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While I hasten to add I have not secured any new KL source, I will say I am 6 eps from the end of Season 5. Ep 24 ("A Man of Good Will") is Latham and Lechowick's first episode as staff writers and it is solid work with a lot of character vignettes; you can tell there is a slightly different voice, although it's in keeping with the loving and detailed character work KL has always done. I will discuss the last handful of eps sometime soon when I have the time and energy to run through it all, but I will say I was not expecting the end of this episode: Galveston leaving the Ewings everything. That was a jawdropper on par with Abby one-upping Galveston and telling Gary all about Val in Shula. Abby's face when Gary gave her the news about the inheritance was priceless.

I take your point but I am not watching the whole of this show, lol. I have enough on my plate with Knots, my occasional skip around through Dallas, other contemporary shows and IRL. I will check out the pilot and some bits and pieces of the first few seasons though.

Out of somewhat morbid curiosity, as FC seems perpetually troubled and the also-ran: If someone was, let's say, terminally bored and looking to play Lorimar completionist, what FC material could he skim briefly to get a sense of the show? The pilot? A couple eps in Seasons X or Y? I am def not looking to pick the show up full time, I'm just mildly intrigued and I know I shouldn't limit my perusal to the very strange final season with the super-atmospheric opening and the OTT action-packed makeover.

Ron must be bitter about that second one. I wonder if like all the rest they're back in 4-6 months. O'Brien will have Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding sequel to keep her company.

Lord! That is Ken Foree, horror legend from the original Dawn of the Dead, etc. with Bill above.

I've always been curious to see more eps focusing on Lorie's book scandals. There's a handful of those years available but I never know quite where to look.

I try not to do summaries, but I do try to write about the show intelligently and not too ponderously. I have a couple more in queue to knock out, I've just been so busy with IRL life, work and other films and shows. Then I'll await the return of the show wherever I can watch it next.

It had to happen eventually. I'm grateful for all they do when and however they can. I hope those in the know will keep some of us apprised (not in the public threads) when it quietly pops up again.

Like I keep saying: 'Good' characters are rarely allowed to just cheat or have affairs (let alone just fùck because they want to) anymore. They have to scramble and pretend Joss did not cheat on her boyfriend on the way out the door. For what? Is it really that serious? Sure, Joss is a polarizing and overpropped character, but she's not some whore; she is a young, confused woman who slept with a man not her boyfriend hours before breaking up with him. It was a bad thing to do but it's not the end of the world. Why pretend it didn't happen? Why is the show so overly concerned about it? Joss doesn't need to be a saint. Saints on soaps are boring.

John's family aside, this is a shitty thing to say about an actor who literally just had a malignant tumor removed. You wouldn't tell them to cart Dee Hall off to Shady Pines if she has a cancer scare.

I warned people!

a.k.a. Trevor St. John trolling his way through half of his run at OLTL, and at times seeming to do the same to me at Y&R.

They better mention the Drakes - Epiphany was close to Patrick and Robin and they were all integral and together on that part of the canvas for years. It would be nice to see horny hospital nympho Kelly Lee reappear for the memorial too, I remember her being part of the hospital firmament in those years. But I can't see that happening.

I'm not sure what we're referring to because I've never paid that much attention to Fetterman, but I'm all ears.

I was not making a disparaging remark about Trevor Donovan's politics, which I know nothing of. I was simply making a disparaging remark about his gorgeous Aryan looks, lol. To the best of my knowledge Donovan is no Nazi, he simply looks exactly like one, which was off-putting for a rare Jewish Horton character.

It's hardly an either/or. One doesn't have to love Fetterman to detest Sinema. I certainly don't.

This establishment looks small.

@Darn and I were just talking about this but I personally really like the porn opening. The horns, the pounding beat, etc. were very majestic and fitting with Y&R's stature at that point IMO. I also liked the FX. I didn't get B&B from it but it was definitely sultry.

i'll be the one: Jack and Sidney LaForge have serious chemistry. I'm onboard with that. The Jack/Seven scenes were also wonderful. How tight and choked Jeri Ryan's delivery got when they got to Voyager moved me. Another really excellent episode.

The best she was dressed since the '80s IMO was when she came back in '08. Of course, Genie was also at her slimmest then and the wardrobe department wasn't asleep. You're right that they've never bothered to really modulate her wardrobe. There was a brief time in 2013-2016 or so when it wasn't so bad, or at least not as consistently bad. Now they have the excuse of her job to keep her in formal suit jackets.

She was wearing the same giant jackets they still often put poor Laura (or hell, Viki on OLTL) in. I do think her wardrobe has youthified? youthened? more in the last six months though. I think AS was a major score too. I blame the creative handling of her on the same old things at GH: Risk aversion, coasting on safe material and fearful of being too edgy with what they believe is a predominantly senior and conservative audience. It affects all people under 50 on the show, Setton is no different.

I don't think they ever really cared about trying LW with MB tbh. Maurice was in the throes of the disastrous Sonny/Emily pairing he had pushed for when Laura Wright was hired. Laura's Carly was almost immediately shunted to Jax - I mean, she came on in November sweeps, they were getting tight around February or March of the following year, got instant audience response and were a couple very soon after, by summer '06 at the latest IIRC. I think they made the calculation to change Carly's focus very early with the recast. They were not going to allow a Carly that could materially compete for individualized story with Sonny or Jason again after the BTS headache with Tamara. And Guza's focus being on Sonny/Kate, then Dante (with Olivia) later only reinforced that disinterest. The beats with Carly's relationships with Sonny and Jason, with Carly and Sonny occasionally going back to the well and sleeping together in moments of weakness were still there but that was it. And yeah, it all worked for me.

It's improved a lot since last year IMO where any time I tuned in she was wearing big coats and practically housedresses.