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I agree.

Uhhh....

Does Portia object to Spencer and Trina's relationship because he's Caucasian(ish)? If she does, then that could be a very interesting story.

"Elvis" must have taken over by then.

Wow, you're right, lol! Ironically, I thought Christopher Atkins would have been a natural for soaps - but for Y&R or B&B, not for GH, lol.

I agree. IMO, "Cheers" and "Frasier" were the last two, non-family-oriented sitcoms that emphasized storytelling (and longer scenes) over just gags and (white) folks behaving badly. Once "Seinfeld" and "Friends" became the new thing, it seemed like sitcom plots were variations of, "So-and-so's got a new boyfriend, but how is she gonna handle him not being circumcised!?"

"We're here. We're queer. We're NBC Daytime."

I think the 2012 series was a good idea, but I agree with David Jacobs that they relied too much on the original cast members, who should have made limited or recurring appearances, and that the younger generation should have taken over more. I think the fact that they didn't was a sign that TPTB weren't too sure about the younger generation carrying the show on their own. I also agree with DJ that John Ross should have been more like Bobby and Christopher should have been more like J.R. If nothing else, "flipping the script" like that would've given Patrick Duffy and Larry Hagman more challenging stuff to play with, rather than a retread of familiar dynamics.

Wouldn't Christopher Atkins have been too old to play A.J.?

I thought the laugh was more reminiscent of papa Stefano's. But, yes, it seems like DAYS is positioning Megan to be Salem's answer to Tracy Quartermaine.

Ugh, I totally forgot about that, lol! Megan McTavish seemed to think that the more repugnant she made a particular character, the more fun she'd have in redeeming him (or her).

Really? I had heard that she was supposed to have been blinded. Of course, it doesn't matter; whether she'd been blinded by the explosion or paralyzed, she probably would've fallen off the wagon again, lol. If Ben (or Wes) had turned out to be Jock, then there likely would have been an Ellie/Jock/Clayton triangle. Unfortunately, I don't believe Steve Forrest had the same kind of chemistry with Barbara Bel Geddes that Jim Davis had had, so unless the plan was for Clayton to die or become too unlikeable....

It's funny how Megan Hathaway's resurrection, which seemed an improbability not that long ago, has wound up being the best thing to happen to the DiMeras and to DAYS in a long time.

I don't see how he could've been rehabilitated either. Granted, this was still the era when the soaps were into rehabilitating rapists, but Megan McTavish took Brent REALLY over the edge with the Marion deception and with Cutter and Nadine's murders, too. Perhaps, if Beaty had been in better psychological shape, he could've come back instead as Brent's lookalike brother or cousin, but not as Brent again.

