For viewers who've watched her since the beginning...what did Flannery bring to the Daytime table? What was her contribution?

The funniest moment in daytime history!

Justin Torkelson: And the Emmy goes to?

Torkelson & Franz(yelling); Susan Flannery!!!!!! Ye ha...hehehehehehe

Susan Lucci: Me? ME!!(Let me get my shock face on) Starts to walk to accept her Emmy

Susan Flannery: Running on stage....picks up Franz and bear hugs Torkelson.....with AMC music playing in the background...classic

what bonded steph and bridgett?

Brooke boinking Deacon and having his baby?

How was Flannery as Laura on DOOL as opposed to Stephanie on B&B?

Well, I still stand by my opinion of Susan Flannery's talents. Although she has been noticeably more muted in her performances in recent years. No thanks to the poor writing.

Susan Seaforth Hayes would have made a very different Stephanie. Ridge and Felicia would have looked more like her children, for a start. I think she would have been more seductive, perhaps, and sexy, using flirtatiousness and a smile as the mask behind which she would plot and scheme. SF's Stephanie was always much more direct in her scheming. When she hated someone, she owned it. She would come right out and tell them, destabilizing them completely.

Seaforth Hayes would have perhaps been more overtly "Joan Collins" -- picking up what DaytimeFan put in his/her post -- in the sense that she might have made Stephanie more of an Alexis figure. As well as playing up the comedy. SSH is good with the comedy.

Absolutely agree. Susan Seaforth Hayes would have played up the cheeky/seductive/predatory bitch character that Joan Collins so brilliantly pioneered.

You nailed what made Stephanie Forrester so different. She's ANGRY and she lets everyone know it. If she hates someone she says it.

Some choice Stephanie-isms:

"Take a look you bitch! That's no halo and you're no heroine!"

"The whore of Beverly Hills"

"He wants you like a 2 dollar hooker!"

"The mother in perpetual heat"

"Slut, that's what you are and that's what you always will be!"

"There's not a shortage of whores in the world"