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2 hours ago, Khan said:

 

And yet, you're here with us.

(Joke)

Bunch of freaks, all of you 

3 hours ago, Dr Neil Curtis said:

Where does it say that?

It doesn't... but is it that interesting or remarkable that ATWT had quads if none of them ever become central characters? It's easy to just have the quads, not so easy to write major storylines for all quads.

My understanding of this topic is twins who were born onscreen and both became major characters as adults and neither one was a retcon. The only one I can think of is Sami/Eric on DAYS. And even then, Sami was a much more central character for most of Days' history.

When I was in high school, getting annoyed when there were harsh weather conditions, because I knew it meant the news would interrupt my soap and mess up my VHS recording with what would be outdated information by then. 

1 hour ago, BetterForgotten said:

Deeper & Deeper, some of the more house-oriented remixes for Fever, Ray of Light, Human Nature, Vogue? Just throwing out uptempo-ish songs, because she's never really sung about going to the beach or taking a dip in the pool, lol. 

 

The rejected Bedtime Stories track 'Your Honesty" has a cool 90's vibe, if you want to add something more obscure. 

 

She became more of an albums artist in the 90's, so it's a strange decade to pick from (though artistically her most diverse and probably best). 

If it were 80s it would be La Isla Bonita easily. But you're right, her 90s output, though technically superior and more diverse, doesn't lend itself to this kind of event as easily.

Oh, I didn't even think of remixes. Have to listen to the Miami Mix of Don't Cry For Me Argentina again as that was a top 10 billboard hit, even though people don't remember it now. I haven't heard it in years either.

I'm having a 90s themed pool party in a few weeks. Which Madonna hit from the 90s should I put on the playlist?

"Take A Bow" was probably her biggest hit of the decade but I don't think it's appropriate for a pool party.

It seems wrong to exclude her, but I don't know if any of her hits from the 90s really fit a pool party -- a lot of her 80s ones definitely do but I'm doing 90s only.

On 5/9/2019 at 10:58 PM, DramatistDreamer said:

 

By the way, Trump couldn't win his home state but that didn't stop the snake from slithering into the White House.  I suspect that if Trump had held an actual position in public office, people would have gotten a glimpse into his abhorrent governing style and crossed him off the list.  Of course, NYers would never have elected him mayor.

He won his state in the primary. Obviously he wasn't gonna win the general. Anyway, I was referring to the primary.

Also expressing my love for this board. You bitches dissecting days really make me laugh. 

This character who isn’t related to anyone was actually a Bauer/Hughes/Brady all along.

A young unmarried man who accidentally knocked a young lady up is so excited about his upcoming fatherhood that he runs in slow motion to the abortion clinic, where he arrives just in time to talk her out of the procedure. 

A villain has completely changed his entire appearance without any scarring. 

2 hours ago, marceline said:

Interesting. There's quite a few people on this list that I'm not considering, mainly because they have no business running. I understand (and share) the dislike of Bernie and Tulsi but what is it about deBlasio that bothers people so much? I thought that was just an NYC thing but apparently it goes deeper than that.

 

 

DeBlasio has no record to run on. The subway is falling apart. He promised to end homelessness and instead it doubled. Public housing is falling apart and infested with rats. He has a limo take him to is gym in Brooklyn. He spends way too much time outside NYC when we need him here. He talks out both sides of his mouth on a regular basis. 

Luckily he has 0 chance of getting the nomination. I don’t know why he would even try when 80% of NYCers polled do not want him to run. If you can’t even win your home state what is the point of running?

I hated Langan's DAYS and stopped watching then after I'd been pretty addicted under JER and SSM -- looking back both of those HWs had flaws as well, but they did a good job of drawing you back in with great cliffhangers.

But would I trade today's DAYS with Langan's? In a heartbeat. At least it was so bad it's good.

1 hour ago, KMan101 said:

 

Hogan was the Ron before Ron Carlivati LOL. Just randomly pulling out a son for Cricket who hadn't, if at all, been mentioned or referred to prior. I liked Hogan (he still had his many many flaws) before he was saddled with Jean.

Hogan always randomly brought back the most obscure characters that nobody was asking for, even as the fans begged for even a cameo of Scott DeFreitas/Andy.

I don't think Seyfried was "fired" from ATWT. It was always intended to be a short term visit. Then they decided to bring the character on full time and brought on Peyton List.

Holy wow, I don't remember the last Lucy at all. The last five years are such a freaking blur.

People on this board keep saying things about the last five years of ATWT that I know I saw, and I don't remember it at all. It shows *how bad* those last five years were, and how much they threw at the wall, and how ridiculous the pace was, that I don't remember any of it. I at least remember the bad storylines/recasts from before that.

Y&R in the 90s was one of the best at doing it. Black viewership is what made them the #1 soap, and they honed in on that once upon a time.

ETA: Oh, soaps now? IDK, don't really watch. I know Y&R does not have the black families anywhere near as frontburner as they were in the 90s... they were consistently frontburner.

