Ugh.

I couldn't begin to count the number of people who should've been fired for that.

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2 hours ago, carolineg said:

It was very jarring with Belle because as a child she was so central to plots.  At least with Sami/Eric they gradually phased them out, sent them away, and came back with AS.  The little girls that played Belle were so young and at the wedding then it was KS's Belle to greet them back from their honeymoon.  And it's not like John/Marlena didn't have a whole huge story going on themselves at the time.  They seriously didn't need Belle being a teen.  

I'll never forget that sudden SORAS. It was so random and it felt so rushed, and then they were pushing Kirsten and Jason Cook immediately. It was a mistake and it proved out years later when Reilly had burnt them out at a very young age. Now they come off too old and as pointless also-rans to countless other characters.

Didn't Lorraine Broderick quit as HW, because she disagreed with Tom Langan over how the teens were introduced?

2 minutes ago, Khan said:

Didn't Lorraine Broderick quit as HW, because she disagreed with Tom Langan over how the teens were introduced?

Yep. That's what I read. Probably a number of things (considering Broderick isn't exactly known as a camp queen), but that was, if nothing else, the last straw.

23 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:

 

  

Seeing years after the fact, how off-the-rails the show had become under Langan round 2000-01, makes me wonder how on Earth the show maintained the ratings it DID have around that time. I know the Last Blast squad had fans, but surely it couldn't make up for how awful a lot of the rest of the show was around then?

I blame brand loyalty and Reilly hangover for DAYS staying afloat in those years, much like I blame brand loyalty and COVID for Y&R's continued relative stability today.

16 minutes ago, beebs said:

(considering Broderick isn't exactly known as a camp queen)

And that's why I thought it was odd that Ken Corday would have hired her in the first place.  Supposedly, he and Broderick had become acquainted over the years at various industry functions, but either the man had never actually watched an episode of AMC before hiring her, or he was making an honest attempt at bringing DAYS back to basics and away from the camp and silliness, and Tom Langan successfully torpedoed it.

I don't remember Broderick, in her brief HW'ing stint, moving away from the JER-inspired crap, but I *do* remember her attempting to ground it all in character and logic, so that it would have made some sense.  The Gina/Hope stuff, in particular, didn't seem *quite* as ridiculous with Broderick in charge of the writing.

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1 hour ago, victoria foxton said:

 

  

What was this about?

55 minutes ago, Vee said:

I'll never forget that sudden SORAS. It was so random and it felt so rushed, and then they were pushing Kirsten and Jason Cook immediately. It was a mistake and it proved out years later when Reilly had burnt them out at a very young age. Now they come off too old and as pointless also-rans to countless other characters.

I feel like Kirsten was considered a bit of a 'get' back then because of her Disney channel fame.  I swear if I didn't read about it in SOD I would have been shocked when it happened.  And the "Oh my you've grown!" when they returned from their honeymoon.  Ewww....

51 minutes ago, Khan said:

Didn't Lorraine Broderick quit as HW, because she disagreed with Tom Langan over how the teens were introduced?

I thought it was more of a disagreement over how much the teens were used, not so much their introduction.  I think they had very different ideas of what they wanted.

I mean the Last Blast Crew must have been more popular than I thought if there was a Saturday Morning Spinoff being bandied about.

3 minutes ago, allmc2008 said:

What was this about?

The Virtual Garden of Eden stuff with Greta/Austin.   I would try to explain it, but I can't.

15 minutes ago, allmc2008 said:

What was this about?

https://whathappensinsalem.wordpress.com/2014/10/29/wtf-wednesday-virtual-eden/     I can't properly explain it either. But the person that wrote this blog does a good job. Sorry i took so long to answer. I was searching for clips. But there are none.

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I still can't believe they put that on the air. But I can't believe they put most of the show from about 1997 to 2006-2007 or so on the air.

Victoria, what did you do!!!!! 

An excuse for shirtless men, dumb special effects and overacted jokes but that is part of the history of the show?
Scryber96 is going to see this, be "inspired" and BOOM.
Expect to see Leo in a snake costume torturing sheepskin shirtless Ben and Ciara in a revisit of the Garden of Eden for Xmas 2022. 

So true.  I was watching some clip on twitter where John takes out his own brain chip then removes Hope/Gina's and I was like WTF?  And that was not even near the top 5 ridiculous things that were happening on the show at that time.

Reading about all this OTT stuff makes me wonder how Lorraine Broderick would have done had she gotten the chance 😂

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(dupe)

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