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I agree. Especially about the upscale demos. Someone (forget who) once said that not a lot of people watched "St. Elsewhere," but that those who did often had highly disposable incomes.

Abe: "Well, did you tell Ms. Slezak that her check would be in tomorrow's mail?"

Question for longtime Y&R fans who might know: what were the sets like when the show premiered in '73? Were there a lot of 'em? How lavish-looking were they? Because, I can imagine there was mostly the Brooks' living room/foyer, the Fosters' living room, Pierre's restaurant, and later Katherine's foyer and living room.

I still laugh whenever I hear or see the name "Polly Prentice," lol.

Exactly. ABC couldn't have AW or Felicia Gallant, but they could have whatever they had with Linda Dano, throw in someone who worked with her on AW and who had ABC soap ties as well, and then cross their fingers and hope for the best. ICAM!!

Where's Bonnie Franklin when you need her?

LOL!! I, too, remember someone saying that CBS had hired Abbi based on Y&R's reputation without realizing until after the fact how little she had had to do with the show's success. And that, yes, her feet STANK, lol!

At this point, I would LOVE for Cody and Sasha to be exposed as con artists (with an axe to grind against the Scorpios) who have somehow conned Holly, Mac and Robert into thinking they are their respective, long-lost children. Anything to end that madness. Oh, and Willow faked her cancer. I want that to be exposed, too, lol.

Well, for starters, I would have had Tom Cudahy relocate to Corinth with his wife, attorney Livia Frye Cudahy, with Livia opening a new law practice there, and eventually becoming District Attorney. (Ideally, they would've relocated after gaining custody of Jamal, but I can't remember whether LOVING had morphed into THE CITY by that point, so maybe not, lol.) Tom was an entrepreneur, owning and managing a restaurant (The Goalpost), followed by a health club, so I could see him doing the same in Corinth. As a matter of fact, since Corinth was supposed to be a "college town," he could've opened or taken over a coffeehouse/performance venue located not far from AU, while, at the same time, working in some capacity with the university's football program, since Tom was also a former professional football player. Derek and Mimi Frye would make appearances from time to time, since, after all, they were related to Livia - and I would hope that, while all this is happening, Angie and Frankie Hubbard are getting established in Corinth as well. Terrence Frye would have to be on the show at some point, and maybe involved a love triangle with Frankie and an African-American or even Caucasian female. (A white girl torn between two black men? Oh, I can just hear the viewer complaints now, lol!) But one story I'd REALLY want to tell would involve Tom's ne'er-do-well brother, Sean, who comes to Corinth at a low point in his life, almost immediately sets his sights on someone like Trisha (or some female on the show with money) and learns that, thanks to a long-ago one night stand, he's got a long-lost son or daughter running around Corinth!

Of all the shitty retcons I've had to witness in my years as a soaps fan, retconning Ava Jerome into being Delia's long-lost daughter - at a point in Delia's life when that would have been impossible - had to be among the shittiest. (At least when Douglas Marland gave his characters long-lost offspring, he did the freaking math, lol).

Basically, yeah. I mean, you could argue that Dimitri was a more Gothic character - what, with the castle, and the secret, comatose wife that was straight outta Bronte - but he definitely took over Jeremy's function as the dashing romantic hero who always comes to the ladies' aid.

In a way, it does, since - thanks to Rae, Skye, Angela Shapiro, Brian Frons, Frank Valentini and Ron Carlivati - AMC, THE CITY, GH, LOVING, OLTL, PC and RH are all slices of the same, super-soap pie. If anything, all this "synergy" between the different ABC soaps spoiled my admiration for RC and Linda Dano, which had been pretty strong for years. By the time Dano left OLTL and Christopher left GH, I was SO relieved, lol. Which is why I'm like, "Nah, I'm good with not seeing Skye or even SORAS-ed Lila Rae again."

By the time he jumped to LOVING? No. Jeremy had long been relegated to the same back-burner where so many other, once-popular longtime characters on AMC had been relegated to, especially because (I think) it got tiresome watching a man with a vague, European accent always fall for some damsel in distress, only to lose interest in her once she's stable. Nevertheless, I do suspect LeClerc/Jeremy, with his dashing, European air and aura of romantic mystery, remained very close to Nixon's heart. (Personally, I would've killed him off AMC - maybe during his and Ceara's wedding - and sent Richard Shoberg/Tom Cudahy over to Corinth instead).

