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God bless dark mode.

Engaging for a moment with the topic with titan, Jill is a skilled line producer who maneuvered herself well and leveraged key veterans at various shows for maximized award potential even with lousy stories or taste. But she's never been the creative she fancied herself to be without talented writers behind her, and as an OLTL fan it was fitting to see her knocked down in power and influence after she nearly destroyed GH, the ABC flagship, in under a year when left to her own devices. (Megan McTavish may be insane but her comments about Jill and having to grudgingly write in Kale Browne three days a week at her behest were funny.) Like a lot of the industry she's got certain skills, but she also has a faded bag of tricks that has been mouldering since 1992. Which is a part of why it was such a hoot to see Jill appear out of the shadows like a leviathan in that video. Of course she's at it again. Who will be the next blonde white chick named Courtney in 2026? Riveting stuff for Gen Z.

Liking Mansi is not the issue. The character has flopped and it is clear FV has downgraded her after making a hard, hard push for Kristina in her most unwatchable state. Or what @DRW50 said.

nvm

Letting Brennan put it in yet again while smirking over his shoulder... any day now! She's got him just where she wants him! I do think ol' Jack will be dead by February at the absolute latest. They have set him up as a counter-heavy to Sidwell, forcing poor Joss to work his next scheme or threatening to have her sent down for treason. Once he croaks I still deeply fear we will be subject to Valentin and Carly, partners in crime to lovers, possibly out to find out 'who killed Jack'. Anna was at her best keeping Sonny at arm's length and often somewhat cold, which she only really did (for better or worse) off and on during Carlivati's tenure. But Finola gradually got too emotional over Sonny, Jason, etc. and was allowed to do that onscreen too much long ago. Mulcahey brought some of that steel back, though Finola still managed to choke or quietly sob through some of that material as Anna found her way there lol. She's a brilliant actress and she did a good job with that stuff in '24, but now we're back to the same old and it humiliates the character whether she knows it or not.

It is so dumb and is dragging on already after a couple weeks. By the time Carly wraps this up Joss will be running the local branch office. And yes, Laura deserves better. It's like they tripled down on this Sonny apologia stuff with her and Anna after the Mulcahey saga.

A white twunk with no purpose?? On Days of our Lives??!!

Sorry for the spam. Wasn't sure where to put this, it's from Tony Geary's husband's IG. Tony watching Genie and Maurice on Mo's show.

This show is really trundling along BTW. When is someone going to show up to slit Beastmaster's throat or crack the whip on metrosexual Sidwell? (BTW, openly presenting this cheery bon vivant as casually bisexual would at least be something vaguely diverting.) At least kill Brennan by year's end. I'm bored.

I still am baffled by why Monty brought back stunt hire Gerald Gordon in the early '80s out of nowhere for like a year. I haven't found anyone who can come up with a thing he did in that second stint of note.

I could've sworn FV let other people direct either here or at OLTL. I may be wrong. IIRC Kimberly is now very active directing multi-cam/sitcom work. I'd forgotten she even did Netflix's One Day at a Time.

IIRC MVJ said the million was just the first piece of what Leslie got or was already owed, something they did make explicit in dialogue but not too explicit. Still, I am past worrying about it. I do think they want 30-yo elder millennial Peaches in her Sophia Petrillo wig to be a point of pathos for Leslie. In theory I am fine with that, and don't dislike Peaches despite the jarring physical disconnect and need for a recast lol. But I do think they do a lot of B&B-style whizzing from Point A to Point C with Leslie on this kind of stuff - in one scene she is raising hell, in the next she is weeping over Peaches. There's very little transition to that sometimes that allows for the nuance, and that can be done much better and they can go much deeper with Leslie (and most characters). The newer/younger audience for the show may have less issue with this kind of quick change than we do.

I could've sworn we went over the Bobbie thing a while ago, and saw her introduced to Rick and Lesley as "Nurse Barbara" in very late '77? Or was that early '78? I know the clip is online. Jackie always credited Marland with creating her IIRC.