On 4/23/2019 at 10:41 PM, Efulton said:

 

Rhonda Lewin played Vicky after Ellen Wheeler.  I really liked her (I think I am the only one) and thought she should have been given more time in the role.  However, if that happened we may never have had Anne Heche!  At around the same time Rhonda Lewin was hired Nicole was recast with Lauri Landry.  I really liked her in the role then both Nicole and Vicky disappeared without any mention.  Both roles were recast months later.  It was rather strange. 

But really, you never know what you have. Even Anne Heche was super green when she first started. Looking at her in 1991, you have a 21 year old tour de force who is really carrying this show. There was no indication that she would turn into that when she first started. Not that she was bad when she started, but by the time she left she was really something special.

On 5/4/2019 at 8:18 PM, Khan said:

As...eccentric as they are, I wish the Dobsons would return to daytime.  If not as HW's, then maybe as breakdown or script writers.  They were just too good at what they did, and Lord knows this industry needs them more than ever.

 

I love the looks on JFP's and (I think) Steve Kent's faces when Bridget made that comment.  It's like they were saying, "Really, bitch?  You wanna bring that up now?"  Then, they just stood there, looking dumbstruck and crestfallen as hell, and just waiting for it all to be over.

The look on JFP's face is totally priceless, and I can't be totally anti-JFP here. We don't know what the heck happened in what must have been a truly toxic environment, and JFP is the heroine in her own narrative.

If only we could have an "I, Tonya" style movie of the SB BTS.

The Santa Barbara cast and crew celebrating really is great to watch though. They would have been the underdogs going against more established shows.... they had to be two times better to even be considered, and they know it. They were truly shocked and honored to have won.

Prediction of month and year that the last traditional U.S. soap airs.... and which soap?

TBH, if we were predicting ten years ago I would have thought it would have already happened by now. The zombie soaps are surprisingly resilient.

For me: Y&R and B&B end on the same day in May 2022.

On 5/3/2019 at 10:45 PM, Khan said:

With some exceptions, Marland tended to act as if the 1980-1985 era had never occurred.

My goodness. Seeing that, yes. As much as he spoke for taking things slowly and not changing anything for six months, he clearly wanted nothing to do with that vision of ATWT. I can see why, too, but I don't completely hate that 1983 episode either. Those Barbara/bull scenes are great. And Anthony Herrera is so sexy it should be illegal.

2 minutes ago, titan1978 said:

ATWT- Henry and Katie.  It just ruined the good things they had as friends for no reason.

This happened? The last ten years of ATWT are such a blur, honestly. They changed their minds literally every 2 minutes. A thousand monkeys on a thousand PCs could have come up with a better show.

3 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Barbara and Henry on ATWT.....just awful.  I don't care what CZP says....

Barbara needed AN ending, and unfortunately Hal (and Benjamin Hendricksen) was dead, so the best ending wasn't available. I didn't care for this one, but I can see why they did it and it's far from the worst thing ATWT did in that era.

21 hours ago, ajsp35801 said:

 

This is the only one besides Tammy and Jonathan on Guiding Light that I just thought was way beyond the pale. Ridge raised Bridgette as his own daughter for almost a decade!!!  

Tammy and Jonathan was fine... First of all, first full-cousin marriage is legal in several states, and they were only half-cousins who weren't raised together.

On 2/2/2019 at 11:31 PM, DRW50 said:

 

Even now the scenes of Karen going all road rage on the paintball kids still bewilders me. And Claudia unintentionally murdering her own son, which genuinely made me angry. That type of what I assume was meant to be Greek tragedy just had no place on KL. And it obliterated Claudia as a character. She was never the same and should have been written out immediately. I say that even though I thought she was a great addition to the show up to that point. I remember when they had her attempt suicide and then had Karen essentially beg and guilt Kate into forgiving her (I don't think Karen knew what she'd done to her son, but still, I didn't believe Karen would have pushed so hard - it felt like the show belatedly trying to manipulate viewers and using a beloved character to do so).

Haven’t watched this is years but you just brought back the memory. WTF even was that?

On 2/3/2019 at 2:06 AM, DRW50 said:

 

It felt like some kind of attempt at social commentary, and the class divide, which was very "in" at this time. The show also focused on this by having Anne lose all her money and her home. It just didn't really fit KL, in Anne's case because you knew she wasn't going to be homeless for long, and the outcome was her spending way too long with an annoying overweight comic relief figure, and in the case of the Karen story, because the family of the boy she unintentionally killed seemed to be straight out of someone's basement production of The Grapes of Wrath.

Keep in mind this was the early 90s when crime and the crack epidemic were considered huge national problems. It would have been considered timely. 

2 hours ago, redontop4 said:

 

Of course, it was Paul Rauch who moved the exec producer credit to the top. Before him, the GL EP was listed after the writers and directors, then came the EP, then other producers. When Rauch arrived, he moved his name up to the top of the credits, followed by the writers, then director, then other producers. Because he was just that important, you know.

This was on all of the P&G soaps. What im referring to is that Conboy gave himself a big credit at the end of the episode after the fade to black like on a primetime show. 

8 hours ago, MichaelGL said:

This is exactly how I remember the last decade of GL playing out. While Wheeler was bad, I think Conboy was the worst. And that gawd awful opening he put in place....

Not to mention the stupid vanity credit he put in — executive producer John Conboy in big bold letters. As if we could forget.