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Y&R vs Knots Landing

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I know LML and her husband wrote Knots Landing at some point. I really haven't seen KL but for the people who have, I want to know are any characters on Y&R similar or have assumed the same similarities as characters on KL?

How is LML's writing compared to her KL years?

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LML basically rips off the storylines she's done on KL and tries to apply them to Y&R.

And no, they don't translate well because the two shows are as different as night and day.

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If I recall LML did the final years of KL? Because if she did those seasons were so bad!

Eh, more like the middle years. I believe her tenure on KL was from 1985 to 1991.

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I love you Y&R turns. I knew you would bring yo punk ass in here say something like that, lol but seriously, what is she copying from what she did on KL? Would it be safe to say that LML is trying to make Jack Abbot like uhm I think his name is William Devry's charater on KL

LML basically rips off the storylines she's done on KL and tries to apply them to Y&R.

And no, they don't translate well because the two shows are as different as night and day.

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well how were the ratings during those seasons?

Eh, more like the middle years. I believe her tenure on KL was from 1985 to 1991.
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I love you Y&R turns. I knew you would bring yo punk ass in here say something like that, lol but seriously, what is she copying from what she did on KL? Would it be safe to say that LML is trying to make Jack Abbot like uhm I think his name is William Devry's charater on KL

This whole Clear Springs debacle is a total rip-off of a storyline on KL where Abby was involved in a similar situation. Only, it isn't plotted or set up right the second time around.

You might enjoy this site: http://the-new-yr-totally-sucks.info/ LOL!

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Now you already know I am not going to enjoy that site. I love Y&R. But thanks for that Abby comparison. Any one else?

This whole Clear Springs debacle is a total rip-off of a storyline on KL where Abby was involved in a similar situation. Only, it isn't plotted or set up right the second time around.

You might enjoy this site: http://the-new-yr-totally-sucks.info/ LOL!

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This whole Clear Springs debacle is a total rip-off of a storyline on KL where Abby was involved in a similar situation. Only, it isn't plotted or set up right the second time around.

Lotus Point?

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If she must rip off KL, she should have have Phyllis chop down the door to Daniel's bedroom as he's looking at porn. :lol:

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At the start of the Carmen Mesta murder, it was doing in a similar direction as the storylines of both Ciji and Jill...How so?

Based on what I read, they were all having some sort of event on KL and everyone was either wondering where Ciji was; only to find out that she washed up to shore dead...A long list of suspects; starting of course with Valene the jilted wife, Gary, the cheating husband, who was drunk at the time; and several other people who were linked to her.

As for the Jill storyline on KL....similar situation....Gary had a thing for Jill, but Valene wanted him back; he broke things off with her; she didn't accept it, and tried her hardest to torment Valene....Same scenerio....Gary or someone found Jill dead, and of course a long list of suspects including Valene and Gary were in the midst...

I swear at times Latham thinks she's back in the mid-eighties and thinks she's on that show rather than a soap opera that had a long-valued history among soap fans.

Someone also pointed out that Peter Bergman's Jack Abbott is similar to that of William Devane's Greg Sumner....power hungry, went into politics...

I don't know where Abby Cunningham Ewing would fit it, but reading the history of her, i wouldn't consider her a female verision of Victor Newman.

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Latham was on the show from 1985-1991 rising through the ranks pretty quickly to EP status with her husband. To be fair she wasn't around for the Ciji mystery (which was in 1982) but I definitely see the similarities.

Apart from the Jack Abbott thing I don't see any similarities. The stuff she's writing on Y&R is really trite soapy trash with back from the dead characters etc. The stuff on KL was light years away from that and had a much greater emphasis on character. I can't imagine her having done anything remotely like the Pheila plot on KL. The irony is that it was the classy, sophisticated, down to earth primetime soap of the late 80s. Just as Y&R was the daytime equivalent until she took over.

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Weren't you a fan of Latham's, JamesF? I'm glad you aren't, but I have a feeling you defended her somewhere.

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