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Two questions: 1) Who is Steve Schmidt? 2) Is he single?

Trump has said he would not return to Twitter even if the ban were lifted - but we know that's a crock. He'll JUMP at the chance to return, touting that "free speech has struck a real blow against the dirty, dishonest Dems!" and that "Elon Musk is a good friend, a smart businessman and a true patriot!".

I wonder who could portray her in the movie? Marisa Tomei?

I understand Brynn Thayer's reasons for not returning to OLTL with MZ...but I so wish she had. I feel like watching Jenny and David grapple with his ALS together would have been very touching to watch.

Honestly, you could kill off Jack tomorrow, have Ashley become the new head of the Abbott family and I would not mind one bit. As a matter of fact, I think it would be a step in the right direction.

I wonder what was going on the week "Eight is Enough" hit no. 1, lol.

Well, that's how I would have written Edmund. After all, he was a journalist, lol.

Don't let JC's alleged bad behavior color your impressions of Edmund, lol. If you agree with @Vee and others that only JC could have played Edmund - and by the way, I'm not suggesting that they're wrong to believe as they do - then stand firm. I'm just saying, I think Drake had what it took to be successful on a show like AMC. If he had played Edmund, it wouldn't have been the same as when JC played him, but it still would've been a successful character nonetheless. His Edmund would've been just...different.

And still, no shocking, never-been-done-before-on-daytime twist.

Oh, yes. Now I remember. Unfortunately. Thanks, @carolineg.

I can't believe the SOB called Deidre Hall the "Mother of All Soap Stars." Not Susan Lucci, not Susan Seaforth Hayes, not Eileen Fulton and Rosemary Prinz, not even Virginia Payne. Nope. Deidre. I JFC with that [!@#$%^&*].

Nancy? As in Lee Grahn? I'm trying to remember what she tweeted about JC, but it's been a few semesters. The beauty about AMC's writers, though, was how they would tailor or re-tailor a character to fit the actor's personality. Plus, remember that AMC and DAYS were timeslot competitors for many years. If DAYS had decided to ditch Drake, who'd built up a following as Roman Brady #2, I think AMC would have at least offered him a spot on their show, if only to lure his fans away from one show and toward the other. Just as Y&R figured getting Peter Bergman, who'd just been dumped as AMC's Dr. Cliff Warner, to succeed Terry Lester as Jack Abbott would help lure AMC viewers to Y&R.

Actually, @Franko (and @carolineg), I was thinking Edmund Grey. Like I said elsewhere, Drake and Susan Lucci shared amazing chemistry when they co-hosted the Daytime Emmys, but I think he would've been great with Julia Barr (ex-Brooke English), too. Heck, depending on the timelines, because it's all like a blur to me now, they could have even paired Drake (again) with Genie Francis' Ceara, who I felt was in a dead-end relationship with Jean Le Clerc's Jeremy. Nope. The TV series adaptation of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" was an adaptation in name only. Otherwise, it might as well have been an entirely different entity.

I'm calling it now: this "Dex" person is...slated to get everyone's nerves by the end of summer.

But, look on the bright side: if DAYS had dropped Drake, he might have landed fairly quickly at another soap. (My money says AMC. He would have been a good fit over there, I think.)

The attitude seems to be, "If you don't want to have babies, then don't get pregnant!". Which would be fine, if human beings actually COULD refrain from having sex (to say nothing, of course, of the cases where the woman or girl is impregnated by their rapist or molestor). But asking a human being who is at least aware of sex to abstain is like asking me NOT to eat that pint of Baskin-Robbins that I have in my freezer. I mean, you could ask, but you'd just be wasting your time.

Welp. Look at it this way: now Rita's free to go back on the '70's oldies circuit with Maria Muldaur and the dude who sang "Magnet and Steel."

Ah, but remember: Justice Alito believes the constitution should be interpreted as its' originators intended - which means, the only ones with any rights whatsoever are white, Christian men who own property (including black people).

Well, IDK whether the story would have worked any better - Gene Palumbo was just not the writer for a story like "A Tale of Two Romans" - but if the idea is that Drake's Roman is not the real Roman and that Wayne's Roman is still alive, then that's what you lead with first. Then, at a certain point in the story, you lower the other boom: Marlena is alive, too! God bless Dee, but I think she put DAYS in a very awkward spot by insisting that Wayne return as well. Either she could have returned without Wayne, or the show could have taken its' chances and replace Drake with the man he had earlier replaced, but trying to satisfy Dee and hold onto Drake at the same time was always going to be a challenge, no matter how good the story.

