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Leaping to conclusions and predictions which only exist in your mind and have nothing to DO with my actual points doesn't help your case, I'm afraid. 

 

As I have said, it's best just to let it go.

 

 

Because, clearly, you are having the time of your life watching the current incarnation of the show.

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@vetsoapfan I think nods to history are why most viewers continue to watch soaps. Something they got from family, which is how so many of us got into our shows. Some will dis(agree and that's fine.

 

With so many retconned family members ( Dylan, Avery) that haven't worked out there's no harm in bringing back characters that have been on the canvas. Nate Hastings, Scotty Grainger, Fenmore Baldwin, "Chance" Chancellorm Heather Williams  have been tossed around on the board, so why not a Jennifer Foster? 

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The difference with Nate, Scotty, Fen, Chance & Heather is they all have been on the show in some capacity in the past decade, are related and/or strongly tied to more than one core character/core family on the current canvas and each are substantial enough to immediately exist on their own.

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Exactly. Soaps are built on history, so seeing escalating vexation over fans' desire for the use of it is...curious at best.

 

One might argue that TPTB cannot introduce characters from past families who are no longer featured on the show, but all soaps routinely bring aboard brand-new characters with no on-screen family ties, so having Brooks Prentiss arrive as a business rival for Victor, or Jennifer Foster working at the hospital, would pose no rational problem. Not every new character has to be part of a huge, currently-on-screen family unit.

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And that's been the problem with all soaps. They haven't been able to develop the next generation to take over the older set of actors. That's why soaps died. Look at Victoria and Nick....horrible horrible....writing has been part of it but so have the actors that infected the roles.

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We've been discussing Heinle & Morrow's acting at SON for years (quite a bit in the past week especially).

 

Though most of us agree we'd prefer the characters be recast we realize it's not going to happen.

 

But well written soaps are a thing of the past. In this era good soap amounts to passable writing the actors do their best to make work.

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Right, the WRITING and DEVELOPMENT of the characters has to work. Just having a surname of an established family is not enough.  Viewers love the use of history, and multi-generational storytelling, but the shows have to keep their families going AND write well for them and cast them effectively. Having Brookses or Fosters on board with lousy writing and bad actors, would be as pointless as having any descendants of the Abbotts, Newmans, or Williamses floating around, mired in poor writing. Fans want continuity among core families ALONG WITH well-developed characters and engaging plots.

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