Mona Kane Croft

This soap is go grounded and believable. In some ways like an old fashioned soap opera (and I mean that as a compliment). It's not crazy over the top or campy. I'm loving it.

I've been thinking the same thing. If you're creating a soap opera with a big core family, and if you want that core family name to survive the generations, you need some male offspring. Have they definitively said in the scripts that Anita and Vernon have only two children? Or is it possible they have other children who are just off the canvas and living elsewhere?

Scotty didn't die. The character that died was David, Julie's son. Scotty and Eli are half-brothers (both David's sons).

I can't disagree with that!! Love me some Julie...

I feel fairly certain Ms Tunie will be nominated for a lead-actress Daytime Emmy in 2025.

They seem to be intentionally making him appear as a dork. No idea why. But actually Mike Manning is a very handsome and sexy man.

I'm liking BTG's strategy of focusing on one storyline for the first few episodes. That is rather unusual for a new soap opera (especially a 60-minute soap) -- typically they would introduce at least three plots in episode one, and maybe one or two more in the second episode. I'll give MVJ credit for this brilliant idea -- it keeps the audience focused and interested without confusing us with too many characters and too many plots. Plus it allows for more character development, by waiting to introduce secondary plots later. After all, on a soap, character is always more important than plot. I've never seen a 60-minute soap premiere using this strategy -- but I love it!!

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I was only about 9-years old when Bill had the heart transplant, but even then I knew this was not a wise storyline for such an important character. Back then, it was well known that heart transplant survivors lived in a weakened state for their remaining years (unlike today, which is a very different circumstance). And I knew the writers were not capable of writing the reality of a heart transplant patient, nor would the audience want to watch Bill (and actually the entire Bauer family) living that reality. It was not a terrible idea to do a heart transplant plot, but they should have chosen another, less important character. And then perhaps they could have played out the aftermath a bit more believably. Had TPTB chosen another character, Bill probably would not have been killed off in 1969.

How long will it take for the ratings for episode one to be released??

Asking for SPOILERS below. If you don't want to read SPOILERS, just scroll on by please. . . So what's the deal with Sharon and Phyllis? A post on Daytime Confidential says they've been kidnapped, but doesn't reveal much else. Who do you think has kidnapped them? Any speculation??

Eve, Ben, Lucille Wexler, Alan's wife (what was her name?)

At what point does Leslie marry Stanley Norris? And why was she attracted to a man old enough to be her father? There must have been some interesting stuff leading up to that union.

Do you mean 1966 here? Because in 1966 episodes, Ed is being called Ed and he is already a doctor. And didn't the Mike and Robin/Julie drama occur before Mike left for Bay City in 1966? Maybe I am misunderstanding your statement here.

I think at some point while married to Leslie (either before or after Freddie was born), Ed disappeared from Springfield. Not sure if Ed had amnesia, or if he just ran away. But he ended up in a nearby city for a few months where he met Janet. Can't remember why Ed returned to Springfield, but when he did, Janet followed him. So I'm assuming something likely happened between Leslie and Mike while Ed was out of town.

Does anyone remember the details of how Leslie Jackson went from being Ed Bauer's girlfriend (who eventually bore his child) to being the true love and eventual wife of Ed's brother Mike? And which head writers wrote most of this storyline? It seems Agnes Nixon created Leslie and paired her with Ed, while Mike was off the show (appearing on Another World). Was Leslie/Mike always the end-game? This plot seems vaguely similar to Bill/Laura/Mickey on DOOL, but all that was written by Bill Bell. Can someone share some of the chronology of this brother versus brother romance? Thanks!

The Dobsons' era of Guiding Light was probably the show's creative zenith. So I do understand what you are saying. But Marland did attract a huge younger audience to GL. And he helped GL to successfully compete with Luke and Laura on General Hospital. As much as I loved the Dobsons on GL, I doubt their version of the show would have had much ratings success against the juggernaut of GH in the early 1980s. Just my opinion.

Well, I think Donna was not really complaining, she was cracking a joke about it. And I was a bit too dense to get the joke. LOL.

Ahh, okay. I realize some people are picky about anything they consider off-topic. So I just thought you were expressing concern about that. No problem. Didn't realize you were being rhetorical. Frankly, I find that most threads that stray off topic don't go on for very long. So they don't bother me personally. And in my experience, trying to move a thread to the "appropriate" place never works -- the thread just dies. If I notice an off-topic thread that doesn't interest me, I just ignore it and don't engage. But all that is just my opinion on the issue. Others feel differently, which is alright.

Wow, Phillip's birth, adoption, etc. really seems like a HUGE coincidence. Both couples were in three different locations concurrently and coincidentally -- Chicago, then Switzerland, then Springfield. How likely would that be?

GH had a couple of trials over the past two or three years, but they weren't murder trials. They seemed to me rather minor offenses to write court trials about. I think murder trials are more consequential and compelling. But at least they still have a courtroom set. The last full murder trials I remember were those written by Douglas Marland on ATWT during the 1980s and early-90s. And Marland died in 1993. There may have been murder trials on other soaps after 1993, but at the moment, I don't remember any. I've been told (but do not know first-hand) that even Edge of Night stopped having murder trials during its last couple of years on the air. EON still had murders, but just not trials. Jeeze -- I'm old enough to remember when EON tried to have two murder trials a year, if they could fit them in.

Thanks. Maybe the podcast was more trouble than it was worth for her. Or maybe not enough listeners. Who knows? There could be many reasons someone might stop podcasting. And many podcasts don't actually last very long. At least its good to know Linda is doing well.

I agree. I think Mike's "almost affair" with Pat was the major storyline, and his dating Lee was just used to keep him in Pat's orbit.

Because Mike Bauer was a GL character.

If I 'm not mistaken, Mike dated John Randolph's daughter, Lee. And he nearly had an affair with Pat (Lee's step-mother).