Darn

Rebecca and Cameron said the same thing. Which made me happy because I was a huge fan of Ryan and Gillian and Leo and Greenlee. But Ryan and Greenlee NEVER worked because they became entirely different people when together.

The immediate aftermath of John's death was great drama. Jack kicking Gloria out! Putting her clothes in garbage bags! I don't mind that 2006 episode either.

Episode 3 is not my bag. Always thought Jacob was miscast and I hated Babe and her mother. Billy Miller was hot and that's about it. MCE somehow managed to make a career out of a badly written role, now she's been stinking up Y&R for nearly a decade in an even worse role.

I was a little disappointed that Darnell wasn't about the Jessie/Angie phenomenon so we could at least get a Debi mention.

Damn Susan Seaforth Hayes nearly doubling her guarantee. Making that overtime lol

I doubt we'll ever go back to the 70s or even early 80s now. They've already done Victor and Nikki, there's no one left to connect to that era and they're not going to do a Paul Williams week. Unless they get desperate.

You're right, I just checked. Dixie died in January 2007, McTavish was the headwriter until April of that year.

That was lovely! These two episodes have been just fantastic. The only real tea was Cady saying the writer who killed her off with poisoned pancakes was punishing her (which everyone guessed), who was that? I can't recall. Pratt?

Was Jack's role diminished as Cricket's rose? Or was he just upset at the nepotism?

That article is sad to read, he succumbed to only short-term storytelling and has milked the Ridge/Brooke relationship bone dry, to the point where in 2020 they're broken up AGAIN because Brooke can't stop jumping on the closest man. And I want the real story behind why they so abruptly ended Brooke and Thorne's relationship.

It's so weird though, isn't it? Sonny, Carly, et. al have ruined GH but you'll still find people who are ride or die for them yet Christine fans are still in the closet. I was pretty indifferent to Chris when I started watching, she didn't bother me or impress me and Lauralee seems like a lovely woman who didn't let being the boss' daughter go to her head. Maybe a lot of the audience were like me and fairly indifferent to the character and watching for the goings on, not necessarily what was going on with Cricket in a "What is Christine up to?" and more "What could possibly happen to Christine now?"

I've always found it interesting that a character whose rise in prominence aligned with the show's rise in the ratings didn't have any fans. Clearly SOME viewers like her but you get online and you'd swear everyone hated her. Soap forums are really an echo chamber sometimes.

I thought he was still on contract, I don't know actually lol.

Christian LeBlanc is off contract?

Great reunion! All four of them have a genuine affection for each other and the show and it really showed. The interviewer was great as well, he did his research and let them just speak.

O...no.

When I started watching the show the boards were full of people complaining about the red opening. That was one change that absolutely pulled the show into the new millennium, the white opening just didn't cut it. It looked cheap and didn't suit a show with such high production values.

All of this name talk reminds me that when I first started watching the show in '99 everyone referred to Victoria as "Vicki" and Nick was just that, "Nick". It wasn't until the Victoria recast that everyone started referring to her as Victoria and almost everyone started calling Nick "Nicholas". Now Nick alternates pretty regularly between the two but Victoria will seemingly never be Vicki again.

Why was Peter Simon so opposed to a pairing with Nola? Did he dislike the actress?

How did that end up? Is Sheila still alive? I remember watching the first few weeks of her return but they were trying so hard to make it work (and it could never work, not with Eric, he'd be an utter moron for take her back into his life) that I got frustrated and bored.

I didn't even like half the characters these actors played but this makes me so happy. It says something about AMC's hold on the zeitgeist that it's the first of these to get mainstream backing.

She never said Gillian Spencer was fired, she said the woman playing Viki before her (Joanne Dorian, though she did not say her name just that they shared an agent) was fired. The story she recounted was that she was in her agent's office, he received a phone call letting him know Erika got the role and simultaneously telling him to inform his client that she was being let go, he refused and told the show they had to do it themselves. I'd love to see her on daytime again but she'd be utterly wasted in that role, don't you think? I'd prefer her legacy be this one huge role rather than a glorified cameo on Ron's (puke) Days of Our Lives. I don't know what it is but Viki had this quality where I was never bored of her (not that some of her stories weren't duds but all that did was make me wish she had a better story). When Nikki or Victor are going through the same crap over and over I get downright sick of them but Viki went through tragedy after tragedy, disassociation after disassociation but I loved her throughout. I was always rooting for her, even when she defended his monster of a brother or was outright wrong I still liked her.

The Winters' forgot his birthday so he sneaked into the zoo after hours because that's where his grandmother who raised him would take him every year.

Another name for Grey's Anatomy was Complications. Which I think is frankly better but GA has worked out pretty well for them so what do I know?

Oy is Nikki's heaven/dream/whatever corny. I cringed throughout the whole thing. And Victor standing there in his leather jacket like the devil. It's well-produced but feels so false. Joshua Morrow is laughably bad 4 years into the role. Yeesh. I liked that they dealt with the legality of Victor marrying someone immediately after a divorce, for some reason I never even considered that when hearing about this story.