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I think you gave a great assessment on the show! I watched the Season 4 premiere as well and found it harmless fun. Interestingly for the first time in forever this show actually felt a lot more mature that it was in Season 3 where it was just wacky and over the top campy. I am guessing a lot of this has to do with the fact we're actually back with the same cast for change LOL, at least for now. Although why Culhane is still around I have no clue lol but at least the actor is nice to look at. Still the show runs at lightning speed...the public reveals of the fact Blake slept with Laura and Cristal slept with the priest should have been more shocking and juicier than it was presented but it wasn't. Aside from two seconds of jaw drops and gasps Liam & Fallon were very unfazed aside from Fallon's rant about everything getting ruined and by episode's end all seemed okay for now. The OG callbacks have been interestingly tangled in all over from various seasons in the new Dynasty. As it stands we've had barn fires, Claudia go absolutely crazy again and die, Alexis shoot Mark and cause Cristal's miscarriage, Alexis and Cristal pool fight, Adam as Michael Torrance, Blake on murder trial with Hendrix making her debut the same way Alexis did at the end of S1 in the original, now the show is talking about Moldovia etc. with of course some various twists on the original thrown into the mix. It'll cause whiplash if you wrap your head around it. Maybe it's because I have no standards when it comes to this show, but Hendrix has made a better Alexis in my opinion than Sheridan did. I am quite sure Joan Collins loses no sleep though LOL. As for Sam there's been a gap even since Steven left but at least the actor is sexy/charismatic and I approve of casting Lachlan Buchanan as his new love interest. Hope this show doesn't waste him the same way Y&R did.

Hadn’t heard anything yet. My guess if Zoe isn’t recast she’ll probably walk in on Quinn & Carter and then run off to Europe to reunite with Xander off screen or something.

I never understood how Deas won those Emmys in the mid-90’s tbh except for the Academy always loving a previous winner. Likewise while I did always like Buzz & Jenna most of the stuff with Nadine wasn’t fun at all and it felt Nadine was settling for less than she had done in the past .

Leslie having a kid with Mike would have worked too as they were soulmates but Hope started to get more later teenage stories. Not to mention in a way that would’ve made Leslie the 70’s version of Reva or Brooke Logan lol, something the stodgy P&G daytime world wasn’t quite ready for. There were other things too on that downhill slope. I know @DRW50 mentioned the Pauly Hardman story along with Buzz & Nadine’s Vegas wedding but there was also Josh & Tangie, Alan’s return with that Howie/Ross impersonator guy, Ed & Eve, Dusay Alex vs. Crampton Monday, and saying sayonara to Kat in favor of Gabriela? Yikes! The second Fifth Street fire was a ploy for ratings I think Douglas Anderson was HW by that point and the show was dragging.

Can’t speak so much for Nixon aside the from fact she may have or may not have killed off an entire family via plane crash(or was it car crash?) on AW that she didn’t care for lol. Nixon is also seen by some as abandoning OLTL and Loving at some point, something Bell would’ve never done. Irna was notorious for some pretty unpopular ruthless writing and production making decisions on GL, ATWT, AW, Peyton Place etc. Her finally run at ATWT has always been widely panned and did cause the show to stumble. Bell’s entire 25 years at Y&R is well studied because it’s an anomaly in all of daytime. Other writers like Labine and the Dobsons got pushed out of their own shows. Y&R came out as more successful eliminating its early years compared to other soaps and bounced back well in the recasts department compared to Ryan’s Hope. I do agree Bell should’ve tried harder to keep around Liz Foster permanently but I think did realize when a character reached their useful end, although a lot of exits on Y&R have been much left desired as leaving us always asking “what if..?” and/or those disappearances without explanation whether it was Dina in 1986 or Leanna in 1992.

Thank you for your that, Staab was my favorite Hart and what had been such a hot story suddenly screeched to a halt. 1993 ended on a high note with Roger creeping around trying to figure out who shot him but 1994 was the moment the show spiraled for sure....I usually start with the Frank & Julie mess 🙈

The one thing I feel that set Bauer’s fates were the needless miscarriages over the years...Mike & Charlotte’s, Ed & Rita’s, and Ed & Maureen etc. While I can see that Ed & Rita’s played up into the heightening drama & tension at the time the other two don’t make sense. It’s as tawdry as Dan & Susan’s first miscarriage over on ATWT. The lost Bauer cousins went over as well as the lost Cory cousins on AW at the time or lost Jett Carver on Days lol. ATWT did the same thing a decade later but found success with Jack Snyder at least.

