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They can try. DeSantis won't win and probably can't get the nomination.

I think Corday was scared of doing anything very different than the usual Reilly-esque playbook they'd been working out of almost nonstop since he first left, and that is initially what they were trying to do. When his power and that house style was threatened by first Sheffer and then Ed Scott we know what happened. Similar mess with McPherson and Thomas a few years later. Not that any of those runs were exactly works of genius, but you could feel, see and hear it any time you'd watch something potentially smart get the DAYS treatment by the time it made it to air - production-wise, editing-wise, music-wise, story-wise. It isn't until the Kristen return IMO that the show began to change its typical rhythm a little bit, and even now it's still insane.

Missy returning... to her hometown!

I just think there's room for both Sheffer's many flaws and the long, long, long-running institutional issues at DAYS, particularly in that era where Corday would micromanage and whenever in doubt, always rehire Dena or Gary Tomlin.

I absolutely adored early Nick. It was inspired material, and they took pains to show he was not a pushover or a schmuck just because he was a geek. Then they destroyed him in record time. I never got behind Dark Nick because I hated how the show had fùcked over a character who was not a stereotypical DAYS hunk. He and Rachel Melvin were great together.

So as we noted, a classic 2000s-era SOD issue. They did that for years.

Yeah, Hogan Sheffer was big into pairing Max and Mimi and Chelsea with Nick, his creation. He talked these story plans up with real game in the soap press, and openly mocked DAYS' tendency to pair up cousins and relatives like Max and Chelsea. I was all for it as well as his planned Mimi/Max/Abby triangle. Cut to a couple months later: Farah Fath quits. Nick sleeps with Chelsea's mom and begins a series of spiraling stories designed to humiliate him and marginalize the character that end in insanity. Max and Chelsea are eventually re-paired and written off together. All with Sheffer still at the show. I don't think those were his ideas, I blame Corday. Not that Sheffer is an untouchable genius by any stretch of the imagination, and he did a lot of bad shít at that show too, but I liked many of his early ideas at DAYS (not the E.J./Sami car rape!) and I think he got run over trying to do anything intelligent with the show post-JER. He was not the first nor the last.

If it wasn't Frank it would happen, IMO. I'll be amazed and pleased if she turns up, but I don't expect it. I think Frank is convinced he can hang the show on Joss, the ever-compelling Valentin, Maura and Howarth, Liz plugged in to stories or characters he wants to support, Spencer (Trina optional), Esme, Carly and Drew, Sonny and Cynthia Watros.

I think she just knows her value to the show and is not afraid to throw her weight around, as she has before at GH. I think that irks FV and did especially in 2013, as he has always sought to control the show's biggest stars (like playing hardball with Burton in 2012) or supplant them with his favorites where possible. He and ABC went round and round with Genie and to a lesser extent Finola on certain things in years since. Vanessa has always been volatile, and he can't control her or what she says. I would be in more support of an EP making it clear no one person is bigger than the show if it wasn't clear VM is a boon to the show, is willing to play ball and if FV had not made it his business over the last decade to push his preferred non-GH favorites while trying to shaft other longtime hugely important female leads in lieu of them. In this case, and almost none other, FV seems to have an ego about a big star. He made peace with Burton when the time came, pre-COVID because he knew what he thought was the bottom line of getting him back. (Even though I didn't want him back) He bowed to Tony Geary. He did these things because he felt keeping the key stars happy and in place was the right thing for GH and had net value. But Vanessa Marcil makes it clear she's not going to get screwed and he (seemingly) refuses to have her back. That's not the right thing for GH.

Definitely, lol.

LMAOOOOO

I'm not convinced Vanessa isn't just doing Vanessa and going rogue. I know she'd return if asked. I'll believe Frank lets her back on-set when I see it. The rest is welcome.

We all enjoy when Eric does his thing for a righteous cause. This was not it. Eva has always been humble about the soaps and her origins (soaps, flipping burgers at Wendy's, etc).

Tatyana Ali, who Y&R couldn't find a real story for.

I still cannot believe this show, which was hard up for nickels a few years ago, is now able to spend money on an actual live fùcking horse. The production value is not perfect but has majorly come up in the world in the last couple cycles, esp compared to Y&R and DAYS. Back in the Carlivati days Frank would've just shown us the silhouette of an abandoned plastic carnival horse and had some vague whinnying noises offscreen. You know that when COVID Steve comes back Comet is headed to the Elmer's factory though. I'm just waiting for this horse to end up in the terrible Powerpoint opening just like every local core child who utters two syllables. Valentin whining about Lucy makes me want to murder the Mr. B Natural of the Cassadine clan that much more. Also, Marshall is the only man I've ever seen who seems disappointed that he is not schizophrenic and has been laboring under a martyred delusion for decades. He also regularly possesses the same singular facial expression as Morn from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Every time he enters a scene I finish his dialogue for him: "Just wanted to let y'all know I have a new hat... me and the hat wanted to stop by and check on you."

Who among us? I remember multiple people insisting for over a decade that Devon and Abby was the wave of the future for this show that only ignorant cowards could not see, presumably by way of their family lineage and little else. How they calculated this with Melissa Ordway in the role (and Bryton is, as you say, complicated) is beyond me. If Abby had had a fully-formed personality, say a decade ago, you might've been able to create something. She hasn't and never will have one beyond third-tier ditz. Her only value is her parents' bloodline and that is not enough to keep her around.

Utterly unsurprised that Puck News is mixed up in this. I didn't even know there was a Kaitlan Collins/Don Lemon feud or that they had a show - thanks Chris Licht. Meanwhile:

I assume most of the available coin also went/will go to SNW and would also go to a new show. PIC's last cycle just got the short end. I thought everyone last week was great including the guest I will reluctantly elide mentioning for a day or two more, but I will say I think Gates especially plus Jeri Ryan, Frakes, Dorn, etc. are all doing excellent work too. I don't think anyone is being left in the dust atm.

I wasn't aware of it, but apparently this season of Picard is half or less the budget of DSC and the first season. They have been cannibalizing a lot of the prior seasons' sets much more than I would ever have realized. It reminds me of how Paramount nickel and dimed Nicholas Meyer's Trek films (Khan and The Undiscovered Country), the best of the lot. They're making a lower budget work. But I am glad to know Paramount is still committed to Trek with SNW and very possibly a Titan spinoff.

Wow. That is a deep cut. I always liked her.

As much as Hudson Hawk and his music career got lampooned, I think he had talent as a song and dance man. With more musical vehicles like the revival ones we have now he could've done better work in romantic comedy than he often got in film.

It's poignant to see these given Bruce's current condition. Thanks.