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True. All we need now is for Clarence to return.

That's why we need VM/Brenda back, so she can, um, reap the benefits when Sonny realizes he's still a man, lol! God bless the Hursleys, but they were some odd ducks, lol!

Because, kicking Nina when she's down is GH's favorite pastime. And I'm not even a fan of Nina's.

Unless...Sonny goes through with the surgery...only to learn afterward that he's impotent. And so, we've gone from early GH to THE DOCTORS, lol.

Get serious, CBS. The only soap of yours that might be getting soapier is BTG. The other two are just coasting.

It's like the barrage of "She's dying, but she's also pregnant!" stories that soaps apparently loved to tell back in the '60's and '70's. Between Sonny's heart problem and Jason/Sasha's baby daddy lie, the current writing team are proving just how out-of-touch they are, lol.

So, where are all the Palestinians supposed to go, if they can't return to Gaza? Congratulations, Mr. President, you've just created another immigration crisis.

And for what? What do we gain from reverting to isolationism, aside from pity and scorn?

What mentally unbalanced station manager would slot a soap opera in at 9 am!? I remember when LOVING aired on my local ABC affiliate at 10:30 am - before the station junked the show altogether - and thinking, "Geez, people haven't even recovered from Regis and Kathie Lee yet!"

So, what does he mean, exactly? Is he telling Europe (and the rest of the world) that they're on their own?

I didn't either until very recently. Given what I've read about Y&R's first years, however, I think it was a genius move on Bill Bell's part: build up the romantic tension between mystery man Brad (Eliot, not Carlton) and introverted Leslie, drop hints about Lorie as the "wild child" who was enjoying the fast life in Europe; then, when Lorie does come home, have her set her sights on her sister's love interest.

Lilith was nothing if not a prankster, lol.

nm, lol

Yup. It's the only outcome to this story that makes sense. Otherwise, what's the point of Jason pretending to be her baby daddy? The last thing this show needed was another damn baby. Because, Port Charles is stuck in the 1930s. (Now I know how LOVE OF LIFE fans felt when Jean Holloway was HW).

It's certainly better than being 10 years ahead (wassup, DAYS?).

Yet, when I've re-watched clips from that period, and I've compared them to clips from earlier periods, AMC still feels like AMC to me. I don't feel like I'm watching a different show (or, in Megan McTavish's case, a darker and nastier show). I can't explain it, lol.

You could, although, I'd argue, not all the decisions made after 1983/84 were bad. I think GL remained watchable throughout the '80's, even as the Bauers and others were phased out, because the quality of the day-to-day writing remained very high (kind of like much of Bob Guza's last run on GH). It's only when Nancy Curlee exits and JFP exerts more influence that you realize that the chickens have come home to roost.

Take it from someone who never really stopped watching GL until they had to for the sake of their own sanity: after Nancy Curlee's decision to step down as HW, the ONLY TWO times that GL showed any hope of recovery were during the first half of Barbara Esensten and James Harmon Brown's run, and the latter part of Millee Taggart's run, with Carolyn Culliton as her co-head.

Let's put it this way: if GL were a person, then John Conboy (and Ellen Weston) was the drunk driver who struck GL down as it crossed the street, and Ellen Wheeler was the overly stressed nurse who (accidentally) pulled the plug on its' life support machine. No one is letting either party off the hook, or downplaying/exaggerating their role in GL's ultimate fate, because they BOTH played a role in pushing GL off the air for good. (...although, even John Conboy would've done a better job in Peapack, I'm just saying.)

It'd be nice if anyone killed Joss!

MVJ: "Alexa, set my DVR to record the show that I created."

The old series would've titled that episode "The Traitor," opening it with a montage (set to ragtime) of famous traitors, such as Benedict Arnold.

I think the troubles started even earlier, when Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini were "dismissed" after the first season. Neither lady set the world (or the show's ratings) on fire, but their exits were so publicly messy, with Remini and Osbourne trading insults on social media, that it set a very bad precedent for the show.

I'd also argue that there was too much instability and unfamiliarity in the hosting chairs. Whenever you tune into "The View," you might not know anything about the newer co-hosts (Sunny, Alyssa, etc.), but you know who Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are; and you know, too, that there's a very good chance you'll see them on the show that day. "The Talk" might've had that in the beginning, with Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini, Aisha Tyler, etc. Once those ladies peaced out one-by-one, however, and the show basically became a revolving door of little-knowns and also-rans, it became even more of a chore to watch everyday! When Sheryl Underwood and Jerry O'Connell are the only two people on your show whom your audience recognizes even a little bit, it's time to reassess what value, if any, your show lends to your network's lineup. Oh, and I'm sticking to my second guess: Beyonce's set to make a cameo on BTG. You heard it here first, sports fans!

This paragraph, in particular, sums up why Eric Braeden/Victor Newman remains Y&R's top attraction after all these years - and in turn, why Y&R itself continues to be #1: The actor will, though, share his thoughts on what makes his character so appealing to the audience. “Number one, he’s from the skids. He’s from absolute stark poverty. He’s an orphan. In that sense, he’s fulfilled the American dream,” Braeden explains. “Yet, what makes him human is the fact that he is obviously subject to emotional frailties and emotional interactions with women and other people. So, I think it’s the combination of the two. On the one hand, he fulfills a fantasy; on the other, he is human.” EB says that Victor Newman "fulfills a fantasy," and he certainly does. Victor appeals to the part of each of us that wishes we had all the money to do whatever we want and not give a [!@#$%^&*] what others think. This, BTW, also might explain how and why a certain someone has now been elected twice into the White House. Thanks, @kalbir, for sharing that article!