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I wonder if Loving had remained more on track it could have lasted longer? There was a TON of turnover it seems. It would find it's footing, then lose it, re-invent itself, find it's footing, lose it, and so on and so forth. Shame.

Thanks Carl. Would love to read more!

Carl, those summaries (thanks for posting them, BTW, makes me want to see LOVING all the more), are they two weeks worth? A month? And the dates, do they correspond with the summaries or ...?

What was with P&G wanting so many veterans out around the same time? Budgetary reasons or a stronger focus on youth?

Matt was definitely way more interesting with Kimberly. It's like they made him as boring and as bland as possible, which is a shame.

I remember watching the first year on SoapNet and I agree about Delia. Such a different character. Such a force. Loved it.

God, Victoria Wyndham is such a fantastic actress. Damn. Another World was a great soap. Never should have been cancelled.

Say what you will about Wheeler, but she poured a lot of time into GL and seemed to really care for the show and it's actors. I feel towards the end of the show, we saw a LOT of familiar faces return. I mean, A LOT. ATWT only brought back more recent "favorites" and bad recasts (Gwen/Will/Lucy/Mike/Simon). Frannie returned for 1 episode. Only real return was John Dixon and that was likely only because of Elizabeth Hubbard. Goutman seems to have burned a lot of bridges with the ATWT cast. Wasn't that the soap that old favorites were reluctant to return to?

I Netflixed the first season and wow, I LOVED Falcon Crest but I can't get into the first season AT ALL.

Just started TiVoing Ryan's Hope again and SoapNet is currently airing the November 1978 episodes. What I like is that the actors are real, the drama is real ... it's just a real, honest and raw soap opera. It thrives on character development, and interaction. When I watched this time-frame last time on SoapNet, I was NOT a fan of the Pat recast because Malcolm Groome IS Pat, but this guy (his name slips me) is not bad in the least. He's not Groome, but he's not bad. And this Siobhan (Sarah Felder) is my hands down favorite Siobhan. It's a shame ABC cancelled this gem of a show. It really is. But at the same time, can you even imagine what it would look like today? I shudder at the thought. I guarantee you, there'd be no one left, except for Maeve, Delia, Roger, Frank and Jack. I'm sure Ryan and Johnno (Frank and Delia's son) would be leading the "thirty/forty" crowd and we'd have a bunch of random teenagers with no ties. Just a huge gut feeling I have, consider ABC's hatred of veterans, minus the scarce few they dare allow remain.

Oh nice! Thanks! Is AOL Video gone for good?

OK, can anyone go through the main characters, who was related to whom, key storylines, what the last year was like, and who was the focus? And wasn't Matt once creating a fan-fic of Love of Life?

Out of curiosity, who were the main players at the end of the series. What were some of the last storylines of the show? What about some of the workplaces, the people who worked there, etc. I'm kinda considering a fan fiction of TEON and SFT but I need to get a lot of facts down before I can even consider it.

NBC should of kept AW and SuBe. Ugh. I hate NBC.

I was never a big fan of Andrew Shue. Billy was always a little prick to me. I didn't mind Alyssa Milano as Jennifer, but it was clear the writers were trying to have her be the "new Sydney".

GOD, I LOVE Melrose Place. I didn't really love Alison much until just recently. Girl was such a hot mess, lol, it's quite entertaining. Jake, Jo, Syd and Kimberly were always my favorite characters. Love Amanda too, obviously. I never minded Kyle, Megan, Taylor, Lexie, Craig or Jennifer. It was just such a jarring change from S4/S5 to S6/S7.

I have to agree. I was very ... annoyed at the finale.

For those curious ... episodes will start on Monday, April 2nd! The first episode will be Monday, June 28th, 1999 I'll try to do an episode daily (I write kind of far in advance when I really get going) but I can't promise it.

