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I forgot Murphy found Diane's extremely dead body and it washed up on the bank! LOL. Could Diane have mocked up a corpse and paid off the coroner, etc? I know she was autopsied, but so were so many people on soaps. (The Jack Deveraux organ donation on DAYS is still the apex for me) I should add the big reveal that Nikki did it - on a Super 8 film reel - is straight out of stuff like Brian De Palma and "Blow Out" IMO, and while very stylish is another great example of MAB lifting film stuff while telling bad stories. If you're gonna lift from the best, which soaps do all the time, do good work!

I cannot look directly at the looks of admiration and amazement the longtime cast are giving him (other than Finola lol). The cut to Faison cracks me up though.

I'd do that tbh. Sue me.

I still don't understand anything about the Laurelton saga with Terri Brock. I am amazed we apparently never heard of her again. He absolutely is and the more you watch the worse it gets. Please find this scene.

I'm surprised no one is lobbying for Chandler to get an Emmy and/or SAG award for adjusting himself on-camera in those sweatpants. Amazed that made it through.

They better not leave the Ashland story at that, lol.

ETA: Sorry, it's above.

I try not to think about the Luke/Felicia number from 2001, no matter how much a certain friend trolls me with the video. The image burned into my brain, though, is Felicia dancing around her living room bowlegged caterwauling "Swannee River" rehearsing for it beforehand. I love Kristina Wagner again today even though she's no thespian, but in those days with Luke Felicia was utterly unbearable and adding singing was the stake in the heart.

I do! I'll never forget this. It won't embed, so the glory has to be viewed up close! Finola Hughes' expression throughout is incredible.

Well, the JFP/Guza-era intro theme from 2004 was also just a rock and roll version of FOTH, so yes, it has the same Autumn Breeze intro FOTH incorporated.

From Susan Walters' (Lorna) new interview re: her return to Y&R:

I would assume her plan back then will come into play in some way. No one appears to have been keeping Diane locked away, at least not for awhile.

It's just speculative clickbait.

I always thought so, it's a lovely touch. I'm pretty sure that same mix of both is part of that emotional piano cue the show still plays from time to time.

I don't think he will derail the nomination, but nothing would shock me anymore. I do expect him to try to get attention over it.

I thought it was all old-fashioned by the end, but I always liked how it seems like FOTH incorporates the opening of Autumn Breeze into the beginning of the track. Or am I crazy? You can still hear both of them in the occasional GH music cue used today, mostly in only piano stuff. That beginning is timeless.

I don't think there's any excuse for the nonsense with Johnny. But I also think it's systemic. There's at least a half dozen attempts over the last 20+ years at at DAYS to tell smarter stories, but the details get bogged down in the most remedial level silliness or weird plot points in the day to day (like Johnny turning out to be... hiding behind a table??). That to me goes back to the power structure at DAYS and the hierarchy in place that executes. I could be wrong, but I feel like we've seen it again and again under multiple HWs. Good concepts get turned into Fox Kids-level stuff. That doesn't excuse stories like Ian McAllister or the Alamania caper, or other things either (the meandering use of Billie, the weird Alice/Stefano nonsense). It was far from an unrealized triumph, lol. But I just think certain things got murdered in the crib by the way DAYS has worked and dumbed everything down on the daily for ages.

Not in ages; I don't remember her.

Higley never wrote for Mitch (thank God).

Julie Montgomery (Samantha Vernon #1) looks great on Y&R's day-ahead episode. As someone who's only seen her very early in her run in the '70s and then near the end with Asa, it's a bit surreal to see her decades apart.

It's Griffith's brand, or was at the time. It worked at OLTL in the '90s and then it didn't really since. I think some of the darkness or grit he introduced worked initially for DAYS because he was so different from their usual writers, as the idea of the serial killer mystery was viable (until they killed Will) and the show got a lot more atmospheric. But by the time they'd gotten to Ciara being raped, Bo's permadeath (for now), Jigsaw is John's dad from Vietnam and Hope executing Stefano - woof. And now of course he's totally burnt out. A noticeable problem with both him and John Aniston now. I never understood why they brought Stefano back in the late 2000s or early 2010s just to have him sit around the house haranguing E.J.

It's outrageous. tbh I am tuning their crap out and just waiting for the eleventh hour when Manchin swans in to some press gaggle complaining about Jackson based on stuff he saw on Fox News. It is clear based on recent hijinks and rationales that he is among their devoted racist senior demographic.

Another thrilling run for Chandler Massey.

People razz Maggie so much these days but I've always liked Suzanne, and I remember when Maggie couldn't buy 3 minutes of airtime every 6 months. They put her with Victor and it worked and she flourished again. Stories since of course are all over the map, but I'll always love Maggie.

No surprise. If nothing else, I look fwd to more of our shared collective fury over Che Diaz.