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On a personal level, I have to say JFP because she alienated me from three soaps: GL, AW, and OLTL. JFP's love of violence towards women was disturbing on so many levels. Frankie's death in particular was like a gut punch and I still remember what I was doing the day it happened. UGH.

I enjoyed some of Conboy's tenure and I liked the idea of his GL opening. I think the last time I watched GL on a regular basis was during the whole Tony/Danny/Michelle mainly because I lusted after both men and I adore triangles where either option is fine. Ellen Wheeler's tenure was just a turn off for me. I couldn't stand Tom Pelphrey and I also didn't care for Tognoni. I stopped watching GL and never went back so I only saw Tina Sloan's monologue and Beth Chamberlain's emmy reel (and she should have won).

You would think BRAVO would remember that the best season and reunion was the season Nene was not there. I just don't enjoy her at all. Cynthia gets blasted for being boring, but I would much rather have her than Nene or the woman who accused Kandi of trying to rape her. I know most people like Porsha now, but I think what she did is so disgusting that she should never have been invited back. Same way I feel about Vicki from RHOC and why I stopped watching RHOC after the cancer fraud. Do we really need another season of angry Nene? UGH. If Tanya does get a peach, she should send Nene a peach pie with a nice note attached.

RHOBH: At some point during the whole reunion, it might be nice if someone brings up that three of the women are involved or their husbands are involved in major lawsuits/criminal cases. It would explain using LVP as a smokescreen. I see Rinna trying to backpedal now that she knows viewers loathe these women. Like Kenyagate, I don't understand how the Radar Online story is the big to do rather than the dog ending up at a kill shelter. These women really love to gaslight the audience. 

RHONY: Just feels like the same schtick. When you compare it to Tinsley's heartfelt discussion about her dad, it's icky. Not to mention Dennis's overdose. I don't like any of the women on the show except Tinsley. I'm still harboring a grudge over the way Bethenny and Dorinda treated Heather.

I enjoyed the character of Amy. I think she would have been a lot more interesting if she had been written into another storyline and out of Randy Spelling's scenes. Her machinations tickled me.

I'm feeling quite nostalgic for the show. There's something utterly depressing about a show with so much potential that never got the change to right the wrongs.

1 hour ago, NothinButAttitude said:

Nene is unbearable. Get rid of her. That is all.

This is the problem with the housewives (Bethenny, Nene, Kyle, Erika, Teresa, Vicki, etc.) who think they are above it all because they're the "star." 

I was watching Sunset Beach then but I have no recollection of Leo at all. I recognise the actor's name but not the face. 

AW post-Heche and post-Cali Timmins just did not work for me for a bit because the new Vicky was terrible and she was a disaster as Marley. The build-up to the "who shot Jake?" storyline was great, but the story never went anywhere. They should have just killed off Jake. I know rapists as romantic heroes was big in the 90's (and before that) but I hated it. Evans was like the proverbial bull in a china shop where Timmins had more subtlety and I felt for her. I like the idea of Judi Evans as Nancy.  Donna Swajeski had some great storylines, but her execution and follow through was often a mess (Red Swan). I wonder if the problem was from the network and P&G heads or if she just needed a co-headwriter to keep her on target.

I caught up with SB when you could watch episodes on YT and I was always perplexed why Ted was always treated as an afterthought. McKee was sexy and talented. Why not give him more to do? As good as the show was, they never seemed to tell a compelling story that did not involve the Capwells in some way. I had also forgotten all of the sexual violence. Who was responsible for all that? Am I wrong or was nearly every female character raped at some point?

Sunset Beach was the prime example of a show making idiotic decisions out of fear. Every time they made a decision in the hopes of getting ratings up they made the wrong decision (which I suppose is like any other soap now that I think of it). SBeach could have been such a great soap and I think it was hitting its stride around the Gabi/Antonio/Richardo/ stuff. Virginia and Francesca were great villains and Eddie Cibrian was a major improvement over Hamilton. I even liked Amy. Was it the network or the producers making these idiotic decisions? I can understanding Jennings' firing since the soap press lambasted the show for the storyline, but getting rid of someone as charismatic as Stabile and Guerrero seems lunacy. 

I miss Sunset Beach. I know that it was not the critical favorite and it had a horrible impregnation story, but I think the Antonio/Ricardo/Gabi storyline was great. I don't know why Nick Kiriazis never did much after that. It's a shame. I did think killing off Francesca was a mistake. 

These RHOBH really depended on LVP looking bad this season, but the reverse happened. They look like monsters. I think it was brilliant of LVP not to film with them because not they will have to turn on each other and/or show just how boring and awful they are. 

I remember as a child my aunt would always complain about "that soap with the crazy woman who spent days making that damn fruitcake." I don't know who she was talking about, but it's something she never forgot.

5 hours ago, teplin said:

 

His work on AW was terrible. I was excited when it was announced the show had hired him because I'd heard such great things about his OLTL work (and I had been impressed with the little I'd seen).

 

Some of his AW story ideas had promise, but man, did they suck on screen. To be fair, I think it was a time of incredible behind-the-scenes turmoil on the show and he was stymied at every turn by suits.

That's what I wonder with his second tenure on OLTL and his work on AW. How much of it was his doing and how much of it was the suits causing the problems? It just seemed like such a different Malone. There was a vicious and sexist vibe to these stints that seemed in opposition to his first stint on oLTL. 

I came across this brief mention of Patsy Pease's sudden departure from DOOL. Thought some people might find it interesting.

I have never seen Dark Shadows although I own the complete series (the one in the coffin). I've been told by some friends to start when Barnaby arrives, but I'd prefer to start from the beginning. Do DS fans have any opinions? Is the pre-Barnaby stuff really that expendable?

I've been watching some GL episodes from the eighties, and I was interested in how Elizabeth Dennehy's Blake was portrayed. Was she supposed to look and act like Glenn Close's character in Fatal Attraction?

I adored Roswell up until the introduction of Tess.  I think the Tess character was badly written and introduced, and I think the quality of the show suffered. IT was something out of a soap opera writer's reject pile. I've never been so quickly repelled by a show. I usually start drifting away from a show, but the Tess character just ruined my enjoyment and I never felt the same way about the show. I hated the second season because it felt like it was a completely different show--and one I didn't want to watch. IT also made no sense (and I found it funny when cast members admitted they had no idea what was going on). I barely remember the third season and I think I just dipped in here and there just to see what was going on.

The new Roswell has a lot of potential, but it's also plagued by the same problems: too much overplotting and an obsessive need to keep Max and Liz apart. I would find it more interesting to see Max and Liz together but dealing with the problems from that connection. The sci-fi/military angle does not work and it's as boring as all the sci-fi stuff from the original.

Michael Logan writes about Noelle Beck's 1993 Loving departure: 

Here is Michael Logan writing about the fallout from Ellen Parker's firing.

I didn't know where to put this one, but it's Logan's best of 1992 list. I figured I would put it here since McKinsey, Hayden, Simon, Breen (although for another soap) and Parker are mentioned. 

20 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

I noticed Tracey Bregman has yet to comment on his death...

She posted on her instagram hours ago.