Khan

Yep. The newer/younger characters were poorly developed and played by very bland actors. Subsequently, they had to rely too much on the returning cast, including Hagman. Cidre REFUSED to lean into its' inherent epic, soapy qualities. So, instead, we get something that Jerry Bruckheimer would've produced between lines of coke. It was dull and a disgrace to the original series.

There have been moments lately when I've begun to question whether Abraham Lincoln was right to preserve the union.

That's why Melissa was a better adversary for Angela than Chase or Richard, IMO. Because, both were women in a patriarchal society, who were taught very early on that "the land endures."

In a so-called perfect world, I could see Frank and his team taking up @Vee on his suggestion to turn Eden's Joss into a modern-day Carole Lombard: the screwball heiress who just needs William Powell to come along and toss her spoiled behind in the shower with all her clothes still on. Maybe Eden doesn't have the late Lombard's knack for physical comedy, but it couldn't be any worse than watching her play "Josslyn Jacks in 'Live and Let Blonde'."

I feel like there should be some wacky storyline where E.J. develops a split personality named Elvis, lol.

At the risk of sounding insensitive, the first time I read about that whole scandal involving the three (Longet, Sabich and Williams), I thought there was something so early Y&R-esque about it. Even today, it sounds like it's right up Ryan Murphy's alley.

I think recasting a character after an actor's death is something you have to take on a case-by-case basis, for lack of a better word. If the actor and character haven't been on the show for very long, then I don't see the issue. But, on the other hand, if we're talking about someone who has been on the show for decades - or, in the case of DAYS' Brenda Benet, someone who dies under the most tragic circumstances - then recasting probably wouldn't be the way to go.

He wants to run this country as if this country were an unscripted "reality" series and not, you know, the one-time leader of the free world.

Yep, we've seen THAT story before:

Yep! And it won't matter, because Joss will wow everyone with her singing and become Port Charles' answer to Taylor Swift. (I'm calling it now, lol).

You're probably right. I mean, when you get right down to it, "Hotel" was just "The Love Boat" with mints left on all the pillows.

That would explain why the network has seen a sharp decrease in their liquor bills and bar tabs.

She couldn't even cut it on one of those godawful Christmas movies on the Make Christmas White Again channel.

I'm sure Frank has yet another dead-end career choice for Joss up his sleeve. ("Have we tried 'lawyer' yet? Maybe we could have Joss join Alexis' firm as a junior partner!")

If that's true, then Eden should take my advice and not fight the feeling. But I still don't see the point in recasting and/or bringing Joss back down the road. We really don't need her.

Was "Hotel" still doing okay in the ratings, or had they begun to slide? If it was the latter, then they might've switched to more serialized storytelling in order to grab more viewers.

Even better, they could send Joss off to visit Jax; and then, a few weeks later, Carly gets a call that father and daughter drowned off the coast of Australia.

Same here!

It isn't everyday you see Tad Martin as being "overly good," lol.

That SS plot sounds HORRIBLE and something that no show would get away with doing today.

LOL! Elvira joining the cast as another one of Blake's long-lost wives would've been a hoot!

I remember someone in the soap press commenting how AMC dressed Karen Lynn Gorney as much older than she actually was on purpose. I wonder if that had played a part in Tara's return not working out as everyone had hoped. Revealing that Jim Jefferson was gay would've been a very interesting story to tell, I think. Especially if the writers had created a son for him and Tara in addition to Kelsey as their daughter.

I agree. PP should've been a younger, more upscale version of KL, helped by the fact that several who worked on it - Peter Dunne, Joel J. Feigenbaum, Lynn Marie Latham and, of course, the Stanleys - also had worked on the earlier series (although, not at the same time). Yet, when I watched it, I just felt like I was watching another MP or CPW.

I remember when Megan McTavish, who had returned to the show after her disastrous GL stint, wrote a Nola Reardon-esque fantasy sequence for Kelsey, who was mooning over some guy (Scott ?), with Blondie's "One Way or Another" on the soundtrack. It was goofy as hell, lol.