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Wow, they really slashed Moss' salary that much from one year to another? No one would accept that big of a salary cut. I mean, I get he would still be earning 400k which is a lot of money, but still.. no surprise that he refused. Exactly. I wonder also if Y&R people just are not good in handling such a smaller budget since they were used to the much bigger one? Maybe they should hire some new people who would be better at handling smaller budgets and then still have a better quality on screen than what they have now.

Team Caroline by far.. I am not as far in watching as all of you are, but Brooke's reasoning and actions are just not right, IMO. Then again, I hate Ridge and I would never want to see Caroline with him, so I guess Brooke and Ridge can be together...

Question... In the vault, there is an episode listed as December 1975. It features John McCook as Lance. However, several places that I looked online, I saw that John McCook did not debut until 1976. So does anyone know if the date on this episode is correct then? Should that maybe be December 1976 instead?

I am not a fan of opera, but omg this is very interesting! Did you also find any similarities with the course of stories? I mean, I assume there is similarities, just wondering to which degree. Thanks for sharing!!

Maybe also Y&R uses their budget to pay its stars more than other soaps, which leaves them less money for other stuff like sets, costumes, clothes etc.

It would be silly to just cast her for the sake of having "Reva and Josh" back together without any story or plan... so yeah, I guess they will do that

Omg, thats great for Robert Newman! I will tune in to Y&R to see his debut, even though I did not watch Y&R since Kevin saw that stupid chipmunk.

Rick Hearst already played Matt Clark on Y&R. I don't know if Y&R is reusing actors who had notable roles in the past in new roles.

I am in October 1987, Caroline's rape trial began. I am pleasantly surprised at how they are telling this story, with a lot of explanations about why they are choosing a female attorney for Ron; a female judge; also the conversations that Caroline had with the counselor... I don't think they deal with rape like that anymore. I mean, they could be (I haven't watched modern soaps in years), but back when I did watch, I don't remember being handled like this. On the topic of Brooke... she really did change her mind about Ridge really quickly. She is telling her Mom that she is going for Ridge because Caroline is no longer interested in him. As a real friend, she should have checked with Caroline first. But she knows deep down inside that she is doing a wrong thing.

Of course, I did not mean to imply that social media has only negative or only positive aspect. I don't know how my original post came through, but I do agree that social media has both positive and negative aspects, as you said. Reading the comments, I definitely see some points you are all saying. And of course there is not much change coming from social media in terms of soaps, because lets face it, there is not that many people that watch soaps. This is why I meant in the past, if social media existed, when Luke and Laura's wedding was watched by 30 mil people and they were all discussing it online, would that have an impact if you had such a huge number of people talking one way or the other. Someone said that we can only speculate and that we cannot know for sure how things would be.. well yes That was the point of my post. Just to bring some discussion and speculation... we are not writing a scientific report here, it's just a soap message board with speculation and discussion To give just some background on why I came to think about this topic.. Emily in Paris (show on Netflix). For those that are not familiar, season 1 came out last year and it was found to be very bad by many, depicting the French in a negative way etc. Then the Golden Globes nominated Emily in Paris in whichever categories and apparently the backlash was so huge that it started changes in Golden Globes that happened. Now, to be honest, I was not following this story when it happened last year, I was watching a video this year that this happened, so if the video was misinforming, I could be also wrong. Anyway, my point is, this type of backlash got me thinking about changes and impact on soaps in the past. Of course, someone else said that it is all about the cash. I completely agree, because even in case of Emily in Paris, the show was not cancelled because of the backlash, season was released by Netflix, because even if it was so hated online, the show was still watched by a lot of people, thus generating cash for Netflix to order season 2. But some things were changed in season 2 as a response to the critiques of season 1, so I guess backlash did help at least a bit... But some new stuff happened in season 2 that got even Ukrainian government to respond, so lets see what happens in season 3

