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On a shallow note... they really had a hot cast. Susan Ward, Sarah Buxton, Tim Adams, Jason George, Eddie Cibrian, Hank Cheyne, Dax Griffin... all so hot...

I think you are right. I did not see the movie, but it sounds like a fair comparison.

I thought it was interesting how she was against portraying Ashley going crazy as a result of the abortion as it would imply that abortion makes women crazy. So she portrayed it differently. That was interesting.

I don't know I saw this when I was first doing episode aircount from imdb and I noticed this confusion with Rosemarie and Carla. Then I started watching B/B from the beginning and for me, the actress always looked the same to me, but in the credits they had two different names in different episodes. So I was confused

I am not afraid (yet) for any of these couples on the still ongoing soaps (I mean I don't watch any ongoing soaps anymore, but I would tune in if any of them were ending). I am sure that one day when they will have the last episode, they will reunite the big couples. If nothing, then off screen where other characters will say that they got a call and so and so reunited. So for Bo and Hope, even if Kristian and Peter do not want to return (and I could see them agreeing to come back if DAYS was done), I think you could have a case where Shawn says that he got a call and Bo was alive and he's off to meet Hope to go meet Bo, or something like this.

Ah yes, I remember it now, this thing about his tennis career. The shed I don't know if they ever showed while I was watching. Or maybe I erased it from my memory, if it was so underwhelming I always hate when prominent characters just disappear without ever being seen again. I think each main/contract character deserves at least some kind of an ending.

Didn't TC have some anger issuer towards the Cranes and there was a shed which he stared at for a long time, but we were not shown what's inside? lol Thats as far as his character development went, I think

Re: TC&Eve - Yeah, possible. Whatever happened to TC? I forgot... he did not stay until the end, right? I did not like Travis Schuldt in the role of Ethan. I found him to be bland and it did not work with the clueless character as you mentioned. I liked Martsolf on DAYS, so maybe I would have liked him as Ethan, had I seen him.

I know, very confusing. I was looking so hard to see the difference between the actresses, but it was difficult. There is Rosemarie Thomas in the actual credits of the show as Alex in this episode. So maybe she was just there for a few episodes and then Carla Herd/Sands took over permanently, but imdb messed it up?

Sorry for the offtopic, but... Omg, so it is really you! Welcome back!

I am gonna repeat what others said that I was surprised that Luis and Sheridan did not end up together. They were such a HUGE couple throughout the years. And I believe Miguel also ended up with Kay and not Charity? I love Kay, she was one of my favorite characters, but I would never want her to end up with a bland person like Miguel. Plus, seeing as how Charity and Miguel were also a big deal for a lot of runtime of the show, I was surprised they did not put them back together. I am also going to say Gabi and Antonio on SuBe. They completely ruined Ricardo's character because of Gabi/Antonio affair and the two I think were hot and gained a following, only to finally have Gabi end up alone. It was her own choice, which is fine, but still, surprised me.

It's amazing how terrible they were. Al least in the beginning. My favorites from those first few years were Kay (Taylor Anne Mountz and Deanna Wright; was not a fan of the Kay which was in between the two); Luis & Sheridan; Whitney & Chad; Timmy & Tabitha; Julian. On the other side, I absolutely hated the whiney Charity, Grace and Theresa. My God, all of them were so annoying. I hated Jesse Metcalfe's acting. He was better later on when he joined DH. I found Eve and TC to be boring. All of this! Plus flashbacks! So many flashbacks. I would cringe every time when they would flashback to something that happened yesterday... so annoying.

Thanks for this, brings back so many memories! It was such a long time ago... I was surprised when "Ben" was revealed as the killer. Even though it was hinted up until that point many times how Ben was a weirdo who killed his first wife. But I didn't think that they would really make Ben the killer, so when his face showed up, I was surprised. But then with time, I figured it out that it must be an evil twin lol

Amazing idea! I vote for this

Oh Lindsey Korman was/is beautiful, so I can see why the crush, but the character was horrendous to me.

Oh, for sure! Streamers might be the way to go. You hit the nail on the head there. A lot of soaps today are written as if we are still in 90s or 00s. It's like they are afraid to write modern stories (for the most part). Soaps are still popular in prime-time. But daytime is just so behind modern times, it's ridiculous.

I stopped watching by the time Theresa became a bitch and hooked up with Julian, even though I would read up to stay in touch with the show. Grace was horrible. I did not like the actress one bit and the character was super annoying. Same as Charity.

Oh my God, you're right! It's been a while since I watched them. EDIT: Anyway, I don't think a summer break would help. I personally think that soaps are very much a habit thing, so if you break the habit, it is difficult to come back. Soaps could get better viewership by increasing their budgets, getting better actors, sets and most importantly writing. No summer break would help anyone if they kept shrinking the budgets and writing horrible stories.

Terror Island and Shockwave were everything to my teenage self back then. I was so into Scream and I know what you did last summer, so Terror Island was awesome! And Shockwave was really well done, I remember. I obviously loved Titanic, so then having a soap doing a shipwreck stroyline was awesome (even though this was a copy of Poseidon Adventure, rather than Titanic, but still...)

OMG, I always hated Theresa. She was such a crybaby lol My friends and I always laughed at Theresa. Even now, years later, people will remember Theresa's overdramatics over telling Ethan she loves him while speaking to herself, over vowing to be with Ethan all the time, weeping and sighing... so over the top haha I always preferred Luis and Sheridan. But Timmy and Tabby were funny together. I would love to try a Martimmy

I have no clue about NZ soaps, but I know UK soaps are pretty bad ratings-wise and what I read about Aussie soaps was also not stellar.

Well PC tried the arc type of storytelling and it did not work. And the "summer haitus" thing is not really saving UK and Aussie soaps. I believe they are losing ratings just like the US ones.

Oh, there was a period for sure where characters stayed in the same clothes for months. I am sure of that!

For me, it would be something like Tricia shooting Ryan during his wedding to Victoria; or Days' Greta's coronation episode when everyone gets shot. Or Days' episode when Abe/Lexie give Zach back to the Bradys. I showed Cassie's death episode to my Mom, who never saw Y&R ever in her life and she was really glued to the screen and cried. Tornado episode from 1994 on AMC. EDIT: How could I forget.. one of the soapiest episodes ever I can remember... Sami/Austin wedding, interrupted by Carrie, who exposes the truth about Will's paternity and then the PUNCH that happens.. so campy, overdramatic and soapy.

The first two years, while ridiculous, were even okay, when compared to what followed. The pace was horrible, one day would last for months and months... the storylines became even more ridiculous. And they started making fun of themselves even. It was just unwatchable.