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And that's because Miss Martha literally walked on water!

Frankly, there was a point when AMC was asking too damn much from everyone, let alone from people who'd watched the show for years and years, lol.

I'm sure she was in a few "Law & Order"'s back in the day, lol. I'd love to know the name of the actor who played the other doctor speaking to Kate. I know I saw him in a bunch of commercials BITD ('80's and '90's), but I never learned his name.

Yes, but I wouldn't have done the Liza/Tad affair. I didn't think Liza would have gone back to the guy who'd once slept with her mother.

And about a year before, well, this:

I think that's the major difference between daytime and primetime soaps. In daytime, you have the luxury of writing and playing scenes that don't necessarily advance the plot but do go deeper into the characters, revealing their mindsets AS they're dealing with their circumstances; whereas, in primetime, the only real way you can know who or what the characters are is through their outward, plot-dependent actions. Peter Dunne and Richard Gollance, though, were masters at crafting scenes on KNOTS LANDING that, on the surface, seemed very vertical, yet were also pushing the plot along at the same time. I, myself, might have tried pairing her with Tad, and Philip Brown's Buck with Dixie. All I really remember about Rayfield/Cascio after so many years is their Asian-American character, Henry, and how many scenes with him seemed to take place in his family's Chinese restaurant. (Better a restaurant, I guess, than a donut shop or the dry cleaners, lol). In general, I'm leery of stories that take place in Heaven (or Hell, for that matter), simply because nobody stays dead on soaps anymore; and if an actor were to return to their show as their presumed-dead character, you have to pretend like you didn't see them before as a ghost intervening in their loved ones' lives (hi, Darnell/Jesse!).

I think it was a shame that they chose to kill her off rather than find a place for her on AMC, as I think Lauren-Marie Taylor would've blended very well with AMC's cast.

In a way, this conversation about the streamers reminds me of what FOX, The WB and UPN were like in their early days. In all three cases, you had a fledgling, upstart network that was offering shows that weren't awards magnets or critical darlings, but WERE helping them to establish viewer bases (usually, among those who felt ignored by the Big Three or Four) that could help them to afford more quality shows down the road. I mean, as awful as some of The WB's earliest shows were - and let's not mince words here, The WB's programming was worse than horseshit in the beginning - on the other hand, there would've been no "Gilmore Girls" or "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" without them. (Same goes for all the miserable shows we had to suffer through on FOX, including that wretched "90210" and even worse "Melrose Place," before we got "The Simpsons" and "The X-Files"). I think that's what all these streaming services should've done. Instead of launching right away with prestigious, star-heavy projects that were gonna cost tons of money that they didn't exactly have, with no guarantees that the audiences for them would be there, they should've started much, much smaller, perhaps with shows and movies that could've been produced on shoestring budgets, but were targeted toward demographics that felt underserved by the networks and cable.

For once, I'm not going to say anything positive or negative about JG or his jumping over to BTG. I'm just going to wish him well, lol. At the end of the day, however, it comes down to these three truths: 1. It isn't about WHAT you know, but about WHO you know, that gets you ahead in any business. 2. It isn't about hiring the best and brightest, but about hiring the easiest to work with and the most efficient. 3. If you really want to know why certain individuals in this industry keep getting hired, despite their abysmal track records, you actually need to take a look in the mirror. They keep getting hired, because they know how to deliver to a generation of fans who've been conditioned not to be able to tell good from bad. (Anyone who remembers when these shows still would "write up" to the viewers knows what I'm talking about).

Remember when I said - last year, I believe, before BTG had premiered - that Jamey Giddens was joining the writing staff?

Not me! I still say the bitch faked her cancer!

ICAM!!

IMO, GH is in the same boat as Y&R. It's coasting on the fumes of what worked 20+ years ago. But what's ironic here is that you'd think a show with 435 regular cast members wouldn't feel as creatively spent as GH does these days.

In a way, Lisa Brown, as Nola, reminded me of old screwball heroines like Jean Arthur and Carole Lombard, who could go in a thousand different directions within each sentence and still come out understandable and endearing.

General Hospital's new hire, Bryce Dufree says he's "ready to go" as Vaughn, the latest addition to the WSB ranks. Wow, would you look at that? The sonofabitch hasn't even started airing yet, and already, he's ready to leave!

If he has any talent at all, then he doesn't belong on ANY soap (with BTG being the possible exception); and if he has NO talent at all, then he's right where he belongs.

I think it was a little of both. She'd flub lines to the point where they seemed to tumble out (because, let's be honest, as brilliant as Douglas Marland was as a HW, he also could be kind of wordy, lol), but in a way, it worked for a left-of-center character like Nola Reardon. It's just that Pamela K. Long (God bless her) interpreted that quirk to mean she was semi-ditzy and a bad cook, lol.

Now you're just making me miss Michael Vartan all over again, lol.

All I can say is, when you're about to go head-to-head with the first new soap opera in 25 years - not to mention, the first, hour-long soap with a Black family as the main cast - and the best you can do to counter that is "Josslyn Jacks, Super Spy".....

Annabelle THE DOG would've been more believable.

I'm so sorry to hear that. I didn't always enjoy watching AMC when it was under her watch, but I would agree that she had her finger on that show's pulse better than the EP's who came after her.

I agree. And I agree that EO's don't have that kind of power, too. At the very least, it would be next to impossible to enforce.

Pretty much, lol! What IS Passionflix?

The perfect, plastic-looking companion for Secret Agent Barbie.

I think we know what caused that hole, too: