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Universal attempted to revive the series several years ago with Octavia Spencer as Jessica, who would've been remade into a hospital administrator who self-published mystery novels on the side. Needless to say, Angela Lansbury spoke against it, and Universal ended up ditching the revival altogether.

It's probably what GENERATIONS' opening should've been and wasn't. But I could've done without the "L-O-V-I-N-G" part. Thank you, Jeffrey Osborne, but we know how the word is spelled. BTG is a brand-new soap for the 21st century, so any theme song for it should have hip-hop influences.

Give her just about anything to play, and she'll play it.

The expression on Angela Lansbury's face in that thumbnail says it all.

Right?? Plus, you have the fact that Andy was Holly's brother and Blake's uncle - and that Justin and Ross would have remembered Andy's prior bad acts only too well - and maybe you could see how a potential Andy/Samantha relationship might have impacted the Marler and Norris families.

Look, just about everyone here KNOWS how much I stan for Cady McClain - and no doubt, if she were to be cast as Julia, she'd rock it, like she's rocked every other role; and she'd end up taking home another Emmy, too - but if we're gonna put this notion out into the universe, could we PLEASE give her a NEW character to play? One that she could create from scratch? She's always been a recast in soaps, and it's just not fair, lol.

And they'll have her Jessica being pursued by an axe-wielding maniac at some point, because JLC is, after all, The Once and Future Scream Queen.

Don't worry, I reunited Buzz with Lucy's mother, Sylvie (played by Margaret Colin). It was Andy Norris.

At the moment, I'm rewatching "Unauthorized Obituary" (S8, E3) for, like, the 240th time; and it just saddens me to think there's a chance JLC could be stepping into Dame Angela's shoes. And I've got nothing against JLC! But she is just not Angela Lansbury.

Poor Susan. To lose a great love like that after so many years. I only pray that God grant her the strength to carry forward without Bill.

Me? I'd be fine with killing off Gio AND TJ...along with about 35 other characters. (C'mon, Cyrus, time is money!)

OMG, no way would I have wanted a Sam played by Cady McClain to be involved with Dinah and Mallet on that level, lol. Years ago, when I still was writing GL fanfic, I had paired Sam with a very surprising choice...but like hell I'm gonna tell anyone what that choice was!

With all due respect, @vanguard, I think that song would be too "sleepy" for an opening.

Actually, I'm not a fan of featuring cast members in openings, since we know how cast members can come and go so quickly on soaps. But that's just me.

I just keep hoping that somehow, someway, someone will unearth some episodes of WTHI and LIAMST, lol.

Frankly, @Chris B, I don't think you missed much. From what I remember, it was a'ight. I think if it had premiered about ten years earlier, it might've had a chance. By 1998, however, it probably felt "old hat."

No no no no no...and no. "No" to adapting MSW as a movie; and "no" to JLC portraying Jessica Fletcher. Just. No.

I wanted Cady McClain on GL, but as a recast for Samantha Marler.

I hope so! Granted, what I've seen of THE DOCTORS, I haven't liked. But I do think it's important for this venture to be successful, if only for the small hope that it'll lead to more defunct soaps becoming available for streaming.

Exactly. Bill Bell never wanted Doug and Julie to marry, and I see where he was coming from. But I also believe that if Doug and Julie had to marry, then they should have stayed married. Because all the times they weren't married afterward just felt so contrived to me. They were the rare soap couple whom you had to contrive to break up, not to reunite. (Another couple who, IMO, were like that were AMC's Jesse and Angie).

I shouldn't contribute to this part of the conversation at all, because: 1) I'd only be feeding into your narcissism and 2) anything I say will likely fall onto deaf ears anyway. BUT...if you can't post anything on or from YouTube, and you know Rumble is not an agreeable alternative, then - here's a thought - just don't post anything, period. After all, it's not as if Ernesto Toscano has your lover suspended over a vat of acid and is FORCING you to post on the 'net, so - again - if you can't post on or from YT, then just. Don't. Post.

Except, in Bob and Kim's case, there were a number of years after their initial hook-up (and Sabrina's conception) where they were on the show but not together. Bob's track record after Kim wasn't great, but Kim seemed to be doing okay with Dan until his death. There were times when either Doug/Bill or Julie/Susan (or both) were off DAYS, with the suggestion that Doug and Julie had split up again, but it just never felt right for those two to be apart, even if breakups are par for the course for most soap pairings.

If you watch the soaps for any length of time, you get used to couples breaking up and getting back together. Doug and Julie were one couple, however, you never, ever wanted to see split up, because Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes were just so magical together. DAYS and daytime owe them so much.

He's a modern-day Val Dufour.

It's more than my not caring for Nadine, though. It's like not everyone in Y&R's Genoa City knowing for years that John Abbott wasn't Ashley's biological father. Sometimes, in life, things happen (like a person "disappearing" because they've been murdered) that not everyone in town is privy to. And you have to remember: Nadine was an absentee mom for much of Frank and Harley's lives. They'd be disappointed at the thought of their mom turning tail and running again, but they'd also assume that Nadine had just reverted to her old ways.