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To be fair, in hindsight I think the real power couple of Melrose Place was Amanda and Alison, so I kind of liked the idea of Amanda looking after Alison even when she was off screen. I don't mind characters getting unhappy endings either, hell on Peyton Place we never ever got a resolution to what happened to Allison and so many characters left that show just broken and in despair. With that said, they could've easily done a fan service job with Billy's exit. There was nothing significant in him leaving with Jennifer for Rome. But then all exits in the season 6 "production finale" were lame.

I've said it before, but if CTS couldn't or wouldn't do a cameo, they should've just had Billy knock on a door in Atlanta and had a stand-in with blonde hair being seen from behind opening the door. With that said, CTS is one of the few actors that never went through the period of completely disowning the show and she was up for a small cameo in the finale (add that Ally McBeal was on Fox so I'm sure they'd be thrilled at any cross-promotion) so it wasn't undoable, especially once they pushed those episodes and Billy's exit into the summer.

They just don't make prime time promos like this anymore.

Oh this is a new low for DAYS especially Marlena explaining in a very contrived way to Susan how Kristen "changed". [!@#$%^&*] you show, [!@#$%^&*] you very much.

@dc11786Definitively. I think it's important to remember that these shows were basically funded by the licensing they could get from individual stations - so with Strange Paradise it was either entirely dropped from most markets or just pushed to an undesirable slot that made said stations pay less for the next cycle. I assume the same thing happened to Rituals - the first cycle of episodes were clearly prioritised by the stations and they were willing to pay a high license amount for it, but when it failed the production company had to inevitably drop the license fee and it became unprofitable. I guess there was some small hope that they could convince the market it was successful in (France) to pay more to finance it, but it wasn't going to happen. Interestingly, we did see a lot of cross-Europe soap attempts in the 90s (and early 00s if you count Ocean Ave.).

I don't mind Dano, but it's one episode so far (that I've seen). I do like that she's at least not going for the overly camp thing that Strasser did.

OMG, watching the flashback episode now 🤣

I liked Megan, Taylor, Lexi in season 7 and yes, Eve of the later characters. Coop probably could've worked with stronger writing in season 6 (I mean, the idea of another doctor carrying on a torch for Kimberly and worming his way into Michael's life to destroy it isn't bad - in theory; as was Miriam gaslightning Michael). Ryan was okay (but boring), but he was a bit like a lot of hunky male characters on the show and just there to support to ladies. Sam worked for a brief time as the "grounded" character, but once they had to expand on that and paired her with Billy it just went down hill from there. She should've killed by Richard to up the heat on that storyline (and maybe we would've talked about her as a missed opportunity lol), but I guess they just wanted it over with. And yeah, PM was clearly intended to be added to the main cast eventually. He got the same treatment as Laura Leighton and Marcia Cross in appearing in cast shoots before they got added to the opening credits.

Yep. He only talks about working together and obviously remembering better times before Dustin started spiraling and throwing crap at the other cast members.

Season 5 is sort of interesting because they attempted (very poorly) to ground the show, hence Samantha. Oh Sam. Someone once described that season as "daytime soap slow with a break-neck speed" and it's hard to disagree with that comment. Season 6 is just... bad. It's a huge mess. Season 7 finally comes together and makes you wish they actually had an eigth season after praying it should all end in season 6. They cut down the cast, hire Peter Dunne from Knots Landing as a story supervisor and does an actual full season plot (which contradicts what we already know, but whatever, retcons on soaps are childs play).

I think it might have to do with how these syndicated soaps were sold - since they're sold to invidivual markets they're dependent on them picking up/committing to the next cycle and whatever license fee they'll be willing to pay. Since Rituals seems to have at least had some following in France they might've hoped that they could've continued the show based on international sales in addition to sales in some markets in the US that hadn't dropped it. Obviously, that didn't happen, but it might explain why they left a cliffhanger.

The entire run of Titans has been put online once again:

It just seems like the movies, especially the second one, went into a more fantastical escapist route which is why I doubt they'll properly adress issues that's likely going on in their lives. And yeah, Samantha as an oversexed 65-year-old would just be... eeeh. I can see why Kim Cattrall doesn't want to do it besides her dislike of SJP.

Honestly, if they kind of delved into with how Carrie's career is potentially falling apart due to her aging, the media format she used to write for dying and the difficulty of someone in her mid-to-late 50s trying to navigate a very youth-driven market it might be interesting, but also potentially make Carrie look like a very sad and pathetic character which means they won't do it.

I'm towards the end of the second arc and Erica's lookalike Helena and Jean Paul are about to get married. Will it go off without a hitch? Dun-dun-DUUUN.

I think he wrote the last nine weeks out of 195 episodes, so I guess around 50-ish episodes. Sadly, those are not uploaded (or has been deleted) on YouTube. They are available in the way that they've been aired in syndication and there are people selling bootleg dvds, they're just not currently on the internet.

Oh yeah, the pacing of the show is insane - they introduced a character who was going to kill herself and possibly be murdered by Jean Paul, then quickly moves into the Desmond Mansion via blackmail, is revealed to be a witch and then killed off. It all happens in ten or so episodes. There's really not room for a lot of character development, it's a shame that the last 65 episodes aren't available on YouTube (I've only found bootleg dvds via a sketchy site, but I'm not sure I want to spend 60+ dollars on those episodes) as Lemay would come in around episode 150 or so.

Erica (or at least the actress) is back! I loved her so I don't mind. She still seems quite evil. Also, very little to nothing about the Desmond treasure. Witches are just evil.

Oh right, about 30 episodes into the second arc they're letting us know why this all is happening - there's a Desmond treasure and the witches want it. Erm.

Agatha is too funny. First she's going to throw herself into the river, then get murdered by Jean Paul, then blackmails her way into the Desmond mansion.

LOL, so I'm about ten episodes into the first Desmond Hall arc and Jean Paul has now started killing random women. I guess he's technically cursed, but still, we thought keeping Ben on DAYS was bad... oh and there's also something-something about witches and a gay sex dungeon where the ghost (?) of his brother Philip appears at times .

There was a plot about the missing medical journals papers that they could've expanded on I guess - in the end they only found one of five papers that were missing. The medical aspect of Erica's resurrection is just entirely dropped when she reappears; add that early on in the show it seemed like Jacques was trying to keep Erica from getting resurrected, I assume because the doll was in the capsule with her.

Oh wow, I'm done with the Maljardin arc and in all honesty, I don't see how it could've gone differently. It was such a limited concept to base the series on and literally keeping the cast there forever just wasn't going to work. Something definitively did happen around episode 45 though; for one thing they started with Dark Shadows-esque opening narrations. Poor Erica. She was my favourite character for her murderous ways.

For the past 10 or so episodes they've been afraid of a damn rabbit. I'm not even kidding. Poor Raxhl, she wants to make bunny stew so badly.

Kristian Alfonso's exit from DAYS ranks at #6 on TvLine's most shocking exits of 2020, being the only daytime soap represented: https://tvline.com/lists/tv-cast-actor-exits-2020-list/ 6 Kristian Alfonso, Days of Our Lives Photo : NBC screenshot Talk about a mic-drop moment: Over the summer, the veteran actress, who’d played beloved heroine Hope for nearly 40 years, announced that she wouldn’t be returning to Salem when the soap resumed production. Later, she revealed that she’d taken a powder rather than be benched for a few months before starting a new storyline. Finally, we found out that because of the timing of Alfonso’s decision, Hope’s last scene would be played opposite — no, really? — a framed photo of her “late” daughter.