In a way, ATWT apparently did the same thing to Lisa in the '70's, transitioning her from the show's chief troublemaker to...well...less of a troublemaker, lol. However, the show wisely offset declawing Lisa by introducing Joyce as the diabolical third wheel in Lisa and Grant's relationship. Perhaps, DAYS should have tried a similar tactic, allowing Sami to mature and mellow somewhat, while introducing a new troublemaker who would make life hell for Samantha Gene.

Great. Just what we need. A surge in HIV and STI's.

I will give Michael Filerman and Camille Marchetta credit for bringing FC back to basics in S8 and renewing the emphasis on the winery, as well as on the class conflicts among the Channing/Giobertis, the Agrettis (Frank, Nick and Ben always struck me as being less affluent than Carlo and Melissa) and the Ortegas. Even Maggie gets something else to do in S8 besides drink and cry over her problems with Richard, I think, lol. Compared to the Freilich-produced seasons, however, S8 felt dull and plodding; and that, coupled with the regrettable decision to kill off Melissa, resulted in viewers thinking FC had jumped the proverbial shark. IIRC, too, Swan's Richard came across more like a mercenary than the sophisticated mogul that Selby's would become.

It also seemed to come from out of nowhere, since I don't recall John having had much to do with Lawrence or Vivian up to that point. For me, it was an odd and disjointed way to blend two storyline bubbles into one. By the way, I won't argue with you that making John and Roman twin brothers was the cleanest and easiest way out of the mess. Again, though, it seemed like TPTB wanted to avoid what was sensible and simply shock the audience into tuning in, which set a bad precedent, IMO, for what was to come. Here's a thought: what if TPTB had kept Dee's return under wraps and instead had brought Wayne back first?

That's possible. Remember, Dee and Wayne were popular BITD. Therefore, TPTB might have assumed that Roman/Marlena fans would be SO thrilled to have the original Roman back that they would forget all about Drake. At the very least, they likely thought they could parlay Drake's own popularity into having TWO supercouples on the show: Roman/Marlena, and John/Isabella. Unfortunately, three factors went against everything going smoothly, or according to plans: 1) the piss-poor planning of, and lukewarm reception to, the "Tale of Two Romans"; 2) the off-key writing for Wayne's Roman once he had returned, an issue that was apparent even before JER put the final nail in Roman and Marlena's coffin; and 3) Staci Greason's decision not to re-sign, which torpedoed the show's chances of developing John and Isabella any further as a duo.

Agree. In fact, I've been saying for YEARS that John being Stefano's son was the only outcome that would have made sense, and that the show was avoiding the obvious, likely because they were more concerned with shocking viewers than with being logical. Hence, all the ridiculous retcons to his past that invariably land with a thud with an audience that is truly past the point of caring. (But, of course, whenever I argue the theory, I'm always argued down. But Stefano has tried many times to kill John, they say. Why would Stefano try to kill his own son? As if Stefano would be above murdering his own son simply because his son had proven himself to be disloyal to him. Anyways.) And I also agree that, on the face of it, the "Tale of Two Romans" had potential. Of course, it wasn't something I would've done, had I been the HW. (At best, I would have said that John and Roman were twins, that John was stolen at birth, and that Stefano (and Victor) had somehow tracked him down and brainwashed him into becoming The Pawn). But, the idea behind it was certainly creative. It's just that its' execution is what ultimately let it down. It was clear the show didn't really know who John was supposed to be once he was no longer Roman, so they kept stalling, hoping to come up with some explanation for how he came to be that would "stick." In the process, the story became far too convoluted; and when they finally landed on the idea of making him the presumably dead Forrest Alamain, it didn't have the impact it should've, not just because the Alamains were gone soon after, but also because the folks at home had simply moved on. That's my theory, anyway, and I'm sticking to it, lol. Ironically, though, it would solve what I still think is Belle and Shawn's biggest problem - which is that they're together in the first place, lol. Of course, you'd still have the issue of Claire, but I think that's easily resolvable, too. Either we learn Sami did succeed in switching Belle with another infant OR Claire dies by her own hand after learning that her parents are in fact brother and sister and that she is a product of incest.