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Not that there wouldn't have been opportunities! For instance, they could've hired George Takei (there's your ST person) as one of Chao-Li's relatives, who was also after the Nazi treasure. Or they could've hired Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker (a.k.a. C3PO and R2D2) as another team out for the gold (and comic relief for the storyline). Heck, they could've even hired none other "Blofeld" himself, Donald Pleasance, as a sworn enemy of Gustav and his father's, who will stop at nothing, including romancing poor Emma, to keep Riebmann from reclaiming the treasure.

I agree. Especially because it happened so damn quickly, with absolutely no breathing room for him, for Cathy, for all of us. David Jacobs insisted that was the plan all along, but I doubt it. I think they had every intention of keeping Joshua around for years to come, but Michael Filerman and his ego ruined everything. I'd still love for someone who was there to explain to us what the original intention was for Empire Valley; was it ALWAYS meant to be revealed as an underground spy network? Because, even if that wasn't how it started, it still feels as if they were leading up to something big. Otherwise, why invest so much time in another real estate development scheme? We'd already been there and done that with Lotus Point.

Honestly, with Paul Freeman ("Raiders") and Sarah Douglas in the cast, I'm surprised FC didn't attempt to snag a "Star Wars" or "Star Trek" veteran as well.

I don't know about Mack, but I would've bought it. The poor girl had to be on something if she believed the Joshua she met and fell in love with was still there. But seriously. I guess all the signs pointing toward Joshua's downfall were there from the beginning: the absent mother, the abusive father, the basic naivete about the world beyond his father's church. Nevertheless, I feel like Joshua (and the audience) didn't have enough time to enjoy the upswing his life in Knots Landing had taken before it all collapsed into [!@#$%^&*]. It's like, one minute, he's the new go-fer at Pacific World Cable; the next minute, he's taken over Rev. Kathrun's show and getting fantastic ratings; and then, the minute after that, he's beating the hell out of Cathy and blaming half the cast for taking away his show. And it's all happening within, like, a year, lol. I realize Mike Filerman hated Alec Baldwin and wanted him gone like yesterday, but damn!

I miss him.

I like the way you think - mostly because, in this case, I thought the same thing myself, lol.

I wouldn't put it past this show to say Drew shot himself, lol.

I agree. DYNASTY might've taken everything to the next level with the Moldavian Massacre, but I think FC wasn't too shabby either that season, refashioning itself as a cross between "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and a James Bond movie, with a Special Guest Appearance from Ursa, lol.

As I see it, Willow Tait Quartermaine is the most dangerous kind of woman: the kind who has nothing left to lose. So, why NOT allow her to decide she's no longer willing to "play nice" and figure out a way to avoid prison and still get even with Drew and everyone else she believes has betrayed her? That's the kind of "heel turn" that many soap fans live for. So, of course, that means Frank Valentini ain't gonna do it, lol.

It's remarkable how the four major primetime soaps all tanked at around the same time...but not at all surprising. DALLAS was trying too hard to outdo DYNASTY, and DYNASTY was trying too hard to outdo itself. FC had lost its' way already when they were forced to wrap up the Gustav Riebmann arc sooner than planned, and even KL managed to piss away the momentum they had built over the previous two seasons with the Empire Valley crap. It's as if the four shows made some strange pact to do whatever they could to sabotage themselves and drive the audience away.

Is it possible that WIllow might be faking DID or whatever? You know, like how we all know she was faking her cancer (even if the show refused to come out and say so)?

TBH, even "Sex and the City" failed to make a threesome seem sexy.

How many more times do we need to rehash THAT ordeal (for Mary Jo, and for the rest of us)?

Let's be honest: almost anything is better than "She's the Sheriff," lol.

Scenes set inside health clubs were the same as scenes set at discotheques: they still were the same, stilted, exposition-heavy conversations that used to take place around the kitchen and coffee table. The fact that they now were occuring in public and at "trendy" places like health clubs or nightclubs had no bearing whatsoever on how the conversations were conducted - and really, ladies and gentlemen, who discusses their most personal matters with friends in places like health clubs or discotheques anyway?

All these years later, and I still want to shake some sense into that little brat.

And that would be part of the fun! Chase and Brook Lynn have been chaste from day one, living out her weird Laura Ingalls Wilder fantasy; and then along comes Drew (or Willow, or Drew AND Willow, because, hey, why not?) and now we have D.H. Lawrence in the daytime! (Of course, I'm kidding! Don't be ridiculous!)

ATWT didn't have a disco by the time he arrived, but it did have a health club, another late '70's/early '80's fad that many soaps tried desperately to incorporate with very mixed results, lol.

There are two things that I remember about "Alice in Wonderland": 1) Donna Mills played a rose; and 2) the kid who played Alice was a royal PITA to watch. (And I was like, what, six years old at that time, lol?)

I mean, it's not like these shows could pretend disco didn't exist, but they could've just had characters talk about going to one (off-screen) and I think most of the audience would've been fine with that.

No, but at least I could pretend this show doesn't actually take place in the 1840's.

And then there's Erica's ill-fated (and mercifully short-lived) disco on AMC. As if a discotheque would ever be a successful business venture in a Philadelphia Main Line town like Pine Valley, lol.

You mean you don't remember when George caught "Disco Fever," lol?

I have a hard enough time believing 'em on shows like "The Jeffersons," lol.

The rest of America: "Who cares?"