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I 'reconcile it' because writers in soaps have been doing this since at least Doug Marland at GH in the '70s in his opening weeks, and it's a known practice at the networks. Ask the key players in the Guza writing team about when he started again in '97. It's not a theory, it's simply the reality of what has happened over and over. The magazines were openly reporting on Malone and Griffith ghostwriting and tweaking in January '03 and possibly late December '02 at the time, BTW. I was there. The new teams sometimes come in and massage or redo what was already scripted but not yet taped, without official credit.

The legendary Sally Field shares her abortion story. Warning: This gets considerably detailed about her horrific experience and is not for the faint of heart.

Meanwhile, some of the Beltway is clearly losing patience:

If we're talking doctors I'm not exactly weeping for the loss of Finn or that we had less of Terry, who delivers each line like she's only just discovered talking pictures. I think the show was deeply at odds with itself during the brief PM era, so it's impossible to know what was in mind. Now that Frank has his pet writers back we're settling into the same staid equilibrium.

It was so ignoble. I couldn't believe it.

I remember when they killed off John near the end of the Sheffer era. I agree, it was real. I was stunned then and stunned when they very unceremoniously wrote him and Marlena out under Higley not long after. The shockwaves around SON at the time were legit too, IIRC. I liked the idea of the relevant white collar crime story around their and Carrie/Austin's return in 2011, but I am often an apologist for the early part of that era. As with most things Days they didn't know how to play it out. I also always liked Molly Burnett at least. She took too much grief from Daytime Confidential at its peak, but all I saw was a talented actress on a bad show.

Tweet of the month!

IIRC Parry Shen wasn't in the role when Brad was the scuzz trying to get Michael in bed - that was the heavier dayplayer they first hired, then Shen came in. I may be wrong. (EDIT: I am wrong, I just checked, it was definitely Shen! Can't believe I forgot that. It was so weird how RC tried to awkwardly pivot months later to Brad begging Felix to see the good in him after that mess and Felix trying to train Brad like a dog to be a 'good guy'.) He was definitely a creep but they did try to flesh out Shen's Brad considerably and make him redeemable once they realized he had more chemistry with Carnes' Lucas than Felix did (originally sex pest Brad was clearly meant to be just a spoiler for Lucas and Felix, not that it made any sense for either to get involved with him given his known history) and I think Shen did a good job and I don't mind seeing him, but I've never really cared that much about the character either. The endless flopsweat attempts by both Ron Carlivati and every subsequent regime to put Brad and Britt over as the ultimate Gay Best Friends Forever, watching the Nurses Ball together and riffing on it like we were there with them, crowning her as the "Brittch" etc. were lame to me. I never bought into their forced merriment and was always deeply annoyed at the show regularly seeming to offer up Britt as some sort of sop to the gays, acting like she was some sort of gay/camp icon vs. having actual LGBT characters in major story or on contract. (IIRC, even her farewell party shortly before her death featured drag queens.) She was never all that. But I also just never bought her and Brad's friendship. It was always about the show trying to manufacture something (two catty bitches!) that should've been organic between actors.

He had a last day or two that was actually very well-written by the ghostwriting Malone and Griffith in January '03 - I believe he tracks Jessica down at Al's where she is staying shortly before Erin's Jessica leaves town (a nice reminder of the Al/Jessica childhood friendship from the '90s that was too often neglected later) and they have a proper, mature breakup. Probably Seth and Jessica's best-written scenes period. When Bree's Jessica goes missing because of the Victor mess not long after, in February or March, Viki calls Seth off-camera (presumably still in town) to ask if she's seen him. That's the last mention of him.

Agreed. But I didn't see anything objectionable in VH's performance so since Carnes turned it down we might as well have him.

The continuing problem with almost all characters under 30-40 on this show. I would kill Chase or divorce them offscreen immediately. If Setton doesn't want to play young horny BLQ she can dip too!

As was always rumored at the time, yes. The show really screwed themselves.

The way they treated her onscreen seemed personal, especially in early '04. There is a scene where Jason laces into Carly for betraying Sonny that is so nasty, I never forgot it. And it all clearly went back to the Lorenzo thing taking off. Meanwhile Sonny gets his own new set (Greystone), his own leather jacket (supposedly because TK had one but who knows, lol) and Kelly Monaco to play with to try to compensate.

It was no secret there was drama BTS in 2003-2005 with that whole gang, I'm just surprised Mo owned up to it.

I hadn't seen this one posted: I never thought I’d see bloopers related to that weird period when you could constantly hear the hammering and construction next door to them in 2002 lol.

Does he? I'm surprised he admitted it. Dish, dish.

I'll never forget their antics. Truly deranged.

I have no great love for Liz Cheney and never will, but she did put party above country re: Trump and her statement will move a few voters. That's all I care about. She also influences media narrative, as they adore her. Anyone online wailing about it doesn't get that, they always assume an endorsement from an outside party means the candidate will be magically beholden to that party in office. That's not how it works. From the very reliable Jon Ralston: Also:

They're really unsubtle. They were certain with Finn gone and Jarly tanking they'd have a clear path at Jason and it's never going to happen. Fortunately they're not the majority of viewers re: Lucky and Liz.

That's because a lot of them on Twitter are Liason stans. Liz with psycho Ric again does nothing for me because I could never believe she'd be with him again after the 2000s and the panic room, though I enjoy Ric for what he is (a crazy slimeball). I had no particular fondness for LNL2 in the '90s, I found them too saccharine, but the older version appeals to me. JJ and Becky still have it if not moreso now that they're older IMO. It's just that Jonathan's return interferes with the show a lot of the Twitter kids had planned in their heads, so they act very vocal to project bigger numbers than they have. (Similar case in point: The supposedly massive fanbases of Sonny and Nina, Michael and Willow, etc.)

We don't have to guess why many of those people are back, I suspect.

I could not care less about Sidwell/Carlo Rota, no matter how charming he was on 24 20+ years ago. The character is not that interesting. If they try to make him the new Cyrus hanging around forever or make him Eva LaRue's ex or something I am just going to go back under my covers lol. This show has one trick and one trick only.