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  1. I'd forgotten Diana was still there. Was she just doing a few episodes before leaving?

    Diana is in the first few episodes of season 6 with even worse hair than she had in season 5 before leaving. Claudia Lonow loses her "starring" credit immediately in season 6, however.

  2. Watched more clips on YouTube tonight, mainly of Marley finding out Jake and Vicky slept together and Nicole's descent into madness. Kale Browne is very handsome but I gotta say Michael is probably the biggest !@#$%^&*] that has ever been on a soap. Anna Stuart is absolutely incredible in these storylines.

  3. Well I definitely do think Jensen brought more sex appeal to the role than Anne Heche did. Anne Heche was pretty, but Jensen was more of a buxom blonde type. One of her first scenes as Marley she is in the pool with Jamie and HEY THERE'S her boobs.

    And I think Jensen's Marley was pretty much on par with Anne Heche's take on Marley. I agree with the others that I didn't mind her Marley, it was her Vicky that was "off." And I'm not just faulting her for not playing Vicky the way Anne Heche played her, of course a new actress is gonna bring her own flair to the role. It's just that IMO she actually regresses a lot of the progress Vicky had made.

    Also, I have to say it... I don't want to be libelous but does anyone else get a gay vibe from Russell Todd?

  4. I loved that first year of the dual roles, where Martha truly earned her Emmy. Watching Rose play Lily was fun, as Rose tried to digest the details of the Princess' life. I remember her running into Abigail, thinking to herself "Okay, I KNOW I'm not old enough to have a daughter that age!" My favorite scene was when Holden learned the woman he was sleeping with was not Lily. Rose reverted back to her Jersey ways, and a disgusted Holden screamed at her "Is that REALLY what you sound like?"

    It's funny how some dual roles can be tremendous (ATWT's Lily/Rose, Frannie/Sabrina, AMC's Adam/Stuart) and some are just dreadful (B&B's Amber/April, AW's Rachel/Justine. ATWT's Gwen/Cleo).

    Haha, I am in the 1% of viewers that loved the Gwen/Cleo storyline. Jennifer Landon was hilarious as Cleo. I actually loved 2007 ATWT, with the never-ending diet pills saga, Emily becoming a prostitute for fun, and the Gwen/Cleo debacle with the hugely underrated Elena Goode causing trouble wherever she went as Jade. I even liked that ridiculous Branson remote. 2007 ATWT was pure trash TV, really brainless slop, but I ate it up and appreciated it for what it was. 2008 was an awful year though lol.

    I'm with you on Amber/April though, that was terrible.

  5. as-the-world-turns-paul-rose-3-9925c.jpg What did everyone think of Rose D'Angelo? How did you like Byrne as Rose? The silly notion of forgetting you gave birth to a child aside, I did like her at least until she became too grating/annoying there in '03. I was really satisfied with the murder mystery surrounding her death. I'm sorry McCouch's Dusty and Lily never actually went all the way because I thought the two shared great chemistry. More interesting than what Holden and Lily had become by the early 2000s. I was for sure after Rose's death a hook-up was inevitable.

    Rose was likable during the initial Lily/Rose storyline when she was a refreshing reminder of all the ridiculous thing Lily had been doing the past 15 years without ever getting called out on -- for example, "Your mother got me a beautiful necklace and she kept apologizing, 'I know you don't like presents.' Ya don't like presents? What's the matter with you?" And it was fun to see Martha Byrne get to play a role completely different from Lily.

    After the initial Lily/Rose storyline, however, Rose got increasingly obnoxious and I disliked how she became the main Martha Byrne character at the exclusion of Lily, and Lily was only ever allowed to appear wearing brown (truly the 21st century's version of the "Marley wig.") When Rose was killed I was thrilled, and I found it to be two years overdue.

  6. I really think Anne was suited for daytime (or what daytime used to be). It helps that she was softer then, but beyond that, I think the pace and the wide range of material and the relationships built with other cast members helped her really grow and put herself into so many different emotions. She has had a very hard edge in a lot of her work after AW. In many ways I compare her to Sarah Brown.

    I've never quite understood why they made Jamie the father either. All I can think of is that they had already decided they were going to turn Jake very dark and they didn't want to saddle him with a child.

    Jamie as Steven's father could have had potential if they'd just built Jamie up again as a character. It made me sad when I read SOD saying, after Laurence Lau's firing, that they might as well just kill Jamie off, as he was played out. Jamie should have been the heart of the Cory family, and of the show.

    The problem with Jamie is that he's really the Mike Horton type of character. He was never actually a character, he was a merry-go-round of different actors in their early 30s, perpetually the young single very-available doctor who was the leading man of whatever attractive leading lady was in need of one at the time.

  7. Been watching YouTube clips from the week of Steven's paternity test. I know it's been said a thousand times but Anne Heche is so good as both Vicky and Marley. It's really hard to believe that it's the same actor playing both roles. The one thing I have to wonder is why the show made Jamie Steven's father instead of Jake. Seems to me like it would have been a much more interesting storyline to make Jake the father and have a long custody battle between Vicky and Jake/Marley.

    I was watching Hung last night, and maybe it's the fact that I really don't like Anne's character on that, but I didn't find her nearly as good as she was on AW.

  8. Can I say the 1975-1981 opening and music sounds like we're watching Masterpiece Theater or something. I think the music fit very well with Lemay's theatrical and realistic outlook on the show. The 1981-1986 opening was nice with the space credits ala ATWT. The music and opening itself is pretty tame though compared to the updates that ATWT, GL, and SFT got.

    How did you guys like "You Take Me Away" with the '81-'87 opening? I thought it worked, although a bit strange. Perhaps the only instance in daytime the music changed yet the opening remained the same aside from SFT. When SoapNet began airing the reruns, this was the opening:

    Also Guiding Light kept the 1981 opening graphics when it switched its theme song in 1983. I think it didn't look that bizarre when GL did it -- the new theme song still fit the graphics. When AW did it, it didn't fit very well IMO.

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