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First of all i don't care for actor names in a soap opening. The music theme is giving me nothing. The character images remind me of something in the late 90s-early 90s. I was expecting the first soap to premiere in 25 years to give us something new (or something really old-school), but I understand why TPTB might have been a little hesitant to try unfamiliar things. Something like the 80s ambulance opening, or images of the city like Capitol and Ryan's Hope would have worked for me.

Tuesday's episode was pure soapiness.. Poor Portia; she can't get a break. I loved the courtroom scenes. The MEK character is still a bust and so not needed.

I’m currently getting caught up and it’s all so maddening. This show could literally be great with some minor tweaks as it already is pretty watchable on a daily basis. But some of the things these writers double down on are just infuriating for me and remind me why I stopped watching for years.

That reminds me - the original upload I saw of that, from nearly a decade ago, said July 1st. Then the one put up earlier this year said July 11th. I wonder which is accurate.

Early June is what I've always heard. Unfortunately, the earliest episode available online with her in it, that I've found , is the July 11th episode.

You are so right about all of this.

I always get irritated when I see Michael being such a Quartermaine now and interacting with his family but still claiming Sonny. It’s one of the really dumb things the writers have kept up despite the brief period after AJ’s cold blooded murder that Michael cut out Sonny. Knowing all the history between AJ and Sonny including the murder, there should never be a world where Michael forgave Sonny let alone gave his children the Corinthos name. It is certainly a writing choice to have Charlotte super attached to the man that violated her mother. Like are teenagers really so stupid to not know the things done to Lulu are wrong? Like seriously both her kids don’t give a single flying f.uck about what Britt and Valentin did to her and it’s such a confusing writing choice that they seem to double down with on a weekly basis.

I'll probably always mourn what I think he was doing with Drew and Nina as a real, viable couple further down the road, despite their previously being two characters I couldn't care less for. His Drew (which the current one was birthed from) was a more nuanced, still increasingly gray character who could launch schemes and be a cad, but there was still rooting value for the two of them there. Now, as you say, Nina is a total afterthought. But PM clearly relished writing for Watros (I can't recall if he ever had before).

Seeing Susan Flannery as Laura Horton was wild. I was so used to her butchy Stephanie towards the end of her run on B&B, it was wild to see her young and feminine.

He really did become even more of a damn bastard after being shot. Typically after a character is shot I don’t find myself wanting someone to finish the job but every day Drew is on I’m like why didn’t the shooter aim for the head once he was on the ground 😂

I more than appreciate your comments, and I see your point in all of them. Thanks for explaining.

Now this is truly a P&G soap Christmas. I love the entire family is at the house for this Christmas episode. 🎄🎁🎄

The ChatGPT writing and lack of character development/storytelling turned me off. But I can go into detail about why I stopped watching regularly. Leslie is a cartoon. It's as if the writers mistook her popularity as a reason to eat the show, and somehow, $1 million makes her the richest woman in the world. She's not entertaining but exhausting. By extension, Ted is pointless. He's very surface and not at all a leading man. In fact, most of the men on the show have no gravitas. I'm all for the women characters having solid POVs, but the men just come across as just there. Bill is the exception. The actor elevates the material and just brings it. Karla Mosley is also really great as Dani (who can be a lot). Dani/Andre do have amazing chemistry. I can't deny that. The Martin story was a bust. There's no young couple or underdog to root for. I thought Eva would be that flawed spitfire (AM is a find), but she's a one-note character. It's a choice that Eva gets to be so destructive, but Kat is the villain because she doesn't want to embrace her. Not to mention they're fighting over wooden Tomas while Ted has just accepted Eva. Naomi is just horrid. I don't really think that her, Chelsea, Jacob, and the teens needed to be in Season 1. I was curious about Winterfest, and nothing happened. Greg Vaughn's intro did nothing for me. There could've been a meet/cute with Nicole. I just expected more from BTG. I do hope that it can pull a season 2 "Different World" and turn things around. All the elements are there. But right now, the show doesn't do it for me.

