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Act?!

Let's be real here, Peter Porte is hot and gay. Kill off Leo and let him tone down the camp a bit. Either way, kill off Leo.

He was still alive when he left town: https://daysofourlives.fandom.com/wiki/Quinn_Hudson

I think Fox's embarrassing launch on Tuesdays is noteworthy here. People talk about how Heather Locklear saved Melrose from cancellation, but when you look at that season for Fox, all other new dramas bombed. I think it was always going to go to season 2, though maybe it wouldn't have gotten such a preferential treatment and maybe only gotten 13 episodes. But I don't think it was going to be outright cancelled with the Tuesday mess and The Heights failing to catch any sort of pulse outside a hit single.

I mean, Melrose's certainly was since Kristian Alfonso was styled like she was playing Fleiss in a Lifetime movie. But I'd suspect the Sisters storyline was too - I'd assume these would go in a "Ripped from the headlines" storylines thread. But yeah, this was definitively a case of them not really thinking about who Reed was as a character. I guess the AIDS home storyline was kind of nice. But I also think they were trying to set up Cat and Reed as the odd couple cousins and potential "replacement" characters in case one of the other sisters wanted to quit (they can only have so many long-lost half siblings after all). I guess with Cat in law enforcement, being an accidental madam was as far into crime they could push Reed before she became entirely unredeemable.

I wasn't talking about the actors, but the audience.

Yeah, I was kind of baffled with both Reed and Charley not only being recast, but getting completely new personalities. I actually didn't mind Charley initially because I liked that she was more reserved, which seemed true to her character. In season 6 she just kind of becomes a full-on replacement for Frankie and they even take away any tension between her and Bea. Reed... well, I think they wanted a wild child on the show, but it was a bizarre reboot of the character. Her just leaving her son entirely was just odd and barely acknowledging him outside a "I send a check" was a choice. The "Accidental" Madame story gave me shades of Sydney on Melrose Place, except Sydney was largely likeable due to Laura Leighton.

Well, yes? Partly due to Santa Barbara having much younger demographics than Capitol, which means that a lot of fans kept it alive in the early internet age but also just by airing internationally (thus large parts of the run being preserved). I wouldn't exactly say either are shows that the regular Joe remembers, but Santa Barbara has the edge of the two.

I'll admit that I was one of those who thought Stefano was already confirmed dead especially with that dumb Stevano storyline, but I guess not lol. So it kind of confused me that this was even a thing.

You kind of have to laugh at how Reed got a personality transplant in season 6. I guess they wanted to set up the cousins as capable cast members in case more "Sisters" bolted from the show. I will say though, I don't miss Frankie at all. She was always kind of the worst "sister".

I think I've identified the reason why Sisters has never become a real memorable classic, despite six seasons and 127 episodes. It's just such an odd mixture of incredibly dark and dank stories, only to completely whiplash and have extreme whimsical stories. Yet, it never seems to hit that sweet middle ground where you can point and say "yes, this is what Sisters is about".

Blood & Oil seemed doomed from the start - it was essentially first developed in 2011 for ABC, then thrown into development hell to the USA Network. Then all of a sudden Empire became a big surprise hit in the spring of 2015, ABC quickly grabbed it back and wanted to soap it up (I assume they thought modern Dallas, so Cidre made sense). But Cidre always seemed to want to write her own show focusing on crime, so it's not surprising she quickly got the boot. Jon Harmon Feldman also didn't seem like a good fit either... They even attempted to do the "ex-wife with an axe to grind returns" before it was jettisoned off! It's a shame, because when ABC got soaps right, they got it right. Blood & Oil wasn't it unfortunately.

The only thing that stands out to me is that a Savannah repeat out-rated some shows on both WB / UPN. I guess it just goes to show that it had real momentum at that point in season one that just got squandered by them moving it in season 2 (that season 2 was creatively so-and-so didn't help either).

Sisters season 5 just continues down the bleak path. I mean, mob murder, hysterical blindness (!!), Teddy relapsing, Georgie being manipulated by a psycho therapist who makes her believe her father molested her... remember when this show was somewhat light? I really wonder what viewers at the time thought, but I guess they showed that by tuning out.

All about how you approach it really. Some go at it with the intention to "look good for my age" and tend to get good results since they tend to leave some aging marks on them, which makes it look more natural and less uncanny valley. Then you have people like Joan van Ark, that seems to utterly obsess over every little line and detail on the face that she fails to see the bigger picture. Then of course those that try to recapture their youth or use plastic surgery to curb earlier unhealthy habits...

IIRC, even before his death there was talk about the show ending. While I'm sure her ex's death play a part, I also just think it's just hard to combine a music career with a five-day-a-week talk show, particularly if you want to tour internationally.

The dividing it up into two half hours in some markets clearly saved it as it seemed on the way to the dumpster before that. It was very smart of them.

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There was definitively a line drawn between the dramas!

Not sure why you pushed Picket Fences in there since it's in the same quirky genre that Sisters was pre-season 4. But yeah. They did everything so now it's drama time! And it's rape.

swoon For Peter Dunne! What he did for season 7 of Melrose Place was amazing. But damn, season 4 of Sisters so far is depressing and Very Serious. I'm not sure what they're trying to do here.

You know how you often hear about something, but you don't really believe it until you feel it? Season 4 of Sisters. A complete vibe change into a Very Serious Drama, except it kind of just get soapier and more ridiculous.

I'm surprised Jacobs just didn't re-imagine the Wards as something else but a newly married couple. As you said, Val and Gary ended up filling that slot, with Karen and Sid being the "old" stable married couple and Laura and ratface being the long-term messy married couple. I'm not sure what I would've put in the Wards' slot instead (my first thought is a retired couple, but they would've similarly not fit in eventually).

I've always admired that SFT seemed to remain true to itself even towards the end. Even through ratings stunts like floodings, it always seemed to have a quiet dignity about it.

Actually, it does kind of explain the weirdness about top / bottoms that seem to exist in his work. Obviously, if you penetrate, you're straight. If you're a bottom, you just take it up the butt (what?). Either way I think he needs serious therapy because that's just messed up. And maybe step away from Grindr.