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And the nine percent that IS memorable is memorable for all the wrong reasons. Like Dollar Tree sands through the Tuesday Morning hourglass, so are the DAYS OF OUR FUCKED-UP LIVES.

When Bill Hayes departs from this mortal coil -- not IF, but WHEN -- DAYS better do right by him, by SSH, by Doug and Julie and their generations of fans, and give him the right and proper send-off that he deserves. Next to Tom and Alice Horton, Doug and Julie Williams, and Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes, are the living, breathing embodiment of everything that Ted and Betty Corday built their show on. I don't gaf if it breaks the show's budget, or interferes with Ron Carlivati adding to his spank bank or getting in more "Golden Girls" or KNOTS LANDING references where they don't belong. Do right by the Hayeses and the fans, or they deserve to be cancelled.

Only love can save the world. Oh, wait, wrong soap.

Yeah, I keep forgetting that Bill Hayes is almost 100.

Too bad this show's budget is nil. Otherwise, we could have scenes where Doug and Julie celebrate the worst being over by dancing to their signature song, "The Look of Love."

"Candy Cassadine" is still on the table, folks!

Since we just gotta put [!@#$%^&*] in spoiler tags:

And then Leo would pop up again. In more ways than one. Jesus. I hate this damn show.

Marlena has just survived her SECOND demonic possession, so what is she doing? Apparently, she's snuggling in with John for "Movie Night." Makes sense to me!! (I hate this damn show.)

And then...? The spaceship.

Yes, played by Peter Reckell.

I wonder what tacky names the writers will come up with next, as the cast expands to over 300 characters in the coming year.

But he shouldn't BE on recurring. That's my point. I hate to use the words "legacy character," but Scott is exactly that for GH. He should have a regular, steady presence on the canvas. Period.

Wow, talk about random [!@#$%^&*].

@Vee said it best: Chelsea is still on the show, because MCE was once very popular on AMC.

Agree. I understand that they were restricted by budget and the need for more commercial spots, but that final opening just felt so slapdash. Even the opening for "Lost" was more evocative, and that thing lasted all of five seconds!

God bless Nancy Curlee, but she was TERRIBLE at naming new characters.

Actually, I felt Bliss was quite effective as Jason and Sable's emotionally vulnerable daughter, who struggled constantly to fit in with her powerful family. It would have been fascinating to see her grow over the years from "party girl" to strong woman in her own right -- provided, they had the right actress to portray Bliss, which I don't think they did. (Too bad Nicollette Sheridan was already on KNOTS LANDING by that point.) At the same time, I would have kept Monica, but as an executive at Colby Enterprises -- same backstory (although, given who was portraying Monica, I might have worked in the fact that Monica once worked as a model and used her earnings to pay for her Harvard education), but unrelated to the family biologically, and someone whom Jason saw as a surrogate daughter, which would have created feelings of enormous jealousy on the part of his ACTUAL daughter. I also would have put her in a quadrangle with Jeff, Fallon and Miles -- with Jeff constantly torn between Fallon and Monica, and Fallon torn between Jeff and Miles -- thereby giving Bliss and Fallon something to bond over (namely, their mutual dislike of Monica). Frankly, I didn't care for the Jason/Frankie/Sable triangle, for the simple fact that it felt too much like a retread of Blake/Krystle/Alexis -- right down to the wan actress playing the "good" girl whom the corporate titan was truly gaga for. As much as I loved Stephanie Beacham as Sable, I must admit that I don't think Sable was needed on the show. (She would have been much better off playing another one of Alexis' siblings on the mother show). Charlton Heston was a strong enough actor, IMO, to portray Jason as a morally ambiguous patriarch -- sort of like how John Forsythe's Blake was intended to be, before the Shapiros blew up their concept entirely -- so all that was needed was Frankie as his long-suffering wife and mother to his two children, Miles and Bliss; who always adored him, but who wrestled constantly with his need to control and dominate those who were closest to him. And, if Katharine Ross just HAD to portray Frankie, then I would have asked her real-life spouse, Sam Elliott, to come aboard for an arc or two as a modern-day cowboy who'd be a romantic rival of sorts to Jason. I'm just saying. Agree. That would have given the series more of a story engine than just, "Oh, look, here's some more Colbys!". Yeah, as much as I love Barbara Stanwyck -- I feel as if I should say MISS Barbara Stanwyck, since that's how she was billed on "The Big Valley" -- she was much too frail-looking by that point to make Constance truly formidable. (Plus, even though she was always the professional on sets, I can't help but think that her distaste for the godawful material affected her performance as well.) But, you know, even if they had to have Stanwyck on the show...I just never liked the fact that they made her Jason's sister. To me, it was like, "Why does Jason NEED a sister? Why is she even there!?." Creatively, making her the sister of the Colby family patriarch was a dead-end. On the other hand, if they had made her Jason's MOTHER...? And maybe I'm crazy, but I think it would've been a hoot to get Fred MacMurray to play Hutch Corrigan. Again, I'm just saying. Agree. Although, I think it would have been interesting if Miles had been accused of rape -- not by Fallon, but by another woman, whom he picks up one night at a nightclub or bar, maybe has sex with, or just gave a ride home. Miles is arrested and charged with rape; the subsequent trial, with Miles fighting to prove his innocence, and Jason struggling to keep his family and business from being ruined by scandal, becomes a sort of splashy "media circus" on par with the Billionaire Boys Club and the Preppie Killer; and, in the big end-of-season cliffhanger, everyone in the courtroom is stunned when the jury returns with a verdict of guilty. Of course, you would have needed a good actor playing Miles to pull that off. I'd go along with the idea that Fallon had had a close encounter of the third kind, but only if the big twist was that it was actually a delusion brought on by a (benign) brain tumor.

Agree. With everything. DYNASTY went off the rails fairly quickly, but it was originally built on a solid foundation (Krystal as the working-class secretary marrying into a rich family and clashing immediately). What was THE COLBYS built upon? That's always been my number-one question about this show.

Please don't give that man any ideas. Let the Andersons rest in peace. I guess it's too much to presume Kellam Chandler is the one behind it?

It figures that Frank Valentini won't sign him to a long-term contract. I mean, God forbid he does anything to please long-time fans.

Apropos of nothing, but I always thought ATWT should have concluded with a montage of some sort set to this song:

Another option: stay with the "serial killer concept," but add a tornado and a deadly virus to the mix. Together, the three are bound to wipe out much of the cast, lol. That's pretty good, too. It could be like "The Towering Inferno," or SCTV's brilliant parody of it.

P&G should have never retired that theme. If anything, I would have brought it back at some point, accompanied by new visuals (perhaps, the spinning globe, then a montage of clips of various people "in action" to emphasize the drama, the passion, the adventure, etc., then back to the globe, as we zoom out to show the title).