I was thinking how soaps today are always playing it safe. There is barely no risk or barely any pushing the envelope. It seems that soaps nowdays are waiting for other media to push a topic into mainstream before soaps tackle it, while in the past it seems soaps were also telling these types of stories. One of the reasons why I think this is today is that network executives are afraid of negative social media reactions. While I know that network execs were probably afraid of negative outpour through letter campaigns back in the day, it cannot be the same, since it is so much easier to write a negative comment online than to sit down and write a letter and then go to the post office and send it. So thinking about this, do you think some stories would have been cut or would not have happened in the past had there been social media? Would Erica have an abortion? Would there be interracial relationships of GH/GL/DAYS? Bianca's coming out storyline? Didn't ATWT have one of first divorces way back when? So this just got me thinking... What do you think?

Ah yes, thats the guy! Okay, so I guess he won't stick around for long then Thank you!

I was watching the old episodes from 1996. And there is the guy that seems to work in Jabot with Ashley. And if I understood the German pronunciation correctly, is his name Adam Hunter? Who is he?

I was rooting for France this year. While I think Maneskin did a great show and I can see why it won, it was not my type of music.

Re: the vault - I have my own person drive, so even if bookmark the vault, when I click on it, my browser takes me to my drive instead of the vault. Maybe if you don't sure the drive personally, then it would work. About the latter part of your post... I do think people in soap business don't like soaps. I have been thinking that for many years. Which is weird that someone would produce something that they don't like their own product. But I am grateful for the episodes of B/B that we get. So far I am still in summer 1987 and so far all the episodes are intact, as far as I can see. But I can imagine that an episode missing a key moment like the slap between Stephanie and Brooke would be a very jarring omission. Maybe something was wrong with the copy and nothing can be done to fix it?

Indeed, I love both Johnson and Flannery. Others are very hit and miss. Even when I bookmark the link to the vault, in time it stops working for me, so I don't have it.

Oh yes! Definitely! This is around time when I last watched DAYS. I stopped watching after the Ben serial killer storyline finished. I loved seeing Jason Cook during the anniversary.

I know a lot of people don't love that period, but I started watching with 1999 episodes and I loved all of it. Some of my favorite soap opera periods, all the way until 2004/2005...

@Soapsuds yes, it's good to see so many people from way back when still (or again) posting. When I came back to SON few months, I didn't think I'd find anyone who was posting from the early days of SON, but I was wrong, so that was cool Although I am not sure I remember KevinC? Hmmm... @KLN It has been long time indeed. Yeah, doing good, thanks! Hope you are too. It has to be like 10 years since we chatted, probably even more. Back in the day when we used to have those group video chats and played online Big Brother hhahaha Fun times! Speaking of MM and BB, I always thought MM was a decent actress, she just never was Belle to me, even if she was a good casting choice as Marlena's daughter. I remember when we went from KS (to Charity Rahmer, eek!) to MM, it was so jarring becuase Martha was nothing like KS. She was older (and looked it) and while KS was bubbly and sweet, Martha seemed way more mature and serious. They never should have aged Belle and Shawn so much. Beermer was okay to me. Never had an issue with him.

I've been watching Caroline's rape stuff and Joanna Johnson has been really good!

Cassie Brady... I mean, Rex keeps coming back... why not her? I always liked Alexis Thorpe.

Oh, sure. I am at point where Nancy Burnett is Beth, but the first Beth is still in the opening credits. I don't know if this is valid or not, but I found this casting site, which has Rosemarie Thomas and they also list B/B among her credits: https://app.castingnetworks.com/talent/public-profile/3dc32fe0-9158-11ea-9bfa-0291f623b406

From what I remember of Ashley Hamilton, he was not good and switching to Eddie Cibrian was a great move.

They certainly are. But looking back, I think Eddie Cibrian would be my favorite.

I don't really follow Junior Eurovision. I find it not fair with kids age 10 singing against kids age 16. Kids at 10 are still kids, singing kiddy songs about toys and grandparents, while kids at 16 can already be proper pop stars, singing about whatever.