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It's a shame GH killed off all of Monica's daughters, including the adopted one. Such a character could have been useful nowadays.

Those Holly and "Sasher" scenes were painful to watch. They have no chemistry as mother and daughter. Sasher also has none of the charisma that Robert and Holly had. Their daughter should have been an entirely new character. Another good idea turned bad by poor execution.

Sam's goodbye scenes haven't had much energy; it's like the actress has already started to play dead You'd think Anna would be more upset with Holly and Robert, finding out that they conceived a child while she was married to him and being held hostage by Faison. Blame the writers; they've done such little research on the history, it's laughable; they probably don't know those details. Blame the actors too? Perhaps Fiona wouldn't want to play being hurt and jealous by that; she's been over her character showing any romantic feelings for Robert for decades. If they wanted to give Robert and Holly a child, how about tapping into Robert's missing years, 1992-2006; say Robert thought Anna dead, and he eventually started meeting up with Holly now and then, and a child resulted? That would be much better than dropping what we saw on screen in 1992/ 1993, with a non pregnant Holly getting involved with Mac and Bill.

Tracy deserves a love interest. It's too bad Robert looks so unhealthy and Scott is such a buffon, as either of those pairings might have been interesting at one time or another. Since they probably won't bring someone new on just for Tracy, maybe Cody is the best option? It could be interesting..

Looking back, given the actors, it might have been more interesting making Willow a bad character/ villian, and her sister Nelle a good character/ hero. Sasha has a little more charisma than Willow, but her stories have sucked. If they were going to make her Holly's daughter, it should have been around when she was first introduced, not 6 years later.

I think the actress who plays Willow is a male version of the actor who played Nathan; pretty to look at, but not much going on. They are models, not actors. Willow might have had more success if the writers had made her a mean, petty, shallow person. But for some reason they write her as a "heroine," which just translates into boring because of her lack of charisma.

Sasha has been on for 6 years. To now, out of nowhere, suddenly tie this failed character to Holly is ridiculous. If they wanted to bring on Holly's daughter, she should be a new character, played by a charismatic newbie, not boring Sasha who should have been gone ages ago.

Those Another World episodes from August 1980 to November 1981 were originally posted by P&G back in 2007 and 2008 on the AOL Classic Soap Channel. Sad that that venture didn't last longer or that P&G didn't initially choose Hulu back then for uploading their old classic soap episodes 😢

This Sonny stuff is such a laughing stock. I guess we're supposed to buy Sonny shooting Jagger in cold blood as the good guy blowing away the bad guy. And Sonny is such a man of honor, he'd never let a loved one take the fall for it. Please 🤮 All this goes against common sense and the character of Sonny. What mob boss would kill a Fed personally, not pay someone to do it, or not pay someone to take the fall, or not pay off people in high places to look the other way? And what happened to Sonny's claustrophobia, where he couldn't stand the thought of being cooped up in jail, it would kill him? That was a thing in the 90s.

I don't know why the show highlighted Nick Corelli for so long, especially in 1988 and 1989. I didn't think the actor was that strong, nor his chemistry with his partners that great. When they finally killed him off in late 1990, it was three years overdue; they could have spared us. When they were killing him off, they undid all the "good guy" progress he had made; again, it was like, what was the point.

Funny if true -- ABC gets rid of the crappy accents, but keeps the crappy writing, the crappy acting, the crappy producing.

