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I've read the Hayeses talking about Doug and then Julie's solo returns and to this day I don't understand what that was about. I am not well-versed enough in Days BTS lore to have any insight. It just doesn't make any sense to me why they'd bring them back separately. I think RKK was an exceptional recast at the time. I remember him being very popular, but maybe that's me imagining things as a kid who was horny for him at the time lol. I was shocked when he disappeared and this hick I'd never seen before (Peter Reckell!) showed up! But of course we know now there were extenuating circumstances BTS, namely RKK being a serial creep. I don't recall the details of what happened with Crystal Chappell or which came first, her being pushed out by the show?/JER? or her always being a drama magnet and choosing to flounce? I remember seeing Tracy Middendorf's debut episode on WOST years ago and really liking it despite having grown up with the immortal Christie Clark. But I have a fondness for Tracy from Wes Craven's New Nightmare.

They were, yes. I also believe (and have for a long time) that Manhattan Lives was ultimately little more than a negotiation tactic to keep Deidre engaged during that soft period she had pre-Reilly. There may have been a serious consideration for it replacing AW early on, but I don't believe it got very far in that process. I suspect they kept it alive longer as vaporware to placate her.

@DRW50 Kit has certainly gone through it. I'm glad he's sober and well and I hope Eternals and the Black Knight role is a solid lock for him, as I suspect it will be.

Only Days would manage to get aced out of a year-long contract with a key star. Ridiculous. If nothing else maybe this will spur them to firm up a commitment to Cady McClain and others.

I feel like they should take the hint on the Night Court revival at this point, though IIRC she was a big booster of it. Sad, I remember when she was literally everywhere.

I've said this for years - he learned this from Frank Valentini and has done it ever since. They would block-tape people, stagger story for weeks and months at a time in the background, then rush exits and leave stories unfinished for key actors they gamble on having come back eventually. Sometimes it worked, but more often than not it ends up like this.

They should extend pandemic UI, but they won't.

Imagine Brenda (and Sonny in a lesser role) and Sarah Brown's Carly/Sean Kanan's A.J. squaring off in business on a streaming GH. You can't, it's too powerful! But it's what should happen.

lol. They are plotting and structuring this show around temps just like Ron and Frank at GH.

The tale for our times.

Stancil has been an idiot for years.

It's a Rebecca Budig vehicle, nothing else. As I've said before there isn't much to Hayden period, yet people pretend bc they like Budig.

There is no way Brenda's son ends up 100% straight. But I said the same of Spencer.

Vanessa can deny what she wants, lol. The kid exists onscreen and was in story so Alec would be used on the show. They can fiddle with his paternity if they want.

For God's sake, John, no. Every actor over 45 is not "maybe Jeff Webber"

Xolo Maridueña, who appeared in the legendary Part 8 of Season 3 (he was the young boy taking the girl out on a date in 1956) and is now starring on Cobra Kai, will be the new Blue Beetle for DC.

Yes! Yes!! It's at around 19:00. Don't be fooled by the commercial break, keep watching: It just keeps going!

Yes, but she was going after bigger game career-wise. I'm sure they felt she was expendable on DAYS and killed her off for their own reasons, but I think that was also dovetailing with the fact that she was ripe at that age for going after bigger work outside of soaps and was going for it.

I thought they dumped Cassie in part bc Alexis Thorpe went after a bigger primetime career when Reilly arrived. (She did the ill-fated WB Dark Shadows pilot at the time, among other things.) Reilly just didn't have any interest in many of the characters he offed and had intended to kill permanently.

Don't forget - John would flash back to his shady past life and become what the show and soap mags called The Mercenary! That was in the era when someone littering or not cleaning up after their pet could turn John into The Mercenary. Barking orders like an angry dom top at everyone in sight!

I will never forget Brady's Gay Zorro phase, or the gigantic group brawl/food fight at Maggie's restaurant that was the nadir of late 90s/early 2000s DAYS pre-Reilly's return. Sadly I think the video is off YouTube now.

I thought it was a mistake to age them all so fast and I still do.