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I know they tried years later to give Matt some angst over living in Vanessa's shadow by having him lose all that money to bad investments or whatever, but to me, it just seemed to come about ten years too late, lol.

I suspect it would've gone somewhere, had the Lechowicks' not fucked up the casting, like they always did. The Manny Vasquez story is exactly the story that makes me question the Lechowicks' whole "We chose to work on KNOTS over DALLAS and FC because KNOTS was more real" explanation. You chose to work on KNOTS because it was more real, but you end up writing a drug smuggling storyline that smacked of "Miami Vice." Make THAT make sense, lol.

There was one great moment when Ann-Margret's character tells someone (forget who), "My son is not for sale." That line has stuck with me all these years later. Like you said, @Soaplovers, "Four Corners" sounds really good "on paper," but I think David Jacobs was just done with television by that point, and especially done with sudsy dramas.

Yeah, it's not, "Oh, BTW, there's some new show with some Black folks comin' on after the holidays (don't ask us when or what it's about, we've no idea)."

If Charlotte goes on a rampage with Cyrus and starting killing off the dead weight on this show, I will love her forever.

Not necessarily. There was a time when soaps HAD the time for rehearsal. Maybe not a lot of rehearsal, but enough to help the cast find the spine of each scene they were playing and modulate their performances accordingly. It could be done again, I think, but TPTB would need to be realistic. The days of giant casts and lavish sets are over; and the money spent on such things could be put back into rehearsal time.

The thing is, if FC had been a truly awful show, it never would've held onto as much of DALLAS' audience as it did. It never was as consistent as DALLAS or KL, but I do think FC had a few things going for it, especially in the first few seasons, when Earl Hamner, Jr. was still in charge. Just imagine if Michael Filerman hadn't succeeded in running off Peter Dunne and his team. KL might've been able to maintain that momentum - maybe not enough to hurt DALLAS, but certainly enough to stop DYNASTY in its' tracks.

I just pray that the directing team will have SOME time to rehearse with the actors, especially with the younger and less experienced ones. Too many otherwise great scenes and stories have been sunk in this industry by actors who have to perform with little to no direction at all.

Make it your mission in life to find someone who looks at you the way Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes always looked at each other.

Sorry, I meant 1000, lol! Unfortunately, by the time I had realized my error, 'twas too late to edit.

I forgot RB once was married to that overexposed clown.

GH has officially become "Night of 100 Stars."

Just pretend that was Nancy before the "corrective surgery," lol.

That's incredible! Even "All in the Family" didn't enjoy that luxury in the '70's.

Granted, I wasn't a fan of Greenlee, regardless of who played her. But I definitely agree that Singh was treated very, very badly by a lot of people BTS. AT should've been fired and removed from the set the minute he had made that remark, regardless of how popular Aiden and Greenlee were.

What damn near killed GH in 1977 is what will kill it in the end anyway. As terribly misogynistic and depressing as their GH was, I'd take it back today over Frank Valentini's GH in a heartbeat.

Thanks for tagging me as well, @NothinButAttitude. I, too, am not surprised to read all that about Sabine Singh's time on AMC. (Leave it to Julie Hanan Carruthers to be concerned over whether the poor girl still wanted a farewell cake, lol). There was a time, I think, when AMC's was one of the most congenial sets in daytime. Somewhere along the way, however, that changed.

You're not alone, lol. Granted, I wasn't watching GH everyday at that point, because my 2 pm (CST) viewing time was split between GL and SaBa, but I did watch semi-regularly; and what I saw of Jenny, I found to be incredibly dull. Even the retcon with Senator Kensington, or whatever his name was, was just so dull.

Still better than GENERATIONS'.

It didn't. At least, I didn't see it that way. I just have a hard time feeling empathy for a character who has made his living extorting from and exploiting others. GH can pretty it up all they want, but that's what Sonny (and Jason) do.

Ironically, I don't think there was anything gothic or supernatural about PASSIONS' opening. Watching that package, you think all you're getting, at best, is a modern-day "Peyton Place," which is what I suspected JER was going for at the start (with a few supernatural touches that would've been phased out over time) before either he or the network realized that that vision was not landing with the audience. It's not a bad idea, per se, but I don't believe BTG is as politically oriented as CAPITOL was.

And for good reasons, too! You can't put that kind of crap on five days a week and NOT expect people to hate it! But, you are right: at least their opening didn't suck too badly.

That's what happens when you don't have a real character to play and no director or producer with a firm vision FOR that character.

Of course, I would have needed to de-age Andy slightly, so the relationship with Samantha wouldn't be too creepy (although, the age difference still would have been but one of many obstacles). Sometimes, though, it's just like what Bill Bell told his son, Bradley: it all begins with putting two names together on a piece of paper. Another idea I had was to introduce the now-grown Emily Mason (Norris) as an FBI agent and Gus Aitoro's ex-partner/ex-girlfriend. I would've toyed a bit with a Gus/Harley/Emily triangle, but my plan was to cement her as the new Bauer family matriarch (via marriage to Rick) and Springfield police chief. And yes, her mother, Janet, would have returned on a recurring basis, as a recovering alcoholic, like her mother, Ellen, before her.

No matter what they do for the opening, it can't be worse than this: As would I!