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"Tracker" plays like every other procedural series on CBS currently...which means it'll run forever.

If Chance/Sharon didn't make sense for me watching it, I can only imagine how Sharon Case must've felt playing it. I've always believed that an audience will go wherever you want them to, as long as you take the proper steps to get them there. I just don't believe Josh Griffith took enough steps to get us (or at least me) to a place where I could buy Chance and Sharon as a couple even temporarily. I agree. If Ashley's current storyline ain't working, it ain't because of Eileen.

I still would love to know who "K.C. Collier" was. I've never seen that name pop up anywhere else.

And in a year or three, when the buzz on him has cooled off, Bradley Bell will be glad to give him a part on B&B. ETA: Just saw the extended trailer for his new CBS series, "Tracker," in the WATN thread. So, instead of three years, maybe ten or eleven?

Oh, well. Onto the next scam.

I agree. He and Frank Salisbury were the best script writers ever employed by the soaps.

Yeah, Steve Burton should've gone down hard for that Monavie [!@#$%^&*]. Now he's got this fitness/life coach racket going and I'm wondering

They would have been better off going hostless for the event.

The "SCTV" crew were paying very close attention to the actual soaps when they made that parody. Even "Violet" and "Mojo" are so close to being like AW's Iris and Vivien that it's eerie, lol.

What can I say? Everybody loves a trainwreck!

But at least it wouldn't have me feeling like I'm watching a black-box theater production of "The Lady or the Tiger."

Which is a shame, because I think he would have been just as good with HBS as Margo as he was with Margaret Colin. I don't know what it is, but I've always been more fond of the quirkier, more off-beat actors on soaps than I am of the ones who played heroes and ingenues.

Why did the Dobsons leave ATWT the first time (in 1981)? And why did they return less than a year later?

Erica always had trouble with women who didn't necessarily need the constant love and attention from men in order to validate themselves. To me, Brooke was what Erica could've been with a lot less insecurities.

Mason/Julia was my favorite couple on SaBa, because their conflicts always were internal rather than external.

You know you're a POS when you've got Deidre Hall being critical, lol!

Maybe Bill Bell should have brought Darlene Conley to B&B as Rose DeVille instead, lol!

I agree.

Please tell me Tara's shoe company wasn't named "Locke Step."

Actually, @Sapounopera, I thought SaBa's sense of humor helped the show stand out from the rest of the pack. (Another reason why I would've loved to see the Dobsons head-write AMC or OLTL). But I do agree that there needed to be more of a balance between the humor and comedy and strong storylines that would have a real impact on the canvas. Too often, stories on SaBa were wrapped up much too quickly with little to no lasting effects on characters.

And guess who's been in cahoots with him the whole time? That's right: Jordan!

Oh, Lord, yes, lol. I laughed so hard listening to him. Then again, I laughed pretty hard at pretty much every actor who wasn't from the area where they shot but who gamely tried the accent anyway.

I still remember when he participated in those "I Love the" docuseries on VH1. SMH.

The only thing that I still remember about GL's primetime anniversary special is when several of the show's actresses sat around and talked for an entire segment about all the "hot" men who were on the show at that time. Like, seriously, ladies, take some cold showers, lol. AW's primetime special was like most ads that NBCD's marketing department would make for GENERATIONS: they gave the uninitiated a show that was far more racy than what it really was.

Exactly. I remember JER talking up the show beforehand to the soap mags, referencing PP and other works and saying it would be a traditional soap but "with a twist" (meaning, of course, Tabitha and Timmy and that creepy girl who was warning Dana Sparks that "evil is coming!"), but nothing that said, "But we'll also give our audience a few playful winks and nudges and just have some fun with the conventions of this genre." Norman Lear made it clear at the outset that "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" was not meant to be taken seriously, as did ABC with "Soap." If your intent is to send up something like the soaps, then you say so, so your audience doesn't go in with false expectations. Otherwise, if you don't make that clear up front, you're just confusing us. Frankly, I think JER was the only one who thought what he was writing was any good, satire or not, and that no one else who was affiliated with PASSIONS ever had the heart to tell him otherwise. By the way, I apologize for turning this thread into a PASSIONS-oriented one, but I've always seen that show in particular as the final, bitter outcome of a gradual dumbing-down of soaps that began all the way back in the early '80's with the Ice Princess storyline on GH.