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Initially, I liked Li. RH worked well as a handsome, charming supporting player. That was his strength on the DOOL canvas. While boosting Li's presence was a fine idea, it has not worked for the actor given the material. Li going off the deep end plays to RH's weaknesses and the result is corny, cringey "bad soap acting". Given time, maybe a director or coach could have helped modulate these performances. I'm disappointed that I've developed such a mistaste for the character.

I'm halfway through a binge watch of season one. Most of these episodes I've never seen in their entirety from previous runs in syndication. I'd like to think that I'm not just feeling this way because I know what's coming, but season one doesn't deserve its widely accepted bad rap for being boring and skippable. There's no denying the particular brand of energy a character like Alexis injects into any show, but to say that Dynasty was bad before she showed up in the courtroom is revisionist history to me. Dale Robertson as Walter Lankershim is a hoot and I'm already anticipating how he'll be missed. Coarse and wily without the polish of a Cecil Colby, I like the idea of Walter having been a lasting foil for Blake. I think Walter and Alexis tangling like GL's Hawk and Alexandra would have been fun.

What heartbreaking news. My mind raced back to the high school memory of my friend describing these scenes I'd missed after school that day. It took this tragedy for me to look them up after all these years. This mysterious handsome young man came to Port Charles and naturally my friend was immediately smitten, as if her crush on Lucky hadn't already consumed her enough. May he rest in peace.

I would take Talia over EOB take two Theresa any day.

Sloan passed away from cancer. Jason left town after his romantic interest Beth (River's biological mother) passed away from an awful strain of flu that swept through Llanview (Viki was struck down by it as well).

I'm also sorry to see Talia go. I really did think that she'd be around for a while when she got the job at the hospital. I still haven't warmed up to Jada but having her sister around was helping. She and Rafe do nothing for me, but I don't mind their function as supporting players. Vivian's return was all too short, will she be back anytime soon? Like others, I didn't trust Constantin from the start. He was giving me major Buddy Rourke vibes, for those of you who get that Golden Girls reference.

@SamandWillowFan @Vee That's not Blair, that's Echo.

@Beetle Bailey Esther Shapiro wanted Rock Hudson to star in Emerald Point N.A.S. (the leading role would go to Dennis Weaver). I guess booking Rock for Dynasty was some form of consolation.

This guy obsessed with Susan is awful, it's like Spice channel acting.

The DiMera mansion is somewhat of an eclectic nightmare. Whoever dressed the set needed a second pair of eyes, someone to say, "Okay, so you've got a lot of interesting ideas here, but let's streamline." I have a love-hate relationship with those scribble-scrabble modern paintings that look like someone made them out in the parking lot. Very Trading Spaces. You can almost hear the wife crying off camera in her hot mic.

This is too funny, I'm the one who sent Adam this interview!

I'll always remember Mr. Whittaker from those iconic Time Life Music commercials of my youth. He was an excellent whistler.

@Donna L. Bridges Brian, WoST's creator, telephone interviewed Lemay for the site. I'm assuming this is the interview you mention. It's a good interview, I only wish Lemay had been interviewed even more extensively for the Television Archive.

I sure will, he's great! He and I were having a conversation about KL's infamous sandcastle opening (he hates it, I love it as a fun experiment a long-running show like Knots is fortunate enough to try). I found myself on the beach at Magens Bay last week and I wrote out the KL logo for him in the sand, he posted it in his stories.

I was telling Adam this picture is straight outta Tennessee Williams, Streetcar meets Cat.

@danfling @Donna L. Bridges There is in fact at least one episode of Miss Beverlee in LIAMST that has been shared online. I, and many others, watched it on WoST some years ago. She was vacuuming and telling her son Billy to eat his peas, before getting a visit from her ex-husband (?) played by Albert Stratton. It's been a long time, anyone please feel free to straighten out the details.

Has the original Knots bible/treatment ever been made publicly available and posted online? I don't know if David Jacobs ever went into detail in any of his interviews, but I'm curious about the couple that became Gary and Val and what if anything of their initial concept got carried over into the Seaview Circle Ewings' storyline.

I read that Viki's (Gillian Spencer) first scene was in the first episode, appearing on the terrace outside of the French doors of the library at the Lord mansion (the name Llanfair not being used until sometime later).

In her book, One Life, Ellen Holly gets the names mixed up and identifies the first Viki as Trish Van Devere. While I didn't know the correct name of the actress (Sharon Laughlin) when I read the book back in '96, I knew this was an innocent mistake as I was familiar with early cast lists from Robert LaGuardia's Soap World. At any rate, Miss Holly wrote that Laughlin had taped episodes and appeared in on-air promos for OLTL before the show first aired.

Things like this are particularly frustrating given the way online character profiles most likely written by fans are presented as gospel. I was reading up on Kate several months ago and somehow wrapped my brain around the evidence that both characters were one and the same but it still felt like a bit of a stretch. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't both Kates connected to Bill which added to the justification/misunderstanding?

I am weeks and weeks behind, and catching "Little Puke" brought me such joy the other day.

I'm a little stubborn in my conviction that Sadie and Carla belong on that list. I wish we could have Agnes Nixon's opinion of that.

I'll just hold onto my fond thoughts of Erika Slezak and her encyclopedia-like knowledge of her show. If anyone had reason to "dump" memories and clear her cache, it was her.

How do Josh Duhamel and Kelly Ripa do an interview on Live! without a single mention of All My Children!? Unbreak my heart.

John Conboy had developed a soap called Casino that was set in Vegas but it wasn't a spinoff and IIRC it was for ABC.