For seasons 5-9, which have never been released digitally for purchase, the cost comes out to $8.00 a season on Apple TV.

He does?

Rudy was seen as something of a model for a Republican by the media due to his being moderate on social issues and tough on crime. He hosted SNL a year or two before he was on GL. I think if he didn't love being on TV he may not have been on GL, although another factor may have been helping his wife, Judith, who appeared on all the NYC-based soaps. IIRC, their marriage ending in a very public, ugly manner hurt his approval and that only turned around due to 9/11.

It's very close as Cindy is still Jackie in the 5/28/80 episode (I can't remember if she is much further into 1980 - I know Carrie Mowery is there by late July) and if a quick search is any indication (may not be) Vanessa arrives in early June.

Lol. But very. I didn't want him to lose his edge, but I wanted something, anything. It's almost like the writers were toying with the audience cuz they knew what they were doing was leading to a murder mystery and they got offended the audience were that savvy so...NOPE.

I do agree with that - you never quite knew where she was going to go in her performances, which is a good thing with soaps (unless you're watching Charity Rahmer). I also agree they should have waited. If they had she may not have become defined by Todd, or by Brown Penny.

No one voices more complaints about the show than I do, but I try to be specific about dialogue, plot, characters, etc. Maybe that's why people tolerate my complaints. Either that or they're just ignoring me. Your comments come off as really vague, though. You're unhappy with the show, but I don't have a read as to why -- just that you're not happy.

The Journal Dec 1978 Writing Soaps, Getting Tanned MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — "Forget the image of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' where frantic writers run around the set and throw out pages," says Jerome Dobson, sitting beside his swimming pool."We'll start plotting and say, 'Pass the suntan lotion.'" Jerome Dobson and his wife Bridget lead a quiet, secluded life on a wooded estate between the mountains, and the Pacific in this affluent community south of Santa Barbara. But they aren't cut off from the world of Bertha Bauer, her sons Ed and Mike, and everyone in Springfield, U.S.A., who don't make a move or utter a word that doesn't spring from the minds of the Dobsons. Every day they turn out a 65 page script for the CBS soap opera “Guiding Light," longest running drama in broadcasting, and are on the telephone constantly with the producers in New York. Since becoming head writers 3 and 1/2 years ago they've given the soap opera which had been suffering from hardening of the arteries, a decidedly contemporary look and a faster pace. The Dobsons plot the series a year in advance, dictate the day-by-day outlines to a battery of secretaries, and send the outlines to four assistant writers to flesh out with dialogue. They use graphs and charts to keep track of all 30 characters and to be sure every actor works the number of. days required by his or her contract. "It's a giant crossword puzzle," Bridget says, "We may work from sunup to moonup. It depends on if Jerry's being good ,we'll get through it fast. They write wherever the mood strikes them — by the pool, in the pergola, or in, their private offices. Jerry and Bridget met at Stanford University. Bridget is the daughter of Frank and Doris Hursley, who wrote for "Search For Tomorrow" and created "General Hospital." 'Guiding Light' is a vastly different show from what it was, say, five years ago," says Bridget. "We were with the show a year and a half before I can really say we were proud of it. You can't change it overnight. The pace is faster, the characters are more contemporary,it's sexier, it-has more humor. characters are more multi-dimensional. The Dobsons say there's no formula for writing soap opera."You can't fill in the blanks," says Dobson. "You can't just punch up the characters. You have to write from the gut; You have to be true to your characters at. all times or the audience will jump on you."

I know I've said this before, but the quality of the episodes doesn't matter so much to me, as long as the episodes are available (and preferably, without cuts made for syndication).

I will never understand who The View is meant to appeal to anymore and I say that as someone who is in line with the views of several people there, compared to the old days where it seemed like Meredith Viera was the only one who didn't behave as if she just got pushed from a great height. If it does help GH, I'm glad, but the show's success makes me wary for BtG because of some claim I read that Bari Weiss wants to have her own version of The View for CBS.

It makes sense for BTG (or any soap) to hire Jordi. He's an attractive soap vet with a following, and he likely appeals to non-Caucasian demographics, too.