I get it... but no. Please no.

21 hours ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

I understand what you are saying, but sometimes I think there is too much course correcting on modern soaps.  Social media has made every soap opera fan an expert and a self-appointed critic.  And when TPTB get a whiff that the audience doesn't like something, they change it, rewrite it, or eliminate it. Often too quickly, with too little thought, and with too MUCH attention paid to social media.  I remember soaps in the old days, when the writers wrote what they thought was best, and the audience just watched it, or they didn't. And believe me, soaps were better 45 years ago than they are today.  Personally, I believe writers are better writers than self-appointed internet critics.  So I rather like that DOOL gets to avoid all that.  My opinion only.   

I get it, but I think it can also be beneficial at times. For instance, DAYS didn't know the Brandon Barash version of Stefan paired up with Camila Banus' Gabi would be a hit with viewers, so by the time their material began airing, the show already killed off Stefan, which led to the idiotic and completely unnecessary creation of Jake, the twin. 

28 minutes ago, Gray Bunny said:

I get it, but I think it can also be beneficial at times. For instance, DAYS didn't know the Brandon Barash version of Stefan paired up with Camila Banus' Gabi would be a hit with viewers, so by the time their material began airing, the show already killed off Stefan, which led to the idiotic and completely unnecessary creation of Jake, the twin. 

Well, instead of creating the idiotic and completely unnecessary Jake, TPTB could have just lived with the decision that Stefan was dead and Brandon Barash was off the show. Not every popular actor needs to be recast as a different character or return from the dead. It's okay for them to just be gone.  Fans don't run the show, or at least they shouldn't.   

1 hour ago, John said:

Awwww...Granny Clampett is returning....

Can he be next?

 

1 hour ago, Soapsuds said:

Can he be next?

 

Only if, per Scott's demands, he tapes all his scenes on days when Missy isn't in the studio, lol.

12 minutes ago, Khan said:

Only if, per Scott's demands, he tapes all his scenes on days when Missy isn't in the studio, lol.

😂

This photo of them taping their 15,000th episode shows Maree Cheatham (Marie), Matt Ashford (Jack), Brandon Beemer (Shawn), Martha Madison (Belle), Victoria Konefal (Ciara), along with other recently revealed returns and/or return pop-ins from: Melissa Reeves, Gloria Loring, Lamon Archey, Sal Stowers, and Remington Hoffman. Am I missing anyone? I can't tell who's standing between Martha and Gloria. 

 

 

Thrilled to know Maree will be there. I really wish they would have Marie on the show in a semi-regular capacity while they still can.

aww, looks like Carson Boatman cut his hair. I was digging the longer hair tbh 

Who's down there in the green in the bottom left corner?

Am I missing Robert Scott Wilson and Billy Flynn? Is that Brandon Barash between Suzanne Rogers and Susan Hayes? Who's the guy standing next to Matt Ashford?

26 minutes ago, Gray Bunny said:

This photo of them taping their 15,000th episode shows Maree Cheatham (Marie), Matt Ashford (Jack), Brandon Beemer (Shawn), Martha Madison (Belle), Victoria Konefal (Ciara), along with other recently revealed returns and/or return pop-ins from: Melissa Reeves, Gloria Loring, Lamon Archey, Sal Stowers, and Remington Hoffman. Am I missing anyone? I can't tell who's standing between Martha and Gloria. 

Where is Drake? 

Come to think of it, the man in between Gloria and Martha must be Stephen Schnetzer. 

No Kristian???