In fairness, Hillary and Bob Woods were thick as thieves again at least by the end of OLTL. But both she and I believe Mark Derwin not so subtly dissed Kale Browne in the oral history, lol.

I do think it was probably always going to end the way it did.

I'm happy for Dan if so, but he'll always be Kevin Buchanan to me. Hopefully the role can last awhile.

Oh, wow. Thanks @DRW50 And @SoapDope78!

Erika spilled plenty of tea in her fan newsletter which went under the radar for many years until it didn't. And even more in the wonderful Llanview in the Afternoon, Jeff Giles' OLTL oral history conducted just after the show went off the air. When she was off the clock and the show was over, or whenever certain creatives were gone, she was always quite candid. She was the same very recently in an interview with SOD re: her happy reunion with Roger Howarth and Tuc Watkins while filming at GH in LA - with OLTL gone, she was happy to acknowledge that Howarth, who she has long been very friendly with and complimentary of, was 'a bit of a pain in the ass' when he was young.

How many years has Joe been dead? It's time to retire 'is Stefano alive?' stories unless you are prepared to reveal a strong heir to his villainy within the family, which they have consistently failed to do.

Fúcking jumpscare out of Insidious.

No, I don't think so. What really hurt Max was the show not knowing how to write him without Luna when she died, or in his classical form after that. Malone's handle on Max softened too much over time, and subsequent teams had little to no idea how to use him well. The one thing that struck gold (Max/Roxy) was killed by Brian Frons. Luna was always divisive but Max and Luna were pretty popular with the audience in the '90s. There's a reason Malone and others returned to that well too many times with her ghost, Tomlin with the videotapes, etc.

Frank tried to fire her and so did JFP. Both failed. I think that and Korte's longstanding enmity re: Carly's rivals is enough to keep her in the freezer unless Frank has an OLTL star or other fave he wants to try to put over. Lucky worked at Charlie's as a clear attempt to try to put him in Kristina's orbit. I saw no reason he shouldn't accept the WSB's offer at the time, and maybe reopen Luke's Club as a day job if JJ really didn't want to be back at the PCPD (as he claimed at the time). That would keep his hand in in both worlds. But Lucky just bumming around at a bar made no sense. It was there because Frank was trying to put over Lucky and Kristina. And the thing is I could see them having a fling, I was not opposed to it in theory, but not the way it played out onscreen with him enabling her worst, most unwatchable self while Liz got short shrift. Because at least some of TPTB clearly resented being beholden to Lucky and Liz per JJ and the fans.

I'd agree with all of the above, but I especially get this. That great scene in 2011, as Guza was also on the way out the door, cemented for me that Sonny could either go out alone or dead, or with Brenda having finally made the other choice. Pairing him with anyone else ever again after that confrontation was a moot point. And it has been ever since.

I have never been able to take the DiMeras seriously as a family with a regular company in town, having board meetings, etc. This is the DiMeras! It was fine when they were the weird gothic clan up to skullduggery, but treating them like normies doesn't work. And neither does the Kristen recast, even if Haiduk is a fine actress. She would never be this passive or allowed to just hang around. With the real Tony I loved his initial run in the 2000s, because I'd liked Thaao's other work and I loved the glimpses of the once-heroic Tony I'd seen from the '80s. But Thaao plays them almost indistinguishable now and it's clear they either want to bring Andre back for the 12th time or turn him back into Andre by another name again, so I lost all interest in Thaao some years ago sadly. They don't do anything with him they've not done for 30+ years.

I don't think so. If they did we'd see a push for her into bigger story. The same way the D&C team clearly wanted to use Nina, but Korte clearly hates her for taking Carly's man. That colored things even when she was with Sonny where Nina would be humiliated and castigated 5 days a week, and now with Korte co-HW she's got no story whatsoever.