I don't think it was Skye so much as it was RC and the fact that she and Linda Dano had also portrayed mother and daughter on AW, which ABC had tried and failed to add to their lineup. But that's just my opinion. I still remember when Angela "Shop the Soaps" Shapiro was touting Dano's multi-show contract with ABC, throwing out buzzwords like "synergy" to make it all sound cutting edge. Personally, I thought it was stupid from day one to have Dano (and Christopher) travel from show to show like a two-person band of gypsies, rewriting history everywhere they went, and never gelling with ANY show, no matter how hard ABC tried. It was like watching Tori on "Saved by the Bell." No one at Bayside High in Port Charles ever saw her or talked about her; yet, we're supposed to pretend like she's always been there, lol.

I think Millee Taggart was great at writing scripts, but HW'ing...? I dunno. Sometimes, she seemed inspired; other times, her HW'ing was very paint-by-numbers. And that's true, I think, of all the shows where she worked in that capacity, and not just GL.

Ugh, "Glitter," lol. Even their opening credits - which, as of this morning, are still going - were the worst. The sitcom fiend in me remembers too well watching "Webster" on Friday nights.

I could be misremembering, but I do think the drug storyline happened under his watch. Overall, I'd say Conboy didn't do any better with Alex/Marj than any other EP on GL. In fact, I'd argue that the biggest damage done to Alexandra occurred under his watch (again, the drug storyline). But Conboy's BIGGEST problem as an EP - not just at GL, but at every show he produced (save for Y&R, of course) - was that he was only as good as his HW at that moment. When he had a strong HW working with him - Bill Bell at Y&R, Peggy O'Shea and Henry Slesar at CAPITOL, maybe even Ann Marcus at LIAMST - he could concentrate on what he did best: lighting, set decor, etc. It's only when he DIDN'T have a good HW that you noticed how truly ineffective he was as a showrunner.

When it was announced that Sally Sussman (Morina) was succeeding JER as DAYS' HW, I remember some people were like, "Is she capable of the same kind of outrageous writing as JER (and that propelled DAYS to #2)?" And all I had to do was remember the storyline with Aunt Mary and the missing diamonds to know that, "Yup!," she was, lol.

Ironically, when Beverlee McKinsey had left GL, and they were casting about for a new Alexandra, I thought Marj Dusay would've been perfect, because Alex and Myrna had so much in common. However, I failed to realize that a lot had changed BTS since 1987 - namely, the fact that directors didn't have the time anymore to modulate actors' performances; and that even the worst writing on a miserable show like CAPITOL was still miles ahead of what GL was capable of bringing forth at that point.

I'm not surprised to hear that Roscoe Born and Robin Strasser didn't get along, even though the two worked so well together as adversaries. But it did irk me a little bit to see Strasser invade Born's personal space like that right before taping their scene (and I say that as someone who ADORES Strasser). I mean, all she needed to do was ask Born to fix his collar; and if he said, "Nah," then just shrug and carry on. But, if you just reach out to fix it without giving him enough of a heads-up, of COURSE he's going to back away and ask WTH you're doing. That's just common sense.

You know, I wonder if Agnes Nixon only brought Jean LeClerc/Jeremy to LOVING until she could figure out a way to get him back on AMC.

That storyline is probably KL at its' most plot-driven. Val has to be the "village idiot" in order for that story to work. Otherwise, the minute she wises up to Danny, it's over (and it was).

LOL!! She had the same attitude when she was on OLTL. Skye Chandler stayed pretending everyone in Llanview/PC knew her like she was performing some Jedi mind trick.

Like I've said, I really don't care that the sets look the same as they do on every production today, with no thought put into how they can reveal something about the characters who inhabit them. I just care about the writing and acting; and so far, I'm good with it.

I'm seriously putting in a call to the NAACP. The show did everything short of putting Abe in a [!@#$%^&*] dress and changing his name to "Madea."