For sure, I would adhere to David Jacobs' original conception of Bobby as a playboy who didn't want to get involved in the family business, with Pamela urging him to work at Ewing Oil (or, Ewing Energy, as it would be renamed) in the name of protecting his (and potentially their children's) legacy. I also would stick to the original plan of killing off Bobby early in the story. As a matter of fact, I might begin the reboot AFTER Bobby's death, with flashbacks to his and Pamela's courtship and brief marriage sprinkled throughout the first season or so. Beyond that, my concept for the reboot would diverge significantly (perhaps TOO significantly) from the original series. One, Jock and Ellie would have only two sons: J.R. and Bobby. Gary (and Lucy and Valene) would be excised from the Ewing family history. Ray Krebbs would still work at Southfork Ranch; however, he wouldn't turn out to be Jock's illegitimate son, and he would be a more comic character as the randy but illiterate ranch rand. (And no, there would be no Donna.) Two, the Barneses - Digger, Cliff and Pamela - would be dirt poor, a stark contrast to the wealthy (but not SUPER wealthy) Ewings. Digger would be an Alzheimer's patient at a memory care clinic outside Dallas. Cliff, as Tarrant County ADA, who is running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, is paying his father's mounting medical bills, as Digger doesn't have any insurance. Three, Sue Ellen still would be an alcoholic former beauty queen, very much like all the "real housewives" you see on Bravo. However, she and J.R. would already have a child...and it would be a daughter, not a son. Told that Sue Ellen would be unable to bear any more children, J.R. would be bitterly disappointed not to have a male heir, so he would resolve to raise his daughter (Ellie, after his mama?) like the son he never had. Four, although J.R. would remain very much the womanizer, there would be a new, original character - perhaps, someone who also works in the energy industry, or even an attorney, like Cliff - who would be J.R.'s longtime mistress. (Look at it like Charles and Camilla, with J.R. as Chuck, the new character as Camilla, and Sue Ellen as long-suffering Di.) She might be the only thing that J.R. loves as much as running Ewing Energy, but she is wise enough to know that J.R. would never leave his wife for her (nor would she really want him to). Throughout the series, there would be one running mystery: was J.R. responsible for Bobby's death? Bobby dies in a helicopter crash near the Texas/Oklahoma border while on his way back from an OU/Texas Tech game. But there would be a very strong implication that J.R. engineered the crash, because he does not want to share running Ewing Energy with anyone, not even with his own brother (or his sister-in-law, whose father just happens to be Jock Ewing's lifelong rival). Pamela would always wonder whether J.R. was responsible, and may come close to the truth once or twice before getting to the truth once and for all. During the first season, Pamela would learn she's carrying her late husband's child. J.R. and Sue Ellen hire a private investigator from Fort Worth to prove that the baby's real, biological father is her first husband, with whom Pamela has maintained a close friendship (even though he wishes it were more). Instead, the private eye uncovers proof that Bobby was the one who cheated...with another man. Namely, with a former pro football player turned sportscaster, whose relationship with Bobby stretches all the way back to when they pledged at the same fraternity at their alma mater, UT Austin. J.R. would ultimately decide not to go public with the information for fear of what it could do to Jock and Miss Ellie. However, Sue Ellen, thinking more about her and Ellie's legacy, would go behind her husband's back, causing J.R. to throw her out of the house and off Southfork for a period of time; and Sue Ellen, in turn, would choose to get even by hiring an alcoholic, down-on-his-luck novelist to collaborate with her on "Capricorn Crude," a roman a clef about her in-laws. Early on, there would be an allusion to the "dream season," with Pamela waking up and finding a very-much-alive Bobby in the shower, before waking up for real and realizing she was only dreaming. Finally, down the road, there could be a "Who Shot J.R.?" story, with one, key exception: this time, the culprit would be Digger. Everyone would automatically assume that Digger confused J.R. with Jock and shot him in a Alzheimer's fog...until Cliff and Pamela realize their father knew exactly what he was doing when he went that night to J.R.'s office. I hope KL did receive the same treatment. Who knows? Maybe we'd learn that Annie Fairgate and Kenny Ward hooked up one night; or that before he opened Knots Landing Motors, Sid once worked in an illegal "chop shop."

It would certainly tie in with that scene of Greg visiting Laura's gravesite in the season 13 finale. But I think any plans to bring back Laura would have been doomed to fail. Constance McCashin was irreplaceable, IMO, and given her feelings about being let go from the show, I doubt the producers could have convinced her to return, too. In a perfect world, though, they could have lured her back - either as Laura, or as her twin or lookalike.

I see her more as Phyllis' sister (not Avery, but a new character) than I do as Phyllis herself.

I think SFT would have had a better chance of surviving at CBS had P&G been willing to keep the show at the 2:30 slot. I'm sure the ratings took a hit with the time slot changes, but I'm also sure the ratings would have stabilized over time. CBS and P&G just needed to exercise a little more patience.

Jessie's improv with that hand puppet during the closing credits is...something.

I didn't know that show was still around.

Whenever I see the name "Audra," I think of Audra Lindley.

I think Ann Marcus was planning to have Val unearth some big secret about Greg in the course of writing his biography. (My money was on a long-lost son.)

Mel was Dorian's best pairing after Herb, and probably one of the best things Claire Labine ever did during her HW'ing stint at OLTL was create him as a new love interest for Dorian.

That seems weird to me. For some reason, I can't see supervillains like the Cassadines - and I see the Cassadines as supervillains - as the type to concern themselves with running actual businesses like, say, Y&R's Newman and Abbott clans.

Is that really a thing? Whatever happened to supervillains on soaps who were just super wealthy and powerful? Now, they have to be evil AND running conglomerates?