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Thank you! And wouldn't you know, on the very same day I made that comment, guess who's playing husband and wife on a "Murder, She Wrote" rerun? Yep, Dean Butler and Genie Francis. (I totally forgot about that episode, lol.) Me neither.

Unless "Jason's next move" is going to his local Macy's and picking out a new wardrobe that isn't all black and all leather, I'm not all that interested, lol.

This one, in particular! Every time I heard/saw this opening, I halfway expected Montel Williams or Sally Jessy Raphael to pop up and say, "On today's show....".

I agree.

And it all showed on screen, too.

Amen and hallelujah to that, lol! I agree! (Hell, even KNOTS LANDING couldn't remain set in the same cul-de-sac after awhile.) I'm also vetoing any titles that sound pun-tastic and downright stereotypical, like "Keeping Up with the Joneses." Save that [!@#$%^&*] for those two-cent church plays on Bounce, lol.

I agree. The one-family structure worked for the 15-minute soaps, because they didn't have the luxury of time to incorporate more than a handful of characters. Once they expanded beyond those 15 minutes, however, the soaps needed more families out of necessity. At the same time, I think a mistake that many modern-era soaps have made is throwing too many characters at their audience before they have had the chance to learn about them. Even if TG ends up being an hour-long soap, I hope they learn from the mistakes made by PASSIONS, SaBa, SuBe and others and really use that hour in the beginning to concentrate on a select number of characters before broadening the canvas to include others.

Nah, there's much too much scorched earth there to make another Scott/Laura pairing palatable to the audience. Especially after we learned about Scotty's role in the Theresa Carter madness. Once upon a time, I hit upon the notion of Laura hooking up with Luke's old chum, Robert Scorpio. It would have been one of those tales where the more the two fought their attraction, the more that attraction would have grown. (Similarly, I wanted the show at least to chemistry-test Kin Shriner and Emma Samms, because something about pairing Scott with Holly seemed very intriguing to me.) More recently, I thought it would've been interesting to see Laura actually finding love again with a Cassadine - Victor, to be exact. But that would have been contingent upon 1) Charles Shaughnessy sticking around and 2) Victor not becoming, y'know, evil and stuff? Nowadays, though, I just would like to see Laura paired with someone who's stable (so she can have the family and roots that she's always craved) and can make her laugh and support her whenever she encounters yet another crisis among her family, but someone who isn't dull the way Kevin tends to be whenever he isn't with Lucy. Someone like...well, remember the guy who played Almanzo Wilder on "Little House on the Prairie"? His name's escaping me at the moment, and I'm not saying I'd want him specifically, but that's the kind who I'm talking about. (I also thought she'd have made a good on-screen partner with Billy Moses, but that would've meant pairing Jeff and Laura and I just don't wanna go there under any circumstances, lol). But, in the end, I'm still the guy who wanted to bring on Justin Deas as Tracy's new love interest, so take everything I've just said with several grains of salt, lol. It's been my experience as a lifelong soaps fan that a character who is created specifically for a particular actor hardly ever works once that character has been recast. CW should be commended for giving her all to Nina, but truth be told, Nina bears too much of Michelle Stafford's imprint to work as a viable, long-term, "actor-proof" character - and I say that as one who generally doesn't care for Stafford.

I'd love to know where they intend TG's setting to be, because that could help in determining an actual title for the series as well.

I agree. They wrote Ross into a corner when they had him rape Natalie; and even though I think they kept him on for a few years afterward, you knew there was no way the writers would be allowed to write him again as anything other than a supporting, "talk-to" character in other people's stories. I mean, there's a good reason why, after he left, they barely, if ever, mentioned him again.

