Khan

I agree. The same goes for everyone else who works in this industry. The pressure is on them everyday to get episodes done as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Under those conditions, it's a miracle they can remember anything at all. Which is why I think the remaining shows need to follow the late Lisa Brown's advice and really find the time again to rehearse. Actors struggle all the time with memorizing lines, but if they had the time to work with the directors and the scripts so that they would know what they're supposed to be doing in a given scene, I think recalling lines would be a lot easier for them.

Ah, yes. "Phantom of the Erica," lol. Next to kidnapping Maria's baby, that probably was the lowest point for La Kane. ETA: I take that back. "Jane Campbell" trumps them both.

Question for any and all SFT fans out there: how did y'all feel about Mary Stuart's musical performances on the show? Did you enjoy them and look forward to them, or...?

I was reading an interview the other day with a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (can't remember his name atm) who wrote a book on Donald Trump and who said a judgment for more than $10 million is precisely the outcome that Trump wanted, so that he run go to the press and to his followers and proclaim our justice system to be rigged and that the amount was unfair because it was decided by a "New York jury" - meaning, of course, too liberal, and too ethnic.

In that case, maybe they should ask Ken Corday to produce the show. I'm kidding.

Me neither. Mulcahey's hiring had to have been ABCD's doing; and given Mulcahey's aversion to network/sponsor interference, I would not be surprised to learn that the network had to promise him some measure of creative control in order to get him to sign on, too. I just hope the first check clears before Mulcahey is forced to quit. #grabthatdough

I agree. That plot-driven decision had ABCD's fingerprints all over it.

Just more of the magic that Tom Langan brought to DAYS, lol.

Frank Valentini basically took Mark Teschner's job away from him - but, hey, at least Mark's still getting a paycheck! As soon as I remembered him from Lifetime's "My Crazy Ex," I knew Frank had screwed up again. Boy, Patrick Mulcahey's got his work cut out for him, if he thinks he can work with Frank and whichever other C-list actors he chooses to cast for roles. You know, I'm watching again Frank's Q&A with the press (which plays on a loop here at SON, if you haven't noticed, lol) and...I don't want to be the one to start any rumors or anything...but am I the only one who thinks the grind of producing GH is beginning to get to Frank a little bit? He seems much more gaunt and more "out of it" than I've seen him in the past.

Lucky Spencer is not an easy role to (re-)cast.

That's probably where Ron Carlivati had intended to go. I still would love to know how this cheap-ass show plans to stage a scavenger hunt when all they have in the way of sets are one multi-purpose room and a park bench with astroturf underneath.

Chances are, if you were a female, and you were hired to do a guest spot on "CHiPs," you were pretty much just another cutie for Ponch and Jon to quibble over.

Now that bugged the [!@#$%^&*] out of me - and I wasn't even alive when he still was on the show! IIRC, there was a scene on GL where Roger had a bonding moment with Fletcher and Holly's newborn daughter, Meg, who was born with Down Syndrome. In that scene, Roger promised always to look out for Meg, because he knew what it was like to be "different" from others. To me, that scene, along with the scene that @Mitch64 described upthread, really captured the essence of Roger Thorpe. He might have done some very dastardly deeds in life, and hurt a lot of people along the way, but you knew he'd always look out for the (metaphorical) underdog, too.

It's been my observation that, perhaps as a response to the feminist movement, anti-heroines truly came into vogue during the '70's. Of course, their roots go back further, to characters like Rachel (AW), Julie (DAYS) and Lisa (ATWT), but some notable examples from this decade might include Erica (AMC), Raven (EON), Bobbie (GH), Rita (GL), Karen (OLTL), Jennifer (SFT), Jill (Y&R), etc.

Who TF is that?

Anyone would be better than GR, really. Hell, I'd take Rick(y) Schroder before I'd take GR.

I love ZT, but he's not right for Lucky either. He reads more "Cassadine relative" to me.

Great. Just what we needed. Greg Rikaart bringing his special brand of...whatever to not one, not two, but THREE soaps simultaneously. (Becky Herbst should be used to doing the heavy lifting for herself and her on-screen partner by now, though.) Oh, FFS, lol. If it comes down to that, then just kill off Lucky for good.

I get what you're saying, @John, but if they wanted, for example, to stage an elaborate fire at the hospital that kills off a bunch of characters? As long as it affects the rest of the canvas in significant ways and isn't just something that's forgotten ten minutes after it happens, I'll be okay with the sudden and swift mass exodus.

"Unreliable," eh? Either she was too hopped up on "Peruvian marching powder," or she was playing hooky because she didn't know acting would be so hard when she took the job. Thanks, @will81!

"The Organization"::Michael Corleone::soap operas::Khan.

I agree. Of course, I have a list of characters who I would love to see gone - and yes, that list is a very long list, too, lol. But I'll be satisfied if Mulcahey and Korte can give each character better definition.

That's probably because it didn't. Fine, Charity Rahmer and Jake Silbermann it is! CM, as in Chandler Massey?

IOW, I'm too stupid to live.

Fortunately, we don't have to worry about Roger Howarth coming back again, lol.