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The writers on GH should read and attend more plays and learn what drama itself is all about. And the lady in that thumbnail looks very, very surprised, lol. Oh, MST3K was so merciless toward those early GH episodes, lol.

I agree. People tend to forget that every work is a product of its' time. If you look at anything that was written or produced even 10 years ago through the lens of 2024/2025, it's not going to hold up well, because norms and attitudes are always in flux. I still remember when I showed my friends in NYC "The Philadelphia Story," and they objected right away to the opening scene where Cary Grant shoves Katharine Hepburn to the ground by her face after she breaks one of his golf clubs. "You have to remember that this was 1940," I said, "and back then, misogyny just wasn't on a lot of people's radars. "Besides, the scene needed a 'button,' and how else was Dexter supposed to respond to Tracy breaking his golf club? Any other ending to that scene would've been anticlimactic." Personally, I would feel more outraged if the producers of this reboot decided to go the Shonda Rhimes/"Bridgerton" route and have their cast be more racially and ethnically diverse, just so someone could make some points about inclusivity. It'd look really silly and too "try hard," for example, to have a Charles Ingalls who's Asian, married to a Caroline who's Black, with no one in Walnut Grove acknowledging their biracial marriage or "Blasian" children.

Not surprised, lol.

Unfortunately, I suspect "Taylor Sheridan" is just what the team in charge is going for. It's been years since I've watched anything on Netflix, and that's down to the same issue I have with many streamers: quantity over (good) quality. So much of what gets produced today is just so dreary to me. Most of it is heavy, and plodding, and in those cases when the shows have anything to do with our military, they're also patriotic to the point of becoming propaganda. I've kind of resigned myself to watching classic TV I can find on Pluto. For sure, there are aspects of the novels that feel very "pro-whites," but I think that's to be expected, given how little white people still knew or understood about non-Caucasians in general when the books were first published. But do I think Laura Ingalls Wilder was trying to indoctrinate school children and others into white supremacy, like Thomas Dixon, Jr., who wrote the novel upon which "The Birth of a Nation" was based? Frankly, I think she was just telling (fictionalized) stories from her childhood.

I think Douglas Marland wanted to bring back Chuckie, but as Eileen Fulton has famously said, "Nancy Hughes buried Chuckie - and when Nancy Hughes buries someone, they STAY buried!". I didn't realize until earlier this afternoon that the young lady who played Kate also played the heroine in the 1984 slasher film, "Scream for Help," co-starring none other than Marie Masters as her cuckolded mother, lol!

Yeah, that never works with me, lol. I'm not going to like Leo now just because Marlena has become his f*g hag. If anything, her friendship with Leo makes me question Marlena's sanity. (Y'all sure she ain't really one of the clones, lol?) At this point, I'll be happy just to see them "cancel" "Body & Soul." W.E.B. DuBois' ghost is still crying salty tears over what that "story" has reduced Abe to.

They all discover that they, their show and even DAYS itself are all part of Tommy Westphall's imagination. But seriously, who gives a crap?

I can't remember who said it - maybe it was someone on this board? - but whoever said it was correct: DALLAS epitomized the first Reagan administration and the ascendance to wealth; and DYNASTY epitomized the second, with the consolidation of it.

I truly wish someone would "reboot" this damn show, take some characters and relocate them to the nearby town of Medford, where they can form relationships with characters who aren't related to them. Salem has become so incestuous, it's a wonder there aren't any albino children and grandchildren running around.

Just one of the many dangers you run into when you live in a town where everyone is related to everyone else, lol.

Just imagine if, for example, Joyce had been the one to learn about Scott Eldridge's existence. Imagine, too, if Dan still had been alive during Steve and Betsy's romance. I think Dan would have been LIVID to see his daughter involved with someone who was several years older and had a sketchy past. That could have caused conflict between him and Kim, who might have shared Dan's point of view, but who also felt that interfering would only result in driving Betsy further away.