Some vague teasers for 1999 ... * Josie and Gary will struggle in their marriage * Joe and Paulina will eventually be driven apart * KC will fall for Chris as he and Toni plan their wedding * Carl experiences a medical setback that forces Rachel to call in an old friend! * Matt uses Anne to further his agenda with Cass and Lila but he finds out something that changes EVERYTHING! * Tito torments Nick and Remy as they too prepare to walk down the aisle ... * Alli develops a crush on Jake * Sean and Charlie could be paired together but they start off hating each other ... * Marley struggles with whether to remain in Bay City or move away with Tyrone * Cindy finds herself entangled in yet another caper that involves Grant but a surprising face from the past will involve HERSELF into their problems ... * Felicia begins to renovate TOPS and it appears as if Sergei is up to no good ... * Sharlene returns to Bay City and it's not long until John Hudson is a factor in her life again ...

I figure I might bring back Kelker-Kelly as Sam Fowler. Eventually. Not right away. I do mention Shane once in one of the episodes I've written, but that's about as far as I will go. And I might recast Tyrone but as of right now he'll just be written off, only because I know Henry Simmons would of left the Real AW to be on what was it, NYPD Blue or Law & Order? I'm trying to be as realistic as possible. I wouldn't mind having Tim Gibbs take over as Gary again (although if this were "Real Life" he would be over on OLTL as Kevin). I've also thought of bringing back Alexandra Wilson back as Josie. The FIRST Josie.

I fixed the list and added Mark Mortimer and Taylor Stanley.

* Anna Kathryn Holbrook returns as SHARLENE FRAME. Stay tuned for a first air date. Could David Forsyth be far behind? * RITA MADISON is being re-cast and an actress will be announced shortly * Henry Simmons is out as TYRONE MONTGOMERY and no last airdate has been established. * John Littlefield is out as GARY SINCLAIR and the role is being recast with an actor yet to be named. No last airdate is available right now. I will be taking suggestions for the roles of GARY and RITA, if interested in helping me cast them. I'm personally leaning towards Dan Gauthier as Gary, although I'm not sure how far I'll go with the Gary character. I do have a story planned but ...

AS OF JULY 1999, THE CURRENT CONTRACT CHARACTERS ARE: * Victoria Wyndham (Rachel Cory Hutchins) * Charles Keating (Carl Hutchins) * Linda Dano (Felicia Gallant) * Stephen Schnetzer (Cass Winthrop) * Tom Eplin (Jake McKinnon) * Jensen Buchanan (Vicky McKinnon) * Judi Evans Luciano (Paulina Cory Carlino) * Joseph Barbara (Joe Carlino) * Lisa Peluso (Lila Winthrop) * Sandra Ferguson (Amanda Cory) * Matthew Crane (Matt Cory) * Alice Barrett Mitchell (Anne O'Donnell) * Ellen Wheeler (Marley Hudson) * Anna Stuart (Donna Love) * Mark Pinter (Grant Harrison) * Kim Rhodes (Cindy Brooke) * Nadine Stenovitch (Josie Watts Sinclair) * John Littlefield (Gary Sinclair) * Eric Morgan Stuart (Chris Madison) * Rhonda Ross Kendrick (Toni Burrell) * Elain R. Graham (Etta Mae Burrell) * Henry Simmons (Tyrone Montgomery) * Persia White (K.C. Burrell) * Paul Wasilewski (Sean McKinnon) * Brittany Finamore (Charlie Winthrop) * Alicia Leigh Willis (Alli Fowler) * Michael Rodrick (Cameron Sinclair) * David Andrew MacDonald (David Halliday) * Jonathan Sharp (Sergei Radzinsky) * Mark Mortimer (Nick Hudson) * Taylor Stanley (Remy Woods)

Just because she's all kinds of awesome (and hot) I've updated my avatar!

Eee! Go Grey's Anatomy!!! But can they keep it up is the question? And ... MediaWeek and Futon/Zap2It should have their ratings up soon ...