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Frankly, I've tried listening to some of those audio-only recordings (not of AW, but of other soaps) and...I dunno...I hate not seeing the actors' faces and body language. BITD, when directors actually had time to work with the actors, the facial and physical gestures seemed to be a key component to the storytelling. More often than not, they told us what the characters were really thinking and not saying.

As a fan of Nixon's work, I wish more of her AW material was available online. Those few, terribly grainy clips on YT simply aren't enough.

Obviously, I'm not @vetsoapfan, lol. However, it's my understanding that, for its' two years, AW was in a very precarious position -- not just because it was the newest kid on the soap block, but also because a lot of the writing simply wasn't working. Irna Phillips had created the show (w/ Bill Bell) to be more melodramatic in tone than ATWT or GL, yet she was incapable of that kind of storytelling; and her successor, James Lipton, was a journeyman writer who had the "brilliant" idea of de-emphasizing the Matthews clan and replacing them with the Gregorys, whom Agnes Nixon promptly got rid of when she assumed the reins in '66.

As the African-Americans who were interviewed for that story continually emphasized, the number-one, most important thing to remember about the 2020 election is doing what we have to as a country to vote Trump out of office. You might not like everything about Biden (or Warren, or Harris, or Bernie), but there are just some things we'll have to get over if we're going to keep a second Trump administration from happening. Thanks, @marceline!

Today's incompetent EPs and HWs just don't care about the multigenerational element anymore. Soaps weren't built on couples, but on families. That's what fans loved most about them BITD. You tune into your favorite soap(s) either to watch families that were like yours or you WANTED to be like yours. It's truly depressing to think how low this genre has fallen.

Oops. My bad. Thanks, BF!

Well, he was on GH, briefly, as Justus Ward; but, as usual, JFP and her HW, Robert Guza, Jr., wasted him.

Maggie Haberman is an embarrassment to American journalism (or any journalism) and should be canned (or, at the very least, forced to host a reality series).

I love that you call her "Miss Thing," lol.

I want to create an all-Black soap opera just to give Petronia Paley the "fierce matriarch/bitch" role she was born to play.

Class. Either you got it...or you don't.

Same here. I check off all the boxes on all my Ignored Users, and I still see their posts on the threads.

Kushner has the most severe case of RBF I've ever seen on any man. He always looks as if he's about to cry, soil his pants, or both. Surely, Ivanka could've found another rich guy to marry whose face doesn't dry out fruit.

Hello, DocRestless, and welcome to SON!

Do y'all honestly think they gaf about the black woman's safety?

Methinks she could be signing up to appear on another reality series.

IKR? God forbid the industry actually gives the people who watch their movies and TV series what they want.

Suddenly, Michael Keaton-as-Batman doesn't seem so awful.

Yep. Exactly. Liberals are King Arthur, and Republicans are Mordred. And we all know what happened to King Arthur and Mordred, don't we?

I truly do not understand the logic of Democratic candidates appearing on FNTH's. What do they hope to gain there? Are they STILL operating under the assumption that they can sway those people, or that the network's key demographic is comprised of citizens who have legitimate concerns about the direction of this country and need to be heard? (Many DO have legitimate concerns, but the more reasonably minded ones -- meaning, of course, the ones who aren't blaming it all on Hillary or black or brown folks -- aren't necessarily tuning into FNC, lol).

I am so worried that that terrible trend will continue.

Damn. Forgot about that leftover plot thread.

They never realize that soaps aren't like primetime shows. You can't just throw flashy stunts and OMG, jaw-dropping plot twists at the uninitiated and expect them to hook on for (dear) life. The only way you grow and keep a soap's audience is through one generation passing it down to another like a family heirloom.

It's that moment when a pathological liar can't keep even his own lies straight, lol. It's happening to the Norwegians, too? WTF, Planet Earth!?

It was more than rumors. But, as Bunim and her producing partner, Jonathan Murray, learned from "The Real World," the best way to keep your cast on your good side, is to keep them [!@#$%^&*]-faced.