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The only reason I can see them conceivably doing this is to try and force Peacock's hand in handling the PR. Either that or they just don't it'll affect the viewing figures and it's an unnecessary cost.

I'll be fair and give them a break on this one - he last appeared when he was 12, so I doubt anyone who doesn't know who he is will recognize him. But yes, I totally expect annoying and tired "winks" to the audience because Carlivati can't help himself. Maybe they can get Lauren Boles back to play his girlfriend.

Yeah, richer older men marrying much younger isn't unusual - I guess ultimately, they had these younger women fall head over heels in love with JR without there being a sort of cynical edge to it that was a bit unrealistic. Even the Winger tramp was shown as being truly in love with him, despite being portrayed as a gold digger at first. Then you had naive, sweet, virginal Cally...

That's just... odd. Why? Wasn't the show recently renewed for two more years? Surely the PR department can't consist more than a few people who cut up the promos and send out things to soap rags?

I think another obvious issue is that paternity wasn't that easy to determine - DNA testing didn't really get to that point until some time in the mid-80s. So either paternity would've been obvious from the timelines not matching up or that the blood type made it impossible for someone to be the father; or obviously as in DAYS's case someone being sterile.

JVA strikes me as someone who spends a lot of time in the mirror finding imperfections, hence why she's gone overboard. Good plastic surgery tends to be subtle and not necessarily about to look younger, but less saggy.

Mandy and JRs first time was very rapey. We almost need a thread about the whole "Woman overtaken by passion" trope that Dallas and similar soaps often tried to present.

I guess if I had written the Jenna character into the show again I would've taken a note from Knots Landing and what they did with Abby and Abby / Gary. Jenna wouldn't necessarily be malicious, but she'd be someone who likes money and fortune and clearly see Bobby as an opportunity to get back what she felt she lost, while also obviously being in love with him so it wouldn't be an entirely gold digger move. It also would've underlined the difference between Pam and Bobby's relationship - she'd actively push him to get more proactive in business and be just a slight bit manipulative about it. Bobby would be intrigued by Jenna because she'd challenge him more in a sense that Pam never did. As it was, Jenna did indeed only come across as an obstacle for Pam and Bobby to overcome and it was hard to take them seriously as a couple. She felt more like a place holder in every sense of the word.

To be fair, the show was mostly going well right up until Swan Song (or rather into the first 10-ish episodes or so on season 9 when it became apparent they didn't want to properly do a Pam vs JR plot). Sure, it had its ups and downs in those seasons, but mostly it was good - and that's a long time for a show to keep up being decent. Dynasty barely managed half of that. As for Jenna; they clearly blew it by going with celebrity casting with Priscilla. I've been having season 7 running in the background while doing other things and it seems like early on they did write her more in line with Fairchild's version (see: confrontation with other Ewing ladies at the Oil Baron's Ball; telling Katherine that she'd just marry Bobby if she wanted money when Katherine tried to buy her off). The issue with it seems like Priscilla is just playing Jenna as an airhead with little machinations going on inside her head. Take the plot where Bobby offers to buy her a store - Jenna outright refuses to be a "kept woman", sulks for a bit at home, Bobby goes over and pleads and then suddenly she makes a u-turn and accepts the offer on her terms. Had Fairchild played the part, you know it would've come off as Jenna more being quietly manipulative when initially rejecting the offer and then setting up a plan of her own.

The DAYS plunge is so drastic, yikes! Normally when soaps fall that hard it's due to a change of time slot, station coverage dropping etc. Changes on screen do usually take some time to be noticeable in the ratings, so Nina just bombed from the get-go.

This is sort of true, but also not really - what happened is that the average dropped, but the truth is also that season ten stopped free-falling like it had been in the second part of season 9. Season 10 averaged lower, but also was more steady and temporarily stopped the bleeding, iirc. Susan Howard felt very strongly about her storyline in season 9 with adopting a handicapped child and was majorly pissed off about it (and vocal) - it's likely a part of why she was cut at the end of season 10.

Their best bet would be a FAST platform as a lot of them host fairly random stuff and they won't necessarily pay for more than it's viewed. If they went through all the trouble of digitizing it they might as well take the meager dollar they can get at this point rather than try and sit out for some dream deal that'll go tits up again. Another alternative is to do what Bold and Beautiful does and put it up on YouTube with ads - again, not highly profitable but putting up a soap opera from 60-40 years ago was never going to be.

Well, obviously - she hasn't acted since 2000 and doesn't need to do the promotional circuit (the one promo she does/did for Principal Secret and her foundations are different), so there would be no gain for her to do these reunions besides her own gratification. I believe the official story was that she had a "back injury". Take that for what you will.

While he's clearly suffered from The CW being bought out by Nexstar, he does still have You, Doom Patrol and the upcoming Girls on the Bus (plus some film projects) on streaming, so he's probably going to transition there as CW keeps cutting its ties to CBS Studios/Warner Bros.

Let's be honest here - doing these reunions wouldn't even reach pocket change level for her considering the wealth she supposedly managed to amass with Principal Secret and related products. The only reason she'd do a reunion would be for fun and while the interview section on stage wouldn't be too bad, sitting down for a meet and greet for several hours sounds like my idea of hell.

The CW reboot was everything I expected a Dynasty reboot be on the CW, so it never really disappointed me - it's not how I would've done it necessarily and there are points where the show is stronger in places and weaker in others, but if you go in knowing what to expect it's enjoyable.

Andrew would look cute screaming in an underground cage. Just saying Dimitri, he's right there and let your DiMera freak on.

To be fair, I think things like "Body and Soul" would've worked if the rest of the show was intriguing as it would've probably felt like a welcome interlude to what else was going on; in-jokes can work (see the Twin Peaks characters watching a soap opera), but only if everything else is juicy and good, otherwise it just comes off as a distraction to hide the faulty writing overall.

How very dare you!

Just tempt her with a Daytime Emmy and she'll do it. It'll be marvelous dah-link.

If Deidre Hall can play Deidre Hall, why can't she play four (or maybe three because Megan killed one) Marlenas? They're just going to be differentiated by the colour of their suit anyway but maybe not even that because the budget won't allow it. Maybe they can have different accents!

Also, Pam finally shows her backbone again by vowing to fight JR 'til her last breath for Christopher's custody as JR only uses and abuses people - again, a lost opportunity to amp up the war between Pam and JR. Not according to some! I think people genuinely confuse Hagman's natural charm with JR's vile ways; same as confusing Linda and Larry's immense chemistry with Swellin' and JR being in love. It's a huge credit to the actors though for selling it.

Season 5 really takes the cake with the whole JR/Cliff thing and whose the most sociopathic - and the prize as always goes to JR. Cliff might be obsessed with destroying the Ewings and JR BUT he actually shows remorse. He shows emotions when he [!@#$%^&*] up and that's ironically his biggest weakness; meanwhile JR just keeps wheelin' and dealin' throughout the season no matter what comes his way. He literally shows no real emotions, even selling what he thinks is his son for some shares. And to top it off, he uses the abuser handbook 101 on Sue Ellen by working HARD to get her isolated; he gets rid of both Clay and Cliff, men who've she's depended on and trusted, just to get her back on Southfork. Not so romantic when you look at it that way, eh?

Well, at least one of the clones is dead since Megan mentioned using it for Marlena's apparent "death" (which raises the question if Megan had the clone killed?). Also, I think Tommy Horton was mentioned as being alive like ten years ago. I'm not sure if they've mentioned him dying since then.