I suppose Lauralee at least knows soaps, and can't be worse than her brothers. She could be a producer. I think it would be nice to just have someone who actually cares about and knows THIS show, not just someone looking for their next job after being on the soap merry-go-round. The show is never going to be like it was under Bill Bell but it doesn't have to be this flavorless.
I do wonder about VR. Time will tell if this is CBS/Sony getting serious about improving the show or just another round of musical chairs. I remember a couple of years ago when GH brought on Mulcahey and it looked like ABC was really investing in the show... that didn't work out but the show is actually way better now anyway. If they really want to build viewership, they should bring Drucilla back and also have VR as some sort of story consultant to build up the AA story to compete with BTG. The other shows are all working off the intertia of the audiences they had 30 years ago, but BTG has started from scratch, with many viewers who don't watch soaps or hadn't in years, so there is an untapped market out there demographically that could actually bring new, younger viewers and lapsed middle-aged viewers.
As much as I hate back from the dead stories, I'd give the new writers a few months period to let them clean up some of the messes and bring back characters like Heather, Chance, and Damian and even go further back to those like Colleen and Hilary. But once that's done, they have to go back to normal stories.
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