Marissa Gallant

I agree. That was a very touching group of scenes. I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on tv. And every state has their own laws, so I don't know if you can waive your right to a jury or not. But I still say that wherever she's doing her public service, Lionel is there stalking her- er "being her friend".

I agree with this. The dialogue is so quick and witty through these years. I love how Mary sees right through Mary. And I enjoy the early Mason and Julia scenes where he is upset with Julia because she isn't using her brain. And how much Cruz loves that Eden is feisty. At one point, Eden takes off and Controlling Kirk is beside himself because he has to know where she is at all times. Cut to scene with Cruz, "I don't know. When Eden needs to think, she just takes off. I loved that about her." And Augusta slapped CC. CC doesn't get slapped often. And his reaction of A bit high strung, isn't she? I know that at times, I seem like I'm complaining because things are occasionally too rushed, but really that's just because I want more. There could have been great things. Sophia trying to pick up trash while Lionel followed her around trying to give her pearls. Personally, I feel that when Lionel followed her into CCs coma room, she should have smacked him, kicked him out and laid beside CCs moveless body.

Well, Tori was also a very unpopular character, so I'm not surprised she didn't last. The shocking thing was how long she did last.

I will say that the show dovetailed the return of Gina after the boathouse, the end of the Kirk saga and the beginning of Kelly and Gina and the tape PERFECTLY.

Does anyone else think Sophia's breasr cancer storyline was too rushed? I feel like there should have been more to that. She had Mason change her will and he suspected something. He told her to call him later, but then it was dropped. I would have liked to see that fallout. And when CC told Mason to stay out of Mary's marriage and admit he lost. Mason said he did, but not anymore. He should have said Mark beat up the hooker he hired and spends more nights at the porn district than with his wife. I mean really rub CCs nose into it. CC needed his nose rubbed into his mistakes more. JA did a great job with subtle subtext and brought a lot of the softening of CC with his eyes. But sometimes words and a slightly slower pace is a wonderful thing.

The specific video is gone now. There were fishnet shorts involved. It was very bizarre to my Western mind.

I read this wrong the first time. I thought you said soap record and thought, No Stefano DiMera came back 13 times. But, yes, I do think that's the most for SB.

The person who posts the episodes put a new video of a Russian boy band. In the middle is a commercial for Santa Barbara perfume. Has anyone else seen this video?

She shot Channing, but Channing wasn't her biological son. And should have gotten a literal kingdom.

I am watching today. I love the scenes where Minx shoots CC so much. Capped by the scenes with Mason once CC gets home.

I had a job change and I won't be able to fly through the episodes like I have been. So, I may never get to the 800's. But- Sophia and Pamela should be enemies.

That would have been awesome and given Sophia more storyline. Sorry the one awesome scene right after it was all revealed wasn't enough. What I never fully agreed with was the assumption that Brick was only alive because of the switch. The reality is that the bits we saw of Channing showed that Channing and Brick had very different moral compasses. I don't think Sophia would have shot Brick because Brick wouldn't have had all of those people parading through the library (or office- tgat room) that day. Also not sure he would have been on the "get Santana and my son gone" train with CC. I believe Brick and CC would have butted heads worse than either CC and Mason or Ted. I kind of feel like Channing took after his bio Dad and had some issues. Sorry, I know the show tried to turn Mr. Wallace into a decent guy, but the dude full on abandoned his wife and child.

A CLASSIC telling the story through the music too! Yes, Amy, Brick is it. They really used some classic songs on this show.

That's got to be it. I was a big Luz fan I would call jwpepper. If anyone has it, they would. I tried to do a quick Google, but the Beauty and the Beast song dominates and I've had three chocolate martinis, so I'm not lot of help. www.jwpepper.com

Now I remember! Hey, maybe someone here will know this. Was Always on my Mind a soap opera couples theme song? I feel like it was, but didn't find confirmation

Whoa, wait. Now I need to re-watch that because I don't remember him. Agreed And that's a new perspective on Kelly for me. I've never really pieced that part of it into my Kelly puzzle.

