Khan

Honestly, it's DAYS. Do you really think they need or want an explanation for why any guy is walking around town half-naked? IT'S DAYS!!

I guess it wouldn't be Wendy without the messy exit. Still, I'm praying that God leads her to peace and overall healing.

Allegedly, PB felt that Jack's sudden military stint in Vietnam was incongruous with his established history.

That's so wrong. You clearly love the show and are devoted to it. You DESERVE payment.

I always knew that Aztec princess was good for something!

It was that traumatizing, huh, lol?

Or for the GLAAD boycott that's sure to follow.

Yeah, Val (and we) needed a sort of breather between the "brain virus" and the Sumner tell-all. I can't imagine how the latter story would have played had it immediately followed the former.

No. BERRENGER'S was a soap about nothing. THE COLBYS was a soap about nothing GOOD.

Wow, that...sucks.

Seriously, why doesn't Corday/NBC/Sony employ @JAS0N47 in some capacity? DAYS NEEDS an official historian!

It's PART of Ron's fantasy. His actual, full fantasy is to have CB/Johnny/JoDevil, CM/Will, ZT/Sonny, PT/Xander, EM/Brady, RSW/Ben, DF/EJ, LA/Tripp, BB/Shawn and BF/Chad all serenade him while they wear nothing but dental floss.

Agree. AntennaTV, for example, would be a good place to air ADW reruns.

Better yet, since Annabelle was also involved in the cottage mystery, it could've been her not-so-dead-after-all mother. (Don't ask me how that would work. I'm just throwing it out there.)

Agree.

That might've worked. But, again, you had the very skittish folks at P&G bristling at the idea of Brandon Spaulding as a miscegenist (sp?).

I think Claudia loved Kate, but I think her personal history made it difficult for her to express that love properly. To Claudia, loving someone meant doing everything in one's power to keep them close. And I mean everything. To me, it's that twisted sense of maternal love that helped differentiate Claudia from the other "power bitches" on KNOTS. Abby wanted to succeed in a man's world without losing her femininity, and Anne wanted to be taken care of and to avoid adult responsibilities (such as working for a living or being an actual parent to her daughter). But Claudia wanted always to do what SHE felt was best for her loved ones, and for Kate in particular. As long as the writers had kept that want in mind, I think Claudia was a very effective character (sort of like a Karen on steroids, lol). It's only when they had her do stupid and insane [!@#$%^&*] (...such as getting her own son killed...) that everyone lost track. (Plus - and this is just my own opinion - but Claudia as the ultimate, overprotective mom was always going to be the hardest of sells when Stacy Galina was just so damn annoying as Kate. Like, why is Claudia even bothering with her when she should be kicking her whiny butt to the curb, lol?) I think that (Val's restoration) was almost accidental: a byproduct of a new showrunner and his team of writers, who had no prior knowledge of the show, and who likely wrote her IN character (or, as in character as she'd been in years) because they simply didn't KNOW her character, or know what else to do WITH her. That story, along with the Mary Robeson story, worked for me more than the Nigel Treadwell story, which tied together everything (sometimes, ridiculously so) but which was also so underwhelming compared to similar plots from seasons past.

Ron Carlivati should never be allowed to write another day in his life.

I think Victor respected John Abbott, because he saw John as a legitimate businessman, and not a playboy and dilettante like "Smilin' Jack." And I think you're right, @Vizion, that Nikki was the original "Real (and Really Bored) Housewife."

If Johnny is Craig's new, secret bf, and they were seeing each other BEFORE Johnny became possessed by the devil...? Oh, [!@#$%^&*]. No matter how you spin it, this is bad.

Also, let's not forget that ADW managed to survive and even thrive beyond the departure of its' original lead (Lisa Bonet). I don't care which show proceeded it on the sked. There was no guarantee that ADW could have withstood such a blow even with the Cosby lead-in.

Which is just as well. I think the revelation of a third child born to Donna at the same as Marley and Vicky would have been too much.

Same. And Douglas Marland was the best kind of head writer for GL, IMO, because he was the kind who could write different kinds of stories. Overall, though, I think the P&G shows - not just GL, but also ATWT, AW, EON and so on - appealed most to literate fans who enjoyed variety in storytelling.

If anything, I think S13 showrunner John Romano and his team made things worse - first, by having Claudia attempt suicide (and having Karen practically beg Kate (and the audience) to forgive her mother) either out of guilt over how Steve Brewer's death had come between her and Kate, or as a means of manipulating herself back into her daughter's life; then, by having that skeezeball, Alex Barth, blackmail her and subject her to almost round-the-clock psychological torture over the circumstances surrounding Ruth Galveston's death. It's one thing for karma to reward Claudia handsomely for being responsible, however indirectly, for the deaths of her mother and illegitimate son, but it seems as if Romano & Co. were so intent on punishing her that they made her an even bigger victim than "poor Val"! Ann Marcus salvaged Claudia somewhat in S14, exposing the secret that Alex held over her head, getting her back in the thick of things with Greg and Paige at the Sumner Group, and putting her in a triangle with Anne and Nick. However, I think the leftover stench from her actions in S's 12 and 13 made it difficult, if not impossible, for Claudia ever to be viewed again as a viable character. If CBS and Filerman/Jacobs/Lorimar had miraculously agreed to a S15 for KL, then Claudia (and probably Anne) would have needed to be written out.

I don't like the suggestion that ADW was just another "time slot hit." To me, that suggests that the show, like most other time slot hits, didn't have any merits of its' own. Granted, the ratings did fall once "The Cosby Show" was no longer its' lead-in, but other factors -- like NBC's constant anxieties over its' topical content, and the fact that the show had trouble transitioning toward a new crop of Hillman students -- played a part as well.