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Wasn't it this time 2006, when Colby had her Sweet 16 at the Yacht Club, that it was introduced? So, I'm thinking it was probably early-mid 2006. I really don't remember any scenes being set there after the casino and yacht club came into existence.

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Did anyone mind the way AMC was transitioning the scenes with Greenlee? I'm surprised it wasn't touched on in the thread. I actually didn't mind it to much, it allowed a lot of things to progress and story was moving faster. AMC made a lot of ground in this episode and established a lot. It really seemed like people were time traveling though, LOL. But thinking about it more, I didn't care that much because if AMC didn't do that, a lot of this stuff would have dragged all the way through to Friday's show probably.

This episode was sort of similar to the Angie stand alone episode we saw last month, in that it mainly focused on Greenlee, and also Angie. I think it is interesting how these episodes just happen, lol...but i don't mind it, I hope AMC does it with other characters to. It's different.

Greenlee was amazing in this episode to me. Even though i hate that David/Greenlee is ending, I've got to give her props. She's not about to let David control her life and force her into this marriage, she has got a plan and she's sticking to it. The last scene with her said a lot. AMC is keeping her in character, and not dumbing her down below David's level. I thought they were equal and I was really rooting for them before, but now that has changed these last few weeks.

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I was gonna multiquote...then realized I'd be quoting every single post after mine.

But anyway, I love Krystal's, but I don't believe some of these characters would actually go there and sit down to eat. Caleb, yes. Marissa, yes. Opal, Bianca maybe, the cops, Tad, Jake and Amanda, yes. But David, Greenie, Jack, Erica, Liza, the Chandlers...I don't see it.

I don't really get the PVYC. We never see any yachts. And do real yacht clubs operate as hotels as well? I thought they were basically waterlogged country clubs.

The Chateau was pretty nice. The Valley Inn bar kinda looked like the Chateau dining room.

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Those were the days. Whenever I think of Foxy's I'm reminded of a Diff'rent Strokes episode from back then where Arnold and Dudley and them sneak into a Foxy's-like gentlemen's club and find their teacher (Jayne Kennedy) working there in her skimpy little outfit. :lol:

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I'm watching it now and I noticed it was a standalone episode. Did Kate Hall write the Angie one also? I don't mind the transitions. In fact, they are needed. I noticed that the last standalone episode didn't have them and it was jarring to see Angie in the park in one scene and the very next scene she was in the hospital.

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There are sporting events and such at yacht clubs, but for All My Children purposes, they're just focusing on the chi-chi la dee dah'dier aspects. I suppose they could have guest rooms like a hotel but I don't think that's really common. Folks dock and show off their boats, deboard and grab dinner and drinks, invite folks back onto their yachts for more socializing, et cetera.

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I thought Greenlee's narration felt very primetime. I'm usually quick to spurn any sort of desperate-feeling aping of nighttime dramas, but I thought it was effective here. This and the earlier Angie-centric episode were both well done. The focus on a particular character was clear, yet unobtrusive. They didn't ask too much of a person who is not a fan.

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FYI: David Kreizman did a similar thing at GUIDING LIGHT, taking an episode each week to focus exclusively on one storyline, speeding up the storytelling by employing transitions and other tactics borrowed from primetime shows. On one such "Inside the Light," Springfield mourned the loss of Ross Marler, played by Jerry verDorn, who'd been a fixture on the show since 1979 and, by that point, was GL's longest-running performer. Most soaps get at least a week to mourn a character's death; GL gave it's audience one Wednesday. Then, it was "Back to the show."

Needless to say, the ITL's weren't always successful. People complained it seriously disrupted the timing and synchronisation of storylines (...among other things).

Just thought you'd like to know. ;-)

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