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Judging from what Chris wore to the Daytime Emmys, their advice fell on deaf ears.

Not like that's gonna stop Leo (right, Xander?).

Some people just can't get enough attention.

It better not be Patrick J. Gibbons!

By the time Dan O'Connor's first DAYS script airs, he could be back as Co-HW at GH. I'm just saying.

"BREAKING NEWS: Later this year, DAYS fans will be seeing double when Greg Rikkart, who already plays Leo, takes on a second role as Leo's long-lost twin brother, Lance!"

At this point, Rona Barrett's ghost would be more welcome than Perez Hilton.

Frank Valentini looks...overwhelmed in that screenshot. If he isn't talking about John J. York or Roger Howarth, then he's probably talking about someone who was superfluous before, like the dude who played "Magic Milo."

Love can move mountains, and love can save the world, but love cannot get DAYS back to reality.

I agree - and I think a grown-up, rich and fine-as-hell Brooks Prentiss is JUST the man to give it that kick, too!

Perez Hilton is like DAYS' Leo, but without the charm.

And to think: Bill Bell was so impatient with his show's ratings in the beginning that he asked CBS to cancel it, lol.

Are you sure about that, @Taoboi? Are you REALLY sure about that?

That sounds simple enough, but the problem is that DAYS has gone so far out there - not just with those tropes that you've mentioned, @Liberty City, but with a great many other silly gimmicks - that to try and write more character-driven, budget-friendly stories in the vein of Bill Bell or Pat Falken Smith would be impossible to do at this point. The core of the show is too rotten, and it would take too long to "re-condition" the audience, too.

I agree. I'm not sure whether this has been mentioned yet, but the success of "The Cosby Show" spurred CBS onto making their own, African-American family sitcom, "Charlie & Co.," starring Flip Wilson, Gladys Knight, Kristoff St. John (ex-Adam, GEN; ex-Neil, Y&R) and the Once and Future Urkel, Jaleel White. The family on "Charlie" appeared to be more middle-class than the affluent Huxtables. Nevertheless, you could see the parallels between the two shows. Ironically, "Cosby"'s success also inspired Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye to create "Married...with Children" (or "Not the Cosbys," as the show was called originally). But here's my question: would y'all argue that MWC, in a sense, provided the foundation for what would become "Roseanne," which was itself a response to "Cosby"'s affluent take on the American family?

Granted, I'd be happy just to get my 44-year-old foot in the door, but I couldn't write for DAYS even if I were magically their new HW, because I wouldn't know how to make that show make sense for me. Nothing about it is remotely connected to reality or common sense in any way. I mean, I could try and find ways to make the show more grounded, but it would be oh-so-painful. For myself and for everyone else involved, lol.

Chase: "You have a bigger problem than I thought." If you're talking about ME's acting, Chase, let me remind you and everyone else that I've been saying the same thing since DAYS OF OUR [!@#$%^&*] LIVES.

I wish this show would admit that Abby is a dead end of a character and kill her off.

IDK which is worse: Ron Carlivati's writing or working with Ron Carlivati's writing.

Tyler Perry's number one problem as a writer - aside from the misogyny, the colorism and the blatant self-hatred as a closeted gay man - is that he has no idea at all how to structure stories or even scenes with beginnings, middles and ends. His writing is what MST3k's Michael J. Nelson would call a Möbius strip, one that starts from nowhere and leads exactly to the same place.

Two things I'd love to do with Y&R: 1. Bring the show back to Bill Bell's original concept: stories about YOUNG people and the challenges they face today. It's shameful how Y&R (and every other soap) has neglected to spotlight the political and societal upheavals that have occurred in this country over the past decade or so, particularly in regards to how they affect our youth. 2. Introduce a new family from the "wrong side of the tracks." A character or characters struggling to move beyond their meager surroundings has long been fertile ground for storytelling; and in our present day, with economic disparity foremost on many people's minds, I feel such a unit would be very relevant to Y&R's audience.

Lemme guess: he turns him loose inside Wyndham's with a Capital One Visa and instructs him to buy clothes that aren't black and/or leather. I mean, if Frank loves working with RH and Michael Easton so damn much, why does he keep bringing them back to brand new characters each time? Why not just keep them on indefinitely as the same characters or, if they have to leave from time to time, just bring them back playing the characters they were playing before?

For your sake, @Errol, I'm glad Dan O'Connor knows about you and about this board. I don't always say or show how much I appreciate being a part of SON, but I do. Especially now that I have learned to make the Ignore User feature my friend, lol. Furthermore, I can tell from that interview that O'Connor seems to be a very friendly, down-to-earth guy...but that won't change my assessment of him as a (head) writer. I wish I could be more like Douglas Marland and cheer on everyone who works in the industry, regardless of talent, but I can't. I've gotta call crap when I see it. And it doesn't matter whether it's crap, because of the usual network/studio interference; or it's crap, because the writer(s) simply can't tell good writing from bad. Crap is crap, and a lot of what I watched of Chris and Dan's work on GH was crap. And if the industry ever slipped up and gave THIS crank a job as a writer for one of these shows, rest assured, I wouldn't delete one single, solitary word of what I've said over the many, many, MANY years that I've been ranting about these shows online. Not even if I turned out to be a bigger hack than Chuck Pratt, Megan McTavish, Dena Higley and Hogan Sheffer COMBINED. And you have my word on that. And if it wasn't, then the husband must be really confused, lol.