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I understand that Billy is angry with Cane because of the deception, but I couldn't get on board when he mentioned Delia. Billy didn't admit to Lane that he was Delia's father when he found out. He waited before Chloe's water broke to tell the truth. It really doesn't help that he seems more intrested in Mac than Delia.

Chance's stabbing should be used for bonding with Nina so we can see there is more to him than being Chloe's love intrest. Loved Paul talking about how Mary was way more overprotective than Nina. I hope we get some Nina-Phillip-Chance family scenes. Chloe bonds with the Chancellors more than she does her own mother.

Daniel and Amber: The love story between a porn addict and his enabler. A love story for the new millenium.

It's not that they wanted to just expose Cane. They wanted to keep him as the romantic hero that was involved with Lily. He couldn't be that if he was the con artist who wanted to take away the Chancellor's money. Cane can be a fraud and a romantic hero if it was established that he was only helping Phillip and it was Phillip's idea and not his. Some fans have enjoyed this change in Cane and others have not. Just because it didn't work for some fans doesn't mean that the writers didn't have that intention.

I don't think Chance had anything to do with Phillip being back from the dead. If anything Chance was used to re-introduce Phillip. If it weren't for the possibility of him having Huntington's Disease and that screenplay that was so important that the show no longer mentions it.

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Maybe this would've been more acceptable to me if the gay angle wasn't used the way it was. It was used as just a cheap plot point. I would rather it have been some other reason why Phillip faked his death and sent Cane as his replacement. As for the Huntington's disease and screenplay? So much for that, there's no trace of either of those plot points. And I still can't believe the rather nauseating exit that they have planned for TB. They brought him back and mis-used him terribly. Still, the writers' intentions, whatever they were, were PISS-POOR!!!!

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I did try to find it, but I couldn't. As I wrote in the message you quoted, I definitely remember her saying things like this...but I'm interested in her exact phrasing. I was hoping someone had the link so I could see that.

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Spring 2002:

--The bridge in Africa collapses on Malcolm and Neil and Alex go on a wild goose chase.

--Kelly Kruger as Mac in that horrid Ralph/Amanda backstory

--Paul/Isabella pairing was a snoozefest.

--Nick sleeps with Grace again and again.

There was some decent spots but a lot of it was boring rubbish especially after the roller coaster that 2001 was.

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