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This is where I'm at as well. I'm sorry that so many have had to suffer (and will continue to suffer) because they voted from a place of ignorance, but...shrug...y'all were warned!

Translation: "Fasten your seat belts, Y&R fans, it's going to be a bumpy ride!"

Oh my God!! This news is just too shocking to be believed. TCS played such an integral part in my childhood. Not a Thursday evening went by without me and my family tuning in to see the entire family. Jesus Christ, it's 2016 all over again. RIP MJW, you will be SORELY missed.

An icon in the truest sense of the word. She will be missed.

It would serve CBS and Paramount right to do all this just to have the Trump administration nix the proposed merger with Skydance anyway.

ICAM with you both. Frankly, I'm more upset about the news that CBS has cancelled "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" due to what they're calling "financial reasons." (Come on, CBS, who do you think you're fooling, lol?)

And yet, more engaging and more informative than every episode of "Soap Talk."

And then they mentioned Gary and the twins, lol.

In a way, I miss that era of television. TV shows today don't tackle any issues, take any stands or challenge anyone's beliefs. They're just...there, lol. IA. The Shapiros had built DYNASTY on a solid foundation with the wealthy Carringtons vs. the blue-collar Blaisdels, and Krystle caught in the middle. ABC and Aaron Spelling just needed to exercise more patience and allow them to tweak the show a little bit (maybe recast Lindsay with Heather Locklear?). Oh, it definitely veered into camp, lol! To KL's credit, however, their camp wasn't as embarrassing, because they still included "everyday scenes" involving the residents of Seaview Circle.

I don't think so either. At best, I see it as a companion of sorts to "Touched by an Angel" or "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman." Something that might've worked best on Saturday nights, where expectations are low. I also agree that FC as it came to be was not what Hamner himself wanted at the start. If you'll notice, too, that although he was EP for several seasons, he wrote only two episodes. To me, that says he wasn't as comfortable with FC as David Jacobs was with KL.

ICAM!!

IIRC, the issue wasn't with Elaine Princi being forced out and RS returning, per se, as it was with HOW Strasser was being asked to play Dorian now. Even when she returned in 1991 or thereabouts, there were complaints that she was OTT and a marked contrast from her original run. (I think it was Marlena Delacroix who complained that even Strasser's big, red locks were OTT, lol). Again, though, it wasn't necessarily her fault - at least, I didn't think it was. She was just playing what was written for her; and what was written for her wasn't anywhere near as subtle as what Sam Hall or Peggy O'Shea had written for her in the '80's.

IA. You're not alone in your thinking, @Reverend Ruthledge. The first seasons of DALLAS, DYNASTY and FC were probably their best, if only because they adhered the most to their creators' intentions. They weren't being forced to "glam up" yet, so more attention was paid to developing characters and so forth. KL's first season was good, too, but the limitations in David Jacobs' original "Scenes from a Marriage x 4" concept become apparent almost right away. For one thing, the inclusion of Gary and Val throws the rest of the ensemble off-balance, with Kenny and Ginger getting cheated out of better stories. For another, as John Pleshette pointed out in that online interview, it gets really difficult to get the four couples to interact realistically when, IRL, neighbors aren't so involved in each other's lives.

I'd say KL went full-blown soap opera starting with S4, with Gary and Val's marriage imploding over her discovery of his affair with Abby. S2 attempted a soap-ish approach, but I don't think it was successful, which is why S3 became a sort of mix of self-contained episodes and ongoing storylines. Even at the start of S4, KL doesn't really feel like the KL we all came to know and love until the final moments of what would become, IMO, a pivotal episode in KL's run. (I won't say anymore, so you won't be spoiled, lol).

Honestly, you'll go INSANE trying to piece together all things Wolfbridge, lol.

DAYS has always been soap opera's answer to "Maury," lol.

I agree with @Vee, too. IDK why people are always surprised whenever actors on long-running TV series or movies admit that they don't always get along, when 1) these people are artists at the end of the day, and artists are nothing if not temperamental; and 2) "everyday" people don't always get always along with their co-workers either. I say, as long as they showed up on time and prepared and they didn't bore the audience, I really don't care what happens anymore BTS.

And my petty ass is still laughing about that, lol.

Between this and that train business, Y&R desperately wants to turn the clock back to 1976.

I'm sure I've read somewhere that the season was supposed to end with Gary's "death," but that once CBS extended KL's episode order for the season, we got the cliffhanger at the Belmar Hotel instead. The Wolfbridge Group reminds me of those conspiracy films from the '70's where you had one character (in KL's case, Mack) taking on a shady organization whose motives aren't entirely clear, except you know that they're "bad news" and that whatever they intend to do will have far-reaching consequences on the public at large. I think FC tried something similar with Richard Channing and the Thirteen, but that story got bogged down with so much Golan-Globus-esque theatrics that the entire storyline looks cheap and tawdry today.

Me, too! Your reviews are fantastic, @dc11786!

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I agree. I mean, Betty also worked for years on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show;" and from what I've heard, neither MTM nor the rest of her cast and crew were the type to put up with c**ts (although, I do recall reading about some tense rehearsals over on the "Rhoda" set, lol).

Ironically, that was the first storyline on AMC that I hated from beginning to end, and I'd been watching the show, either with my mom or by myself, since 1981 or 2. To me, it was just beyond the pale that Janet could deceive so many folks like that, even though it'd been established that she and Natalie were not identical twins.