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Wrong thread.

I think that's how most people become soap fans: by watching it as children or young adults with their relatives. Either that, or they get hooked while trying to sober up between keg parties at college.

I agree, @DramatistDreamer. I, too, chose not to watch, figuring I could catch Susan Lucci's speech later on YT (which I did). The days of the industry giving a damn about the soaps are long over.

This country is fucked if a reporter don't know who the hell Susan Lucci is.

You know the worm has turned when I'm sorry to see Krista Allen go.

More than that, DAYS doesn't have the budget anymore to gather everyone who IS on the canvas for the ceremony. The past several years, it's been just the Hayeses and whichever actors hadn't met their episode guarantees that week.

Ah, I got my storms mixed up! Thanks, @robbwolff!

Ah, but you're wrong. I do like Deidre. And Marlena. But I don't kid myself into thinking she is The Most Important Character In DAYS History.

Doug and Julie weren't "lifted out," because they weren't popular anymore. They were marginalized and then written out by a writing and production team who thought that youth was where it was at. And before you start talking about SSH being "hammy" and "ridiculous," let me remind you and everyone else of Dee's performance as Marlena running away from the disembodied head of Tom Horton.

Now I KNOW you're trolling. Who the hell brought the show to #1 in the ratings? Who is the only daytime actor (aside from her real-life husband) ever to make the cover of TIME magazine? Because, it sure as [!@#$%^&*] wasn't Deidre Hall.

Oh, well!

And if you believe in God, then you probably also believe that God created the creators of DAYS via the generations of ancestors who came before them. So, when you take a step back and look at the entire picture, you'll see that it was God who was ultimately responsible for the Bradys. (Whether He deserves praise for that, I'll leave up to y'all.)

But, Ted, Irna and the other guy created Alice and Tom, so....

They all owe their existence to Julie, since Don was brought on as a spoiler for her and Doug. No, wait! Actually, they owe their existence to Ted Corday, Irna Phillips and Allan Chase, because it was they who created Julie. Like sands through the hourglass, bitches!

Pat Falken Smith created the Bradys (and the DiMeras) to contrast with the Hortons and Andersons. Roman and Marlena were paired in order to create a spoiler for a potential Don/Marlena reunion (which, obviously, never happened). Just as Tony DiMera was introduced as Liz's ex-husband (er, still-husband, I guess?), and Vanessa DiMera was supposed to be a new love interest for David Banning. It all helped the new families become better established in Salem, but it's not the same as saying they were created FOR other characters.

This will be an unpopular opinion, for sure, but I think it's time DAYS retires the Horton tree trimming ceremony.

If you start quoting "Brown Penny," I'm outta here!

That isn't saying much.

Ron Carlivati is far too stupid to be the devil.

She ain't Lisa Rinna, but I'll take her back as Billie on DAYS.

That's okay. I'm still glad you made us aware of the article. David Milch has become another hero of mine.

If anyone could have turned out to be different from what anyone would have expected, it could have been David. For instance, he could have made his first appearance during the second season as a biker, the antithesis of his father, but maybe more in line with Daphne's side of the family. And the whole episode could have been about Frasier and Freddy attempting to mend the rift between Niles and David, but finding themselves at odds, too, over the best way to do it.

Thanks, @janea4old. David Milch is a brilliant writer, and a brilliant human being. Complicated, yes, but brilliant nonetheless. [!@#$%^&*] Alzheimer's.

I guess it would depend on when the story was told, but I'd love to have my mom's all-time favorite, Fred Williamson, in the part. That way, I could laugh and say, "So, I finally got you to watch DAYS!," lol.

Well, like we always say, it's called THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS for a reason. Bill Bell wanted his show to be about how the youth adapts to the challenges of their times. But that's a little hard to do when there's hardly any youth around, and those that are around stand on the sidelines while their parents and grandparents still act as if they're in their twenties and thirties.