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I agree. I could be wrong, but I don't think Mark Hapka/Nathan was very popular, so the fact that Nathan hasn't been mentioned at all since he left Salem likely guarantees that we'll never see him or Melissa again.

Lordy, lol! But at least we know who Nick's parents were. I'm still trying to figure out who fathered Nathan, lol.

Even her battles with DID read as dull, and that's saying something, lol!

Make no mistake: DAYS was floundering. At best, Deidre Hall and Wayne Northrop's returns provided a sort of Band-Aid, but they alone could not salvage the rest of the show creatively. It NEEDED a new direction BADLY. I'm just not sure JER was the right person for that task (then, or now).

I wouldn't go that far, @Paul Raven, lol. I'm actually okay with rebooting/reviving AMC, but I think it needs to be done right, by people who "get" the show and its' overall message. Like @Errol said, it needs to be done either in daytime on a network or on streaming. Reviving it as a primetime series is not going to work.

That reminds me of what John Pleshette (ex-Richard Avery, KL) said about KNOTS and the difficulties of getting the show's original cast (four couples, all living together in the same cul-de-sac in Southern California) to interact. In real life, he said, neighbors don't become all that involved in each other's lives, so you end up contriving situations where they could be involved - like, for example, having Gary Ewing work for Sid Fairgate at Knots Landing Motors. That's why I tend to prefer soaps centered around families. Like you said, @te., family members might squabble with each other, but blood always will be thicker than water. Also, stories about families are something just about everyone can relate to. If you didn't come from a large or loving family, you can live vicariously through one on a soap. In the end, I wonder if it was worth spinning off LOVING into TC at all, just because LOVING always had been a low-rated show with not much of a following outside of its' core audience. Maybe Agnes Nixon, James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten would have been better off developing a brand-new soap that had no ties to LOVING whatsoever.

How could I forget the country Alice's? When Bonnie had the audacity to change the sign to one of a drawing of the late Alice Horton, wearing a Stetson hat and brandishing six-shooters, lol! You'll never convince me that JER loved writing for DAYS.

I think Douglas Marland would have used the flood as an opportunity to introduce a new family - most likely, a blue-collar family, who would have been particularly devastated by the flood - while keeping Jo, Stu, Patti, Liza, Sunny, etc. front-and-center. I know people think Marland couldn't write a half-hour soap, but I'd like to chalk up his stints on THE DOCTORS and LOVING to external forces, lol.

"Gold & Silver Circle Honor"? What is this? The Daytime Emmys, or the Kentucky Derby?

More than likely, Gary Tomlin wrote GH during the strike, Josh Griffith wrote Y&R (and directed it and acted out half the parts); Bradley Bell wrote B&B, and Anna Indiana wrote DAYS.

I wonder if TC took that approach deliberately in order to avoid looking like another hoary old soap opera and instead look hip and contemporary.

And the WGA is wrong for doing it.

It could've been worse: they could've asked SMG to present Lucci with the award. And why would Francesca James have been there?

I agree. And if they could somehow get Nancy Curlee or Patrick Mulcahey involved with the writing? Even better.

It doesn't surprise me that JC/Kay appealed to 12-17 year olds. After all, Kay Chancellor was a woman who looked fabulous all the time and had just enough money to tell people to go [!@#$%^&*] themselves. When you're twelve years old, that's a life goal, lol!

I think I see where you're coming from, @dc11786. Although a "found family" has its unique advantages, having a "traditional" family with multiple generations lends itself very well to conflicts, too. Like you've said, it all comes down to how families are explored, and TC apparently didn't explore its' "family" very well.

I'm not saying I'm okay with writers going Fi-Core, but I am REALLY uncomfortable with anyone publishing the names of those who do. That's a little too "Red Channels" for me.

If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times: social media will be the death of us all.

When I said "everyone involved," I didn't mean Bob Nixon. It's more than who'd they bring in to write and produce the show, though. It's also about the vision for the new show and its' tone. From everything that I have read about it, it sounds like "Pine Valley," or whatever it would be called, would be dark, and not at all like the AMC I remember watching. In fact, it's as if Megan McTavish is back and ready for prime time!

I know PASSIONS was the first time I'd heard anyone who worked in soaps talk about the 12-17 demos, but that might not be when that particular demo became so highly coveted. (Maybe it was during JER's DAYS 1.0?)

LMAO!! (I shouldn't laugh so hard at that, but even the show's creators cop to it being little more than "Cheers" in an airport, lol.) I still can't keep it straight in my mind which DAYS hangout begat what, but was Wings the successor to Blondie's, which was, in turn, the successor to Shenanigans? Or were they all separate hangouts? And how does Sergio's Doug's Place By the Lake figure into all this?

I agree. SFT's final EP, David Lawrence, might have had a prior working relationship with P&G, as well as a minor track record of producing outside of daytime, but nothing in his resume suggests to me that he was a visionary. It's kind of like when CBS hired Cathy Abbi to produce the last several months of LOL. The only other notable job she'd held was as an associate producer at Y&R; and I think I've read somewhere, too, that the higher-ups knew she wasn't cut out for the EP gig, but hired her, because they needed someone to run LOL into the ground and give them an excuse to cancel it. (Lawrence also reminds me of that string of no-name EP's at LOVING who were there when it was clear that no one who was any good wanted anything to do with that show.) And I don't know whether I was the one who had suggested a Pamela K. Long/Douglas Marland team-up, @Soaplovers, but I'll gladly take credit for it, lol!

I think it needs to be dead in the water, if it isn't already. As much as I would love to see Erica Kane back on my TV screen, I don't trust everyone involved in this project to do right by Agnes Nixon's legacy.

For a minute, @soapfan770, I thought you were talking about the sitcom, "Wings," lol.

I support writing out LK/Kate, but only because it's clear no one at DAYS knows what to do with Kate except make her the town sex toy.