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No. I think they might've referenced Amanda's step-mom in the season 7 plot, but from memory they did focus a lot more Mrs Damarr (Julia Adams, famous from Creature from the Black Lagoon). It has always been my guess that if the show hadn't been cancelled that she would've been involved with the murder of her son (like him surviving the fall from the bleachers and she coming in later, clearing Amanda and Eve) since they cast a a somewhat noteable horror movie star in a role that turned out to be so small.

It's probably more of a hassle to find an actor whose schedule would have to match Ali Sweeney's than for Sami to stay single - or he'll just exist off-screen like EJ did for years and that wasn't really a good solution either. Add that there wouldn't be time to build that romance either way because AS only does two week "arcs". Nah, just have Sami stay single and have her turn up a few times every now and then to wreck havoc.

Since Allison Sweeney will only commit to doing drop-ins it's probably better for Sami to stay single.

This death seems to happen on July 27th.

I said it before, but I think they truly bring out the worst in each other. Both need a co-writer to balance them. From what I've seen, BSII seems to be the worst sort of amalgamation of both their worst habits.

Even if the last one worked as a stand-alone from what was happening on DOOL, they still used characters that were mostly on the canvas - this one they use a lot of characters that haven't been on for ages, some that have also been dead. It probably would've been enough to have the Bo / Hope and Meghan Hathaway returns story on it if they wanted to keep it to five episodes. Either that or expand it to two weeks, if not three. It's a busy canvas on BSII.

So how did they explain Megan coming back to life then?

I mentioned the 2009 reboot in my post... But yes, we kind of are.

Honestly though, does it need a reboot? I love the characters, but it wouldn't make sense for them to live in Melrose Place all these years later and in all honesty, you can make the core of the show into a new one - I actually thought the short-lived Canadian L. A. Complex was a better Melrose Place than the Melrose Place reboot! I kind of feel the same way about Knots Landing - it's a show about a bunch of people living in close proximity to each other so they get into each others business. Just do a show from scratch instead and don't have the baggage of the old shows.

Who the hell would bring their dad to a Pride party with half-naked men? This is almost as embarrassing as the strip show on the Christmas special...

Oh God, we're going to get the spoken word dialogue from Oops!... I Did It Again between Andrew and Paul, aren't we?

I think most people figured that she said that to signal that they better bring a bag of money if they want her back again.

Oh gotcha. I don't mind minor up-aging like the one they're doing for Holly at the moment where they've obviously done it to make the kid slightly more mobile. Shawn-D is also a decent example of someone being slightly SORAS'd without disturbing too much of any time line - I think five or so years is a good ball park figure of what I think soaps should aim for since characters tend to stay in an age bracket (especially 20s/30s) for longer than they actually are that age.

Will is actually one of the characters age that makes some sort of sense since they pretty much allowed him to grow up on-screen, same with Abby (along with Shawn-Douglas, who also only had minor adjustments to keep Hope a "young" heroine). But the biggest [!@#$%^&*] up of all when it comes to ages is still Belle since she was so important to forming of Sami's character with the conception and then Sami kidnapping her. Now they're the same age!

Well, I think David would *probably* be in his 50s if they brought him on the show since they'd probably want to empathise that he's young enough to be Julie's kid (who is roughly in her 70s), but also old enough to be Eli's dad. Not that it matters since he's dead, but ages are confusing on DAYS. I still wouldn't put him in Abe and Tony's age bracket at this point since they seem more contemporaries of Julie at this point.

Abe and Tony are in their 70s...

I genuinely don't get why they went with such a contrived set up to begin with if it was just going to end so soon. But on the other hand, I feel the same with a lot of the villains that Ron tends to cycle in and out of the show - why not actually give them some stability in the sense that they can keep torturing their victims on the long term instead of sending them to jail/coma for long stretches, then spend time trying to justify why characters would tolerate having them around only to wish-rinse-repeat? The only thing I miss from JER is that he could write a long-term storyline that would end up in a real pay-off.

The "heaven" set looks like absolute [!@#$%^&*]. I get what they were going for - I guess sort of A Matter of Life and Death situation where people can look from there, but blah. I also like how they try to sell all these locations like they were there - uh, like it's re-dressed sets + some stock footage. The "Living in Cin" boat... criiiiiiiiiiiiiiinge. I wonder if Bo and Hope are going to come back to the main show now that Kristian's been lured back into the fold.

Because they own the show?

Sal is likely to be back I feel, but Lamon will probably be trying to build off his All American role.

Since the original prism storyline was about Stefano finding them to try and cure himself of a brain tumour... yes. I'm guessing Bo will be revealed to have been in a brain-dead-coma-by-tumour all these years and the prisms will cure him. If Megan re-joins him in life or will "fight" him in "heaven" only remains to be seen.

I'd imagine around the same rate they usually get per episode, just that there's no set amount of episode guarantee so it's by an as-needed basis rather than having a base salary.

CS, like most of the actors these days, would probably love a recurring contract where he can just fit the show in his schedule and collect a pay check until he finds a better gig.

lol, literally no one is dead in Salem. I guess at least they didn't recast Renee to bring her back too.

Megan? Megan Hathaway? So, is Bo staying dead or is he brought back by the "magical prisms"?