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Just report and move on, y'all. It ain't like the bandwidth can get any tighter around here!

I never knew that - I assumed Rauch toasted her.

Weakest burner account yet tbh

This has been Days for years. And most other soaps on network television have gone the same way. Don't hold your breath expecting some new renaissance of quality, because until these soaps move to streaming if they ever do there's no chance IMO.

Well, Max did for awhile lol. People are forgetting Mckenna Grace, who may be a bigger star than all of them atm in major genre films and is about to star in Ghostbusters.

I think someday they'll be put up officially. Hopefully before the seas rise and many of us die.

I cannot tell you what I'd pay per month for streaming access to the P&G/CBS archives from the Marland era. Though I deeply appreciate the lovely and well-intentioned soap collectors and their heroic efforts archiving home video cassettes from a bygone age, it's sad that we have to rely on watching scattershot batches of episodes where the ravages of time and antiquated hardware make everyone in Oakdale look like they have just eaten a pound of poison oatmeal, contracted dysentery and will soon die in a storm of static.

Not Locher asking about Marie Wallace's first day on the set in 1968!

He had a number of other romances, but the investment wasn't there for long and I don't think anyone really compares to Judith Light. I had long ago (in the 2000s, anyway) wanted OLTL to do a special episode in tribute of Michael Storm - "24 Hours with Dr. Larry Wolek". You'd follow ol' Larry throughout his day at the hospital, checking out kids' sore throats and what not, since he knows and is trusted by virtually all the families in Llanview, and Viki and others would visit him and give us insight into how important he's always been to the town and these people even on the sidelines. And then you'd see him sleeping in the break room or at his quiet little house with just a picture of Meredith or Karen, or both, leading a somewhat lonely if not unfulfilled life. But the end of the episode, the following day would have a surprise visit, from Doris Belack as Anna (Belack was alive and still quite active at the time), foisting Larry's teenage grandson off on him (Larry and Dan would've been estranged since the Brenda McGillis years) to be part of the teen scene, and that would open a new chapter for the Woleks on the show. Maybe with a visit from Karen at the end of the ep, too, but who knows. Anyway: Dream of dreams.

I think Larry and Karen were one of those stories where they became 'the couple' and true love down the line - once all manner of sin and drama and fury had gone down and they had come out different people. Alan and Monica were the same way on GH. But ultimately Larry was clearly never enough for Karen, though I think they were deeply in love in later years. That it never got to be revisited is a shame, IMO.

I watched Sweetback a lot in college. RIP

They really have been going all out and going strong in impossible times. I have a season-plus to catch up on, lol. Jayden Rey has gotten so big! She's beautiful. The interactive element sounds very risky.

The last time I remember any real investment in Phillip or Chloe was in the Sheffer run, when he talked up making the character dark and wounded again with JKJ finally back, dealing with his war injury and mixing things up with Belle, a newly vixen-ish Chloe, Shawn, etc. That lasted about 8 minutes before everyone involved BTS was fired and it went sideways, and ever since then Phillip, Chloe, Shawn and Belle have all been welfare characters rotating in and out of employment by the show nonstop with storylines and romances that never go anywhere. I couldn't tell you a single thing any of them have done in the last 10+ years or more, except that poor Chloe was demeaned over and over and over and yet keeps being fired then rehired. Like sands through the hourglass, so is Nadia Bjorlin's dressing room. And JKJ lost all luster long ago. He looks like a wax dummy.

Since it keeps being quoted for me to see, I'm just bewildered someone has apparently been raging about me all this time on a forum I haven't even been to in years lol. I haven't been touched by tragedy like that since BJ's heart! Talk about pissing in the wind.

I also keep forgetting they foisted JPL on people.

I guess I should try to watch yesterday's and today's to get a sense of the current plotlines lol. And Ron does not write edgy men unless they're killers, quasi-rapists or other villains snarking on the rest of the normie characters. That's been his style for a long time, it's not new. The women are the focus along with the outsize villains/eccentrics or antiheroes. This is the same way it went at GH (and to a lesser extent, OLTL) when layered male leads lost all definition and became dupes. All other men are reduced to hapless, oft-naked hunks on par with Austin's worst years.

Welcome to the last 15+ years.

Same old trolls.

The part about that scene that gets me is Tad telling Erica he's known her his entire life (well, close to it) and would never hurt her. That's the generational power of the medium.

You can hear Wyndham's voice very clearly in this interview, which I remember @DRW50talking up over the years.

I had forgotten Sharlene turned up near the end? I don't remember that at all.

I just remember by the end of the show it seemed like Rachel and Carl wore matching silk pajamas all the time while sounding like the SNL skit about 'lovahs.' A far cry from the '70s and '80s episodes on YT.

In case you haven't noticed you annoy literally everyone here and have for years, lol. I'm just the one who will always remind you you can't do anything about people critiquing soap operas. At all. So good luck.

Good people can become possessed all the time, in literature and fiction. It could easily have been a medical condition or any number of things. I don't think it's particularly important to see how Doug got possessed, but I do think the show is moving fairly quickly and I agree that the pacing and block-taping actors' techniques Ron and his crew learned at ABC with Frank Valentini do the story no favors. This show rotates actors, stories, etc. in a slipshod fashion that began at OLTL and GH and continues today. Sometimes that cost-cutting method of story rotation worked at ABC, when the shows had a reasonably sized cast and a clear focus and sense of pace, but when they didn't you'd go weeks or months without seeing a plot or subplot and hear about events offscreen constantly. You can't just leave the Possession hanging for a week or two.

The only way this would work going fwd is if Jason and Carly didn't let it go and ultimately embarked on an affair, a la Roman/John/Marlena on DAYS. Chances that happens are IMO minimal, lol.