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In that case, we would HAVE to include the gun that Kristin used to shoot J.R.

Two more items I'd add: The "ridiculous eye sore" that you see here: And the train that that "piece of street trash," Maya Reubens, had the audacity to rip off Doreen Jackson's gold lame dress: Oh, we DEFINITELY MUST include the pastel jumpsuit that I swear Dee Hall wore for two years straight when she returned to DAYS in '91. And we have to include Niki Smith's red wig and Jean Randolph's glasses as part of the "Make Your Own Split Personality" exhibit.

A "Back from the Dead" exhibit would be nice, too. In fact, you could "kill" it at some point, and then bring it back, in keeping with the theme. For me, finding Marland's bible for "The Soul Survivors" would be like finding the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant in the same dusty garage.

That must've been during the period when GF and TG weren't speaking and GH's writers had to write around that, even though Luke and Laura were supposedly still together. Thank you! He could have quit at any time if he didn't want to keep playing "Luke & Laura Vs. Evil," but he never should have been allowed to dictate storylines to the degree that he did. Like you said, @carolineg, it's a disservice to the fans who have loved GH for years NOT to put them back together eventually. I agree that having Nikolas and Spencer as Laura's only real, main family in PC is wrong, but if the alternative is suffering through another, miserable Lucky or Lulu recast, then I'm good with the current status quo, lol. I suspect the adoration toward Luke and Laura was due to the fact that you had a young couple involved in these far-flung, very high-stakes adventures - the likes of which hadn't really been seen before, at least on daytime. Otherwise, yes, you take out the Left Handed Boy and the Ice Princess, and you have just another, run-of-the-mill soap opera romance (albeit, one with a very questionable beginning, lol).

I would put in Jeanne Cooper's fingernails and all the rings that she wore.

I realize that times and budgets have changed, but Y&R's wardrobe dept. has got to stop shopping at Five Below.

Belle's words to Shawn at the end are reminding me of Gomez's cry to Uncle Fester in "Addams Family Values": "YOU...ARE...MISTER DEBBIE!".

BITD, Kyle would have been recast before returning. I'm just saying.

I read somewhere - it might've been IMDb, lol - that the producers strongly considered returning to self-contained stories once DALLAS' ratings began to slide. IDK how successful such a move would have been after years of ongoing storylines, but at the very least, it might have brought some variety to a series that needed it.

I can't blame Doug Sheehan for feeling bitter and unhappy and wanting out. Everyone BTS was so sold on Gary and Val being endgame that they made Ben look like a damn fool in the process. The thing is, most TV series are supposed to be targeted toward women, as advertisers still consider women - and women 18-35 in particular - to be the biggest consumers and the most willing to try the newest products on the market. If you're a male actor going to work on a TV series, you know that; and if you don't, you should. Agree. Besides, Sam Behrens might be a great guy IRL, but on-camera, he's always been dull and devoid of chemistry with anyone, male or female. Even if Danny hadn't turned out to be a total psychopath, they would've been forced to write him off, as there was simply nowhere they could have gone with him.

Another actor whom I'd love to see again on a soap, despite all the remaining soaps being so piss-poor.

I'll bet Jacker saw herself as a "legitimate" playwright who was "slumming it" on a daytime soap opera and having to be subjected to NBC, P&G and even her own producer tear apart her work. Same. It seems like NBCD was thinking outside the box in hiring those ladies in order to salvage their lineup.

It's been suggested here and elsewhere that Pam Long and Doug Marland might have made a good co-HW'ing team, and I would have to agree (knowing, of course, that Marland was a man who had difficulty collaborating with anyone, lol). From Marland, you would have had the innate understanding of characters and well-made plots with all kinds of suspense; but from Long, you would have had the heart-tugging emotions and romance to keep it all from becoming too cerebral. (IOW, it would have been a lot like watching Nancy Curlee's work, just done by two people, rather than one.) I think Long and Marland's distinct styles would have complemented each other quite well - and I think he would have gotten along better with her, too, than he did with Agnes Nixon, whose style and alpha-dog approach to HW'ing was too much like his for their collaboration on LOVING to have been successful in the long run. Apparently, many actors at GL hated Gail Kobe - even though she was the EP who had brought the show out of the doldrums - and were glad to see her gone. To me, Nola was like Julie on DAYS. Viewers loved her, even though it was clear she had no real aptitude for work, lol. I mean, at least ATWT's Lisa could run a bookstore or nightclub; and even Julie could run a dress shop, antique store or casino/coffee house/nightclub/restaurant/diner (or whatever the heck Julie's Place is supposed to be). But could you really see Nola running a business like those? I know they had her and Bridget running Company for awhile, but that just felt like a step down to me. Given her love of old, romantic movies, I *might* have had Nola try her hand at writing Harlequin-type romantic novels, or those big sagas like "The Thorn Birds" or "Lace," which were popular back then. It might have been fun to see Nola evolve into an authoress along the likes of Danielle Steel or AW's Felicia Gallant. Similarly, if anyone in SF was equipped to run her own exercise or dance studio, it was Reva. And KZ's scene rehearsing with the Sugarbaker girls on "Designing Women" proves my point, lol.

