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You are so right. GH meets DAYS with a touch of DYNASTY.

I loved the 70s epic intro. I will always have a soft spot for the 80s opening, because that's the ATWT I got to know and love. The 90s intro was just fine. It was old school and I can understand why they felt the need to move on from the dynamic 80s one. I hated all the 00s intros with people looking at the camera. So generic. Every soap did it at the time. 2007 seemed so fresh, dramatic and different. And with a great music theme. The last one was sad, but I didn't hate it.

Ain't that the truth. I can't believe they are the same people who wrote Guiding Light. BTW, I can't remember Robin Strand at all.

I loved the 1975-1981 opening. Haunting and sophisticated. The disco theme was weird, I couldn't stand the 80s opening. 1983 was better looking and the music was dramatic, but watching it meant that the good old days were gone. Later 80s intros looked cheap and uninspired. Hold on to Love: I could never make sense of the graphics, but the music was fine. Shockingly, I liked the 1997 intro. It was short, it didn't need to be renewed and the music was dramatic. I could see a more modern and sophisticated version of this lasting years and years. 2002: @vetsoapfan is so right; these were definitely boob implants. 2003 was kind of sad. Actually this was just fine. It was vibrant, the images were soapy and it would have looked much better if everyone was less blue. The hands-opening: another crazy Wheeler idea. And after that... things got really weird and sad.

The Greek episodes also started with early January 1986.

He appeared at least once in 1986. I knew the actor from B&B -which started first in Greece- and I was happy to see another familiar face. I definitely remember him on the phone with Lauren. Telling her that he is leaving for a business trip or something.

SSM's stint was the last time I enjoyed the show. I am sure Kay Alden also had something to do with it. Cane and Juliet was not a bad story, they brought Dina back, they tried to humanize the Newmans, they cared for Hilary. Gossip queen Hilary was not the best use of the actress. I can't blame them for finding the Devon Chancellor story stupid and his sudden wealth made him even more boring. The BLM story with a black billionaire as victim could be something. We know his love life has never been.

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.