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Alexa Havins is so good but it really is a shame the writers took away all the spunk and fun.

Is there a time stamp for when he talks about exiting BTG? I skimmed but couldn't find it.

Not terrible choices but would have loved to have seen something we haven't seen. I wonder why they would show Kay's party when the Chancellor Mansion isn't even shown anymore. Wonder if it or Jill is coming back.

Omg that's a shocker. What a beautiful and thorough article in the Hollywood Reporter. So many details I never knew. Story wise I'd like it if we learned Luke really died saving women from being trafficked after faking his death on the train in 2022, taking over Bobbie's work. a sort of redemption for what Luke was.

Is the Abbott launch party not getting cancelled this time because no one showed up? 🤣

All narrated from the sofa in her room at the GCAC!

I generally prefer these clip shows over the day to day "action," but this one was pretty boring considering it's always the same scenes that we've seen for CLB and TEB's anniversaries. The staging of these is getting worse and worse... Victor's tribute for example was a big party, Lauren's special was that lame event at Society where we only saw them in the lobby but at least they had Gloria and Fenmore there... now it's pretending Gloria was on the phone and Fen texted them... they just sink lower and lower. Lauren was even worried Gloria would butt in... apparently she lives in town, under a bridge somewhere. They've also stopped showing clips of anyone who's not already in the episode.

I liked it fine. I wasn't expecting anything more than a party at the club with holiday decorations. It was entertaining and there was humor. I liked that it was something less than formal, with some really cute coats and sparkly sweaters. Festive. The pretending there was ice skating and all was cringe. I don't buy the Greg Vaughn character as a doctor.

The big action scene last week was literally Victor taking over MattClark's company while he sped around in a car chase against a CGI background. 🤣

To the poster named LifeRepublic1382, unfortunately your upload to the Y&R Vault did not go through if you want to try again please. ☹️ B&B fans... can anyone help with the folder titled "Random Items to be Sorted - Delete if it already exists" A lot of them are undated. If you all can confirm those are all years we have fully and in good quality, I will go ahead and delete.

Jason taking care of Britt was so intimate, loved it. But then you just know even if they'd slept together and Carly called about an intruder in her house, he would have gone running, and then I understand why Britt pushes him away every time.

The storyline with Madison feeling unsupported by Chelsea with her mom is actually interesting because it's different and topical without being overly political, but maybe it would have been nice to like, show it? They are getting to be like Y&R, too much narrating. We should be seeing the dynamics of dinner with her mom instead of being told. It could be done at a restaurant if creating a house set is an issue.

I thought Kristina had more or less implied to Sonny's face that he was just as abusive as if he'd hit a woman (which Sonny insisted he would NEVER do!). I loved that.

What a great idea for a topic! I first learned about concepts like shareholders and stocks and board meetings from watching Y&R as a kid (when they actually showed the business stuff onscreen!). It certainly isn't discussed regularly on television and I wouldn't have heard about it IRL. I feel like I also know a lot of dates of actual historical events because of researching preemptions.

I suspect another reason GH doesn't show old classics is they haven't been properly digitized. On the rare occasion they show them (I believe they reran Sonny and Jason marathons during the pandemic) IIRC they were still in SD. The quality was barely better than YouTube rips. CBS has its archives nicely digitized in HD already. Then you add the extra work of the music rights and actor residuals and why bother.

Yeah, they look insane ranting and raving that he's Matt Clark and him saying he's not and he's clearly correct. If he looks like Matt why can't they call the police?

That's a very sweet story ❤️ My grandmother would always declare "she's a bitch!" when Brooke would come on screen. My grandfather would say that Brooke was a "good actress" which meant she cried a lot and was pretty.

So funny, I used to love that show.

Always on TV, either DVRed from cable or a USB stick for classic soaps. I only watch short clips on the computer or phone. Almost never live. It's pretty rare that I will watch something the same day. I like to watch before reading the threads (except Y&R, nothing ever happens so I can't really get spoiled), so I'm often dozens of pages behind. I try to keep up with BTG because it's a new soap and I want to participate in the discussions, but the random preemptions have been a turnoff. What changed the most over the years is my attention span! I remember I used to FF more, now I almost never do, I'll just start browsing the internet and let it run. I only watch classic soaps when I'm in the mindset where I can pay close attention, as if I were watching a classic movie. The modern soaps are more for background. GH holds my attention best. Y&R and B&B are for when I have things to do or just went to veg out and scroll the net. BTG is somewhere in between.

This being Y&R, I expect literally an hour of them standing alone at Society, talking.

He sent her flowers (not the ones she was allergic to in sitcom-style hijinks).

If Paul has to have this offscreen parallel life, I wish they would write in that Lynn Bassett flew to Portugal to take care of him, he finally realized he loved her and now they're married. It is honestly hilarious that they just left him in Portugal, where he traveled to visit Heather for her job and she has since moved back to Genoa City and isn't even alive anymore.

I remember chatter about Bell developing a soap but I'd been assuming/hoping it was a daytime soap. As for Michael Damian, with his soap background I'm surprised he hasn't been the one to reboot old soaps into Hallmark movies, it's the perfect way to test the waters without a big commitment.

Oh, I didn't realize they were made to be larger.

Ok, so there is a weird glitch with the smiley faces. If I go the menu and select it, it looks fine and comes out like this 🙂 If I just type a colon and a closed parentheses, there's a little pop up that comes up to select the smiley icon. If I don't select it, I just get the text like this :) If I do select it, the smiley comes out huge, like this