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On AMC, I would think that MacDonnell, Meriwether, Barr, Canary, Kaye and McClain would return. I think those are more than probable. I would even include Larry Lau, Kelly Ripa, and Mark Consuelos in that list. Possibly even Francesca James, who's good friends with JHC. Maybe even a cameo from ghost Kim Delaney! Over at OLTL, I think Andrea Evans, Patricia Elliot, Dan Gautier, Laura Koffman, Wortham Krimmer, and more remotely Michael Storm are not out of the question. I know money is tight, but I'm sure at least some of these actors would do it for scale.

I would imagine AMC's last moments will be something along the lines of a still shot of the actors in the final scene going into a photo album that Agnes closes as she recites the poem. As for OLTL, obviously Slezak will have the final words. Not sure how they'd maneuver Agnes into it, but I hope that they do. I'm tearing up just thinking about all this. I know all good things have to come to an end, blah blah blah and these shows' heydays are long gone, but I feel like I'm in mourning for someone dear to me. And it's not just AMC and OLTL. I'm mourning the fact that the genre itself is swiftly coming to an end. AMC & OLTL & GH & RH & EON & AW & SFT & GL & Texas & Loving in one way or another helped to get me through all of my life milestones...puberty, coming out, deaths of friends and family members, and I just can't imagine after nearly 35 years of being in love with soaps that the entire genre is in the December of its existence. Just so sad.

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That's interesting & they're probably sympathetic considering after Disney bought the Power Rangers franchise, just like the soaps, they ran into the ground & canceled it cause they didn't deem Power Rangers a franchise kids wanted to watch anymore. Then the creator, Saban bought it back, & now it's airing on Nickelodeon beating it's Disney Channel competition. :lol:

Maybe Agnes Nixon should buy her soaps back & shop them to a cable channel too.

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I'm sad that I won't be able to watch that last episode with my mom, sitting at the foot of her bed like I used to. Watching it by myself sitting at the foot of my own bed is going to be a *moment*, no doubt.

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Don't get me wrong: even back in the day, when AMC was still your mother's (and grandmother's, and baby cousin's, and Miss Jenkins from Down the Street's) favorite soap opera, they told the occasional stinker. (Palmer and Erica chasing Nazis? Sweet Jebus.) So, I won't pretend Natalie-in-the-Well wasn't the first time I suspected AMC's writers of scoring some bad crack. For me, though, there was something so foul about that story, which I felt went against every single one of AMC's intrinsic values, that I cannot help but look at it now as the time when the proverbial tide began to turn, and not for the better. From that moment on, AMC stopped being a homespun, heart-warming show about the kind of town we all wished we lived in, and became more and more something that was all about gimmicks and uncreative stunts that probably belonged on less grounded shows.

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Trent Garrett:

A nice woman named Joanna just came up to me and told me that her entire family has been viewing #AMC since 1980. Fans like this come around only once in a lifetime. To have been part of something of that magnitude, even for a short time, means the world to me.

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Frankly, I'd rather not see Lee Meriwether return as Ruth for the finale. Just say Ruth is back in Florida and couldn't make it for Tad and Cara's wedding/Pine Valley Hospital's closing/whatever. To me, Mary Fickett should be there, and if she can't be there - and of course, she can't - then I'd rather it be no one at all.

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