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Yup. It's the only outcome to this story that makes sense. Otherwise, what's the point of Jason pretending to be her baby daddy? The last thing this show needed was another damn baby. Because, Port Charles is stuck in the 1930s. (Now I know how LOVE OF LIFE fans felt when Jean Holloway was HW).

It's certainly better than being 10 years ahead (wassup, DAYS?).

Yet, when I've re-watched clips from that period, and I've compared them to clips from earlier periods, AMC still feels like AMC to me. I don't feel like I'm watching a different show (or, in Megan McTavish's case, a darker and nastier show). I can't explain it, lol.

You could, although, I'd argue, not all the decisions made after 1983/84 were bad. I think GL remained watchable throughout the '80's, even as the Bauers and others were phased out, because the quality of the day-to-day writing remained very high (kind of like much of Bob Guza's last run on GH). It's only when Nancy Curlee exits and JFP exerts more influence that you realize that the chickens have come home to roost.

Take it from someone who never really stopped watching GL until they had to for the sake of their own sanity: after Nancy Curlee's decision to step down as HW, the ONLY TWO times that GL showed any hope of recovery were during the first half of Barbara Esensten and James Harmon Brown's run, and the latter part of Millee Taggart's run, with Carolyn Culliton as her co-head.

Let's put it this way: if GL were a person, then John Conboy (and Ellen Weston) was the drunk driver who struck GL down as it crossed the street, and Ellen Wheeler was the overly stressed nurse who (accidentally) pulled the plug on its' life support machine. No one is letting either party off the hook, or downplaying/exaggerating their role in GL's ultimate fate, because they BOTH played a role in pushing GL off the air for good. (...although, even John Conboy would've done a better job in Peapack, I'm just saying.)

It'd be nice if anyone killed Joss!

MVJ: "Alexa, set my DVR to record the show that I created."

The old series would've titled that episode "The Traitor," opening it with a montage (set to ragtime) of famous traitors, such as Benedict Arnold.

I think the troubles started even earlier, when Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini were "dismissed" after the first season. Neither lady set the world (or the show's ratings) on fire, but their exits were so publicly messy, with Remini and Osbourne trading insults on social media, that it set a very bad precedent for the show.

I'd also argue that there was too much instability and unfamiliarity in the hosting chairs. Whenever you tune into "The View," you might not know anything about the newer co-hosts (Sunny, Alyssa, etc.), but you know who Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar are; and you know, too, that there's a very good chance you'll see them on the show that day. "The Talk" might've had that in the beginning, with Sara Gilbert, Sharon Osbourne, Julie Chen, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini, Aisha Tyler, etc. Once those ladies peaced out one-by-one, however, and the show basically became a revolving door of little-knowns and also-rans, it became even more of a chore to watch everyday! When Sheryl Underwood and Jerry O'Connell are the only two people on your show whom your audience recognizes even a little bit, it's time to reassess what value, if any, your show lends to your network's lineup. Oh, and I'm sticking to my second guess: Beyonce's set to make a cameo on BTG. You heard it here first, sports fans!

This paragraph, in particular, sums up why Eric Braeden/Victor Newman remains Y&R's top attraction after all these years - and in turn, why Y&R itself continues to be #1: The actor will, though, share his thoughts on what makes his character so appealing to the audience. “Number one, he’s from the skids. He’s from absolute stark poverty. He’s an orphan. In that sense, he’s fulfilled the American dream,” Braeden explains. “Yet, what makes him human is the fact that he is obviously subject to emotional frailties and emotional interactions with women and other people. So, I think it’s the combination of the two. On the one hand, he fulfills a fantasy; on the other, he is human.” EB says that Victor Newman "fulfills a fantasy," and he certainly does. Victor appeals to the part of each of us that wishes we had all the money to do whatever we want and not give a [!@#$%^&*] what others think. This, BTW, also might explain how and why a certain someone has now been elected twice into the White House. Thanks, @kalbir, for sharing that article!

"Are you two planning to have sex tonight?" "Why do you ask?" "Because, if you are, could you do it after 'Matlock'? I just *love* Kathy Bates!"

Well, it can't be my dream storyline - an interracial, same-sex marriage - because that's on the show already (...right?).

I agree. Getting married off to Abby is pretty much a sign that TPTB have reached a dead end with your character. Just ask Connor Floyd.

I never get tired of that promo. It made even CAPITOL look good.

Aaaaaaaand another poster gets added to my Ignore List. Let me guess: Denzel's making a cameo appearance? No! Wait! I take back that guess! It's Beyonce, isn't it? She's making a cameo! That's it, right?

If that happens, then that would mean only one thing: Gary Tomlin is GH's new EP.

"When I heard about how Agnes Nixon almost lost her bible for AMC, I said to myself: 'Shelly? Gurl, whatever you do, keep yo' s**t locked up tight!'" Well, what do you expect from a show that seemed to change co-hosts whenever they cut to commercial?

LOL!! God love Megan McTavish!!

I remember some were complaining about how cartoonish he and his story were, but I was like, "C'mon, the man's literally been locked inside of a freezer for almost 20 years! What were you expecting? 'The Cherry Orchard'?" And I wasn't even a fan; but, for once, the level of his performance matched the ridiculousness of the story perfectly.

Probably because they're so exhausted from having to juggle so many characters in their heads.

Even Joe and Rhoda faced this same dilemma back in the '70's. In their case, however, it wasn't so much that they weren't as interesting anymore as it was that the producers' hands were tied by Standards and Practices over what kinds of stories they could write for a modern, married couple, especially on a half-hour series that aired during the so-called "family hour." So, what happens? Joe and Rhoda get divorced, and "Rhoda" almost immediately goes down the tubes, as the show now has no premise upon which to hook their stories. Anyways. That's one reason why writers hold off on marrying off their characters for as long as possible.

Black Agnes is looking down on those people with a tremendous smile on her face.

I still keep up with GH, too, but because there's so very little about the show that I find useful these days, I imagine it'll be very easy for me to jump ship, lol.