In retrospect, the critical acclaim for the early Rauch/Brown & Esensten era seems unwarranted. You have to keep in mind, though, that GL was in serious trouble before their arrivals. Everything that had made the show a success throughout the early '90's had disintegrated. Paul Rauch's GL might not have felt like classic GL, but at least the show appeared to have some direction and life again. Agree. As much as folks tend to place the blame on Pam Long (and Jeff Ryder) -- and I can't say that I blame them for placing the blame on them -- from everything I have heard and read over the years, the majority of those decisions to write off characters that they had inherited from previous regimes did not originate from them. To put it another way, Long and her team truly enjoyed writing for the characters who were there before them and would have gone on writing for them, too, if not for Gail Kobe, P&G and CBS mandating that the show move away from all that and basically remake itself into a clone of DALLAS and DYNASTY, two shows which were HUGE during that era.

No offense, @Meredith, but could you please stop posting about how awful that "other soap forum" is? It comes across as very catty.

Has Jill ever HAD close friends? Or is she like Erica Kane, someone who doesn't know HOW to get along with other women without sizing them up to be competition?

The more that I see of Doug Sheehan and Joe Kelly, the more that I like. He is such a great, everyday character (and actor), the kind you simply don't see anymore on soaps.

Yep, it's Brooke, lol.

Y&R needs to eliminate its' dead weight with a serial killer, and GH...? Would you prefer he played Elton John?

I don't think so. I don't think there was anything wrong with picking up where the original miniseries left off. Again, I think the problem was that too many actors' roles had to be recast once it went to the series, and the replacements paled in comparison. Frankly, they would have been better off leaving well enough alone.

No, ladies and gentlemen, your eyes and ears are not deceiving you (any more than usual): that WAS Fiona Hutchison as "Tanya," two years before she joined OLTL as notorious Gabrielle Medina, and seven years before she returned to GL as Jenna. It wasn't one of Pamela K. Long's better ideas.

Agree. For years, those who produce the Oscar telecast have been at a loss over how to stop the ratings decline. They've tried just about every bell and whistle you could think of - multiple hosts! no hosts! female hosts! hosts with color! more categories! fewer categories! more live performances! no live performances! - but, if you ask me, the answer is simple. It's because most of the folks out there in TV land don't give a toss about films like "CODA" or "King Richard" or "The Power of the Dog." I'm sure they're all good and Oscar-worthy films, but the majority of viewers or potential viewers simply don't care.

IMO, Nola's basic problem was that she lived too vicariously through the old, black-and-white movies she'd watch while growing up at the boarding house. She really did see herself as some sort of tragic heroine, like Merle Oberon in "Wuthering Heights." Nola had to learn the hard way that life was not like it was in the movies; that sometimes, your dreams aren't supposed to come true, no matter how much you want them to. Of course, once she married Quint and had Anthony James, that all fell by the wayside, lol.

That's what I think, too. Up to that point, Floyd knew he was Kelly Louise/Stacey's biological father - after all, that's why he and Nola were supposed to get married before Nola realized she couldn't go through with it - but he didn't know that Nola had gotten pregnant by him only so she could trap Kelly into marriage. Poor Floyd. That man was so easily duped, lol.

At some point, I feel the members of the Academy will have to bow to changing tastes and recognize movies that maybe, once upon a time, they could have ignored. If only so, as you could say, they can stay relevant. I mean, I don't like the idea of a DC or Marvel comic book movie being up for Best Picture, let alone winning the statuette, but if that's what it takes....