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Okay, putting back on my fanfic writer's hat...

I'd have to agree with her. Dianne Kirkwood was little more than a red herring in Karen's stalker story. Frankly, I think giving Karen a new career as a talk show host was a dumb idea to begin with.

I disagree. I think it has to happen when the character(s) are offscreen, out of town and away from the audience's attention, or else you look like a hack who never bothered studying the show.

He'll be back.

He'll be back.

Honestly, it's DAYS. Do you really think they need or want an explanation for why any guy is walking around town half-naked? IT'S DAYS!!

I guess it wouldn't be Wendy without the messy exit. Still, I'm praying that God leads her to peace and overall healing.

Allegedly, PB felt that Jack's sudden military stint in Vietnam was incongruous with his established history.

That's so wrong. You clearly love the show and are devoted to it. You DESERVE payment.

I always knew that Aztec princess was good for something!

It was that traumatizing, huh, lol?

Or for the GLAAD boycott that's sure to follow.

Yeah, Val (and we) needed a sort of breather between the "brain virus" and the Sumner tell-all. I can't imagine how the latter story would have played had it immediately followed the former.

No. BERRENGER'S was a soap about nothing. THE COLBYS was a soap about nothing GOOD.

Wow, that...sucks.

Seriously, why doesn't Corday/NBC/Sony employ @JAS0N47 in some capacity? DAYS NEEDS an official historian!

It's PART of Ron's fantasy. His actual, full fantasy is to have CB/Johnny/JoDevil, CM/Will, ZT/Sonny, PT/Xander, EM/Brady, RSW/Ben, DF/EJ, LA/Tripp, BB/Shawn and BF/Chad all serenade him while they wear nothing but dental floss.

Agree. AntennaTV, for example, would be a good place to air ADW reruns.

Better yet, since Annabelle was also involved in the cottage mystery, it could've been her not-so-dead-after-all mother. (Don't ask me how that would work. I'm just throwing it out there.)

Agree.

That might've worked. But, again, you had the very skittish folks at P&G bristling at the idea of Brandon Spaulding as a miscegenist (sp?).

I think Claudia loved Kate, but I think her personal history made it difficult for her to express that love properly. To Claudia, loving someone meant doing everything in one's power to keep them close. And I mean everything. To me, it's that twisted sense of maternal love that helped differentiate Claudia from the other "power bitches" on KNOTS. Abby wanted to succeed in a man's world without losing her femininity, and Anne wanted to be taken care of and to avoid adult responsibilities (such as working for a living or being an actual parent to her daughter). But Claudia wanted always to do what SHE felt was best for her loved ones, and for Kate in particular. As long as the writers had kept that want in mind, I think Claudia was a very effective character (sort of like a Karen on steroids, lol). It's only when they had her do stupid and insane [!@#$%^&*] (...such as getting her own son killed...) that everyone lost track. (Plus - and this is just my own opinion - but Claudia as the ultimate, overprotective mom was always going to be the hardest of sells when Stacy Galina was just so damn annoying as Kate. Like, why is Claudia even bothering with her when she should be kicking her whiny butt to the curb, lol?) I think that (Val's restoration) was almost accidental: a byproduct of a new showrunner and his team of writers, who had no prior knowledge of the show, and who likely wrote her IN character (or, as in character as she'd been in years) because they simply didn't KNOW her character, or know what else to do WITH her. That story, along with the Mary Robeson story, worked for me more than the Nigel Treadwell story, which tied together everything (sometimes, ridiculously so) but which was also so underwhelming compared to similar plots from seasons past.

Ron Carlivati should never be allowed to write another day in his life.

I think Victor respected John Abbott, because he saw John as a legitimate businessman, and not a playboy and dilettante like "Smilin' Jack." And I think you're right, @Vizion, that Nikki was the original "Real (and Really Bored) Housewife."