A shame Mulcahey isn't around to write any of this stuff with Lucky; he would have given it depth. The new writers attempts at character are so thin and shallow. All the characters have suffered and regressed with Mulcahey's departure. Sonny is looking more stupid now than ever. Maybe Maurice doesn't have much power behind the scenes after all, if he can't do anything to change this crap they are having him play. Probably the character most affected is Jason. Any buzz from his return is long gone. What's his point now? Is it building to anything? You wonder if this will be Lucky's fate too in a couple of months, a return that's fizzled. The show just feels so stupid, contrived, and repetitive.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/05/arts/fans-mourn-loss-of-an-interracial-soap-opera.html Fans Mourn Loss of an Interracial Soap Opera By C. Gerald Fraser March 5, 1991 Washed out by low ratings, television's first interracial soap opera devoted to the adventures and misadventures of black and white families, "Generations," has left behind a group of disappointed viewers, many of them black professionals, still yearning to tune in tomorrow. After broadcasting 407 episodes, NBC took "Generations" off the air at the end of January. It had lasted for 13 months. Describing the serial in 1989, as it was about to go on, the network said that it was "a contemporary daytime drama set in Chicago" and that it centered "on the relationships of two families -- one white, the Whitmores; one black, the Marshalls -- whose lives have been linked for generations." Now it is gone for good. An NBC spokesman, Rob Maynor, said, "If it doesn't deliver, it doesn't stay on the air." The cancellation annoyed a number of the show's regular viewers. One New Jersey working couple taped the 30-minute show daily for evening viewing. They were perturbed "on the day of the final segment to find out that most of it was superseded by a war bulletin, leaving a seemingly inexplicable ending and adding insult to injury." 'It Was Different' The cancellation also upset Marsha Hunt, a Philadelphia novelist. "It was a very good show," she said in a telephone interview. "It was different. The story line was not who's sleeping with whom. It showed a real relationship between the two women." Ms. Hunt did not rest on her disappointment. "I don't sit back," she said. "When people say blacks don't write in, I'm not one of them. When they say blacks don't call in, I'm not one of them." She wrote, she called and she organized "The Coalition to Save 'Generations.' " She said she had 12 people in 12 states "running groups" that had sent "around a thousand" save-"Generations" letters to local stations, NBC, prospective syndicators and PBS, which they view as a potential broadcaster of the serial. Ms. Hunt voiced several complaints, echoed in the letters. One was that the serial had been broadcast in poor time slots. In New York, it came on at 12:30 P.M., opposite the No. 1 soap, "The Young and the Restless." In some cities, Ms. Hunt said, "Generations" came on at 2:30 A.M. She also said that the soap had not been given enough time on the air to develop an audience. Were Ratings Accurate? She questioned whether the show's low Nielsen ratings accurately reflected the number of viewers. "There are few Nielsen boxes in homes in minority communities," she said. A Nielsen Media Research vice president, Jack Loftus, said yesterday that 11 percent of households in the Nielsen population sample are black. Mr. Maynor, the NBC spokesman, said the network had dropped "Generations" "because it didn't get the size of audience we wanted." "We wanted more than we had," he continued. "It was the lowest-rated soap opera on the air. It had the smallest audience, it didn't deliver for advertisers and it wasn't attractive to affiliates." Consequently, he said, the network does not intend to revive the show. Creator of the Show Sally Sussman, a writer who had received two Emmy award nominations as a member of the writing staff of "The Young and the Restless," created "Generations," serving as both its executive producer and head writer. In a telephone interview, she said, "I came up with the idea four years ago and sold it to NBC to create the first racially balanced show." She said it had been well received . "Most shows are given more than two years to find an audience," she said. "The nature of the soap opera business is that it takes two years to find itself and find an audience. The current climate at NBC, in terms of economics, did not lend itself to continuing the show. It was expensive to produce and had a soft advertising market. And they decided to cancel. It was a valid reason from their perspective, but I think it was short-sighted." In New York, the editor in chief of Soap Opera Weekly, Mimi Torchin, agreed. "It was intelligent and fast moving," she said. "A new show always gets off to a slow start. They're always terrible in the beginning. Until you are in these people's lives, know the background, it's hard to get involved, until you care about them." The probationary period for most serials is, she agreed, usually two years. For example, she said, NBC dropped "Texas" only after 28 months. She also cited "Loving" and "Santa Barbara" as two long-running soaps that have never achieved high ratings. Ms. Torchin, speaking of the "Generations" cancellation, said: "Blacks are only 11 percent of the total viewing audience, and there was not enough of a black audience to watch it." She added: "It was known as 'the black soap' in the heartland. There's still a lot of racism and whether it was racism per se, there was resistance." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note that this article was wrong as to how long the show lasted and the number of episodes produced! The show was on for 22 months with around 470 episodes produced.

That would be amazing to see them finally bring back Wayne as Roman and have him and Marlena respectfully reconnect. He and his character got such a raw deal back in 1994.

