Sapounopera

What if Dark Shadows never switched to the supernatural stuff? I read the bible and found the original stories fascinating. The ratings were not good, but all shows had lousy ratings at first. The first episodes feel like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre meet Peyton Place. Can you see the show changing for the more modern 70s?

We watch them play Monopoly with real money. So dramatic!

Y&R Phyllis is so played out. Same goes for the Newman children. B&B Sheila is way too much of a cartoon character, even for a silly show like this. GH Cameron Mathison. He is not even Drew. He is playing a soapy version of himself. DAYS Casting director, HW and EP.

How does Rudolf Martin look these days? Sometimes Nicolas Chavez reminds me of him.

4. It has become obvious to the co-stars of one leading lady that she feels threatened by the rising storyline prominence of a more recent hire. I want to say Phyllis and Diane so much.

A Mason/Julia/Cruz (emotional) triangle might have carried Santa Barbara after Eden's exit. Carrington Garland's Kelly could have been part of the mix in some way.

I wonder what Bell's initial plans for Cassandra were. She was the show's star for more than a year. The actress was gorgeous and I loved the character's noir vibe. Her abrupt end made no sense.

Loving didn't give the original characters a real chance. Stacey's character lost something when her family was gone. Weren't Cabot and Isabelle gone for a while when Peter Brown was Roger?

Nothing about Craig's story made sense to me. What was the point of Derek Griffin? Conboy copied the 4 Orphans story on GL with Maryanne Caruthers.

Perhaps Paul will get the Carl Williams treatment and one day we will find out that he has been missing for years.

I loved it! He did the same thing on GL with places like the Country Club. This would do wonders for Crimson Lights and Society or offices with people coming and going.

Y&R needs a Robert Calhoun type of producer who can use a set for multiple groups of characters within an episode. They can sit in different tables and have their own discussions. Is it that hard? It would also help make Genoa City feel like a community, not that Bill Bell was ever interested in something like that.

The Newman kids are the first who could really use a break. Their stories are beyond tired.

The thing is Nikki stopped being quirky and colorful after her divorce from Victor. She spent years and years in the ranch, having endless scenes doing nothing. And yet we were seeing her every day. But I agree that the loss of Dickson, Lester and Davidson gave Scott the chance to promote his wife.

All I know about her past is that she is a B&B character who shares a name with an iconic B&B character and who has no place on Y&R, especially in tired Newman brothers sex drama.

Another WTD story for the Newman brothers? This time with a character named Sally Spectra (which means nothing on Y&R, but still...)

Watching the Carrie episodes again, I can't see where Marland wanted to go with the character after all this drama.

Same here.

And some B&B characters, he loves using people from that show.

And when you think about his DAYS stint...

🤣🤣🤣 And then resign.

A few years into the 80s just like Diane or Patty? I think MTS's connection to ES took something that belonged to Jill away from her.

Was Ed Scott married to someone else when Melody had the baby with the makeup guy? Had MTS not married ES would she have lasted on the show? I doubt that.

JG as sole showrunner is insane. He can't even headwrite the show properly.

Kathleen Fisk portrayed Kelly Conway.