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It'll never happen (at least not as long as the show is on network), but I'd still accept Sarah back as Carly any day of the week. Laura Wright is a great actress who has done heroic work in the role in good times and bad and I've always admired her on multiple soaps, but it will never not be Sarah for me.

Apropos of nothing: I was talking with DRW50 about The Fan, the infamous slasher from the early '80s with Lauren Bacall and a very young Michael Biehn (Aliens, Terminator) earlier. I watched it this week, it's a huge camp classic. But it is not lost on me that this came out about five years before Doug Marland took over ATWT, and its plot focuses on an aging song and dance star who is stalked by a much younger man who writes loving letters, has a psychosexual obsession and is named "Douglas." Maybe coincidence, but I dunno.

Coloma allegedly tried to use a religious exemption to avoid vaxxing last year when Steve Burton walked/got fired over it. If he got COVID now and it's tied to his exit/firing, I can't help but find some correlation.

Did he ever legit vaccinate?

Cute PR job.

Wonder how candid this one will be!

Existing, as in recently active today? I have no idea. Ask me later when I don't have a bad cold, lol.

I think many of the worst of the UK soap creatives still have more juice than much of the current crop. But I've said that before. Mal Young was a worthwhile idea that did not translate in execution; he was a disaster. But you can't say he didn't have drive. There's no drive at the show now. I'd be willing to experiment, the problem is no one at CBS/Sony is. Y&R only exists now to mark time, it is a zombie soap. GH is not far behind despite a lot of talented people and potential. Its good ideas are regularly anesthetized or strangled in the crib, whereas IMO Y&R doesn't even feint towards trying. It's just the umpteenth old troll account. Block and report.

This also reminds me: Shane Richie has recently confirmed he was offered the role of the Doctor in the Doctor Who revival in the mid-2000s.

They lean on the holiday climax too much these days. It both speeds up and drags story.

Isn't Janine's last day tomorrow? I can see giving Mick a big exit and I think it's kind of fitting someone as big as Janine could take him down, but I also don't see the use of her character's longevity being potentially squandered on his exit. It's a lot of opera, but it's still a more compelling setpiece for me than various other much more forced disasters/shocks in recent years, like Dennis' totally unnecessary death or Mel's truly bizarre demise (not that I was shedding a tear for her).

Happy holidays.

Gone already. Increasingly the young staff of these predominantly online outlets think they can get cute and everyone will appreciate their being edgy for the sake of 'jokes'. The whole 'nepo baby' flap was equally embarrassing while poorly attempting to feint to class critique, which is the basis for so many weak takes these days. Unlike EW, NY Mag/Vulture does some good work but has also tried to put dumb stuff over more than once. Too many writers are stuck believing they're forever 21. It's a systemic thing that permeates the media culture now.

It is very modern soap periodical to run BIs way behind the times. I remember when they warned a certain performer at a certain show re: the many domestic violence rumors floating around at the time in a BI, saying 'next time we name him.' Ooh so scary! They didn't do shít because they had no integrity. That was almost twenty years ago. If #1 is Coloma it would go to explaining some things, but I can't see the show putting up with it from a guy who'd only been there ten minutes.

@DRW50 @Faulkner Heads up:

I doubt it's Coloma who's been fired, but a SOD charging $6.99 and at its least relevant would absolutely run a BI about an actor 'terrorizing the set' as though it's current after he's already been let go.

The cast and crew of GH seem to exhaustingly worship Maurice. I can't see #1 being him unless something has changed, and there's no sign of that I know of.

My condolences.