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I agree. It was one of the few McTavish-penned storylines that didn't piss me off.

Neither do I!

Maybe not, but I think they had written him into a corner, especially after he had raped Gloria and pretty much terrorized Hayley to the point of becoming a full-blown alcoholic.

Honestly, I feel more for Piggott's dog than I do for Piggott.

I mean, how could you NOT fall in love with such wonderful acting as this?

And that's...pretty much how I felt about Lucy as well, lol. IIRC, even Nick's HIV-positive wife, Susan, was liked more by viewers than Lucy; and she was only a supporting player in the Brent/Marian storyline who was in Springfield for, like, a year.

Spike Lee should do a commercial: "IT'S GOTTA BE DA TURTLENECKS!!"

Honestly, sports fans, if you're struggling this much with Maurice Johnson getting sacked, I can only imagine how you'll respond when you find out that Clifton Davis has been replaced with Ben Vereen.

I agree, lol. Another shocking, but logical, choice would've been Palmer. But, like I said, I knew from the jump that it would be Janet. I guess watching all those detective shows with my mom paid off, lol.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: social media will be the death of us all.

And playing the role of his mother? None other than Clifton Davis' former "Two Gentlemen of Verona" co-star, Miss Jonelle Allen.

Even at 12-13 years old, I thought the premise was absurd - Janet and Natalie were not twins! - and too gimmicky for a show like AMC, which, to me, had always been one of the most grounded soaps on the air. I also hated the "Who Killed Will Cortlandt?" story, because, as soon as I looked at that picture of all the suspects posing for the cameras in trenchcoats, I knew Janet would be unmasked as the killer. Dixie would've been the shocker, but Janet was the only one who was truly expendable. (There was also An-Li, but that would've made no flipping sense, lol.)

I agree. I also thought it was dumb not to have Morgan Fairchild appear on LOVING first as a way to help viewers become better acquainted with Sydney Chase.

It really depends on the soap. In general, though, I'd say 1991 and 1992 were the last two years when I felt good about these shows and about the genre itself. (I realize the Linda Gottlieb/Michael Malone regime at OLTL has its' fans, but speaking as one who still remembers watching the show as a two-year-old everyday with his mom, I hated it, and still do to this day). By the next year, it was down to one show, GL*, and the cracks were starting to show even for them. (*Two, if you count Y&R, which I still wasn't a fan of 100%, although that would change once I saw how gimmicky AMC and DAYS were becoming). Good question! By that point, I think, I was starting to dip in and out, because I just didn't like what AMC was becoming already with Megan McTavish as HW. (Have I mentioned before how much I hated the Natalie/Janet storyline, lol?). And I'm not talking just about stories either. Even individual scenes were becoming more about characters screaming at each other than anything else.

Thank you so much, @Franko, for sorting all that out for me. I was pretty sure that JWS crossed over to LOVING after AMC, but I couldn't remember whether Jeremy and Ceara's crossover happened before, after or during that period. In retrospect, I wonder whether Jeremy and Ceara's initial crossover was Agnes Nixon's way of testing the waters to see whether one or both could be a part of the LOVING canvas full-time. Because, IIRC, once Jeremy helped to rescue Dinah Lee, he pretty much sticks around Corinth until Gwyneth bumps his off during the LOVING Murders storyline. And what is it with Genie Francis and stand-ins? Not only was there the Ceara stand-in who gets killed (I think) at the airport, but there also was that mop that stood in for her for years at GH.

I feel like P&G would have allowed Douglas Marland at least SOME creative latitude, if only because ATWT was still often ranking as high as #2 before his death. But, as you've said, @DRW50, the entire daytime landscape was changing at that time, too.

According to Velekka Gray, Don Hastings wanted his wife, Leslie Denniston, to portray Lyla, even though Denniston had appeared already on the show as Karen Parker.

Oh my God, lol.

She looks like she's wearing one of Willona's wigs on "Good Times."

I've always maintained that, had Douglas Marland not died, P&G would've asked him to try and save AW, because AW needed a HW with vision BADLY. Either that, or some network (but probably not ABC) would've bought "The Soul Survivors," the new soap he was working on at the time of his death. I still laugh over that SOD item that reported Kate Collins, who'd just left AMC, had auditioned for Mindy. Talk about taking a character in a new direction, lol. I don't see Douglas Marland going to work at any ABC show after the way they forced him to truncate the Lily Slater incest storyline on LOVING. On the other hand, I could see him returning to GL, or even writing for AW or even DAYS!

No need to apologize! I'm just glad I didn't dream the whole thing! (Although, part of me wishes it HAD been just a dream, lol)! I'm not sure, but I think the "Cape Fear" ripoff homage was before John Wesley Shipp crossed over to LOVING? And weren't Jeremy and Ceara involved in that crossover as well? Or was their crossover unrelated? Honestly, I just remember wishing JWS had signed a long-term contract. I know he's gained popularity outside of daytime through "The Flash" and "Dawson's Creek," but I don't think he's ever had a role as good as any he's played on the soaps. To me, Kate Collins and Natalie were never better than when she was with Jean LeClerc/Jeremy. God, how I wish that had been true for me. Unfortunately, I started watching soaps with my mom when I still was a pre-teen; and by the time I was in my adolescent years, a lot of my favorite soaps - AMC, GL, OLTL, ATWT, DAYS - were on their way down (IMO, anyway). I never stopped loving "the soaps," but that's pretty much when I started getting more into classic sitcoms like "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Bob Newhart Show." Nick-at-Nite at that time was EL FUEGO, lol. Pretty much what I said whenever Joy/Camille was on. Maybe if they had hired Megan Follows instead of Schuyler Grant, lol? I agree!! Another shaggy dog of McTavish's that irritated me to no end: the Tad/Ted saga. Lord, what a confusing mess. Were they twins or not, Megan? And if they weren't, then why the hell did they have the same memory of being locked inside a trunk by a man (Ray Gardner?) wearing a gold watch?

I think Sonny/Natalia could've been viable, had Natalia not been introduced as the Latina female Archie Bunker, lol.

As the kids are prone to say nowadays, "the math ain't mathin'."

Oh, PLEASE don't remind us of Gina Jeans. We could've gone the rest of our lives without being reminded of that foolishness, lol.

I hated when they wrote him off the show. Just imagine if KdP's Blair, for example, had become involved with Rafe, acting as stepmom to Sami, etc.?