Marissa Gallant

I'm currently rewatching CC's coma. Eden is driving me insane! Yeah, idjit, literally to some random new guy that you met a week ago instead of the man you love. Makes sense. Honestly, at this point in the show, Cruz deserves better. Lucky she comes around. And she is SO SO whiney.

Because CC was the one who put the real bullets into the gun.

Man, I still hate Maggie Ellis. I think Warren and Liz would have been interesting, but nope, the show went with Maggie, the most boring character to ever hit the show

You know WAY more about California than I do. My complaints are usually confined to "There aren't mountains in the background in the Midwest." I've only known one person from the actual Santa Barbara and she was a Latina living up north, and she always wore black turtlenecks and sweaters.

It really was gross to watch. I mean who could fall for the guy who did all of that to you? Also, by 91, the whole CC/Sophia will they won't they was pretty old. I actually liked Gina G when it looked like they were going to pair her with Brick. They were really good together. I preferred Amy, but the actress left. Santana and Brick could have been fun and opened several plot possibilities.

https://www.soapoperanews.net/2023/06/nicolas-coster-dies-at-89.html?m=1 Thank you, Mr. Coster for sharing your talent with us. You will be missed. My heart is a little broken over this one

This makes me so very sad

It's allowed. I get that way at times too. I get that way when people say Sophia left. The original storyline was that she was taken. To me there's a BIG difference between the two.

I've been thinking about this. I'm not sure I agree about CC. Pamela wanted him back. Yes, Sophia dated Lionel first, but she chose CC. She broke it off with Lionel. Then she fell off the boat. When she came back, she wanted CC- NOT Lionel. Yes, 88 ruined Sophia and CC, but no one liked that year. Grant talked about how CC increased the Capwell fortune by millions. Meghan only wanted CC, but fortunately, she was dying.

Bateman was stiff, but I feel like he eventually loosened up. There was definitely some good, subtlety to his acting. I think the hurt when he first sees Sophia was well done. He had chemistry with Gina and Sophia. I'll always feel a bit sorry for the actor because of the way he was fired. I also think his acting during the final reveal of who shot precious Channing was very well done. He was controlled while Judith McConnell was not. It created contrast- inward processing vs outward. I think the stars were there in the beginning to help draw fans in. You also forgot Virginia Mayo and Ray Walston. I always thought it was fun.

I couldn't disagree more. I love CC, Ted and Danny. The show would have been awful without CC. Bateman won me over. Jed was better, but Charles was good. I didn't think Dane was a very good actor. I actually think he was terrible and have never seen the charisma other people see with him. Peter could have gone. I don't really buy that CC would have been happy with Kelly marrying her high school teacher!

I'm FINALLY through the Paul Burke episodes. Yikes!!! I did love Bateman. I think he was very good, especially after his predecessor. Jed will always be my CC, but Bateman was very good. He was great with the whole cast. I also love Danny and hate what they eventually did with his character. If they had to have him decend into drugs, that would have made a great storyline for some talented actor. Also, I came up with a new fun way to start a reboot. Robin Wright (as herself- famous actress, because you know she'll never come back for good) checks into the presidential suite and somehow finds that two way mirror. She then sues because the hotel has used it to spy on people for 40 years. And also also- in Bateman's first episode, he and Eden move the gazebo. Eden says she doesn’t know why since they'll never use it anyway. And I'm laughing because they use that multiple times a month for YEARS!

Not sure if this has been answered, but YouTube has most of the beginning. Look for the Kelly Eden Capwell channel. She has 4 channels under different names, but they all have the same content. I could listen to Jed read a phone book and be happy about it. I love that man's voice. I am not sure any actor could have saved Warren and Maggie because the character of Maggie was terrible. That was sort of the nail in the coffin for poor JAN. I think the show tried to keep the Lockridges. But once the Dobsons were locked out, Augusta had left. Letting Louise go was a HUGE mistake. Then Nic Coster left. When they brought them back, too much of the original audience had left, and the new audience didn't care. It didn't help that they were charactatures of the Old Lockridges. When you have Augusta and Lionel, you want it ALL- charisma, comedy, drama, heart. If the 2 kids had been on par with those 2, who knows, maybe the Capwells would have disappeared. Doubtful once Jed was CC.