It's funny, Mulcahey gave Sonny an out for doing horrible things; he wasn't on his meds. Where's Sonny's out for killing a fed in cold blood, someone many of his old friends cared about? Or are we to think what he did wasn't so horrible? From what came before and after, Mulcahey's months were really good. The show was feeling so stupid, and he gave it some intelligence. Now it's back to feeling really stupid.

This recast looks almost as old as Lucky.

Fans should be grateful they didn't totally destroy his character. They tried from 2006-2015. They should have always kept his character decent and heroic. When they tried to make him angry and dark, it didn't work. It was always like the real John wouldn't be angry, or he wouldn't treat Marlena that way, etc; it always felt false. If making him dark was a matter of trying to distinguish John from the other heroic characters, like what Roman was supposed to be, then instead of going dark, I would have rather seen them make John Roman again. At least in the last few years, they did make John heroic and decent, so he did feel like the same guy from the 80s and 90s; that was a positive.

It will be interesting to see if Drake had the chance to say goodbye to the audience. Alex Trebek died of pancreatic cancer almost 4 years ago and didn't get to film a final goodbye.

Wow! A legend in the genre, one of its icons. I too thought he'd always be there. This is really shocking and sad. When I started watching DAYS in 1987, he was pretty much the male lead. Two decades later, he was still the male lead, a testament to his charisma. There was a period where the show didn't really treat him well (2007-2015). It was good to see the show treating him and his character better the last several years. His best run was as Roman from 1986-1991. When they tried to make him a wealthier, darker character, it just didn't work. They should have had him go back to being Roman around 1998 or so, especially if they intended never to bring Wayne back. But it is what it is. I did enjoy seeing him play with Dick Van Dyke last year; having Dick Van Dyke turn out to be his character's father was a nice touch.

Are there no other ex-AMC or OLTL players that Frank can bring on for Steve? He did it for Maurice. He also seems to accommodate Maurice more when it comes to story than with Steve. It feels like Maurice has much more behind the scenes influence now than Steve does. You wonder how Steve feels about that.

The show is in a real low point right now, perhaps the lowest of the year. Sonny killing Jagger in cold blood is in such incredibly bad taste, and the return of Lucky has been awful. This after the return of Jason being botched and, with the way it non- ended, turning into one of the worst stories in a long time. They need to reverse Sonny killing Jagger. Have it be that Sonny shot him with tranqs and is keeping him prisioner somewhere. The star character of a soap shouldn't be an irredeemable monster. This is supposed to be escapist entertainment, not real life.

Agreed that they should have waited for the end of Genie's vacation before starting this Lucky adventure. She should have been involved every step of the way, instead of being off-screen.

I haven't watched NBC Daytime since DAYS was taken off the air. Checking in on the schedule for my local NBC station, WNBC in NY, it almost seems like a simulcast of MSNBC. Literally, it's just wall to wall news shows, with one syndicated talk show to break up the monotony. Really sad considering what a strong daytime lineup, with a variety of shows, NBC had from the 1950s into the early 1990s. They've really given up. It's embarrassing. NBC DAYTIME, WNBC NY, in NOVEMBER 1985 6:00 Today in New York 6:30 NBC News at Sunrise 7:00 Today 9:00 Donahue 10:00 Your Number's Up 10:30 Sale of the Century 11:00 Wheel of Fortune 11:30 Scrabble NOON Super Password 12:30 Search for Tomorrow 1:00 Days of Our Lives 2:00 Another World 3:00 Santa Barbara 4:00 Love Connection 4:30 People's Court NBC DAYTIME, WNBC in NYC, SEPTEMBER 2024 5:00 AM Today in New York 7:00 AM Today 9:00 AM Today 3rd Hour 10:00 AM Today with Hoda & Jenna 11:00 AM News 4 NY at 11AM 11:30 AM New York Live 12:00 PM NBC News Daily 1:00 PM Dateline 2:00 PM Access Daily With Mario & Kit 3:00 PM The Kelly Clarkson Show 4:00 PM News 4 NY at 4 4:30 PM News 4 NY at 4:30

I think this "adventure" would have gone a little better if it was Laura doing all this stuff with Jason and Holly, instead of it being Anna. What is Anna doing there?

Ric's return is the best thing the show has going for it right now. Anna and Jason have zero chemistry. Their adventure is boring as hell. Some genuine humor or suspense would help. It all just seems so lifeless; where's the energy?