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Boom. I'm not surprised DAYS is the first one to move online directly from broadcast.

I've said it before, but I don't like the rapid SORASing and prefer it when they do it like they did with Will or Shawn D - slight SORASing, but nothing too drastic. Belle and Brady comes to mind; earlier than that Mike Horton and David Banning. It becomes a bit odd since they also like to keep characters vaguely in their 20s/30s/40s for so long in order to keep them "viable" for the canvas (which is how you end up with Kristen giving birth to her step son's baby in her late 50s).

Depends on how much tolerance you have for 1960's produced soap operas - I personally like pre-Barnabas Dark Shadows and wasn't put off by the slightly slower introduction. But if you're more of a monster fan... start with the Barnabas episodes. Maybe try watching the first two weeks of episodes and if it doesn't bite you, skip to Barnabas.

Kids on DAYS either seem relentlessly SORAS'd or they're sent off screen like Arianna (who should be on screen). Hopefully, in wanting to keep Chad in the younger group they might not want to rapidly age up his and Abby's children, then again, I could also just see them sending them off screen for the next couple of years.

Again, The Nanny had fallen hard in the ratings, all the way down to #84, when it was cancelled. Les Moonves is a jerk, but he also turned CBS's fortunes around with stuff like CSI and Everybody Loves Raymond etc. The only show that were slightly shocking among those listed was Dr Quinn because it was actually rising in the ratings (but it was on Saturday nights, which in itself was dying when it came to original programming).

I'm guessing Murphy Brown and Dr Quinn? Though MB had declined massively in its final season (going from #34 to #86) - Dr Quinn is probably the one show that got cancelled despite not declining in ratings (in fact it increased in its final season); I'm guessing though that since that show was in its sixth season cast contract might've been up for renewals and another season would increase costs.

Yes, I think that the advantage that Grey's has is that culturally, there hasn't been as big of a change between now and 2005. Compare it to 1979 and 1993. Knots did well to survive the 70s into the 80s and into the 90s. I can't imagine it going much further than the season it ended though.

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Erm, I'm assuming it's more of a set-up for when Stephanie comes on the show soon-ish. I assume she might end up living in the Kiriakis mansion for... reasons.

They really should've gone with the decapitation route for Abigail - but maybe they can do that for when they finally kill off Will? Of course, in a nefarious DiMera plotline, his head would be kept alive and kept by Leo, which would allow for them to work around Smirky McSmirkface's schedule (when he's not available, they can just draw a smirk on ball), while also freeing up Sonny for hot sex with Chad! Why haven't I been scouted by them as a writer? Obviously, I'm writing GOLD.

Going by Julianne Morris's real age there would work to be fair - she was born in 1968, so she'd been 22 in 1990. But either way, not only are we to assume no one would call out the fact that Ciara is 20/25 years younger than Greta is, but also ignore the fact that as a royalty, she'd likely be known in social circles + regularly papped.

Yeah, I mean even with not going by Julianne Morris's real age Greta would be in her mid-40s at the very least. I'm not sure why they didn't go with Ciara pretending to be her daughter - they could've always used it as a way to established that Greta had gotten married and had children, giving her a bit of a happy off-screen send-off.

That's been pretty much confirmed to happen. I don't get what the purpose of killing off Jake was.

I haven't even seen the episode yet, but the mugger already reminds me of that dorky mob guy last year. I get that these day player characters are meant to have exaggerated features since they're appearing briefly and they're not going to waste time diving into their psyche, but they could do with pulling it back a bit at least.

This one gets the Andrea Zuckerman award for awkward adult trying to pass as a teenager.

Plus, Ron would be way too tempted to bring in young Tom and Alice onto the main show as a part of DiMera time travel or something. Do we really want Tom and Alice screwed up by him?

I don't think there's a perfect solution to the age problems that excessive SORAS has caused on Days, but I'd just put Claire on ice for a few years and Mike Horton her - if she does return a five or so years from now she's still vaguely early 20s.

I've said it before, but I'd cast someone born in the mid-80s just to try and have at least some age difference between Ali and whoever plays Belle, especially if they're going to keep bringing up how Belle was conceived and Sami's past kidnapping. If they're going to keep Martha in the role, just lean into her more icy demeanour when writing Belle.

It wouldn't surprise me if they had one done that was more ambigious done to hang in the background while working out who would play re-cast Fallon. Since they wouldn't focus the scene on it, it didn't need to be perfect, just not obviously be Pamela Sue Martin.

No, it didn't go anywhere. I think they eventually used it on The Colby's though as an excuse for Fallon's breakdown (it was in part because she was attracted to her brother!). And the "Adam's not a real Carrington" story was more of a family fodder story more than anything. They wanted more stories that focused on the love and family conquers all or some bs due to the popularity of family sitcoms and they thought the whole "you're not our son but we accept you anyway" was a heart-warming angle despite being utterly stupid. Also, Fallon was still on The Colby's at that point, so no that wasn't ever the plan. They retconned it back to Adam being a Carrington in season 8 when Fallon was on the show again.

These shows were always wonky about distances - O/T but I've been starting to watch through Dawson's Creek and in one episode Joey's sister gives birth and the ambulance can't come there and it's portrayed as Joey/Dawson/Jen lives in the middle of nowhere. Two episodes later they go to a beach party, the area is clearly heavily populated (it looks like it was the same house that they would eventually use as Emily Thorne's beach house on Revenge) and Joey gets drunk, so Dawson and Pacey get her home without an issue supposedly by walking home. TL;DR these distances are just plot dictated. I wouldn't put too much stock in how it actually is in real life. In real life, Michael would've eventually just fallen out of touch with the people at the apartment complex, Sydney wouldn't have taken his laundry to the apartment complex to wash them (in one episode it's implied she skated there) and so on. We roll with it because it makes for a delicious soap, plus we got a new pretty location out of it.

To be fair, the show itself never brought up that there was some major distance between the apartment complex and Michael's beach house, so I think it's a case of Convenient Soap Distances where it's sort of fuzzy where everything's located. Most watchers won't have ever been in Los Angeles, much less know how long it takes in real life to travel from one distance to another. Beverly Hills 90210 also did this sort of thing where things would either be located just around the corner/walking distance or miles away depending on what the plot was that week.

Well, I think a huge charm of Melrose Place (especially before they started islanding characters) was that they lived so close together and got embroiled with each others lives (one of my favourite examples of this is an episode in season 2 when Sydney has started hooking and Jo starts noticing that's something is "off" with Sydney's "modelling" career - two unexpected characters that never really interacted starts unexpectedly interacting because they live next to each other). I think the idea could work with a new cast - LA Complex was proof of that and more Melrose than the reboot. It just needed better writing and drop the entire premise of a murder mystery. The new creators clearly wanted to do their own show rather than reboot Melrose Place - they weren't even fans of the old one!

I agree - I don't see why they need so many characters + locations. BSII would've been better if they had just focused on the Bo/Hope and Megan story. This was way too bloated for five episodes.