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Inspired by your 80s Trends topic 😉

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😍 Another 90s trend: the steamy sex scene. Sax, satin sheets and all.

Wow, your Santa Barbara is fascinating. It almost reads like an East Coast soap. Perhaps that was the show's real problem. It was not meant to be as "simple" and one-dimensional as it ended up being.

I have seem some random episodes where Draper and April discuss moving to Oakdale. What was that all about? I am obsessed with late 70's-1980 episodes. Such a "grown up", modern soap. Friends, co-workers, couples, crime, mystery and of course Raven living her life unapologetically like a man.

The 90s had the primetime specials as it has already been said in the 80s thread. The psychotic obsessive woman who became crazier than ever. A Latino invasion with new families and romantic leads. Everyone trying to outreily James E. Reily with insane, outlandish posts. The teens become more prominent. The Melrose Place aesthetics. Even NY soaps got a California vibe.

I started a new thread, for everyone who is interested in discussing the 90s trends.

Jack would have died many years ago. And with EB's ego, things might not have been that different.

Replacing the previous music theme with... this 😪

I thought that Rita insisted on moving near the Spauldings. And I am almost certain that the redorated Wexler mansion is the house Hope is redecorating once again the summer 1982 episodes. Perhaps they used parts of the Wexler set once Amanda was gone?

I am almost certain that I have heard Alan and Hope discuss a new home. During that time Amanda was staying at the Wexler Estate alone and I am almost certain that it was the same set with the 80s Spaulding mansion one.

I'been sayting that this is the same place for years. The question I have... wasn't this house part of the Wexler estate? And am I crazy to think that Amanda inherited Lucille's house and Alan eventually moved there with Hope? Making this the Spaulding mansion?

Erica learned very early in her life that men leave you and go away. She always wanted a man in her life because she didn't want to feel the void of her childhood again, but not a specific one. She was hurt as a child and she became a drama queen in order to learn how to play with her pain. I don't think that Erica believed in love. Only in the pain it brings you.

In 2000 Rob became the Art Director for the CBS-TV daytime drama Guiding Light. He has been nominated for three Emmys for his work on that show. On permanent sets for kitchens, restaurants and hotels with Guiding Light, he has been a part of earthquakes, floods and fires. He then made the transition into handheld, location and exterior work in the show's later years. He was with Guiding light through its last episode in 2009. The Bauer kitchen: You can see the Boarding House, the Beacon and Towers among others here: https://www.robodorisiodesigns.com/television

The opening was the only thing left as a reminder of which soap was on. The problemn with SB was that it was a product of the 80s. Supercouple mania with a Dynasty vibe. They tried to move on to the 90s with Pamela Long, but it was not the right way. I find her work on this show horrible.

Wasn't another short-haired blonde around during that time? A bad girl, who was someone's ex-wife. They liked the type.

Such a weird recast. Was KM hired while Maura West was gone and they wanted a Carly lookalike? I adored Melanie Smith btw.

Tom left them and Bea turned their home into a boarding house when most of the kids grew up and left town. Nola used to complain about growing up poor and working as a servant for strangers in her own home. The Gail Kobe exterior shot never fit with the backstory and my imagination. Then things got really crazy when the Reardons ended up with Company being thrown in their property....

Ok I cried my eyes out. GH is the only soap than can make me feel something at this point. RIP Miss Zeman, it seems like yesterday I was watching Bobbie next to Jesse at the nurses station talking about Scotty, Luke and Laura. Soap is such a unique genre.

Such a big house for such a poor family. I envisioned a more urban exterior.

For some reason the Reardon house exterior never made sense to me.

I loved this about Bill Bell. He didn't think that every question needs an answer. Sometimes characters and/or viewers have to just live with it. You are right, this story defined Nina. I wonder if the baby drama was written for Cricket's first pregnant friend Molly and then Bell saw Tricia Cast on Santa Barbara.

Was Josh Taylor hired to play Nina's father? Jed was involved with major characters like Nikki and Jill. What is the story behind that? It seemed like Bill Bell got bored with him.

I guess shortly after SB was cancelled. So I guess... early 1993?

Some thoughts: SB would have been much better as a half-hour show. I was madly in love with Mason Capwell as a kid and found his relationship with Julia fascinating. In my mind they were the show's real supercouple. What was more fascinating was reading how many things Mason and Bridget had in common. At one point SB became too "funny". I prefered the original, dramatic version of the show. The rumor about the Dobsons writing for AW, was it during the time it was rumored Mason and Julia would be joining the show? The Dobsons's GL was amazing. Sophisticated, adult soap, I still watch. RIP Mrs Dobson.