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I liked it better as FLAMINGO ROAD. ;)

I think that was the case for me and my immediate peers as well. Those who did watch soaps tended to watch DAYS or the ABCD shows. I personally didn't know of anyone else (besides my mother and grandmother) who watched the CBS shows, let alone the ones P&G sponsored.

Frankly, I felt the same way about Greg Sumner's biography that I did about "Capricorn Crude": why is Val writing that book, lol? I had no qualms with Valene finding herself as a writer. IMO, however, she was better suited writing children's and young adult books than family sagas and tell-all biographies. Plus, what could Val possibly have uncovered in researching and writing about Greg that we didn't know already? Unless she were to discover that Greg once killed a man or had a child even he didn't know about, I don't see where that particular story could've gone. Ironically, I think one reason why Mack/Kevin Dobson was added to the show was to make Karen appear less shrill. Whether or not that turned to be the case, however, is a matter of opinion, lol. Douglas Sheehan was another actor whose more natural approach helped separate KNOTS from the other primetime soaps - a modern day Henry Fonda or James Stewart, if you will, a type which you never saw on most other soaps, daytime OR primetime. That's why I hated Ben's exit storyline: not only was it far-fetched, but it also did not play to Sheehan's strengths. Granted, this is just my observation as a viewer, but I sense his boredom was more a struggle with the producers over who Greg Sumner was and what he was supposed to bring to the show. Clearly, the producers wanted Greg to be their answer to J.R. Ewing or Richard Channing, but Devane likely fought that because he saw more dimensions to Greg than they did. His monologue with the late Paul Galveston's portrait, in particular, feels like the show setting him up to be the major antagonist - bigger than even Abby - but in the end, it comes across as a promise that's never quite fulfilled.

There are about as many reasons to despise JFP as a producer as there are actors employed at GH...and there a lot of actors currently employed at GH.

If Clint Ritchie resented Linda Gottlieb for the homophobia storyline, then he isn't alone. I just never believed that Clint Buchanan would be homophobic.

I'll let you and everyone else in on a little secret: I've never loved Lucy. I respect her as an actress and as a television pioneer; however, all her shows, including ILL, have always set my teeth on edge. Even when I was a child, before I had discovered "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in my sixth grade year, and I was just watching one mindless sitcom and drama show after another, I never sat through an entire episode of Lucy, because I just couldn't believe that anyone could be that looney tunes.

LOL!!

How about Flash? ;)

And I watched it only because I'm a fan of Robert Benton's work.

I think the only Billie recast accepted by DAYS' audience was Krista Allen, but Billie had changed so much by that point, she might as well have been playing a brand new character.

I've heard that as well. And wasn't MTS pregnant at the time, and Bill Bell needed some way to write her pregnancy into the show? Or am I getting that mixed up with some other backstage drama, lol?

I agree. Her acting in that scene - not to mention, her acting in much of the following season - is OTT. That's why I found it interesting when Michele Lee told Steve Kmetko in his podcast that KL became "less interesting" to her as it evolved. If so, that could explain why she could be so shrill and overbearing at times, lol.

Stay thirsty, my friend!

Jane Elliot's the type to have good chemistry with lots of people, lol.

I think the only time Cady McClain has struggled as an actor on soaps was when she had to "play crazy" on Y&R. Psycho hose beast is just not her strong suit, lol.

Excellent point, @prefab1 ! I adore MEK as an actor and always will, but it hasn't escaped me how that man has always struggled to play someone other than Tad Martin. He really was meant to play him forever.

I'm so sorry, @janea4old , Meg's emotional instability affected you so deeply. And I'm thankful, too, that the years have brought you peace and better ways to cope, lol. Tell me, though, did they bring up Meg's issues at all when Scotty returned in '81 as a villain? Did Lee maybe link the changes in his son's behavior to what had happened to his mother?

I find it incredible that a half-hour soap (that isn't EON) even would attempt a story like the psychic spy story, or any action/adventure-type story for that matter. All you have to do is to look at what SFT did so often with Travis and Liza to know that stories that aren't kitchen-sink dramas don't work in a half-hour format. There just simply isn't enough time or resources to do it well. (Of course, I always make the exception for LOVING, because even high romance mixed with action/adventure stuff might've helped them be something other than "Dollar Tree AMC," lol.)

This definitely supports the theory that Gail Kobe wanted him "dead dead," in order to punish VI, so that there could be no way to bring him back later.

Especially Meryl Streep! Have you seen "Still of the Night"? Oof, lol.

I've been saying for years that giving Alexis daughters was a mistake. She should've had just one son, no mas.

Well, if GH can bring back Jagger Cates as a blue-eyed blonde, then I guess it could bring Zander Smith back from the dead, too.

Based on what little I know about her, I'd say that Meg Bentley Baldwin was a deeply troubled woman, lol.

If so, then God bless those dirty rotten scabs, lol.

Hell, anything's gotta be better than 90% of what's on the show right now!