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For [!@#$%^&*]'s sake. Thanks a million, BH/Liz fans who stamp their feet and throw major hissies every time GH threatens to write her off! Now your girl's a D.I.D. sufferer on top of being a rape victim. I hope you're happy!

It's just a jump to the left! But seriously. I'm getting real sick and tired of soaps playing with time like this. Time jumps are antithetical to the nature of serialized storytelling, and they're a really lazy way to get yourself out of bad writing, too.

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Remember my new slogan for the NBC promo department? "It's DAYS. Just Go With It."

Agree. Like I said upthread, Jill strikes me as the type who wouldn't make friends with other women, at least not easily. She'd have more of a kooky sidekick, like Erica had Opal, or DAYS' Anna had Calliope.

Apparently, it's Esme's world now, and the rest of PC just lives in it.

God, I hope so. And Ben and Ciara's baby is already gonna be switched with the baby that the aliens leave behind.

I still say there's no big twist and Bradley Bell's just pulling an M. Night Shyamalan.

LOL! In order for the return to self-contained episodes to have worked, both shows would have needed to scale everything down (or back down), make the characters less arch, and so forth. No longer could DALLAS or FALCON CREST do stories about corporate takeovers and criminal cartels. That would have been tough for audiences to accept, to say the least. On the other hand, if KNOTS LANDING had returned to their original format of self-contained episodes, with stories that are resolved (more or less) within sixty minutes, I think it could have worked, because the characters weren't quite as larger-than-life. For sure, David Jacobs would have been ecstatic about the prospect of maybe bringing the show back to his original, "Scenes from a Marriage"-like concept.

Given that it all took place in San Diego, I'm surprised it wasn't a boat chase, lol.

What I liked about JJ as Lucky - and what I STILL like about him - was that he wasn't your typical soap hunk. JJ has the looks and build of a "normal" person, which soaps used to be okay with, until they decided they weren't. You didn't need him to have great abs to make him an audience favorite. You just needed someone like Liz to fall in love with him and let the audience see why she fell in love with him so that they would fall in love with him, too. That's how it works, people. On the other hand, I've yet to find any reason why Lulu should have existed at all. They could have killed her off years ago and I wouldn't have shed a tear.

I know of one man who would have loved it:

IDK why, but the description or synopsis of that storyline has me laughing SO hard, lol.

To me, it just feels like more of the same.

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.