspects of its company either at a negligible profit margin or at a modest loss. Many parts still do not operate at a profit --their cloud business and warehouse and distribution system more than makes up for those losses. They throw in movies and music into Amazon Prime but those are not really profit-makers for them, they are investments into continuing to make Amazon the "Go To" marketplace. As much as I dislike Amazon's business strategy, I must concede that it has been a massive success for them. P&G, yesteryear's Amazon used to understand this.

The SoapClassics company was a brief respite, having put out collections of ATWT and GL and streaming on their online platform. The SoaopClassics company wanted to continue to do so but, as I understand it, couldn't secure permission from P&G to extend the agreement. The folks who wanted to make excuses for P&G (the same people who always make excuses for these mediocre soap production companies) at the time, claimed that it would take years for P&G to digitize a great deal of their episodes. Well, it's been years now, hasn't it? Imagine if P&G had actually allowed Soap classics to continue what they were doing, digitize episodes and stream them? Wouldn't there have been a significant amount of episodes in digital format?

That part did make me think that she has 'Karen-esque' tendencies 😬. Still, she spoke many truths and didn't hold back and I wish more would do this. P&G has shown that they don't care about the legacy of their shows, why protect P&G's "reputation"? For what?? What is the purpose of appearing on these shows if you're not going to be honest about your experience, good and bad?

And P&G is way too stupid and thoughtless to capitalize on mentions like those. All these series like Punky Brewster and Saved By The Bell, Karate Kid/Cobra Kai, The Doctors and Dark Shadows managing to have some presence on television and film, while P&G is still out there devaluing their own titles. Just. stupid.