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I was a fan of Grosse Pointe when it aired - unfortunately, it was simply before its time and the ratings just weren't good. WB tried to make a night out of it and Popular, but it didn't work. The whole X got Y cancelled [!@#$%^&*] are usually just excuses. WB wouldn't have ordered it if it was that objectionable. But also: Ooki oka shan, tamishun sobeirjo, oh oh!

TBH, I got the impression that he was really hurt with how the reboot did and just chose to ignore the EW thing that was about two years later. I know he's been said to work as a yoga instructor and I'd assume other non-acting jobs, so I wonder if he felt like it would be a key to another long-lasting role and then it didn't work out. I felt like his comment was always a gracious glaze over.

I'm honestly disappointed in Cwikly, whose last run in the headwriters seat wasn't perfect but not bad (and honestly, after Langan came across as a relief). Maxam has definitively brought a renewed energy to the show and seemingly made it more focused, but even he can't work magic on something that doesn't seem well thought out in the long-term. I just don't see an out for the Lexie story outside from "what was the point". Jackie seems to like doing the show too, so I don't think her and Abe are breaking up in the long-term realistically.

When Lexie was at her most interesting, she was clearly conflicted about being a good person vs embracing being a DiMera, but even that isn't a storyline that's necessarily restricted to her. They could certainly play up this dynamic with Chad more, especially as the recast has been successful. So it's like, what was even the purpose here? The show has improved since the initial boring switch and certainly better than the Body & Soul days, but this still just baffles me. What's the end game here? I don't think the writers really know.

I'll give him credit for being very gracious about his exit. He did improve as an actor during the run too after being a glorified wooden board.

There was a SONY related soap channel that seemed to advertise that they were uploading DAYS episodes from 1994-95, 2015-16 and 2022-23 seasons. It's gone quiet, but I do think DAYS might be coming. We also the recent All My Children episodes being uploaded with Agnes Nixon's estate / family saying that they're working on things like Loving / The City. I feel it in the waters that we'll start getting more soap material since it's a never-ending stream of content and unless they want the material to waste away, they'll have to get to digitizing them anyway.

BG himself said it - he was a character that was floating around on his own island with no family and no real work place. It makes complete sense to write him off as a "big" death as it doesn't really affect the canvas itself much. He'll be one of those characters we'll quickly forget in the coming years.

This is such a great and thoughtful response by their team. They're really just doing a bang-up job with every aspect of this. I really hope other soaps follow since having a small income stream on your archives is always better than none.

I've said it before that I don't mind someone like Abby staying dead for the sake of death becoming less of a joke on the show, but then they bring back a character that so publicly died in a very final way so that argument doesn't hold water. Add that we do actually need more Hortons on the show and they've struggled pairing Chad off with anyone new. The don't want to recast argument doesn't work either now that they've recast a character that pretty much had only one portrayer during her 15-odd year run. Again, Lexie is just a bizarre choice to bring back from the dead.

You'd think so, but they all are ridiculous in a way where you'd have to have a flowchart who likes / doesn't like the other. Jennie and Tiffani were close friends at one point, but then got into a one-sided fight due to Tiffani not just taking Jennie's side in her divorce since she and Jennie's ex-husband were friends from before. I wonder if Jason is still pissed at Tori for selling his wedding invitation for like $5 bucks in a yard sale? They did the short-lived 90210 show, so maybe they're on decent terms now. Ian seems nice enough, but in a very fake Hollyweird way. Gabrielle Carteris always seemed to have a low-key chip on her shoulder, but also played it all off in an "I'm the ADULT in the room" kind of way. I can't help to feel that Shannen's cancer and passing away from it kind of made all their dynamics worse because she was always the convenient scape goat, even though I'm not defending her unprofessional behavior at the time. And yeah, Thomas Calabro allegedly took himself quite serious as an "act-thor" and the cast just seemed to deal with it by low-key making fun of his pretensions lol. I think Heather not having a huge ego and always being willing to take the backseat really helped though, unlike someone like Joan Collins who came onto Dynasty with the mindset of being the star and pulling ranks on the show. During Melrose's more balanced seasons Heather / Amanda would often take the backseat and in some episodes she just dropped by and did a quippy remark.

I think in general that Lexie was always such a strange character to revive, especially without Renee Jones. Had they recast her back when Renee left it could've worked, but her death always seemed final to me. I don't think anyone was sitting around longing for her character to be back, especially without the OG actress. It's not like there's not enough DiMera's on the show or that Paulina / Abe had run out of storylines. Spoiler

I thought Josh Henderson (John Ross) and Julie Gonzala were finds in the younger cast, but yeah. Even before the show debuted I was raising my eyebrows when I heard the casting of Jesse Metcalfe - who is fine in "dumb himbo" roles like the one on Desperate Housewives - but in order to make a character Christopher work believably they needed someone with a lot of gravitas. Poor Jordana Brewster felt out of her depth in a weekly serialized drama and couldn't overcome the Mary Sue writing of her character. Julie Gonzalo on the other hand became wasted, sidelined and there were very weird writing choices for her character. Well, Juan Pablo di Pace was / is a snack at least.

All cast members, those from the early years to those from the later years, seem to be on very friendly terms. I've yet to hear that any of them do not get along aside from the occasional guest star like Antonio Sabato Jr supposedly not getting along with Heather. It's very refreshing to see as it allows them to focus on the show whenever they get together, even if it's very often the same things (wedding dress catfight, Kimberly blowing up the building). That it now seems they're taking Vanessa along to these reunions has actually refreshed these talks a bit as they've gotten less stale. I think the worst thing I've heard is that Thomas Calabro was a bit up his ass in the early days and made a comment about Heather being a "soap opera actress". Per Heather herself she quickly shut him up by saying "well, so are you" and that was that. 90210s cast seem to be constant drama central still and they're all now in their 50s and 60s. Apparently Jennie for some reason has a beef with Tori or vice versa. BAG seemed to not-so-subtly shade Jennie when he visited Tori's latest podcast, lol.

God damn you Diana Ross!

I rewatched the whole China Beach series not long ago and Reflections has stayed in my mind:

Wow, almost like some people want to overlook this mans obvious pedophilia because he made Thriller almost 50 years ago. Stunningly shocked (not really).

@Vee I have no idea why you'd think I'd act maliciously towards tou..

Also, "unastalker" is such a bad motive. I can dream up a better one!

Oh Fallon HI @Khan Hi

Underappreciated soap!

One day I will find my tape with that dodgy Lisa Hartman voice-over on the ending of 2000 Malibu Road. It exists I swear!

Which is interesting considering David Jacobs wanted to originally kill off Bobby and have a Pam vs JR dynamic on the show. That they couldn't achieve that once Bobby was finally killed off is a testament to how the show had just delved into the "JR Show" and couldn't ever have him not win. Seriously - season nine as full out blown out war between Pam and JR could've been epic if they had actually dared to go for it - but they were too scared to change the dynamics of the show. Then they went and brought Bobby back (erasing an entire season), Victoria bolted and they kept bringing in replacement characters to keep up the dynamic they had in their head.

Seriously. Outside of Michael and Peter, most males where just eye-candy. It was definitively a female-skewing show and they knew it. Like, relationships like Alison / Amanda and Sydney / Jane were always more interesting than the ones they had with those pesky males lounging around shirtless.