You know what gets me, MB, with the OS? It wasn't the outdoor sets that ended up as blooper whoopsies (which we all love). Even though ABC spent a lot of money on those sets (whether interior or exterior), far above all other soap operas at that time, whoopsies were expected because it's not like DS had the budget of Doctor Zhivago.
What gets me is that in the first several seasons, if it was daytime and characters were outside, it was daylight. In black-and-white, the background was bright. In color, the background was blue to look like a day sky. If it was a night scene, the background was black. And then, for some unknown reason, those bright or blue backgrounds vanished. Whether it was two p.m. or two a.m. the background was always black and showed night. That went on until the fateful day in April '71. That just drove me nuts.
Well, anyway, back to the original topic, with or without palm trees. But if I see one, just one, you know what's going to happen. If this proposed series does happen (I've already stated I'm skeptical), I'll be happy.
Gerard
P.S. I love palm trees. I lived in Nevada, California and Arizona. But they don't belong in Maine. Get that computer CGI or whatever it's called into operation.