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In a way, I think it would have been better for DYNASTY's costume department to buy off-the-rack, since I'm not exactly a Nolan Miller fan, lol.

You know, I wonder whether Julia Roberts still watches DAYS. (Presuming, of course, she's ever really watched DAYS, lol.)

Agreed!

Relax, Sable, Cousin Alexis isn't after your costume jewelry.

Which, to me, was unfortunate, in retrospect. Before "C.S.I." (and "Survivor" and "Big Brother"), CBS had a long-standing reputation as a network for shows that appealed largely to women, going all the way back to "I Love Lucy." I mean, when you think about all the female actors and characters who have helped shape the modern television landscape, the majority of them, I would say, came largely from CBS shows. With the success of "C.S.I." and others, however, it seemed as if the tide began to turn AGAINST women at the network, to the point where Les Moonves felt entitled to remold CBS itself into this testosterone-driven bastion of white, male toxicity that persists to this day, long after he was officially shown the door. To put it another way: it's hard for me to reconcile the CBS that gave us "C.S.I." and all its' spinoffs with the CBS that gave us Lucy, or "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," or "Murphy Brown." It's like watching two completely different networks. I can't believe that generic-as-[!@#$%^&*] spinoff has lasted as long as DALLAS and KL.

Ah, yes. Matt and Melody Phillips. IIRC, too, Matt and Melody realized how much they still loved each other after she was beaten nearly to death by some dude she was seeing.

OMG, Josh Griffith totally stole my Victoria-in-a-car-accident idea, lol! But seriously. They've written Ashland into a corner.

If Bradley Bell thinks Steffy's amnesia is a big never-before-on-daytime twist, then he's never watched a soap opera in his whole damn life.

LOL! Well, then, who would YOU want this hypothetical "Salem Sniper" to take out?

One thing I would have done differently with Jill's last storyline - and I grant you, it's minor in the scheme of things - but I would have brought back Hunt Block as Peter - still dead, of course, but now as a manifestation of Jill's conscience, plotting and scheming with her, and figuring out the best way to eliminate Val from everyone's lives. That might have made (more) sense. BUT...lol...I would have had Danny and Jill team up at some point. Ben disappears/is presumed dead, and it looks like Gary and Val are about to reunite, which would make Danny and Jill very, very nervous. So, as Jill would say to Danny, "You help me get rid of my problem...and I'll help you take care of yours." Heck, Danny and Jill could have even hooked up a few times, engaging in some hot, sweaty sex, as they plot how to keep the former Mr. and Mrs. Ewing apart for good.

That's right! He was! I totally forgot about that until you brought it up, @BetterForgotten! For the life of me, though, I can't remember what the project was supposedly about. Either it was a TCS revival, which I highly doubt, or it was a brand-new show about a multi-generational family under one roof or something to that effect. I think a big problem with CBS's dramas during that period was that they weren't innovative, or innovative enough. On NBC, you had "Hill Street Blues," "Miami Vice," "St. Elsewhere" and "L.A. Law," to name but four; and on ABC, you had "Moonlighting," "thirtysomething," "China Beach," etc*. But what did CBS have? Aside from "Beauty and the Beast" and "Wiseguy," they had the kinds of shows that appealed more to older, conservative viewers who didn't watch TV for experimentation or innovation. (*To say nothing of the half-hour "dramedy," which ABC perfected with "Doogie Howser, M.D.," "Hooperman" and especially "The Wonder Years.")

You know your career's going nowhere when you land a role on a series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. (Which is why I STILL nominate her former, on-screen husband, David Conrad, for a Phillip Chancellor recast on Y&R, lol.) UEA was like DARK SHADOWS: the longer it went on, the more bizarre it became.

I ain't saying Linda Evans is a brilliant actress, but she was far more capable than the dross that they always wrote for her on DYNASTY. As a miniseries, BE was pretty good, with good casting and a strong story. It's just should have stayed as a miniseries, lol.

Agree. Given what had happened years before between Joshua and Cathy, Val should have seen the warning signs in Danny. If Val had just admitted that she knew that Danny wasn't perfect, but that after everything she'd gone through - with Gary, with Ben, with J.R., with Lilimae, with Joshua, with Abby (and the people who stole her twins), with Jill, with everyone who'd ever hurt her - she had to believe there was something worth saving in Danny - even if it was way, way, way down deep - or else she would lose not just her faith in people but her sanity as well.... If she had just told Gary, or Karen, or Mack, "I've got to make SOMETHING in my life WORK - for myself, and for my kids, too!". Then, maybe, we could have gone along for the ride. Sure, our hearts would have been breaking the whole time, knowing that Danny was irredeemable; and we would have worried, too, about how Val was going to cope once the inevitable happened - personally, I would have had Val develop an eating disorder - but at least we wouldn't have come away thinking Val was the dumbest woman God or David Jacobs had ever created. Alexis Colby would have planted drugs on her son-in-law - and therein, boys and girls, lies the problem.