I agree. IMO, Jason needed someone who, for lack of a better word, was purer than Carly, because, even on the off-chance that he were to retrieve his lost memories, Jason still would have an edge about him. He wouldn't just snap back into being "Jason Quartermaine" like nothing had happened. (At least, that's my interpretation, YMMV, lol). Similarly, I think Sonny would have worked best with Lily - y'know, before she "blowed up real good," lol? - but theirs would have been a constant struggle over Sonny's being with "the organization" versus Lily's desire to protect him, herself and their growing family. And as for Brenda...? Well, I definitely think she should have been with someone like Jax, but not necessarily Jax, just b/c - if I'm being frank - I didn't like Ingo from day damn one, lol. Ingo was entirely too blonde and "pretty" for Brenda/Vanessa. She needed someone with darker, more brooding features - a real Rhett Butler-type, who would have been older, and played back in the halcyon days of the '70's and '80's by someone like Michael Woods or Lee Godart.

I wasn't going to say anything, but...yeah, lol.

Then, let her run some business that would allow to interact with most of the cast on a regular basis, sort of like when Ruby ran Kelly's.

IMO, the lyrics for the one that Johnny Mathis performed reminded me of something that an eight-year-old girl would have made up while sitting in the backseat of her parents' car during a long drive to her grandparents' house. They just went on and on with no point whatsoever.

One thing I wish Korte and Mulcahey would correct is Laura being the mayor of PC. That's...never sounded right to me for some reason. Especially when I think she'd be more useful running a women's center with Liz or working as some sort of youth/women's counselor at the hospital (or both).

I'm officially re-pitching my serial killer/hurricane/Lassa Fever II epidemic idea WITH the addition of Nina perishing as she sets fire to the hospital.

Nah, if he were to join TG for a three-month arc, I'd want it to be as a new character. Perhaps, as a successful businessman with a cool-sounding name like (sorry, Eddie Murphy) "Dexter St. Jacques," lol.

I guess he's just afraid he'll no longer be the kind of man that Laura Portia deserves.

I don't! I watched him yesterday. Even the under-five who played his physical therapist gave more to his scene than DT did. I literally screamed at my desktop screen: "You're paralyzed, n*ggro, not dead!" I'd set mine to "All I Need," since that was the only time I tolerated Jack Wagner even a little.

Not only does he set his alarm to it, but it's also his ringtone, his doorbell, his password on all his accounts, and five will get you ten, it's the song he's requested to be played at his homegoing, too (along with "Rise" and "Fascination").

Yes!!

I don't recall their being announced as HW's, but that was such a messy time backstage for GH, lol.

Just as I'm sure this song lives rent-free all the time in Donnell Turner's head:

If I were Ava, I would pretend to help Nina gain access to Sonny; then, after Sonny inevitably rages at Nina (with Ava present) and throws her out, I would pretend to Sonny not to know what Nina was talking about and warn him to protect himself from his wife, who is clearly becoming unglued.

Thanks, @Liberty City! So, I watched today. For sure, this "poisoned hip" business w/ Heather feels like Korte/Mulcahey justifying at least some of her craziest actions. Of course, it can't justify everything she's ever done - I'm still waiting for Heather's "origins story" that does, GH! - but as long as she doesn't morph into GH's answer to Myrtle Fargate, I'm okay with it. As a matter of fact, parts of today's episode felt like course correction time to me. You had Heather and her evil hip, you had Diane offering Alexis a way out of the (dying) newspaper business and back into the law game, you had Marshall, Curtis and Stella learning that he'd been misdiagnosed on account of being Black? Even Finn's phone call to whomever to look into Gregory's ALS and pull a metaphorical rabbit out of their hat feels like we're about to take a turn there (although, God knows where). And that little bombshell that Nina's about to drop on Joss? That definitely feels someone pulling the old plug on Joss and Dex's relationship ASAP. It's only Day 1, so I didn't expect any miracles. After all, there's a ton of stuff left behind by Chris and Dan that Korte and Mulcahey have to work through, and that's gonna take awhile. Already, though, I do feel like the pacing of scenes is catching up to the editing - we're not just taking a long, five-to-six-minute scene, breaking it up into 30-second bits to be sprinkled throughout the episode and then calling it a day - and that the dialogue isn't there just to recap stuff but to glean a little insight into motivations as well.