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@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).

It's like God told ABC, "If you can find one Republican who isn't crazy or a moron, I will save 'The View'."

I feel like many in the U.S. have just thrown up their metaphorical hands and said, "You know what? [!@#$%^&*] it. If we die, we die."

I think Carrie White wore the same outfit when Tommy Ross asked her out to the prom.

In other words...

Of course! That would be my first order of business: remove Josh Taylor as Roman, bring back Wayne Northrop the next day, and then, a month or so later, bring back Josh as Chris Kositchek, and not make a big deal about any of it. Even worse, with SSH/Julie getting on in years, and DH/Marlena not exactly the strong, capable, professional woman she used to be, Laura was a good candidate to replace Frances Reid/Alice as DAYS' new central matriarch.

If Laura were to come back from the dead -- and again, I'm not supporting any more characters coming back from the dead, on this or any other show -- then I would want to see her fall gradually into a relationship with Roman, thereby having her and Kate square off once again.

Well, Darius McCrary's Malcolm was pretty dynamic making all those sandwiches. Devon sleeping with Tyra. Lawd. Even Bill Bell would have recoiled in horror from that plot twist, I think, and he was the guy who often had siblings falling for each other!

Ironically, that's where Dena wrote most of her story projections: on the back of ketchup packets. NO!! I HATE that Ron killed off Laura, but I am sick to death of people coming back from the dead on this damn show!

Soapsuds: "I keep waiting for Johnny to make the moves on Tripp. I always thought Johnny was fluid." Honestly...? The last thing we need is Ron Carlivati conflating same-sex attraction with demonic possession. (And no, I'm not putting spoiler tags on what I just said. I'm too busy putting GLAAD on speed-dial to bother right now.)

Agree. Not every gay character has to be as pure as snow, but Leo reinforces some stereotypes about gays at a time when we are still fighting for greater visibility and credibility in all forms of entertainment. Look, I don't watch movies like "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Exorcist," because I simply don't want that [!@#$%^&*] "in my spirit." And when JER began his story, I stopped watching DAYS, because that was a line that I was never gonna cross. But I give him props, because, from everything that I've read about it, he took the subject matter seriously (or, as seriously as a truly fucked-up man like JER ever could) and crafted a real love story (John & Marlena's) out of it. But Ron Carlivati has conflated demonic possession with wacky hijinks; and that is not only distasteful, it's dangerous. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Marlena has now been possessed by the devil twice. She can't just shake this off and head into another go-round with Kristen, or whatever. If this "story" does not end up with Doc joining the convent, or becoming an evangelist, or just making fundamental changes in her life, then this story was meaningless. Moreover, if DAYS does not emerge as a more spiritual show -- I don't necessarily mean religious, like maybe "Touched by an Angel" or early GL, but definitely a show where matters of faith gain greater importance in the overall storytelling -- then all they have done is to exploit a very real, existential danger for a cheap ratings ploy; and whatever karma the show yields from their heinous actions, they deserve.

Bill Bell was not afraid to revamp his entire show. If only someone at CBS/Sony had that kind of courage. I have my list of potential victims, lol. But it really doesn't matter, so long as the murders get SOMEthing going on this boring-ass show.

At this point, I'd even welcome a serial killer storyline. Anything to get this show moving again.

I still say they could have said Bill Foster had had an extramarital affair and that he brought home their daughter (Jill) to Liz after her bio mom either died or skipped town. That way, Jill remains (or goes back to being) a Foster. But, that ship has sailed.

It's a shame that Ed Scott didn't work out as EP at DAYS. He was probably their last shot at turning things around.

Oh, God, are we really gonna get excited about who the devil might possess next!? I hated this storyline when JER was writing it, and I hate it even more now, because at least Jim Reilly took it (somewhat) more seriously than Club Kid Ron Carlivati does. Stories about demonic possession have no business appearing on DAYS -- and frankly, I'm with Robin Strasser and Jane Elliot. I think actors, writers, producers and directors in general need to be a little more careful about what they bring into people's homes. Because, this [!@#$%^&*] is something you don't mess with, especially for "entertainment purposes." I wish this story would end, and end for good, and never be brought up again. Then, I want someone to contact a host of religious leaders -- priests, rabbis, shamen, you name it -- and perform an exorcism to rid the studio of whatever demons these two stories have unleashed, because if you ask me, they're precisely the reason why DAYS has been on the decline for over two decades.