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Good God, lol.

That "Step by Step" reunion will be bittersweet without Suzanne Somers there.

That was one thing that I did not like about Abby. I could understand why, to her, "suburban" equaled "dull," but to me, it always sounded as if Abby was judging Val just because she happened to prefer that lifestyle. The thing is, Abby should have understood more than anyone how much work went into being a suburban mom, especially when you have no spouse on hand to help you. Then again, as Mary Jo Shively points out in one episode of "Designing Women," it has always been the "stay-at-home moms" vs. "working moms." Maybe, in their own, subtle way, KL was attempting to reflect that. *shrug* I struggle all the time with how Charlene Tilton or Lucy could have fit permanently on KNOTS. As it was, even DALLAS' producers had a hard time coming up with anything for her. In the end, I feel like David Jacobs might have been right and that Lucy was just too "big" of a character to work on a comparatively more realistic show like KNOTS.

Thanks to Pluto TV, I've been able to re-watch some of JHB and Barbara Esensten's work on "Dynasty." I have to say, theirs were some of the better scripts during that show's final two seasons.

At this point, I just assume that Doris passed away, off-screen. If Richard Dean Anderson were up to returning to soaps - and yes, I know, he isn't - he'd be a good candidate to play "Roger Collins." (I don't think they ever said Sharon's father's name, so I'm just naming him "Roger," lol).

Bobbie was helping human trafficking victims when she died? Oh, dear. Why do I feel like they're going to reveal that Bobbie was murdered in Amsterdam?

I really like @Paul Raven's idea of introducing a long-lost, shady half-brother for Sharon. Someone who could stir up serious trouble and get this show moving again. But I'd also love to explore what really happened to Sharon's dad. Who knows? Maybe Sharon killed him accidentally when she was a teenager (before she and Doris moved to GC) and has blocked it out all these years.

IIRC, the last time we saw Jeff Cunningham, Abby, through some deputy, served him with a restraining order, barring him from seeing Olivia and Brian again or else he would face charges. I don't remember what happened to Jeff after that, or whether the restraining order was allowed to lapse, but, yeah, I think there were several occasions when he could've returned. For instance, Jeff could've shown up during Olivia's battle with drugs. That is, if Abby ever allowed Jeff to be notified (and I doubt she would've). I wonder what role he might've played in Olivia's recovery or even in Peter Hollister's death, since Abby and Olivia both were considered suspects. Jeff also could've returned during Olivia's relationship drama with Harold. For once, he and Abby would've been on the same side, agreeing that Harold was "bad news" and that Olivia was better off without him. And even though Abby would've hated doing it, I even could see her and Jeff concocting some scheme to have Harold arrested and/or Olivia leave town with her dad, too. For sure, Jeff should've been there after Olivia had attempted suicide. I can just see it now: Karen notifies Jeff about Olivia; Jeff returns to Knots Landing to be with his daughter; Abby discovers Karen was the one who notified him; Karen (who, IIRC, wasn't entirely unsympathetic toward Jeff when Abby had double-crossed him years before) tells Abby that Olivia's father had a right to know what had happened; Abby tells Karen, "He gave up that right when he tried to take her and Brian away from me. I told you before, Karen: no one hurts me." The thing is, KNOTS wasn't entirely averse to bringing back characters. Remember Mary Frances Sumner? Unfortunately, the Lechowicks were the ones who brought her back; and not only was she almost entirely different from what she was before (and I'm not talking just physical appearances either), but like everyone else during the Lechowicks' run, she was there only long enough to service the plot; and when she had serviced it, they dispatched with her in the ugliest way possible.

Won't it be difficult to host a murder/mystery party on a $.02 budget?

I will never stop laughing if they did, lol. Nope!

Hopefully, he has aged into his talent as well.

When was the last time any soap marked the real-life passing of one of their veteran actors appropriately? I know Y&R's memorial episodes for Jeanne Cooper, Kristoff St. John, etc, get some love, but if you ask me, I found those episodes to be rather hollow.

TBH, I'm surprised GH is acknowledging JZ's passing at all. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I wouldn't have put it past them to have ignored real-life events and kept Bobbie alive but off-screen and out of town with the attitude of "Jackie/her fans wouldn't have wanted it any other way." (Besides, how long was it before this show acknowledged Shell Kepler's passing even obliquely?)

I still believe they were paying homage to "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" with that look, lol.

It will be. Maybe not on CBS - perhaps on streaming? - but it will be.

Again, I agree. I'm just saying I don't blame her for not giving her all. There was nothing there for Sharon Case to give her all to.

"Tracker" plays like every other procedural series on CBS currently...which means it'll run forever.

If Chance/Sharon didn't make sense for me watching it, I can only imagine how Sharon Case must've felt playing it. I've always believed that an audience will go wherever you want them to, as long as you take the proper steps to get them there. I just don't believe Josh Griffith took enough steps to get us (or at least me) to a place where I could buy Chance and Sharon as a couple even temporarily. I agree. If Ashley's current storyline ain't working, it ain't because of Eileen.

I still would love to know who "K.C. Collier" was. I've never seen that name pop up anywhere else.

And in a year or three, when the buzz on him has cooled off, Bradley Bell will be glad to give him a part on B&B. ETA: Just saw the extended trailer for his new CBS series, "Tracker," in the WATN thread. So, instead of three years, maybe ten or eleven?

Oh, well. Onto the next scam.

I agree. He and Frank Salisbury were the best script writers ever employed by the soaps.

Yeah, Steve Burton should've gone down hard for that Monavie [!@#$%^&*]. Now he's got this fitness/life coach racket going and I'm wondering

They would have been better off going hostless for the event.

The "SCTV" crew were paying very close attention to the actual soaps when they made that parody. Even "Violet" and "Mojo" are so close to being like AW's Iris and Vivien that it's eerie, lol.