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For all of their strengths as writer/producers, the Lechowicks were often too concerned about being funny and unpredictable to worry about subtlety. Once they found the note for each character, they played the hell out of that note until they stopped being characters, and started being caricatures. It wasn't the Lechowicks who killed off Linda. It was John Romano.

I read somewhere that record companies wanted Tina to be more like the Pointer Sisters, who were a pretty big act around the time of Tina's comeback, but who had faded from the charts by the end of the '80's. I love the Pointer Sisters, too, but even I know their hits don't have the shelf life that Tina's songs from the "Private Dancer" album have.

What happened to Sharon Case's nose? And why does Linden Ashby look like a roadie?

I agree. In the past, Abby had done malicious things, but her motivations were always clear and reasonable. But planting drugs on Harold so he would stay away from Olivia? Threatening Ted Melcher with proof that he was responsible for the Murakame murders? That was too much. It got to a point where you, as a viewer, had to ask, just how much money and power does one person NEED anyway? Once Val had freed herself and the twins from Danny, and she and Gary had finally reunited, the two should have married right away and left town to start over somewhere else. When the Lechowicks came up with the "brain virus" as one more obstacle to Val and Gary remarrying, it was clear that the Ewings had run their course.

I agree. One of my all-time favorite soap sets was AMC's original Cortlandt manor drawing room, which fitted the gothic undertones of the original Cliff/Nina/Palmer/Daisy/Myra storyline so well. JFP didn't mangle just the Newman ranch. She also took an axe to the original and much-beloved Chancellor living room - again, as @Darn said, for no good reason other than she could. Fortunately, she didn't stay any longer at Y&R, or else God knows what the Abbott living room would look like today.

I'd much rather see Sharon reunited with her long-lost father.

Now you've got me thinking Sonny was "nervous, but excited" to see how the renovation of his home had turned out.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: DAYS. Needs. New. Blood. It's fantastic to see that veterans like John/Marlena and Patch/Kayla are still front-and-center, but not if that means watching them play out the same, tired adventure tales like it's still 1985. DAYS needs NEW characters, NEW families, NEW situations (that aren't bad sci-fi or bad camp) for those characters to get into. It's time.

I agree. FC's producers probably thought KA would bring her DAYS fans to their show with her. But soap fans aren't monoliths. We aren't going to watch a new show just because our favorite actor from another show has joined the cast; and even if we do, we aren't going to stick around if you don't give that actor an actual character to portray. Pilar Ortega wasn't a character; she was just a substitute for Melissa.

You have to remember, though, that TV writers and producers often have little time outside of their hectic production schedules to watch their own shows, let alone others'. But I do think anyone taking on the assignment of running a revival or reboot should sit down and familiarize themselves as much as they can with the original series before doing anything else.

Actually, @kalbir, I didn't. I know there are others who feel differently, and I can't say that I can't see their point of view on the subject. However, I recognized the fact that Michele Lee, Donna Mills and Joan Van Ark were aging and that maybe the producers were running out of fresh ideas for Karen, Abby and Val. (They certainly were for Abby, which is why I think DM was right to leave when she did, even though her absence left a big hole in the show for the last four seasons). For me, the bigger issue than whether or not Nicollette Sheridan ate the show is whether Paige's relationship with Greg was believable. Watching the show, there were times when I thought NS and William Devane made the pairing work, and then there were times when I was either creeped out (after all, Greg was old enough to be her dad - and thanks to Anne, for a few minutes, everyone thought he WAS her dad!) or confused as to what Greg saw in Paige after being with Jane, with Laura and even with Abby. That's why I wish Greg had had a son, who could've been a perfect on-again, off-again romantic partner for Paige. Also, I wish Lisa Hartman had stayed on as a sort of counterpoint to NS. On the one hand, KL had changed so much by the time she left that it was getting harder to weave her into storylines in ways that would have made sense. (Hence, the Ben/Cathy flirtation, lol). On the other hand, without a heroine like Cathy, Paige was eventually forced into that role; and frankly, I never bought Paige as someone who wasn't a schemer. Ideally, there should have been three tiers to the females on KNOTS, with ML, DM, JVA, Constance McCashin and later Michelle Phillips and Kathleen Noone on the top tier; LH, NS and maybe Lar Park Lincoln or one other female on the next tier; and Tonya Crowe and Stacy Galina on the bottom.

I agree.

I agree that the key lesson from Tina's life is that it's never too late to reinvent oneself. You just have to find the strength within yourself to do it.

In that case, I guess the thrill is gone for old man Corinthos, lol.

Okay, well, let's just hope he shoots her at the altar instead, lol.

I'm just waiting to see the moment when Sonny leaves Nina a sobbing mess at the altar. Cynthia Watros gives good jilted bride.

Unless we find out that Samantha once spent the night with Roman while he was protecting Marlena from the Salem Strangler (and Roman didn't realize he was guarding the wrong twin). By the way, I'm totally kidding, lol.

I see. In other words, @Vee, they want to make HBO/WB and Discovery content indistinguishable from each other. Yeah, that plan is not gonna work, lol.

I see your point, @AbcNbc247. There's probably a better way to tell the kinds of stories that DAYS tells even with their miniscule budget. That's because she's not really Marlena! It's Samantha, her back-from-the-dead twin sister! Watch!

Since when don't viewers love unscripted shows?

I played this video so often on the jukebox in the arcade at Circus Circus that I was banned from there for the rest of that summer. So, what did I do? I went across the street, to the Riviera, and I started playing the video on the jukebox in THEIR arcade. RIP Tina. You were one hell of a woman.

I wish DAYS would pare down in scope and get back to basics. No more outlandish plots or capers; the budget isn't coming back, and what was even slightly passable on the network now looks just plain stoopid on Peacock. Just get back to simple, heartfelt, character-driven stories that people can relate to. And, you know, I think there's a part of Ron Carlivati that would like to get back to that kind of storytelling, too, but Corday, NBC/Universal and/or Sony won't let this show move into the 2020's.

Maybe Bambi Brewster (LOVE OF LIFE) would qualify for this award, lol.

David Selby would have made a good Keith Dennison on Y&R.

I always saw DALLAS as being like a modern equivalent to the Arthurian legends or the Icelandic sagas. Nothing about it could be small in scale; it always had to be EPIC.