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He's referring just to his cave-in exit, I think.

That's the hope for me, yes. It seems like an obvious setup.

That rumor is floating around and who knows? But I know I don't believe the rumor about their story's alleged content, which claimed they were resurrecting Susan Moore. That sounds like pure fanfic to me.

I am admittedly a little behind. Didn't you say these Olivia/Lois scenes last week were suspect, Caroline? This all feels of a theme/piece with the New Year's stuff with Sonny and Lois - like a clear setup by O'Connor and Van Etten to pair Mo and Rena, with Olivia haranguing her about her loyalty to Sonny and Lois so aggro with Nina who she barely knows. Like you I don't remember Lois ever being this permissive with Sonny. Hard pass. BTW: What exactly is Nina doing in this Metro Court office space lol? She is sitting at a desk but I'm pretty sure she does not yet have a new job. I know Valentin made her an offer for a startup but I didn't think she'd accepted yet.

I wouldn't even call it overacting! It feels like deliberately underacting constantly, all she does is squint, smirk and mumble in a very mannered way until the emotion comes out and even then it's not great. They clearly all think all her stylized performances are very naturalistic. I can understand that argument but i'm already tired of watching it and I am 40-50+ episodes behind.

This was nonsense when Steve mandated it (and then gave it up at random a few years ago with Britt!) and it's nonsense now. Y'all can get to humping or dip.

ngl, I got no use for him beyond his body but Dex and Trina hooking up would be hot and would scandalize the Jossheads. The coded racial critique of her online would go way OTT at that point though lol. Chase has always been a hot body but he is played and performed like a manchild. He is completely uninspiring to me and he looks like a little simp partnered with Dante after JJ's Lucky was at his side. And yes, his family is useless. On a totally unrelated note, I will say I liked Tracy giving Carly the business last week over Crimson. With Carly wearing what appears to be the exact same pink leather jacket Tamara had on in maybe her first or second day in 2001 lol. I've heard talk of that but I don't know if it's actually confirmed. She sure didn't have a problem playing a stripper vixen, etc. on OLTL or GG.

I think they've drained so much of the fire Amanda Setton had on OLTL out of her but I think she can still do great things as BLQ. It's a question of writing and character.

I remember that, yes. I was more concerned about other things.

What! I didn't know about this at all but I don't think it would've worked. (I do think ALW is not a bad Belle recast idea tbqh)

I mean, the Jagger silliness really does not measure up to this lol.

We've been over this, but it was a mistake not to invest in lawyer Carrie as a tentpole of the show when they had a shot in 2012 or so. I don't buy Belle in the same role and would still recast, but oh well.

As I have said many a time: Nadia Bjorlin had a real shot at something big when she came back as the fourth part of a quad with Phillip, Shawn and Belle in the waning days of Sheffer's run. She was more of an overt, mature vixen character for the first time and had heat with Brandon Beemer. But since then they have put Chloe through every possible humiliation short of being knocked up by Martians. The character is a utility blow-up doll for the show. It's sad.

She can win easily on the first part IMO, it's the second that's tricky. Which again makes me suspect this will end in a payout and Ari eventually coming back, because no indignity seems ever enough for the cast (especially the female cast) of DAYS. Which I can understand, a paycheck is a paycheck. I can't judge them. But I would love to see this topple Corday or the show in some way, I'll admit.

The rumors about RM some time ago were something much more serious than what was later revealed - I don't remember if the rumor was Parkinson's or something. I don't feel right going back Into it so I won't dig into it further, I'm just glad she seems happy. And I don't think you're a big fan of Dex and Joss lol. But I just can't with that dude. It's another little boy-type actor that we're supposed to think is a mature hunk, like Chase. Or maybe that's just the fault of the very milquetoast writing and characterization for virtually all the hot young actors.

Donna, I'm going to say this once. I only looked at your OP after John quoted it. You explicitly ask him to quote your post so people who have you on Ignore can see it. Do it again and I report you and whoever does it for you. Have a great Thursday.

When we want to see Donna's posts we'll take her off Ignore, John.

I think AM is permanent. Whatever is true about Robin's medical issues I think she's done and seems happy. I'd be fine with having her back but I do think AM has done a good job even if she is OTT sometimes. Dex and Joss definitely have a lot of sexual chemistry but he is just such a weepy wuss I couldn't care less, in addition to being tired of Joss in general.

Far from the first or last! To bring it vaguely back on topic: Tony Geary did that or more to Richard Culliton here at GH in 1997, and may or may not have thrown shít around with EP Wendy Riche, I can't remember.

Both Jill and Linda Gottlieb featured Erika heavily including new love stories, but Gottlieb was a very big, brash personality making a huge amount of changes very fast (and not without difficulty or mistakes). Yet at the same time Erika has always gushed with praise for the material given to her by Gottlieb's HW, Michael Malone. It's complicated. Jill's tenure was ruinous for the show but more to Erika's tastes as she again got a vital new romance with a partner she adored. It happens. I don't fault Erika (or several other actors at the show, not counting James DePaiva who threw a chair at Gottlieb) for feeling how she feels even if I disagree.

Yes, that's some of what I was referring to. I think Erika is completely wrong, but she's entitled to her opinion. Gottlieb and Malone changed that show (and a lot about ABC Daytime's production style) forever.

As caroline and I noted in the DAYS thread, I doubt this is the end for Ari. If Corday can go scorched earth on Missy Reeves' private life in the '90s when suing her and still bring her back, this is potentially peanuts lol. I would not be shocked if they settle and she's back soon, but that's not what I want. Like you and others I want real justice for her and the show overall. I just don't think it's likely; I think she'll get a payout and then come back. And she shouldn't. And yes, SAG needs to be on this (assuming it is under their purview - not sure if it is given the recent strike exemptions). I'm tired of soap performers being third class citizens.

I don't think we can apply that to young and hungry scriptwriters though. We don't know a lot about their output these days. I think you see that kind of attitude much more commonly in folks like Chuck Pratt who made it in primetime then came back to try to upend the daytime soaps they work on and 'disrupt' the paradigm, or society dilettantes like Maria Bell who have only a tenuous connection to the show. Others are a mixed bag or a matter of opinion. Sheffer was very arrogant and his changes to ATWT were vast and perhaps ruinous depending on who you ask, but he and his team also delivered viewers and critical heat early on in his ATWT run, before his talent atrophied and he bombed out in the latter years and especially at DAYS, Y&R etc. I enjoyed a lot of his early ATWT work but with a better sense of history I also can't argue with many of the complaints about it - those criticisms are very true and real. And there's of course a lot of fans (and many actors) who resented the changes Linda Gottlieb and Michael Malone brought to OLTL and Gottlieb's attitude about their show. I don't agree with those but I understand them.

No, that's not being posted. It began with people saying 'I wonder if Annalynne McCord is a Nicole recast' which quickly morphs into 'there's a rumor that Annalynne McCord is a Nicole recast!' and then finally to 'look, she has the same blonde hair she's always had! Definitely a Nicole recast!'

They have done some of that at GH in recent years, maybe the last 5-10 or so - yes, they were producing Frank's pablum, but it was still new blood who might or might not have capability under a strong HW with some control. Toups mentioned Shannon Peace but there are others. I don't know that I count (let's say it) nepotism hires like Emily Culliton. Good or not, she is a product of a closed economic system the same way Labine's kids were. But both the GH situation and the migration of some of the PP scriptwriters to the network shows proves it can be done.