Khan

Translation: "I'm. Gonna. Sue."

I can't argue with you here. I, myself, have always wanted GH to explore Laura's commune days further. (Although the revelation of another, long-lost child is probably out of the question.) And I can't really argue with you here either. But, again, I don't believe you can contradict what the audience saw for themselves, or suggest/imply that what was happening in your retcon happened simultaneously with what happened on-screen. The latter was my particular issue with the Theresa Carter/Secret in the Attic storyline: those events (leading up to and including the murder) supposedly happened alongside the David Hamilton storyline (or maybe immediately after, I can't remember which at the moment). To me, that flies in the face of my firm belief that audiences are essentially like flies on the wall, observing every moment in characters' lives. You tell them once about something that they logically should have seen and didn't, and pretty soon, they'll start to wonder what ELSE has their show been withholding from them -- and once that level of trust is gone....

Not if he's gonna wind up like Ji Min. (Who? Exactly.)

Same. I can't get past the fact that EJami are supposed to be this great love story (that was shoved down our throats at every opportunity) when the dude literally forced her to have sex with him. Like, how da fuq am I supposed to care about a guy who does THAT? How is HE supposed to be this romantic or heroic character?

But wasn't the insinuation that Rick WAS jumping into bed with every woman and not just Monica? Or did I misunderstand Lesley's statements? Either way, I just don't believe that Rick was that much of a cad, or even that Lesley hated herself so much that she put up with it for as long as the 2002 retcon suggests. The Webber household might not have been perfect, but suggesting decades later that there was something even more sinister lurking underneath all the drama that unfolded on-screen back in the late '70's...? Nah, that's just not playing fair with the audience.

Also...

Sorry, I misread the question. That's all Chuck Pratt knows: sexual traumas in attics, and secrets involving high school girls being murdered. I think so, too. If you remove Theresa Carter from the story, it certainly looks that way. But I knew we were in trouble almost immediately, when Lesley intimated how Rick was a serial cheater throughout their marriage. (No, he wasn't.)

It's not weird at all. In a way, the end of "Cheers" DID mark the end for that era of television comedy. "Seinfeld" was taking off, and "Friends" was just a year away. No doubt, if "Cheers" had stayed on the air, it would have begun to fade, and look like a relic from another time, very much like what happened to Norman Lear's shows as they moved into the '80's. As it was, "Frasier" fought the good fight, but even though it lasted as long as its' predecessor, I don't think it was ever as popular; and by the time "Frasier" went off the air, many looked at it as the last gasp of intelligent, well-crafted sitcoms on network TV.

As much as I hate to admit it - because, Lord knows, if she'd been cast, she would've been a nightmare to work with - I would have cast Cybill Shepherd.

I don't care that there was supposed to be no one else in that building (save for security). It made absolutely no sense for that dude to run to the bathroom without a stitch of clothing on (what, you couldn't stop for a moment and put on some pants?). That only happened because the writer(s) needed him to be embarrassed later in the elevator and at the security desk. It's exactly the kind of plot-driven [!@#$%^&*] that I hate.

Well, if you think about it, Abby's arc had reached its' natural conclusion. She started out as a recently divorced woman, willing to do just about anything to improve her lot in life and those of her children as well; and by hook or crook, she achieved it. As it was, Abby was beginning to repeat herself. If she had stayed, one of two things would have happened: either she lost it all and had to start all over again, or she would have had to outdo herself with even more outrageous stunts to remain on top. The former option sounds intriguing, but with the latter, you run the risk of turning Abby into the kind of one-note villain that hampered the other nighttime soaps -- and part of Abby's appeal, after all, was that she wasn't one-note.

That reminds me of something that Linda Dano said to some interviewer years ago (either back when she was joining GL, or when she was leaving). I can't remember her words exactly, but they were to the effect of, "Everybody dies or gets killed off now, nobody ever just leaves town." And that's definitely true today. If you aren't killed off a soap, you just stop appearing with zero explanations.

We all missed it. I realize DAYS can't function without a Big Bad causing trouble for everyone, but are Clyde Weston, Orpheus and the devil the best they can do now?

Sorry, one more: * The devil is finally exorcised from Johnny's body, but all of Salem is beside itself when they learn it's now inhabited by the spirit of the late Amanda Howard Peters.

Nope, it won't. Instead, we'll get EJ thinking he's Kellam Chandler while wearing an Alex Marshall mask.

Echo sounds like something that would have been right up her alley. But, I thought Kim Zimmer was pretty good in the role, too.

At last! A Ron Carlivati plot twist that makes perfect sense!

I like Dan Feuerriegel so much better than James Scott. It's just too bad the dude's stuck playing a rapist.

Yeah, Alan really tried to kill Rick and Monica before saving them at the last moment. Collapsed roof and all.

Perhaps. But, again, I don't think the Lechowicks were that deep, lol. From the start, it was just so obvious where Danny's story was gonna go. It's almost as if you expect JVA or Ted Shackelford to break character and say, "Oh, just get in here, Danny, and terrorize us already! We've got to get the bank by five!".

So, what happens to EJ? Does he get drugged, too? Does he also wake up thinking he's some forgotten and unrelated character from when this show didn't suck (as much)?

Wasn't it enough for Sarah to develop amnesia (and forget all about her love for Xander) after being drugged? Why drag a long-forgotten character like Renee Dumonde DiMera into it? That's the trouble with Ron. He never knows when enough is enough.

Yup, lol.

NBC could have had a much more successful lineup if the network would have just gotten out of the shows' way. Otherwise, at its' best, it was sort of a cross between CBS' traditionalism and ABC's youth-targeted aesthetic.