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The more rabid Danny/Michelle fans were UNREAL. They literally wanted every scene of every episode to revolve around the two cooing at each other. I'd been used to seeing that kind of devotion to couples on other soaps - DAYS, GH, even AMC to some extent - but seeing it happen with GL was shocking, because GL, up to that point, had been above the fray. If you were a GL fan (or ATWT or Y&R fan), it wasn't because of this-or-that couple, it was because you loved THE SHOW.

I agree. I'll even sit through Hal and Kitty's drug smuggling storyline, which sounds horrendous "on paper," but maybe it played better on screen, lol?

I agree. What if, instead of taking off part or all of the summer, the primetime soaps had run year-round with just a 1-2 week break here and there?

Thanks, @soapfan770 , for the tag! I wish I could have enjoyed it more, but the level of acting on that show has fallen so low. Cast members are literally reading their lines off the cue cards or teleprompters and not even looking at each other anymore, and that just annoys me.

I just thought Y&R was setting up another "Sharon's off her meds!" story, lol.

Same here! "At last, we don't have to be subjected anymore to KeMo sleepwalking through scenes while thinking about pizza!"

It's as if TPTB are afraid to indulge in such heightened emotions for fear of looking...well...looking like a soap, lol.

I'm sure Frank would've warned her about Genele ahead of time; and I'm sure Angela would've responded by waving her hand and saying something like, "If I could handle Melissa...!".

Thank goodness for small favors!

I do agree that FC starts to feel more like itself once Jane Wyman returns. IDK what the hell we've been watching before then, but when Angela and Michael Sharpe meet in their respective limos, everything starts clicking into place. Not enough to save the show, mind you, but enough to be satisfied with how it ends.

For better or worse, Liz as GH's most "real" character continues a tradition that started all the way back in '63 with Nurse Jessie Brewer. That's just a fact.

I agree. I don't think I watched for too long afterward, but whenever I would tune in again, it seemed like 90210 had gone from being this nice, sweet, little show about adolescence to being KNOTS LANDING: THE NEXT GENERATION.

I really enjoy that period. AMC felt like AMC again.

That's okay. I doubt anyone else would consider Neil and Dru a super couple like I do, lol. I'm just glad he's no longer running Camp Snoopy with Fake Cancer Willow.

Don't forget Rick Daros! Randy Holland might be deceased, but Josh Griffith could just give ol' Bob Woods (ex-Bo, OLTL) a call.

I have to wonder that myself. IDK how well 90210 did its' first season, but I do remember when they aired new episodes during the summer and the show just took off like a rocket. By the start of the fall, in fact, it seemed like you couldn't go anywhere without running into 90210-related merchandise or advertisements. I swear there was even a 90210 shampoo, lol!

Brandon Tartikoff was one of the last network programming execs who truly enjoyed working in television and didn't see it as just a stepping stone toward other, greener pastures. NBC would have enormous successes after he stepped away, but the network, IMO, was never the same.

TBH, I don't think AMC ever did those kinds of stories very well. DAYS, GH and even GL did action/adventure plots better, because each show had an EP with an eye or flair for that stuff. (We could argue about the creative merits of the GL's Dreaming Death and Barbados storylines 'til the proverbial cows come home, but then-EP Gail Kobe still produced them very well). AMC did not.

Probably not. I think viewers were just tired of every episode ending the way it began, with J.R. pulling another fast one on somebody, that somebody shaking their fist and vowing revenge, and J.R. just smiling and laughing. Nothing ever changed on that show, except for everyone NOT named J.R. getting dumber by the week.

I wouldn't be shocked either.

I loved how Pam Long would go for the emotional jugular. Whether it was a moment that had you by the edge of your seat, or one that just ripped your heart out, she totally went for it. Several have said that she and Douglas Marland might have been a dream team, and I'm inclined to agree.

Erica wasn't drunk. She was high after ingesting enough pills to make even Liza Minnelli concerned.

What happened to Neil and Dru, lol?

Yep - and they did that at a time, too, when "Hill Street Blues" was still supposed to be the Emmys' darling.

And that's ridiculous, because, even in 2026, a Caucasian woman and an African-American man who are in a romantic relationship are bound to encounter SOME issues stemming from the differences in their ethnicities. Pretending otherwise is unrealistic and insulting.