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Wow, thank you so much. This is fascinating. Too bad that the Santana/Brandon/Gina was never told properly. It looks as though the Dobsons had bigger plans for it, but they were lost between (unnecessary) recasts and ratings worries. Since there no big Andrade and Perkins families, the bible could have been intended for a half-hour soap, which would have benefited the show.

Hillary? Who should be one of the show's big stars, but they gave up on her because Newman WTD stories are much more fun.

@dc11786 I have never heard of a Santa Barbara bible. Do we know anything more about it?

Victoria Wyndham has said some very interesting things in her interviews. Like writing the show herself, or that they didn't cancel because of her. I am pretty sure someone at NBC really really liked her.

I think that AW's real problem that after a while -for reasons unknown- it only existed as a vanity project for Victoria Wyndham. Getting rid of Alice, the show's heroine so that Rachel could take her place. Getting rid of all of the veterans so that Victoria Wyndham could be the one and only. (Why did she get star billing again?) Sending super popular Beverlee's Iris to Texas. It was 1980. GH and AMC were huge hits, NBC was in trouble. Why do something like that again?

Y&R Brittany Hodges and Bobby Marsino. She was Edward Scott's new Nikki and he was the Victor-Sonny hybrid. None of them mean something in today's Y&R universe. They didn't even mean something in 2007's Genoa City.

The eyes start looking more natural after a while. The problem is that these days everybody stays the same age. Thixty. The SORASed children and grandchildren end up being the same age as their parents, they share the same love interests etc. The shows miss the wise older characters because they all -men and women- look like Real Housewives.

I started liking GL again once Robert Calhoun took over in 1989. I don't think that the show needed such a drastic update in 1983. Another World was in much worse shape before Allen Potter, so was Search. GL didn't deserve the trashy Lewis and Shayne families, Jesse, Simon, Jackson, Suzette, Warren, Kurt and all the others. I will never understand how Pamela Long convinced people to let her turn a long running and successful soap into Texas 2.0.

I'd say Jill/Nina is more like Brooke/Amber and Nikki/Sharon. The former wrong side of the tracks girl having to deal with a younger version of herself. Was Trish Clayton created by Bill Bell? Was she a Nikki prototype?

They can always get a modern version of the iconic ambulance intro back.

The show should bring some kids for Tucker. It could really use a new family.

I don't think this is an unpopular opinion. At least they have history and their reunion would make sense. Not to mention that it might help "erase" Sharon's other six marriages. If you are not Erica Kane, after seven marriages you should either be written out, or serve as a talk to. I have seen enough of her love life. The only reason I wouldn't want her written out, is because I really like the actress.

Someone needs to explain to Josh Morrow that his days as the show's hunk are long over and that if he wants to keep his job, Nick must remarry Sharon, run CL with her and be a talk to.

I was shocked to realize that I like DePriest's show better than Marland's.

JFP: the Haircut and the older woman-younger man epic romance. Shows lose their identity and become flat and generic.

Kay has been gone for years and they still don't know what to do with the Chancellor set. Jill should be living there with her much younger husband, who would be see seduced by her paid companion. Now she would be all alone there, after his death and all. Abby and Chance's was so dramatic. Not. The show is losing Mishael Morgan and Imani and they are keeping Abby, Chelsea and Sally. Griffith must be replaced yesterday.

I will never understand how Josh Morrow got hired to play EB and MTS's son.

Eric Forrester legally adopted Donna Logan's grown son Marcus on B&B when they were married. The marriage lasted two years. Donna had known Marcus a few months. These adoption stories are beyond stupid.

First of all, B&B was stupid to name a random character Sally Spectra. Was B&B's Sally2 so important or iconic that Y&R felt the need to bring her to Genoa City? Why didn't the actress come as a new character with no B&B baggage? Griffith sees her as his new Chelsea. Now he gives her a Newman baby.

Don Diamont looks like a telenovela villain.

What I mean is that most DAYS actors change status all the time. By the time an exit is announced, they are back.

Do these things mean anything anymore? Especially on a show like Days.

I have never seen another soap despise its history and legacy the way 80s GL did. All these bigger than life changes might be needed in a problematic soap like AW or SFT, but GL was just fine the way it was.

The pregnancy story is beyond tired. The WTD is so uninspired. Courtney Hope should leave her face alone, she is morphing into a bad Instagram filter for no reason.

Was FMB really that bad? I know all about Susan Batten (and losing Lucinda after a stupid story with James?) but episodes from that era seem watchable to me. I hate the generic young couples, but all soaps are guilty of that. I even preferred her ABC aesthetics to Goutman's. Denise was a very intriguing character who was gone once the next regime tried to turn ATWT into Days.