Khan

Veterinarians are fantastic people who do God's work everyday...but as far as professions go, unless they're planning to change the name to GENERAL ANIMAL HOSPITAL, veterinary medicine is a storyline dead-end on soaps.

Joan Copeland? Doris Belack?

You forgot Reva the Psychic, lol.

Well, if they had asked Schnabel to return and play that story, I don't blame him if he turned them down. I wouldn't want to come back to a show that I had spent 12 years of my life on just to have my character die, lol.

I wouldn't say that! For years, ATWT had the Wade Bookstore as one of its' mainstays; and from what I understand, a lot of great drama went down there, too. And I'm not necessarily worried about Julie owning and running it either, because Lisa ran the Wade Bookstore, and Lisa and Julie were very similar women (no doubt, due to Bill Bell's influence). But ATWT usually portrayed Lisa as being more glamorous and worldly than how DAYS is portraying Julie these days. Lisa wouldn't be hosting no damn book clubs, and certainly not any BEREAVEMENT book clubs.

And now the show is at a point where simply returning even to some semblance of its' past won't work, because too much of it is hard, if not impossible, to bring back. I've a feeling that Y&R is on the verge of becoming DAYS circa JER.

Several things have happened at Y&R that I thought wouldn't, so you never know, lol.

Be afraid, Y&R fans. Be very afraid.

When Alice was Julie's age, she was helping Bo break out of prison! Julie is way too vital to be doing something like a moderating a [!@#$%^&*] book club. They might as well wheel her out to Shady Pines.

Wow. Looking at her today, I almost feel guilty for calling her "Dollar Tree Vanity." (I said, "almost," lol).

To TPTB, that was part of the problem: they wanted (and still want) to distance Y&R from the Bill Bell legacy as much as possible. Because, even though Mr. Bell kept his show at the top of the ratings through different trends, and at a time when many, long-running shows had faded or were beginning to fade, CBS or Sony reasoned his vision and style were just too old-fashioned for the demographic they were now chasing after (not to mention, too expensive to maintain).

The thing is, the story to end all stories for Erica - the one event that could have set off a chain of other events and spun her life in an entirely new direction - was staring them all in their faces, and either they didn't recognize it, or were prevented from telling it. That's right: I'm talking about Erica Kane finding a lump in her breast. Anyways. I see Kreizman stays getting points for creating or co-creating Dr. Reid Oliver, a.k.a. The Gay John Dixon, but creating one fascinating character who was both a total shitheel and the most mature romance young Luke Grimaldi Snyder ever experienced does not mean he's capable of HW'ing an entire show. Believe me, I suffered through enough of his GL and AMC to know what I'm talking about, lol.

At the risk of sounding like I'm criticizing you - which I'm not! - I would see that as sort of a cop-out: "We can't come up with any more suitable male partners for Alexis, so let's just have her turn lesbo!" I mean, I felt the same way about GL's Olivia. Crystal Chappell might've had decent chemistry with Jessica Leccia (Natalia), but to me, "Otalia" just smacked of an EP and HW who couldn't come up with anything else for those two characters.

I think bringing back Meta (and Trudy) in almost any capacity would've been fine. So much of GL's rich history was gone by the mid-'80's; and I say that as someone who enjoyed the show back then (Johnny Bauer's cancer battle notwithstanding, lol). LOL!!

I could be mistaken, but I think it was he (and Donna Swajeski) who also hit upon the oh-so-brilliant idea of giving Erica Kane an evil lookalike (or someone who had plastic surgery to make herself look like Erica, I can't be bothered to remember which anymore). Now, y'all KNOW that Erica Kane is my spirit diva, but even I know that giving La Lucci a dual role is rushing in where angels fear to tread.