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No, they don't. Trina deserves someone who will set her nights on fire. Not this wispy-looking punk.

I can't recall whether it was the ONLY primetime episode they did, but I still recall one that OLTL did back then: the denouement of the "Who Killed Georgie Phillips?" story -- IMO, the last, great tale OLTL ever told. The culprit's identity turned out to be underwhelming, but the reveal was very tautly written (by Pamela K. Long, Richard Backus and Gordon Rayfield) with everyone trapped in a house thanks to Todd (who'd been accused of the murder) and some (rather flimsy-looking) dynamite strapped to his chest. Man, I miss how this show used to be. So brilliantly executed (no pun intended) in every way.

Thank you. I've been saying the same thing for awhile now. Ashland should have a daughter that's roughly Victoria's age, who HATES that her father has remarried (and to someone her own age!) and is determined to make her new stepmom's life hell. And maybe a son (perhaps by the same wife, perhaps not) who secretly loves Victoria and wants her for himself.

Same. Maybe someone like Michael Warren ("Hill Street Blues") or Philip Michael Thomas ("Miami Vice")?

Chances are, Zucker's gonna set up his own production outfit. (Hope you enjoyed "Fear Factor," 'cuz there's plenty more where that came from!)

Ron Carlivati has always had problems with pacing.

[!@#$%^&*] the soaps. I'd rather watch @Darn and @Vee in a buddy comedy.

I'm still laughing at that cumbersome name.

Agree. It makes him look less boyish, IMO.

Same. As much as I would enjoy seeing RN again, I just don't believe his Ashland will click with AH's Victoria. If Josh Griffith and Tony Morina were smart, they'd pivot him toward someone else. But, I have a feeling that once they reach the inevitable dead-end with those two, they'll either send Ashland out of town or send him to the morgue.

Yup.

What. About. Traci?

I wouldn't wish Michelle Stafford on the devil himself.

This show is just too toxic to stay on the air. So, of course, that means it'll go on forever.

When she and Ted Danson got into trouble over that blackface incident at the Friars Club, I knew she wasn't exactly the brightest bulb in the box.

Oh, good. I was afraid I'd never get to see her thinking about pizza again.

But seriously. I'm legit surprised that Billy Warlock and Julie Pinson are still together. Whatever you might suspect about him, or his...proclivities, I never took BW to be the type to remain committed to anyone for more than five minutes. But, I guess Peter Pan had to grow up sometime.

What rough draft? (I'm serious.) Exactly. Today's soaps might have the crappiest of crappy production values, but at least no one's sweating their balls off anymore in Peapack!

And that's bad, because...?

They're still together? Wow, that's crazy!

It's been a long time since I pulled out this needle drop:

Yeah, I liked Hillary, too, and I thought killing her off was a bad move on TPTB's part. Maybe she wasn't a vixen or a stone babe, but she was a steadying presence for long-time viewers who missed the rest of the Bauer clan.

Wait, didn't they have AH's character on LOVING go through the same issue?

Okay, but...you must really hate me if you think I would have two grown folks actually [!@#$%^&*] in a hospital chapel while HIS wife and HER daughter lay stone cold dead in the hospital morgue. I can push the old envelope, but come on, lol! I mean, what am I? Dena Higley or something? I'd love to put him in a triangle with Ashley and Traci.

Well, he didn't start out that way. As a matter of fact, Josh was introduced (by then-HW Douglas Marland) as a spoiler for Kelly and Morgan, who were GL's big supercouple. IIRC, Morgan was pursuing a modeling career. Kelly, being a young resident at Cedars Hospital, preferred his new wife to stay home and start a family. Josh, operating under the pretense of helping Morgan launch her career, exploited the conflicts between the newlyweds in order to get Morgan in the sack. (Which he did. Again, IIRC.) It's only when Pam Long came aboard and fleshed out both Josh's backstory and the Lewis clan -- keeping on Josh and his sister, Trish, while adding on Billy, Mindy, patriarch H.B., and eventually Reva -- that Josh evolved into pretty much what he was for the rest of his time on the show. Yup. I knew when they tried "Reverend Josh" that the show had hit a brick wall with the guy. Even before then, though, I actually felt the time had come to kill off Josh. We knew how Josh would respond to losing Reva to death, because we saw him do it multiple times. But how would Reva cope with losing "Bud"? Nobody was feeling Peapack. Especially the audience.