Sigh. I guess the COVID pandemic is officially over.

A mysterious sniper strikes, killing Abigail. Everyone thinks it's Gwen...until Gwen is murdered in the exact same way as Abigail. Ladies and gentlemen, this is how the Salem Sniper story begins.

IIRC, Stephanie Hodge's character on "Unhappily Ever After" was killed off at one point, then brought back as a ghost, then retconned into not being dead after all, then written out altogether. It was a strange little show. I'll admit that I suffered through all three seasons of "Nurses," largely hoping that it would finally -- FINALLY -- get its' you-know-what together. Alas.

CBS tried SO hard to make "Tour of Duty" work. It seemed like each new season was a completely different show. Didn't I read somewhere (maybe on this board) that "Roseanne" actually topped TCS but that the margins were so close that Nielsens had them tying?

Not to mention the fact that "Sally's Friend" also turned out to be Bobby and Betsy's preschool or kindergarten teacher. Here's how I might have handled the Gary/Amanda/Danny/Val story: First, I would have casted better actors than Penny Peyser and Sam Behrens. God bless those two, but like most of the Lechowicks' hires, they were so dull; and Peyser, in particular, looked not at all like the kind of woman whom Ted Shackelford's Gary would have seen as anything other than a friend, quite frankly. Second, I wouldn't have done that "Sally's Friend" crap. Unless the intent was to reveal that Jill was very much alive, it was a pointless misdirect for the audience. I would've just had Gary and Amanda meet one day at Bobby and Betsy's school, as Gary is either dropping off the twins or picking them up, as a favor to Val. Third, I would have introduced Danny first through Gary and Amanda. Gary and Danny meet in passing -- perhaps, when Gary picks up Amanda for one of their dates -- and initially, things seem fine between the two, with Gary's first impression of Danny being that he seems like a nice, average guy who still cares about his ex-wife. However, Amanda reveals to Gary that Danny keeps pressuring her for a reconciliation, even though she's made it clear multiple times that their marriage is over. Out of concern for Amanda, and knowing himself how hard it can be to let go of a relationship, Gary takes it upon himself to reason personally with Danny. Gary tells Amanda he thinks he got through to Danny, and Amanda is relieved. However, an enraged Danny later breaks into Amanda's apartment. He comes close to raping Amanda; however, Amanda is able to fight him off. When Gary learns what happened, he urges Amanda to press charges against Danny. Amanda is reluctant to press charges, but she does agree to file a restraining order. When Danny receives the restraining order, he devises a plan to get even with Gary for interfering in his and Amanda's lives -- a plan that isn't clear until he arranges a not-so-accidental first meeting between himself and Val. I think the worst story that the Lechowicks came up with on KNOTS was the one about drug smuggling at Lotus Point that ended with Paige, Michael and Johnny being stranded or held hostage in Mexico. I mean, drug dealers infiltrating Lotus Point? Come on!

Hopefully, they would realize that BEFORE "Abigail" is lowered into the ground. I mean, I would hate to think that the E.R. at UH or the M.E.'s lab was so sloppy that they sent her body off to the mortuary w/o realizing she had a mask on the whole time.

Exactly. And I cannot agree with you MORE, @carolineg, about Xander, lol. Meanwhile, I love that headline "ATWT'S ROSANNA LEARNS HER MOTHER WAS A MONSTER." Chances are, if that were happening today, she'd learn Sheila was literally one of the walking dead, lol.

Say what you want about Bill Cosby, but his impact on the television landscape w/ TCS was enormous and is still being felt today.

I don't think LML and Bernard Lechowick were running on fumes so much as they were running out of tricks.

You know what? I like that ad! It's not bogged down with all the distracting crap that the GOP keeps forcing Democrats to respond to. It's short, it's sweet, and it gets to the heart of what her constituents obviously care about most.

Frankly, I don't see how. Perhaps, if Will were to die off-screen, or if Sonny were to receive a "Dear John" letter from him, I could see Sonny turning to drugs or drink in order to numb the pain. But you know what would be weird? If it were Leo, of ALL people, to help Sonny beat his addiction and get sober again. It'd show a surprisingly human side to Leo's nature and possibly lay the groundwork for Leo/Sonny Part Deux.