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I'm sure other shows have had fanbase wars & groups of fans who behaved horribly.

Here I totally agree. (Well, I didn't & don't know anything about Julie Hanan Carruthers.)

Now this is one thing that some people say that I don't find at all realistic. I don't know anyone at all who in any way considered Ellen's work as an actress on either AW or AMC or B&B to have anything at all to do with her work as a Director or a Line Producer or an EP. I frankly can't think of a single producer who would have thrived with that tiny budget or the mandate for the new production model. I thought the writing improved greatly when others were named as HWs.

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Anything that inspires fans will inspire fanatics. While I can't speak for GL, I know back when there were multiple message boards, things could get very heated between fandoms. *raises hand as a "crazy CarJacker"* ABC fans are notorious for fan wars.

Actually, minus the noose, representing LW as Big Bird is kinda funny. While I was ok with Cassie for a while, the longer she stuck around Zimmer, the louder and less interesting Cassie got. She's flippin' unbearable now on GH.

Side note: I'm probably a moron for forgetting this, but while I was watching Christmas Eve 1982, I was thinking....gee, did Don Stewart ever do Broadway? And with his looks, he'd be a natural in a Robert Goulet type role....only to google that he understudied Goulet in Camelot.

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Lord...the screw ups that Conboy and Weston (and MADD has ultimate responsibility) had when the show was just getting its legs back.  Taggert was the one who came up with the idea of Jonathon (he was going to be the real stalker..though perhaps they were going to have Alex do a fake stalking to distract Ace Reporter Reva, which they ultimately did, but then there was really no stalker at all...)  and they screwed that up with Sandy and the sock puppet, putting Cassie with her former tormenter (who also tried to kill her sister and her nephew) bringing back Cole, the MaryAnne storyline, changing Alex from a calm cool manipulator who had good intentions, to a crazed drug dealer (supposedly picking up on Marjs' frentic energy ) Ben Reade serial killer (blaming it on being molested by his teacher) Mac n' Cheese Alan and Gus a Spaulding, Ed slapping Michele in the Bauer kitchen of all places...I think they take the prize for most destructive in such a short time!

You could also tell Kreizman was practically cosplaying he was big bad Jonathon and that he was figurately wacking off as Harley being his girlfriend. But that all comes down to Wheeler as the producer, she should have reigned him in...all of it comes down to producers watching day to day writing and Wheeler was in over it.

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That shocked sitcom mother face on Reva makes me laugh. In the old days she would have given her a backhand. 

I don't know what it says about my tastes that this version of Dinah is the only time I enjoyed Wendy Moniz's version of the character. 

(Dinah really was nothing special as a character until Gina Tognoni anyway - she was born to play that part, and I say that as someone who spent years trashing her OLTL runs)

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Gina Tognoni really shone in that part.

Speaking of her, I recently learned that she participates in an online prayer circle. One of the things they regularly pray for is that the right part for her will be offered to her. 

I'm going to refrain from making any commentary about that. 

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I don't really rewatch a lot of the Moniz era, as I try to avoid Matt at all costs. ,I probably favor Moniz over Tognoni by a hair, but that's probably as much to do with Moniz having better writing and getting more time with Maeve and Jerry.

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