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What do you guys think about the relationship between Jill and David at least 1986-1989?

Brilliant episode last night with that twisted ending between Ashley revealing her true villainous self, the Japanese sensei turning out to be the real killer on the beach, and Emily's breakdown. Too bad there no new eps til April, what screwy scheduling on ABC's part!

Word on the street is that some GOP legislators in the SC state gov would actually support impeachment of Governor Nikki Haley as she digs herself deeper and her numbers sink lower. The newest fiasco occurred a couple of days when she vetoed a bill that would support SC economy; now its going to support the economy of the state of Georgia instead. I doubt Haley will ever get re-elected to a second term--her latest approval ratings have sunk below 30% and she's caused so much damage within a period of a single year. Doors are beginning to close on her and the party is about to abandon this once Tea Part favorite.

Alas a promo featuring that strange purse swinging lady from the '88 opening! Never knew there was a possible attraction with her for Paul I wonder if more was planned for her. It seemed interesting she was quickly put in place as not only Jack's new love interest but also as George Rawlins' niece.

I seem to find myself in both camps--I'm a little disappointed it wasn't Daniel who died but at the same time I think its nice little twist that Tyler is the one who died on the beach. I guess I knew Daniel probably wouldn't have died, but if this means what I've heard then bring it on.

She was fun, especially with her fantasies of killing the Bug, attempts to make Danny jealous with Peter, her friendship with Dr. Tim and of course going on honeymoon to some extent with Paul and Christine. Somewhere, around 2005 they stopped writing for Phyllis correctly and Stafford got lazy. And arrogant.

Fair point but I think I had figured something like that would be coming after all the material problems Olivia and Nathan were having beforehand ie Nathan moving out because of Lillie Belle living with them. I think the biggest mistake during this time period was Y&R doing absolutely nothing with Vivica Fox's character.

Some people over the years have said the whole HIV part of the story was subtly racist but I don't know if I can fully agree with that as I saw it more of a cautionary tale, one rarely told on soaps. I don't know for sure. What I do know is that in my opinion it was one of the best stories Y&R did tell with its AA cast as the whole story was entirely front-burner with its high-stakes drama and edge of the seat twists. Stuff like Dina's WTF return, Nick&Sharon Paul/Christine/Danny were afterthoughts to myself at the time. Both Rowell and Williams were nominated for Emmys for material stemming from this whole storyline and in retrospect either should have won instead of a certain other Y&R actress who won that year in the supporting actress category. Even though Neil/Dru/Malcolm/Olivia was insultingly lazy, I wonder if it could have been made better if there was better chemistry, if Neil and Malcolm were more worthy of the Barber sisters and if the Winters Bros had a veiled-faced mother who didn't like Dru too much.

Thanks for finding! I'm happy the full ep is online as I've seen those "JUST PITIFUL!" clips before on YT but sadly were taken down long ago. Dru was right, Nathan was truly pitiful indeed for endangering Olivia and Nate. I can't remember if Nathan actually contacted HIV from Keesha or not, I think it was just the fact he could have from his affair.

I'm don't remember when Rick/Blade exactly (by time of year) but the snarky remark would suggest Rick.

Thanks for sharing Carl! I loved seeing Gina in this ep. Danny was certainly an ass wasn't he? Thus began four years of Paul/Christine/Danny with Phyllis as the interloper. How long was this after Nina's miscarriage? I always had hated that story--it was too sad. I thought Bergman really hammed it up there when Jack told Jill "I have an Amerasian son!!". The end scene with the Abbots was over the top corny.

What did you guys think of the whole Maggie/Dylan affair?

Pardon me for saying this, but Neil was so clearly a brown-nosing oreo. I was kind of happy when Dru finally left Neil after belittling her so much through the years. Too bad she didn't have some hot hunky man to run off to who wasn't Malcolm. Oh did I just type that?

The story back in Genoa City about Victor's absence with Jack and Brad instigating the takeover was brilliant must see TV; the story with Victor and Ramona in the desert was good wasn't as interesting. It certainly didn't seem to be the main draw of the whole thing, and I think that's why Ramona didn't work out in the long run. To me at the time it was like they were trying to revisit the summer of '93 in a way but the Victor part failed. I remember in some online communities they felt Victor sleeping with a younger woman was trying to show that Victor still had his mojo. Was Brett going to be the molester? I certainly do recall that story but they dropped it I believe. I think the Scott/Alden feud got started there in '99 and ran all the way til it climaxed with Scott's departure in 2001(and almost MTS).

Did anyone else think Susan Keith was better as Cecile than Frangiore?

I really liked last night's ep as everything just fell in to place even though all parties involved decided for it not to happen.

Barry Goldwater is probably spinning in his grave over what's occurred in Arizona politics in the past few years now.

I watched the Gingrich ad which declared Romney is more liberal than Obama. Seems like a nasty catfight to me.

Newt Gingrich seems like such a step backward...

Those scenes with Adele were great and brilliantly done. Its funny I still watch the show but don't really care for it too much anymore. Surprisingly to myself I actually do enjoy the whole story about Teddy's husband dying even though their story has been pretty unoriginal(fraudulent marriage for medical insurance convenience, then falling in love with each other). Bailey on the other hand remains utterly the pointless. Christina is annoying as hell, and Derek and Meredith are really the only vets who get any screen time anymore.

Laura Moss was so underrated in the role of Amanda. Ferguson had just finished a pointless role on Beach where her character wound up dead during the Terror Island story so I was happy to see her come back but sad to see Moss go whom I had liked. Of course, Brian Krause and Jeff Phillips both were royally bad as Matt. I'm surprised Krause has even had a successful career or that even he lasted on Charmed like he did when that show had hotter, more talented leading men over the seasons.

Would it be fair to say that Reva became the curse and cure for GL?

I don't think so. Dr. Sedwick was involved with Jeffries when he first came to town before getting involved with Mindy and going evil in the whole Sonni/Solita story.

I had actually remember kind of hoping that GL would actually like to see its 75th back in 2007/2008 just for the fact of making three quarters of a century on the air after the nice little 70th anniversary even though the show was horrific. Alas here's a toast to GL on what would have been its 75th anniversary. I was never quite sure how to categorize the late Margaret Gwenver on the show as a cast-member. I don't think she ever was on contract was she? I think she was last on in 2003/2004 or so but first appeared in 1979. Aside from getting caught up in the Rita/Roger mess, getting caught up delivering babies and stuck in paternity scandals I don't think she ever had storyline of her own except maybe for her affair with Mindy's evil ex Will Jeffries.

As for the 2004 episodes I think we're about to see Randolph Mantooth take over as Hal again. He had temped the year before but this time the casting was a little more permanent with it lasting a year. My biggest complaint I think was the change of physique. They could have gone with James Kiberd again but didn't. Not to mention Mantooth looked like a lot like Michael Zaslow . When in 1998 did Region stop announcing? I've always thought it was a mistake to get of him.