I'd definitely check out the first 10 or so (B&W) seasons, along with whatever's out there from the original radio show. As I've said before, "Gunsmoke," in those years, was very much a western for adults (and I say that as someone who generally doesn't like watching westerns, lol). Very character-driven, and very hard-hitting, too. I think part of my problem with LHOTP - aside from Michael Landon's penchant for maudlin, unearned sentimentality - is that the novels they're based on had a harsher, more clear-eyed view of "prairie life." At least, that's how the novels, and Laura Ingalls Wilder's writing, came across to me when I read them as a kid. Reading "The Long Winter" in particular made me very glad I was growing up in the 20th century, and not the 19th, lol.

I agree. Doug Higgins, who resides in the Southwest today and works as an artist, was a dud as Bennett Hadley. In order for the character and storyline to have worked, they needed someone who was very charming, yet who also retained enough of an aura of mystery to be slightly sinister, especially for Eileen Fulton/Lisa. Higgins, however, was just so dull. But, then again, everything that I've seen and read re: the Willows just feels like filler to me. I'd really love to know Ralph Ellis and Eugenie Hunt's original intentions with the storyline. Was the plan to have Bennett move to Oakdale with Lisa after the storyline finished? Was there maybe going to be a Lisa/Grant/Bennett triangle of some kind? Perhaps, one reason why P&G had Douglas Marland work temporarily on ATWT before moving over to GL was to wrap up the Willows storyline and get Lisa back in Oakdale as quickly as possible, since it's obvious the Ellises left or were fired before they were allowed to finish it. Meanwhile, what are everyone's thoughts on Valerie adopting Kate, which was another storyline that was running at the same time as the Willows and the whole Lisa/Grant/Joyce/Don/Mary-go-round? I haven't read many comments about that storyline on this thread, so I was just curious. To me, the actress who played Kate kind of reminds me of Lucy Deakins or (God help us) young Martha Byrne. She comes across as a real teenager, not a twentysomething pretending to be one; and she also had a good rapport with Suzanne Davidson, who was very convincing as young, awkward Betsy as well. Honestly, I didn't care, lol. The whole situation felt so contrived to me. I, too, have been pinned against a wall by a car that somehow had rolled back, but I didn't have any trouble pulling myself out. Either Joyce was the stupidest person alive, or she was trying once more to manipulate poor Don, lol.

I've always believed that if a scene is well-written and well-directed, then it doesn't matter whether it runs for 10 minutes or 10 seconds, it will grab people's attention all the way.

Shemar is right: what goes on with him and his loved ones in his personal life is nobody's damn business; and it's sad that he even has to go on social media and address the reports about him and Jesiree, but such are the times that we live in.

Actually, @te., I think "Gunsmoke" would be PERFECT for a reboot, especially if the tone were more in keeping with the original radio series and the earliest TV seasons, which were darker than the later ones.

The DNC electing Ken Martin as its' next Chair falls in line with what I had expected the Democratic Party to do: pick, as its' newest official "face," someone white, male, from the Midwest and "non-threatening" enough to folks who wish someone would revive "Hee Haw." Going forward, these will be the ones we'll have to reach out to, even if it means making a bunch of concessions to absolute rubes.

He also did very good work as a dialogue writer for THE DOCTORS, although that's not the same thing as HW'ing.

And the so-called "mainstream media," who sold us all down the river just so they could have access to a tyrant, has been left to twist in the proverbial wind. Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of traitors.

All I can say is...

I mean, yeah, they tackled some very topics during their run, but not in any way that I would consider "woke" or "progressive." Of course, "Highway to Heaven," which Michael Landon also starred in and produced, suffered from the same problem. In both cases, weightier subjects were dealt with in very shallow ways, with happy endings tacked on that were cloying and unearned.

One thing's for certain: Lorraine Broderick would know how to write for a cast of over 60 actors, lol!

Thanks, @dc11786, for filling in the blanks re: Peter and Ruth's affair (?) and Henry and Doreen's assignation!

ICAM!!

He did. IIRC, that (Ruth or somebody discovering a panicked Doreen hovering over Henry's unconscious, half-naked body in bed) was the last cliffhanger, as "TO BE CONTINUED..." scrawled across the bottom of the screen. And it was mostly because Henry felt Peter Whitmore was coming between him and Ruth - luring Ruth back into a singing career, for example. I can't remember whether it was common knowledge that Peter was Chantal's biological father, but I do remember Henry had been drinking when he and Doreen went to bed and before he had had that (fatal?) heart attack.