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It's just the tip of the iceberg with Sharon's penchant for controversy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XlwArFBK-o
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I'm hoping she's some connection to the Brooks family. Now, that will make my day.
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How many of these were actually good ideas in the long run, though? There was always something special about the the Lords (OLTL), the Brookses (Y&R), the Hortons (DAYS), the Hugheses (ATWT), and the Bauers (GL), and it was sad that later regimes have spat on their respective legacies like it was nothing and erased such heritage. What happened was frankly criminal. I would always hold All My Children at high regard for not forgetting the Martin/Kane families.
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I've been watching some May 1998 OLTL and I've been impressed by the surprisingly good plots going on at this time:
-David Renaldi's heartwarming return.
-The Georgie Murder mystery being a huge umbrella plot.
-Dorian and Mel/Cassie & Kevin
-Todd's vendetta against the Buchanans
-Todd and Téa being their twisted and problematic best with their constant arguments and such.
-Drew Buchanan being the douchebag we can all root against.
-Alright, so Sam was a dead fish, but without him...we wouldn't have been introduced to Lindsay (the perfect nemesis to Nora).
JFP and Pam Long did a great job livening up the show after the utter banality of the Labine era. Anything is better than Nora's menopause.
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46 minutes ago, Adamski said:
Thank goodness. I hope his pets, the McQueen family, get wiped out. They have collectively lowered the sophistication of this show.
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Jensen might need a job with Supernatural ending.
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On 9/30/2018 at 9:59 AM, ghfan89 said:
One of the episodes SL submitted for when she won her Emmy:
I was looking back at this thread and I \cannot\ with Travis and Barbara's smugness. They had more of a role raising Bianca, and if anyone were to blame for her issues...it was them, not Erica (who always loved Bianca).
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When the best storyline is some half-baked menopausal plot with Nora, you know you've gone from Soap Opera to Lifetime Network.
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I don't know why OLTL was considered "great" in '97, considering the Labine writing regime took a wrecking ball to any sort of intrigue or energy from the Gottlieb era. It was endless Patrick/Marty and later Tea and her doomed romance with Todd. Say what you want about JFP, but she had the thankless task of injecting excitement, rivalries, and drama (Georgie's Death, the Bo/Nora/Lindsey triangle) back into the show after the dullness of this era.
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Yet no one complained when Jamie Luner was parading around as Liza or Linsey Godfrey as Sarah. The sexist double standard needs to stop.
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OLTL was full of this:
*Dorian going lesbian for a few months.
*1968 Time Travel.
*Eterna
*The whole beaver plot.
*The Stacy pregnancy nonsense.
*Anything related to David Vickers during the last years of the ABC run.
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I hope this convinces Shannen Doherty to take part in the reunion. This death is really sad for some reason, and I wasn't even a Dylan stan.
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The Ollie story gives me chills, but well done.
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The storyline with Brody and Buster, especially the part where he was made to hug him...totally made me uncomfortable. Great storyline, but it did give me the shivers.
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Fitting fate for Mac. Alive, but he will always live with the pain of being "betrayed" by Ellie...and now he's completely helpless. Good job yet again, Hollyoaks.
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Holy mackerel. That ending on today's E4, with Mac's violence toward James being revealed. Riveting TV. American soaps need to get on with it. Fantastic performance
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On 10/10/2017 at 12:39 AM, DRW50 said:
Sometimes I feel like I’m too hard on Hollyoaks compared to other soaps in regards to homophobia, because at least they consistently have lgbt characters in multiple stories (and seem to be trying to bring in more POC queer people as well in roles that go beyond third wheel), but…but...but…
The scenes with Ryan killing Amy actually made me feel sick to my stomach.
I haven’t seen such blatantly homophobic material since I watched Celluloid Closet.
I have to question whether this was the original plan, as Ryan has enjoyed emotional as well as sexual relationships with three different women over the last 5-6 months. Yes, closeted gay men can and do have sex with women, obviously, but I can’t say I’ve gotten a huge impression that he was gay and in denial. I got the impression that he wanted everyone to believe he was straight and not bisexual.
This also means that his efforts to help protect Armstrong early on make even less sense.
Beyond that, let’s just talk about the virulent homophobia and misogyny in that scene with Ryan killing Amy. A woman being reduced to yelling about her gay men (never mind anything else in her life over the 12 years we knew her) before being snuffed out by a gay man, shaking and weeping as he repeatedly says he isn’t gay.
What this scene tells viewers is that gay men are not only self-loathing, not only disturbed, but violent and dangerous. They’re murderers. They don’t just use and hurt the women they lie to (which is bad enough in of itself) - they kill them.
If this aired on a major show, I imagine it would get a furious reaction from Stonewall and other groups. It’s the very core of what homophobic outlets have spent decades telling people about queer people.
I’m genuinely shocked and also disgusted at this and I can’t believe this is what they decided to spend months of material as well as a major marketing
campaign on. That women are there to be killed by psychotic, violent gay men.
I don't really understand why they threw Ryan under the bus when clearly Harry was set up to be the murderer. The legions of Starry fans didn't approve or something?
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I cannot wait for the James/Harry affair...or is it more of a, ahem, compensated arrangement?
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Sutton posted "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" on his Twitter curiously after the firing, which was liked by Kirstie Leigh-Porter.
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I would've taken a Harry/Lockie pairing before that rentboy-looking hobo.
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I'm Team Diane. Tegan's a sad sack and Ziggy abducted Dee Dee.
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What other stories are you excited for, PrinceOfSunspear?
I'm pumped for Scott as well. He seems like a bitchy, camp mess. Hollyoaks needs that kind of character since we lost Kris.
I hope Grace shoots Freddie without a moment's hesitation.
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What I got was that she didn't want Ste to be made out as some kind of "mug" ("fool" in American terms) due to JP carrying on with Harry.
I must say, it's unfortunate that Harry's 17. He and JP would be sizzling.
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Kenlee from AMC was more of an exercise in masochism. They de-powered a force of nature (Greenlee) down to the level of a "mild annoyance" to Kendall. I don't think Kendall ever fully apologised to Greenlee for taking away Greenlee's chance to be a mother and driving Greenlee to a mental breakdown (with Spike paying the price). The last few years of the show has been Greenlee being pushed to be a "heroine" to suit a friendship with Kendall, and never allowing her a chance to win...ever. I wonder if TPTB secretly resented Rebecca's Greenlee being more of a natural heir to Erica than any of her daughters.