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Stefano didn't as much want Marlena as he wanted to be her. #stefanidimeraiscoming

He also posted this: So yeah, I'd say the Abby spoiler is true.

The biggest issue with the Superbowl hoopla was the fact that Clear Channel is involved with it and it majorly pissed them off, so she pretty much got instantly blacklisted on major radio stations. When the dust started to settle a bit there was also the age factor that was starting to creep in - quite simply no hits in a while + over 40 = radio isn't going to play you.

I guess to Ron's credit he's stuck to his deaths (that weren't obviously set up as "fake" deaths like Ciara's) so far, noteably Adrienne and Laura. On the other hand, we know he didn't want to do the devil story and Corday still pushed that so if Corday has a whim everyone and anyone will be revived.

If they go there... I agree. They have to start sticking to their guns, but the issue is that if the show goes on for another five years there's about zero percent chance they will, especially if Miller or Mansi suddenly needs some pocket change. So it's pretty dumb of Ron to go there, especially as one of the first thing he had to do was resurrect a legacy character that was killed off for short term thrills.

I said it in the promo thread, but the set that Sarah's seen on looks like a regular set that they've attempted to look more run down, so I'm almost 100% that it'll turn out to be the Melaswen island. We should've known this when Roman made a random reference to it a few months ago.

Julie shouldn't even had been in her 30s when her adult son turned up - the character should've been around 26/27; of course Susan was slightly older (32) but either way it prematurely aged her into mid/late 30s. I've always said that SORASing Mike Horton and David Banning were the first huge mistake DAYS did because it prematurely aged a lot of characters around them. Ironically, I think they realised that in Mike's case, which is probably why he was de-SORAS'd (which messed up continuity even more). Then of course, you have the Marlena problem - the fact that Marlena stepped up as the lead heroine probably kept Julie from taking the center spot again and as has been said, instead of making her and Marlena peers they made Julie seem much older than Marlena which kept pushing her into the "old" bracket while Marlena was pushed into the younger bracket with Hope et al. The difference is of course that Sami was young mother herself and Will was never drastically SORAS'd, so her being a young grandmother wasn't weird. Now if they bring on Ari as a teen sometime soon... 🤐

I think the new incarnation of Fantasy Island is going in that direction - they still have guest stars each episode, but also clearly continuing plots with the staff. Of course, a lot of those are mythology based since it's more of a fantasy (duh) show, but that's what I'd do with a Hotel reboot. Keep the guest stars, but amp up the soapiness of the continuing plots with the staff. It's also interesting that the Hotel idea was the first floated spin-off idea for Dynasty - Fallon would further expand her hotel business and move out of town (with Jeff I assume). Of course, PSM left and the idea was nixed until The Colby's came around. I believe the Shapiros even sued Spelling for "stealing" the idea (I believe they settled).

There's been a rumour for months now that Abby's going to get possessed... But yeah, I'd assume it's a fake out. Even Ron couldn't be this dumb, could he?

Abby?! If it's her... oh dear.

Hope?

How do you know?

At the brief shot of Sarah on that island I'm now sure it's going to be the Melaswen island since it looks like she's on a set that's dilapidated. Should've known it since Roman mentioned it all those months ago.

I didn't realise that John meeting Kristen was similar how he met Marlena lol.

I've finally passed episode 800 and first of all: - They're really messing up this whole time travel theory thing - Barnabas wants the Collins family history book that Victoria brought with her to 1796, but since Eve went back in time in 1968 to retrieve it, it shouldn't be there, right? Only in Dark Shadows logic, since Eve went back for the book in 1968 that hasn't happened yet, but theoretically it surely has since she went back to 1796 to get it? This hurts my nerd brain very very much. The worst part is that we already knew that the Collinses had put down that Quentin travelled abroad so it was a pretty pointless exercise. - Slaughtered unicorns has to be the most random thing ever. Love all the Kitchener references - I guess they couldn't say out loud that Petofi is gay af, so they just rounded the problem by referencing to an infamously gay officer.

I think you need to remember that La Toya spent the half the eighties and half the 90s in an abusive "relation"ship with her manager... then seemingly spent the rest of the 90s hidden away in an apartment in Las Vegas. I don't think it's surprising she doesn't have much of a clue what went on with Janet in the 90s. I don't think La Toya's reaction about her divorce from René back then says a lot about their relationship today.

On the other side, we'd have to sit through RW acting sad for months on end...

Hope is the one who would make the most sense if they don't want to recast. Then again, it sounds from what he says that it'll happen on screen.

Is it possible that they think uploading The Bold and the Beautiful to YouTube has been successful and is following suit?

We should've known Ron would be sending a bunch of people to an island because of that Melaswen reference months ago.

Sami or Hope on DAYS? Ron does love killing off characters off screen...

Leo. He's been looking to be a kept man and Sonny and Will aren't biting.

He was in seven episodes of Melrose Place playing Nick Diamond, Jack Parezi's lawyer. I can't say I remember him.

Yeah, I mean, at least Promised Land makes Queens look good, but the producers should start talks about moving this to Hulu asap because it's not going to survive on ABC.

Well, I liked it. The pilot was a lot of set-up though and they sent out the first two episodes to critics (episode 2 is also getting an early premiere on Hulu today), so I assume they feel a lot better about episode 2. Also, what is it with gay boys always siding with their villainous mother?