ALL: Soaps paying homage to classic moments by recreating them

[Contessa Donatella]

You are very welcome. The people in them are Gabi, Stefan who is Vivian's son, Leo who is in everything, Dimitri who is the best looking hunk, Vivian herself, a random thug, Gwen who is married to Dimitri but her bestie is cheating with her husband, so there's that.

[DemetriKane]

I didn't look up the pictures, but I believe Angie and Jesse train station reunion was a redo of Nina and Cliff's reunion.

Agreed! Iconic!

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[All My Shadows]

Both EE and Corrie remind me of RC's OLTL, where maybe, just maybe, if we keep bringing up the past in cheesy, forced ways, the audience will transfer their positive memories of better days onto what we're giving them now. I used to love that kind of crap, but it became so constant and transparent with OLTL, not to mention obnoxious as hell. Like when they had KDP singing the Peabo Bryson theme over the opening sequence for an episode or two.

I've been reading little blurbs about Sonia's exit, and they all mention trumpets as if the she had grown up and became a trumpet virtuoso. It's too sitcommy to me, just like Bianca being damn near 50 and still wearing the jacket and hoops. But then they like to introduce new young female characters and put them in a metallic jacket and hoops so that the audience will like them right away.

Things just hit better when it's more of an "If you know, you know," type of thing. Like Max watching Stacey's plane leave in 2010 as Stacey gazes down at the Thames in reference to the opening sequence...just like when Phil watched Kathy's plane leave in 1998 as Kathy gazed down at the Thames in reference to the opening sequence.

It's like the more "iconic" the original scene is, the less effective the later allusion to it is. B&B and Y&R recreating their first scenes were perfect because we don't get hit over the head with how incredibly iconic those scenes were to begin with.