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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 443560" data-attributes="member: 27">That plotline was drawn up in the final months of the show by writers who felt they had nothing to lose.&nbsp; There had been a &quot;Why can&#039;t you be more like Days?&quot; drumbeat from the network for years but previous regimes had wisely pushed back since like you surmised, the show was much more grounded and written in the classic style of soaps from the older years.&nbsp; Some said they tossed in that half-baked plotline just to show the network execs what happens when you try to graft that kind of garbage onto a show not set up for it.&nbsp; And of course Passions offered up that level of crap-tastic storytelling for years and NBC acted as if it was the second coming of Dickens.All that plotline did was send the message you used in the subject title, that the end was indeed nigh.&nbsp; This was a few years after that [*spit*] accursed producer, Jill Farren Phelps had come in with her &quot;reverse Midas Touch&quot; (everything she touched turned to $#!t), so it can&#039;t be blamed on her directly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 443560, member: 27"] That plotline was drawn up in the final months of the show by writers who felt they had nothing to lose. There had been a [I]"Why can't you be more like Days?" [/I]drumbeat from the network for years but previous regimes had wisely pushed back since like you surmised, the show was much more grounded and written in the classic style of soaps from the older years. Some said they tossed in that half-baked plotline just to show the network execs what happens when you try to graft that kind of garbage onto a show not set up for it. And of course[I] Passions[/I] offered up that level of crap-tastic storytelling for years and NBC acted as if it was the second coming of Dickens. All that plotline did was send the message you used in the subject title, that the end was indeed nigh. This was a few years after that[I] [*spit*][/I] accursed producer, Jill Farren Phelps had come in with her "reverse Midas Touch" (everything she touched turned to $#!t), so it can't be blamed on her directly. [/QUOTE]

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