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The beauty of being spoiler free… Derek Frye!?

EJ doing his impression of Susan was an unexpected laugh for me.

David Jacobs wanted to kill Bobby off early on and have scrappy Pam with her new stake in the family business go up against her in-laws. This is essentially what Bare Essence did with Genie Francis’ character, Tyger.

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Lol!

As for what Jason initially found attractive about Sable besides her physical beauty, Connie has a line in one of her and Sable's many quarrels. She asks something to the effect of, "What happened to that sweet girl, Sabella Scott, that Jason brought home?" I think Los Angeles happened to her. I think the '80s happened to her. Sable is fiercely loving, loyal, and protective of her children and feels like she can't be any of these things unless she's ensured them with money and power. And to her, there is never enough of that. The Colbys are richer than G-d, yet Sable's royally pissed that Connie is leaving her money and shares to (presumed) fatherless Jeff and not spreading things out to include her and Jason's children. Jeff is her nephew and she has not a shred of warmth for the man, she calls her own sister's child "an outsider". Her love doesn't appear to extend beyond Jason and the kids. I'm guessing this love for her family was pure and unwarped in the beginning and slowly developed into something sinister.

From broadwayworld.com: Joan Copeland, Stage and Screen Actress and Sister of Arthur Miller, Dies at 99 https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Joan-Copeland-Stage-and-Screen-Actress-and-Sister-of-Arthur-Miller-Dies-at-99-20220104?utm_source=newsletterdaily&utm_medium=email She played Viki's aunt Gwendolyn Lord Abbott on OLTL.

Married ... With Children is another one. These are shows with iconic themes, it just isn't right to be stripped of them. And wow, I had totally forgotten all about that budget mess when they decided to make less episodes. What a dark time, the end was near. Joan Copeland, Arthur Miller's sister who played Viki's aunt, Gwendolyn Lord Abbott has passed away at 99. https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Joan-Copeland-Stage-and-Screen-Actress-and-Sister-of-Arthur-Miller-Dies-at-99-20220104?utm_source=newsletterdaily&utm_medium=email

That opening is so beneath John Conboy. The theme sounds like a '90s local morning show and there's nothing innovative about the Knots-like scroll. HOTL at least had the cool beacon concept.

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Right! 😆 I sort of jumped in my seat when I heard that. I have fond memories of WoST where I was SoapFoxKirby. Christmas morning was always such a treat with the videos posted under the tree. Good times. @BetterForgottenThat’s very nice, clearly a labor of love.

I loved the sequences of Sheila switching the labels with the classical music playing. Gave me Fatal Attraction vibes. Sabotaging someone’s sobriety is no laughing matter, but KKL had me chuckling the way she played Brooke’s utter satisfaction with her “non-alcoholic champagne” (a term I’ve never heard in all my years of imbibing, I guess I always called the stuff sparkling cider). KKL looked great in that pink off the shoulder ensemble btw. Zende is what the kids these days call a simp.

@soapfan770 Thank you for the info!

Yes! This is the one I was talking about.

Lol at the camera man jumping the wall at 0:43! Is this banner fan made? This is my neck of the woods, I am completely behind on Potomac so maybe I’ll dive into this instead.

The only good thing about the OLCSTW opening sequence is the final G in Guiding and the L in Light creating that GL. The original My Guiding Light is a beautiful theme. They had the pop version after that but also did an updated slow version which I liked. MGL and HOTL are my favorites.

😵 At 2:15, did anyone else think she said what I thought she said?

Sable was the star of the show, The Colbys would have been a total snooze without her. Kate O’Mara said it was down to her and Stephanie to play the Scott sisters but Kate chose to do a play instead and Frankie went to Katharine Ross. Stephanie vs. Kate would have been absolutely delicious and I don’t think the writers could have ignored Kate’s intrinsic qualities when writing for her version of Frankie. Stephanie says it was like going to kill Bambi when she had scenes tearing into Katharine. I imagine Stephanie and Kate would have been like two snakes swallowing one another. Kate could cut glass with those eyes, I just do not see her cowering to Sable. We saw this with Alexis and Caress, but how interesting would it have been to see it on The Colbys instead of this played out “good” sister vs. “bad” sister. How about two scheming sisters vying for Jason (of all people) and Kate playing everything just as written for Frankie but Kate being Kate bringing a dark complexity just behind her eyes. I am sure the writers wanted to stick to the Alexis vs. Krystle model, and certainly too many people think there has to be a clearly defined white hat and black hat so the audience knows who to root for, but alas.

Yes, @ironlion that is most likely the case. I also remember when this aired, I’m sure there are posts of us discussing it here in the archives.

It really is a stunning opening. I started watching GL when Marcy Walker held that final spot. It was such a pleasant surprise the first time I saw Harley bopping along the screen thanks to tape trade. There was an article about the opening which discussed how they had fewer cast members in it at first and more generic images like roses and pearls. It was an expensive and complicated bit of editing so they started simple in the beginning. There were eventually two versions of the opening as every contract cast member eventually made it in with A. day and B. day. It suffered in quality with some clunky editing. This happened with AMC’s falling pictures opening as well.

I really hope she isn’t pregnant. How trite. I realize this is a supernatural storyline and the last thing I want to watch is Jan or the devil on trial, but the soaps need to treat non-consent more seriously. This goes back (as far as I remember) to the played for laughs plot on OLTL when bound and blindfolded David thought he was having sex with Blair but Dorian in a blonde wig tagged in and did the deed.

@DaytimeFan That’s great, thanks for sharing. Tracy looks wonderful. And [!@#$%^&*] that PA.

Did you all notice how in Friday’s episode, Steve and Allie found him attached to an elaborate respirator set up, and when they came back from commercial (a direct pick up, mind you), the respirator was nowhere to be seen??

Yes! I did an internal reading of Lear at STC a couple of months ago and I watched this to get reacquainted with the piece. It’s a marvelous, well-cast production. All of the soap connections are heaven. The first time Miss Holly speaks, I thought of Paul Rauch and found myself getting angry. I tried to quickly shake that off, he wasn’t about to ruin this for me.