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I think that Vanessa would be fine in stories with Alan and Ross among others. Perhaps I am biased because I hated the Lewis invasion.

I consider Billy the end of the Real Vanessa. She went from Tracy Quartermaine to Sue Ellen Ewing for no reason.

Jill should have been John's widow. I will never understand why they replaced Jill with Gloria in the Abbott story. I am willing to believe that Jill Fenmore Atkinson was Esther's dream.

No. Billy was just working at the University.

Cabot and Isabelle were not really needed and we could have parts of them brought to Roger and Ann. Even Shanna could have been brought as Johnny's daughter, or Ann's estranged sister from the start. Mike and Noreen could have merged with Billy and Rita Mae. I would keep Pamela Blair as Rita Mae Donovan.

It aired here in Greece in the early 90s. We (I-probably the only viewer?) got to watch the end of the Emily Michaels saga, the Bryson clinic story and the Skye/Jefferson revelation.

Would make perfect sense to me. Dickson's exit helped Melody Thomas Scott cement her position as Y&R's first lady btw.

Yes, yes, yes. (Though Brenda Dickson was my Jill. I want to believe that this Norma Desmond thing was just an 80s phase in her acting)

I couldn't agree more.

I love all of these ideas. I think that Stacey could only work as someone's wife, the normal couple people go to in order to discuss their problems. I could see her and Jack owning a coffee shop or a bistro and living a "quiet" life like Nick and Sharon on Y&R in the 90s-00s. Ain't that the truth.

Which regime do you think could have "saved" Another World if they had stayed longer with the show? All these people came and went in the 80s and the 90s, stayed for a rather short time and their work was almost erased by the next writer and producer. Who do you think is the one who should have been given a real chance?

I can't buy him as a Cassadine prince Donnatella. Or as Laura's son for some reason. Anyone who survived this recast will be fine with the Jagger thing Lover.

Victor Webster as Nikolas?

I just managed to find NYC online and watched the entire season: It felt a lot like an E! show attempting to do a housewives show. Ten years ago. Jenna, Erin and Jessel felt NY to me. They could all have been part of the original show and I want to see more of them. Someone should tell Brynn that Samantha Jones was not a bimbo. (She reminds me of Melanie Smith for some reason. The way she looks, not the way she acts.) Ubah is stunning and she is friend material. She doesn't share anything and her moment was a stupid fight. Sai reminds me of Tahiry on Love and Hip Hop. Her initial cute persona didn't work out for her and by the end of the season she was a mess. I didn't get enough NY from this show.

Also... Desperate Housewives. It was meant to be a soap opera, yet it was winning awards as a comedy show. People thought that it might work in daytime as well. Look at CW's Dynasty. It never took itself seriously. There is no point in watching a soap that doesn't take itself seriously (and that was my problem with Santa Barbara at a point where things got too crazy).

In all fairness, there doesn't seem to be a race or ethnicity casting problem. It is just an odd choice. Like recasting Susan Lucci with Catherine Hickland as Erica in 1982. But it is always fun to be offended 🥰

He must be someone's father. Do we know who the boy's mother was? I just read thata little Stone was autistic.

Does the name Jagger Cates mean anything in today's GH universe? Probably not, since he is John Cates now. Was Jagger involved with any of the ladies currently on the show?

May I add Kelly Menighan Hensley as Emily Stewart on ATWT?

Ι haven't been this offended since John McCook was replaced by Dennis Cole on Y&R and Kristen Vigard by Jennifer Cook on GL. Soaps are so over.

Ι have never seen this episode before and I don't think that it has been posted here.

The "primetime" look. The City and Sunset Beach (at least for a while) did it. In my opinion it never works in soaps, at least not for me. That's a reason I never got into the UK soaps.

Out of AW's entire run this needed a homage in the last episode...

Is this a different version of the opening?

She sounds fascinating! And unique! B&B is so risky.