I really hate Warren's addiction story. I'm okay with gambling stories, but it feels lame for him to say it's because Mommy and Daddy got divorced. Warren, you moved out of their house several years ago and Daddy wasn't around that often. You are a grown azz man. Your reaction has been less mature than Brandon's reactions to his dad's death, his new dad's coma, his mom's death, and being shipped off to a woman he's only known a few years and is way too clingy. And he's six! I just wish there had been a more organic reasoning. Maybe no one has told Warren about getting Christmas presents at 2 different houses now. As often as she allowed it from what I've seen.

But we know he was conceived when the atrium was filled with daisies. I hope CC gave Rosa the day off that day.

She wouldn't have been the first or last. I've only seen a few of the episodes during that time, so I can't say. I will say, there are some people who are just blessed with something that draws others to them. I also think that at heart, Sophia is very kind and a bit vulnerable. She can turn viper when her people are threatened. But she doesn't start that way with most people. She even had sympathy for Gina at the beginning. And she certainly sees through Mason's bravado when he is hurting. And the private fashion show scenes certainly lead to the belief that she was probably also pretty good. But that's the thing. We don't know that she did latch onto him. I have always assumed that Marcello brought her home to the old geezer and the Count latched onto her. She didn't know who she was and responded to the kindness. We do know Marcello took her from SB and CC and that she didn't know who she was when he did. And she might have latched on because we know she did latch on to CC. Totally a missed opportunity. And it would have given Judith McConnell a storyline other than Oh, CC- which is always good in my opinion.

You can spin that broken record with me all day long. I love Sophia and agree with everything you said. I've never understood if the Count knew she had another husband. They were fuzzy on that timeline. When the Count died, how much older he was than Sophia. Marcello was about his stepmoms age. But yes, there could have been more about the missing years. Heck, Cassie could have been Marcello's daughter! That would have been interesting. She was certainly beautiful and glamorous. They even established that she was smart. But luck did play a factor in her life. It was luck (or bad luck) that caused Marcello to find her on the beach and abduct her. Lionel loved her like no one he ever loved. Maybe she was just great in bed. Her early scenes with CC are certainly steamy. That can be pretty important to some people. Lol.

Real life doesn't make good Hollywood drama. Or at least that's what they think. I never fully understood why Brick pushed Kelly away after he found out he was her brother. They were so close that she was his best man. But suddenly he hated her? Weird. And the lack of female friendships always felt weird. Other soaps had female friends. We got constant rapes, serial killers and women pushing away the men they love. Mom and I used to call it Stupid Soap Opera Woman Syndrome. I loved this show because it got so much right, but they missed SO many opportunities because they always wanted to concentrate on the next big stunt. When you have an earthquake and serial killer rapist in your first year, it's difficult to continually top that.

To be fair, there weren't as many characters for her TO interact with. From the brief bits I've seen with GT, I do like him in the role. I also do think that the show struggled with wanting to keep women in the role of other half far too often. They never completely knew what to do with single women. It falls into that odd couples are boring if they're together and other problems with this. I'm sure there were many interesting things they could have done with the women. Amy could have been a reporter ala Hildy Grant, hard hitting and the smartest person in the room. Augusta had so many possibilities. Catapulting her gambling skills into serious cash and running a business to give Capwell Enterprises and Armonti a run for the money. Or heck, even a shopping mall empire. Sophia could have had an All About Eve type of storyline. Kelly could have not been an eternal damsel in distress. Sorry that got old. Some sort of Artist story. Laken or someone could have been a doctor. Heaven knows that with the number of times people were in the hospital, they needed a full time doctor! The show started to bust boundaries, but they always held back from really showing the barriers that were toppling in the 80s.

I'm rewatching the scene where Augusta finds out that CC bought the paintings. She smacks Mason. CC says, "She's somewhat high strung isn't she?" Mason replies, "I wouldn't mind seeing her strung a little higher." And I'm rolling. And then Lionel finds out that Mason knows. This show had some great moments.

Oh, okay. That's gonna be a bit.

And he was in St. Elsewhere. He married Nurse Rosenthal.