Yeah, this is a valid assessment.

Victoria foxton, these are awesome. Except my very first thought was Why is Kevin Costner in Santa Barbara, maybe I AM missing something by not watching the final years. My second is Nah, even Alan Rickman and Colin Firth couldn't save the final years.

Yes Burke ans Ava are terribly creeptastic together. It sets the Ickometer off the charts. I'm one episode into Burke and already ready for Bateman

Burke got to kiss Ava Lazar and complained about it? Poor baby I've been super busy the past few weeks. I finally got to the creation of the Circle of Truth. Lionel and Augusta anchored the first few months of this show. Enormous shame what happened with the characters. I can handle the show focusing on a few an episode- most of the time. But it is CRIMINAL how it got to full isolation. Like the friendships were lost completely. Eden and Mason were close, but not there for each other during the bubbles od the later years. I hate what the show did to Danny. Gobe forever- then poof druggie. The interesting story would have been that descent. Also, where was Kelly when Amy was killed? I know Haley was her SiL, but Kelly was Brick's best man at that wedding. No way she wouldn't have been there at least a little bit. I feel like the show went from a show-wide family to no family. Yes, the Capwells were still around, but even they weren't family like they were originally.

I'm not accepting this excuse anymore. The strike didn't start until March. This was after the TJ affair, so I have to say it wasn't ALL the strikes fault

I started over too. I'm loving it, even though it's the wrong CC. I even enjoy the kids in LA story. Augusta just cooked Tina the pigeon. Augusta and Lionel are at the Capwells. And it's all just great.

I just let it play in the background while I work. It is actually easier to do that with schlock you don't care about. I actually liked specific scenes after 88. There are some very funny scenes where CC is trying to make Sophia jealous. Augusta is always, ALWAYS great. Lionel’s "death" and return from death are great and funny and at times even poignant. But it never sails to 85-87 heights again.

This show didn't even come close to making John Perkins a likeable human.

Yeah, those episodes are horrible. I made it through them. Once. I doubt it will be twice

But some of this doesn't gel with the autobiographies written by the actors. Nicholas Coster was meant to be Lionel, but like MW, he had to finish a contract, so didn't show up the first month. And Jed Allan's autobiography says he auditioned for CC but a suit told him he wasn't the right age, so he resigned a contract with Days. That contract ended and we still needed a CC that would click. He auditioned again, but didn't like his chances and didn't go all in.The show still wasn't sure. They had him audition again. Everyone finally conceded, but no one bothered telling Bateman (just RUDE of them). It has always sounded like NBC and Sony really interfered with what the Dobsons wanted. It might have been smaller at the beginning with a "No, dont cast him". But by the time of the great lockout, it was certainly heavy. Another thing, the post about the bible says Sophia wasn't a part of the plan, but Dominic appears in the 4th episode, so I am not sure about that. It had to have changed quickly because it is pretty early on that he's a woman

I'm at the Dash/Julia rape. It's appalling. Nancy is great as always. But Keith's reaction of ignoring it is not his personality. He DESPISES rapist. He went full bear on Eden's rapist snd he hates her. It just isn't him. Augusta is so sympathetic to Julia that there'd be nothing that could turn her onto a Dash groupie. I'm finding it difficult to continue. Next up is Lisa/Eden and full on rewrite of Sophia's story

I didn't watch a lot of soaps in the day, but I think Eden's coma has got to be the busiest coma in soapdom. Lol! Time traveling to keep Sophia and Lionel from sleeping together, flitting in and out of the mansion, reliving her whole history with Cruz, solving a mystery. Whew! That would wear anyone out.