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Just be happy they're recasting this "Ted" fellow and not sending him off to camp or upstairs to wax his skis. (Hi, Bobby Martin!)

Nah, I still Leo have tagged as one of the victims of the Salem Sniper. Unless, of course, anyone would care to justify Ben or even Alex being the Salem Sniper, lol?

I think we've found our culprit for the big "Who Killed Drew Quartermaine?" storyline, and his name is Ezra Boyle.

I didn't know DC was on PASSIONS.

Do I really think Daniel Cosgrove is a show killer? No. But he IS a very boring actor, which, as we all know, is Frank's favorite kind. Meanwhile, at the rate they're going, they'll have to relocate to the L.A. Coliseum just to tape everyone.

RIP Mr. Hauser, and may God be with his loved ones. (So, if Y&R ever were to bring back Greg, even for one day, they'd have to go to Brian Kerwin or Howard McGillin.)

I'm with @janea4old. I think it would be a huge mistake now to reunite Luke and Laura, even if it were for the last episode, or with the guarantee that Luke would die afterward.

I'd rather barrel through a week of BTG than barrel through a week of GH. In fact, I'd barrel through a week of ANYthing before I'd barrel through another week of GH. (780 characters on this show, and I swear none of 'em are doing a [!@#$%^&*] thing.)

Not really, but I think Tracy fooled herself into thinking he was. Hence that "We don't have to pretend with each other" speech she gave to Laura on one occasion. (Me: "I don't think Lord Larry or Mitch Williams ever pretended with you, Cookie!") As I've said in the past, Tracy's life would've been so different had Edward just told her once that she was pretty, lol.

Exactly, which is why I hesitate, lol.

I almost want "Aristotle Dumas" to turn out to be Brooks Prentiss, but....

I chalked that up to Tracy's incredibly low self-esteem and the fact that most of the men in her life had been nothing more than losers who were after her money.

Whenever I think of Mark Dobies and his OLTL run, I think of the one, odd request he had made to producers before they outed Daniel: "Please don't put me in black leather pants."

But that's presuming MVJ and/or Guza can't just whip out their red pens, draw an "X" over the [!@#$%^&*] that doesn't work and either force Ron and/or Jamey to try again or rewrite it themselves - something which is done all the time in soaps. (Remember when Patrick Mulcahey said Bridget and Jerome Dobson would draw "X"'s over whole pages of SANTA BARBARA outlines and then tell him to "do something else"?) No offense to anyone, but in reading these threads, I get the impression that some actually WANT BTG to fail, if only so they can point their fingers and say, "That wouldn't have happened if that dummy Michele Val Jean hadn't have hired Ron Carlivati or Jamey Giddens to write for her show!"

I'll say this much: I would've taken Luke/Alexis over Luke/Tracy any day. And you all KNOW how I feel about Jane Elliot.

As good as Colin Egglesfield was or might have been, at the end of the day, he was in an impossible situation, playing someone who, barring another retcon (one that revealed that Jeff and Erica's baby did not survive and that Josh was Greg and Emily Madden's biological son), was never going to be accepted by the audience. Like a poorly bred, poorly socialized dog that gets put down for attacking another dog or a person, Colin and Josh were set up to fail.

And if she does want Ron, Jamey and the rest of her staff to "camp it up," that's not to say it won't be GOOD camp, know what I mean? As you've said, @NothinButAttitude, she's hired them, because they're experienced - and that's what she needs right now, too: writers with experience, because she's too busy just trying to get this show off the ground to have to stop and train new writers on how to write outlines or scripts. Maybe, once everything settles, that'll change. For now, however, I'm trusting MVJ to know exactly her vision for her show and how best to achieve it.

I, too, would rather see Robin Strasser on BTG, lol.

I am dipping briefly into this thread just to say that some of y'all need to stop giving Ron Carlivati and Jamey Giddens more power than they have over Michele Val Jean or BTG. I realize most of us have soap fan PTSD when it comes to those two, but you're acting as if Ron and Jamey, and Ron and Jamey alone, are shaping the direction and tone of this show, or that the Black woman in charge is too damn stupid or weak to push back on their more heinous ideas. Frankly, it's insulting - to her, and to everyone else connected with BTG. Just. Stop.

Which is ironic, because Luke's dream in life was to BE a family man. Luke wanted the house in the suburbs, with the white picket fence, and the two cars in the driveway, and the 2.4 kids and the dog, just as much as Laura. Part of what drew Luke to Laura, in fact, was the hope and belief that he could have those things with her, even as he struggled to overcome his past and his feelings that he never could measure up to her. Seriously, Bill Bell would never have put up with so much interference from his actors. He would've told someone like Tony Geary to say the g*ddamn lines and STFU.

I still can't believe GH's writers wrote a cult story and did not touch at all on Laura's history with them.

The only explanation I can come up with - and even this is a reach - is that Frank somehow pulled a bait-and-switch on Eva, promising her that Natalia wouldn't be so virulently homophobic, or that there'd be ample justification for her point of view, and then not delivering. Ned and Lois must've taught their daughter that there's no such thing as a free lunch, even for Quartermaines.

And she (and everyone else at MSW) did it without resorting to violence or melodrama, too. Just good, old-fashioned, thinking-person's mysteries.

Ironically, it was Marj Dusay's work as Myrna Clegg that convinced both me and my mom that she would be perfect to succeed Beverlee McKinsey as Alexandra Spaulding on GL. Of course, that was while GL was still in reasonably good shape. MD just had the misfortune of joining GL right as it was beginning its' long, downhill slide.

You know, "Desiree DuBois" wouldn't have been the first past-her-prime showgirl to work the Las Vegas Strip. But I thought it was a bridge too far to presume no one would recognize world-famous supermodel Erica Kane hiding under that gloriously cheap, blonde wig. Victoria Lord Gordon Riley Burke Riley Buchanan Buchanan Carpenter Davidson slingin' hash in Paris, Texas? Believable. Erica Kane Martin Brent Cudahy Chandler Roy Montgomery Montgomery Chandler Marick Marick Montgomery Fortensky doing kick lines in some sleazed-up Vegas casino? Absolutely not.