Given everyone in that photo looks weary eyed I’d say sleeps for sure 🥴 Need some Sally here for sure!

Thanks, just had seen the promo video on Twitter of the basement caving in on them but for someone reason I couldn't get the link to share. It looked like some messy disaster ATWT or GL would have tried to done circa 2007. I'm guessing the returning individual is Chance? Because right now that is indeed one DISMAL storyline.

Apparently a tornado hits Genoa City? First up is SoapDirt's spoilers:

I am happy to have Brown back as Sheila regardless of Brown's political beliefs (as zany as I think they are!) but the story has got to be there. The cliffhanger of Sheila's 2017 return was extremely well done but there was no story except that Sheila wanted back with Eric and her portrait hanging over the fireplace. The twist of her blackmailing James went nowhere, and then it just petered out as Sheila worked as an eavesdropping gossiping waitress. Yikes! That said hopefully Brown will give this show energy if she is indeed returning, give us something different than the Liam Half-Hour.

Let’s face it, if there was one good thing JFP did was to rid the show of Da Stafford©️ There was zero demand that she return at all and her return has failed on every level so much that now I see former GT haters longing for her Phyllis again. Phyllis is already a complex character to write for especially for incompetent nincompoops like JG, having a bored lazy actress like Giggly Heffa only compounds the problem ever worse.

Nah hasn’t this been the normal for Linder for the past several years? Linder never has had the same amount of screen time as Davidson and had only carried clout for being on the ATAS board for so long.

Except for Chelsea in that wheelchair, that story keeps dragging out. Has she even changed her clothes in the last five months? Still interested in the mystery of Amanda’s father today it was good seeing Karla again on screen. Ashland and Tara haven’t been that bad but Kyle and Summer definitely have been the weakest links. Victor pulling an old school power play move out of his book was actually more fun that I thought it was going to be nor was as offensive as other things he has pulled.

It remains very striking how small the B&B cast is since coming back after COVID and still can’t find the right balance.

Thank you @YRfan23!!! 🙂🙂🙂

The scenes weren’t that bad at all. However how many hotel owners just sit their lobby drinking alcohol all day LOL. The show has some momentum again finally even though almost all of the stories are lousy overall.

Faith’s kidneys failing? LOL. They’ll probably say something like it is because of her drinking too much in the past couple months. The “shocking” donor match of course is Adam. Or Moses

Not going to miss her at all but I wouldn’t mind someone fresh as a Zoe recast if Thudley wants to continue that story at all. As for Barnes herself yes her acting was horrible the past 3 years and has been long past her sell by date since that silly Xander/Emma mess. However it would not surprise me at all if she exceeds beyond anyone’s wildest dreams in life after B&B.

That reminds me of when JER originally planned for Jan to be the mysterious black glove hand in 2006 before he shown the door. I love seeing Lucas and Sami sparring onscreen again the chemistry is still so strong and natural after all these years.

LOL I read these spoilers and was like “Isn’t all of this happening now?!” Sounds like JG and crew are stuck in uncreative limbo to say the least.

The story would have wrote itself lol Finn & Steffy would be happy, Hope would briefly sabotage Flo’s happiness out of revenge by sleeping with Wyatt until some Fabio-type lover of hers from Europe invites her back to live in her Paris all the while Thomas & Vinny explore their sexualities as we get new fresh blood centered around Felicia’s son Dino. You’re welcome!

I know right. To have been a murder mystery would have required Liam be murdered with Steffy, Finn, Hope, and Thomas as suspects all fed up with his wishy washness and interference in their lives only to have a deranged Ivy return and be the real killer lol.

LOL I must have missed that amidst the rushed parts of Steffy’s addiction story and Shauna & Quinn non-stop gossiping at the time as I was wondering where he was at during that story as I waiting for him to walk in on Thomas and the mannequin. LOL I heard that howler 🤣 I wish that someone else had died instead of Vinny as that was just embarrassing.

Vinny had a girlfriend? Oh lord. It would at least be fun for B&B to introduce her and scheme against Liam as an act of revenge.