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ICAM!!

Serial killers' pathologies rarely are coherent on soaps, which is why I detest them with a passion, lol.

Yes. Even daytime's answer to Rip Taylor, Ron Carlivati, understands how to structure a story and even a scene better than Tyler Perry.

I hope it is, because trying to dip in and out, as I had planned to do, isn't working for me. Watching KNOTS isn't like watching "Murder, She Wrote." I have to watch this one from the very beginning and then all the way through at my own pace.

Even worse, I've heard TP complain in the past how he was "forced" to take on other writers but that their work didn't meet his standards. Bruh, I seriously doubt there's a writer alive who writes worse than you, lol.

It *is* insane, and one of the many reasons why I think most of his stuff is pure junk. Yet, it seems his core audience - mostly older, African-American women who love them some Jesus - can't get enough of it. *shrug*

I agree. It always comes down to execution in the end.

Frankly, I don't believe it will. Y&R remains firmly on top of the ratings, and unless/until that changes, I don't believe TPTB ever will see a need to improve anything.

That would have been the perfect tagline in all the ads for the show, lol.

I've always felt that a perfect storyline for latter-days DALLAS or KNOTS would have been J.R. enticing Val with an offer to "ghost write" his memoirs.

As far as daytime talk show hosts go, Phil Donahue and Oprah Winfrey define much of my early childhood. Even after he'd left the airwaves, it still was hard to turn over to my local ABC affiliate and not see him on there every afternoon. He will be missed.

I particularly love Kamala Harris' "We're still the underdog" comment. She knows just as much as we do that we cannot afford to be complacent no matter what the polls might say.

I don't believe EB or Bill Bell ever took for granted how much African-American audiences meant to Y&R's success - even in the '80's, when Bell had Phil Morris in whiteface and thugs named "Jazz" and "Kong" running around Genoa City - which is why it pains me so much to see how the current powers-that-be seemingly disregard their AA cast members by not featuring them enough in front-burner storylines.

EB is a true mensch AND he's no fool. He knows he'd still be in TV Guest Villain Hell if not for the millions of African-Americans who have looked to Victor Newman as an icon and sex symbol.

Y&R's Nikki Newman and OLTL's Karen Wolek both had to learn the hard way that no amount of money in the world can clean you up or make people forget about your past. On the one hand, Nikki deserved most, if not all, of those barbs, simply because she can be so hypocritical whenever it comes to judging other women and their behaviors. But, on the other hand, I also feel sorry for her the same way I feel sorry for any sex worker who has been shamed simply for using their body and/or sexuality to make a living. I *think* if I were in Sharon or Diane's shoes, I could come up with other ways to put Nikki in her place verbally without resorting to "strip-shaming" her.

I remember someone saying that Helen Wagner didn't believe Nancy would have remarried after Chris' death, but I'm not sure whom. (Maybe it was Eileen Fulton or Don Hastings?) One story that I liked from Nancy's later years - and one which probably would be viewed as problematic today - was when she helped Lauryn Hill's character overcome illiteracy (even to the point of incorporating rap music, lol). To me, it played very well into her background as a teacher and just seemed like something she would have done to help another person.

To me, GL's Reva and AMC's Erica had the same problem: neither could be friends with women, because both were the type to flirt with every man in the room without even being aware that they were flirting or that the men they were flirting with belonged to other women. Women don't respond well to women who behave like that, IMO. (Which makes Melanie Wilkes from "Gone with the Wind" all the more remarkable to me, lol).

IOW, Kamala Harris decided to "let Kamala be Kamala." (I agree, good for her, lol). Notice who is scheduled to speak at the DNC: Joe and Jill Biden, Barack and Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton*, Jason Carter, 2nd Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, Nancy Pelosi, Pete Buttigieg, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries. True leaders and visionaries from within the Democratic Party, and not bunch of no-name hacks and grade-Z "celebrities" like what we witnessed at the RNC. (*What, no Hillary, too, lol?)

That's what I meant. Thank you, @DRW50!

Remember, folks: the original plan was for Kelly and Nola to hook up eventually, but the chemistry between Lisa Brown and Michael Tylo caused Douglas Marland to change his mind and have Nola end up with Quint instead.

I know it's been said here that HBS was actually in talks to return when OLTL came calling with the role of Nora. I, for one, think HBS probably would've been treated as shabbily by TPTB in ATWT's latter years as she was by OLTL after a certain point.

Frankly, that's tough to say. If her time at ATWT was/is any indication, I think MEB might have shifted AW's focus even more on younger and younger characters to the detriment of veteran cast members.

It kinda makes sense. Viewers would have been left wondering all summer: "Did Gary die?" It also might explain why the eventual season finale was more action-heavy than KNOTS' season finales had been up to that point.

Same here.

Oh, no. Just what this country needed: another "battle of the sexes," lol.