Contessa Donatella

This issue, is it better to get a new venue & put your head down & push through & see how much you can make of the new digs or is it better to just be shut down, have a big send-off & count the years since it's been gone is an issue that fans are absolutely split on, if you ask me. There are fans that do not want any hard times, or have had enough of hard times & just want it to be over with if they can't have the show in their memory. There are fans that would always choose to try to do that thing where soaps reinvent themselves one more time. That's been a point of disagreement I would wager on every canceled soap & it came up with DOOL fans in the past month.

We're not talking in circles. And no one is claiming it's the same. I already said more than once that this is new & singular. There's never been another "it". Personally I think they should've produced the hell out of a standalone retrospective of clips of "moments" with no attempt to fit in with continuity. Just end the episode & have a twenty minute bonanza of highlights & I know they could've done that. They have their reasons I'm sure that they did not want to do something like that. I suppose they might even consider it bad luck to have a finale of any ilk. I know too much bad about the way NBC net-thinks to want to know what they have in mind. And, I have yet to approach understanding RonC. The only thing that troubles me about the new arrangement is that the same people are in charge. When Errol said that the other day I nearly swallowed my tongue. Agreed about the new promo looking good, BTW. It seems to me that they made the decision at the earliest point they logically could. Because they needed all the metrics, needed to evaluate them & then, they could say yes this will work, or no this won't work. But, at that point, they were free to set the launch up however they wanted. Wouldn't they? Or is this fall start of new year thing promotionally that important? Is that why they only gave themselves 5 weeks? I agree that they didn't have time to do a good retcon out with the old & in with the new. Because that's what it is most like to me, Auld Lang Syne or the king is dead, long live the king.

The link to the live video of Robyn's Service at 10am this morning is: [email protected] Sorry I didn't get this any sooner.

The link to the live video of Robyn's Service at 10am this morning is: [email protected] Sorry I didn't get this any sooner.

I wasn't keen on the music either. Loved the visuals & do appreciate her time & editing, etc. I go crazy seeing Roman on the cliff & then below the cliff in Bo's arms, etc. plus so much perfect stuff of Patch & Kayla, Bo & Hope, Marlena on the pier, Alice & Tom, Shawn & Caroline, Victor. I wish they'd had something good of Carly & not had her screaming & pounding the inside of the blasted coffin.

Thnx for sharing some of your TV habituations & it did not put me in the mind of a KFC grubbin' lover. I found it a bit more charmingly techno-nerdy! And I also am not surprised that DOOL didn't even tip a hat farewell. I was pleasantly surprised at the tweeter Angie's 10 minute montage of great moments in DOOL history & it got me rocking & remembering so many fine moments down through the years. It would have been easy for them to close out the show with a montage like that! But, I was also pleasantly surprised to see all the vids they'd done looking forward to their new tenure in their not-really-new venue. I mean they've been streaming on Peacock free since Jul 2021!

Did you ever use it? Was there some time when you couldn't watch something live & you did use it & now that's just not the case any more? Do you ever watch something a second time? What movie or show have you watched the most times? Pardon the brief interrogation. I'm just interested. Why do you have it? I think I still have a DVR. I'm pretty sure I know what closet it is in, covered up with other stuff! I have no idea if it still works, so clearly I do not use one & haven't for some time. But, there was a time when I used one daily.

Of course it's different. But there are things that can be pulled out, teased out, that relate. The only thing that has existed that is remotely like this was AMC & OLTL & Prospect Park ... and looking at them & this what stands out is things that are, guess what? different. It's not about sameness because there is no same. This is a first, a singular, but there are relative points. And, I've only mentioned relative points. Yes, of course, it was different, is different. Nothing like this has happened before. DOOL didn't have to keep producing daily episodes; AW did. The issue was if they even had enough time to create a "Network End" Finale. I brought up a relative amount of time, a month & a result, a two-day finale. My point is that if they had wanted to do a "special episode" to wave farewell to broadcast TV, they likely could have. It would have likely meant taking their pipe-line of producing episodes for 6 months+ down the road, offline & done a special project. I think the question is whether they would have thought to do such a thing & not whether they had time. I could be wrong. It's just a point. GL found out they were cancelled & what their last air date was (Sept. 18) on April Fools' Day. There's another time span if you're looking to think in terms of how much time does it take to ... It's all I'm sayin'. Obviously it's academic, theoretical, etc.

Considering that they found about the move at the same time that we did, probably not. Did they have a month? That's all AW had. 4 work weeks.

It is so discouraging that they are that bad but I'd sure rather know than think that it's safe to drink the water!

SID e-mail indicated they would pre-empt nationally because of the death of Queen Elizabeth II & that the episode would be shown in its entirety the next viewing day. Have you seen the 10 minute montage a fan & a tweeter did? It's what NBC should have done.

Well, anyway, the DOOL fan & tweeter Angie knew how to dot today's is & cross today's ts. That 10 minute montage knocked my socks off & in the twitterverse replies to her went on for at least 20 computer screens. If you didn't see it, go back to my post which just said THIS.

This. Here, above, ^^ did you see this 10 minute montage of great moments in Days of Our Lives?!! I'm not kidding. I want you to see it! Noel, have you seen this? Caroline, I know you want to see it.

[Slapping hand repeatedly on thigh] 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I love it

And, it's splitting a hair, but they actually have a 7th month, in writing, but completely vetted, had notes, had changes made, etc. Somebody needs to channel Gloria Monty who threw out a whole week of GH when she started there.

The first time he woke up, he reminded me of his self in Port Chuck but by the 2nd time it had fleeted.

Well, God bless you that you think of Donald Trump at all on a fine almost fall morning! I try to avoid thoughts of him whenever possible.

Now, I just love & adore the wholly unintentional entendre you just did (underlining mine) where Orpheus took his vile not his vial! But I'd really prefer we not have the Sneezing Sickness of 2022!

Yeah, could be. Doesn't really reflect the pain we went through, though, not by a long shot. AW fans are all over the landscape still missing our show.

June 24th & 25th 1999 when we watched the 2-day finale of Another World if we instead could have been going to another venue for one more shot, we would've jumped at the chance.

Paul's right. They both were & I never thought of it, but they look alike. Weird.

Oh, good! I'm not the only one!!!

Maybe it's just me, but I would be surprised if America was interested.

I have long been aware that the information on the IMDb has to be taken with a dubious attitude because of their errors. Yes, they're invaluable to a point. A few weeks ago I was tweeting with Patrick Mulcahey & he told me that his IMDb page and his Wikipedia page were both so wrong that he has talked one of them into taking his page down & has given up in disgust on the other one. He tried to get them both corrected. He happened to tell me that he wrote for Another World for awhile, in the months before they began work on Texas. I told Eddie, of course, but those credits exist nowhere that is accessible. Just offering up this anecdotal info as a point of interest. Me, I have a long love affair with full screen credits!

Again I hope I'm not repeating, but I don't see it. I don't know why they picked yesterday but USA TODAY has done a picture heavy 'Who Has Died in 2022 So Far' Who Has Died In 2022 as of 9-7-22 They say Anne Heche died on the 14th, so now it's in print as the 11th, the 12th and new as of yesterday the 14th. Crazy, surreal, etc. Anyway, there may be some interest here because of the large number of people with pictures. Coroner's report shows date of death to be the 11th. "The coroner's office listed Aug. 11 as her date of death."