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Erica was beloved by virtually the entire audience, good stories or bad. She never dismantled the show. Sonny, not so much. You don't have to like her, but that's the way it was. The reaction to Babe. the Careys, Ryan, etc. in those years was far more negative and tethered to what Brian Frons and Megan McTavish did to the show.

They're entitled to their opinion. Call a cop or leave people alone.

I just wish she had a better character to do this work with.

I still remember the AW finale which IIRC ended (minus the last scene) with a long, lazy sort of hangout scene in the summer evening with the characters all relaxing either at the various homes or I think at the wedding? with their families, children, loved ones, etc. I always remembered that and loved the mood and vibe and I felt it was the essence of good long-running soap - instilling a sense of a familiar place, feel and moment in time, something Nancy Curlee famously also described about GL. The ending of AW I'm sure had many issues but I thought a lot of its final few hours were a quality finale, and for my money superior to GL or ATWT.

The ATWT finale was [!@#$%^&*] just like its last more than several years, and I still remember the guy who all but wrote a doctoral thesis in the DC comments sections explaining to us plebs why these finales were actually excellent.

He doesn't actually like Freddie Smith, folks. He just knows you don't. Keep it moving.

I felt Trevor St. John's Todd was in need of waterboarding, what can I say. He would go to Afghanistan in search of whoever had been quietly siphoning the family funds for over 30 years and he would discover the truth as painfully as possible. Also, Selby's career was at an ebb at the time (it's been hotter in the last decade or so).

I remember thinking they should've brought Tony back in the 2000s - I believe he vanished in the Middle East on assignment? Presumed dead? I thought it would be interesting if he emerged played by someone like David Selby (who was almost a dead ringer for Reinholt) and had gone native out in the Middle East a la Apocalypse Now, and was back to terrorize people like Todd. The only clue the audience would have about who this mystery unseen figure out in the wilderness was at first would be a crumpled, torn picture of little Brian.

It would cut down on more of the same bandwidth-eating stupid [!@#$%^&*] we all had to endure the first 30 times when everybody thought they were playing Dunk Queen.

Just block and ignore the latest attempt at the same troll.

I see we've switched it up. Next account pls

They pulled the eyes off!

Like Will before him, little Johnny has bigger tits than half the female leads. I still think it would be weak to have Marlena get it again. Let ol' Scratch bounce around town.

Agreed.

Hoo! Okay, I'll watch next week. Marlena's reaction was pretty weak from Dee, lol. Doc looked like someone just keyed her car.

I think "we" can make up our own minds as individuals of whether we want to keep propping up bad shows with our continued support and daily viewership vs. being contented with the better years and advocating for better soaps and reinvention of the genre. You can do whatever you want.

I don't understand how this show kept going after her last meltdown.

Today's Politico/Jennifer Rubin high school beef (which I will not link) of their own making may be a new low for Politico. I know exactly who Rubin is and where she's been and I have no illusions about her, but this is an outlet doing a diss track/burn book and trying to make it into 'news' because they and other Beltway reporters are pissed and feeling the heat from a changed consumer climate in the social media age. Rubin's op-eds are simply the tip of the spear. It's Gossip Girl level [!@#$%^&*].

Sarah looks a lot better lately than she did some time ago when she was way too thin, IMO. The work also isn't too harsh.

And NS2 is still very hard to find and rewatch.

I thought Claire Coffee was decent. I do think it was weird as hell the whole thing with the sister on NS, who I only recently remembered was Amanda Baker, the doomed NuBabe of AMC. It's been so long that I had conflated it and thought they were the same actress for a long time.

Jensen Ackles is not coming back to a daytime soap lmao