SamandWillowFan

I think it has always been a shame that there is such a lack of body diversity on soaps, especially when it comes to plus-sized women since the target audience is women and most of them are probably not sizes 0-4. The only couples where the woman was plus-sized I can think of on soaps (at least ones actually written for) are Sofia and Neil, Craig and Nancy (and in the end they had him be closeted the entire time), Michael and Marcie, Coop and Ashlee (my personal favorite), and kind of Destiny and Matthew (of course she was recast with a super skinny, lighter skinned actress on the reboot).

Well we got Zende’s flashbacks to the sex so it seems it happened. He did say they used protection so maybe we’ll be spared a WTD story.

Did Wendy Moniz’s Dinah ever slap anyone?

Do we think this could result in Days’ cancellation?

He was the father of the only child she actually wanted.

A character I always wondered why they didn't do more with was Trey Kenyon. They did a gross retcon to give Erica a son and Kendall a brother when she already had one with the drama of it being from her rapist father. He was also David's brother.

Who do you think was the love of Erica’s life?

He won I Wanna Be a Soap Star right

She wasn’t sexually repressed when she was sleeping with Ryan while married to Adam.

Was Sean Matthew?

Does anyone know the date of the Carrie and Sami scene at 1:08? https://youtu.be/EyX3PvzTNEs?si=Xi5A7SJgEanF0xL0

So you stopped enjoying soaps by the early 80s? I think most people consider the early to mid 90s to be the best of GH.

This can include canceled soaps and the 4 still on.

How old was Holly supposed to be when she got pregnant by Fletcher

Were any of the other actors to play Alan-Michael besides Rick Hearst well-received?

Yes, she always submitted in supporting. BW also submitted in supporting on OLTL even though Jessica was a lead because that was ES’ category.

Like Alicia Minshew and Rebecca Budig putting themselves in supporting despite being leads the last 5-6 years of All My Children.

Susan Haskell also won in 2009. Yes for outstanding drama series it’s General Hospital (16) The Young and the Restless (11) As the World Turns (4) Days of Our Lives (4) All My Children (3) The Bold and the Beautiful (3) Guiding Light (3) Santa Barbara (3) The Doctors (2) Ryan’s Hope (2) Another World (1) The Edge of Night (1) One Life to Live (1)

I’ll have to recount. Maybe I switched them accidently. It’s mostly because of Erika Slezak’s 6 wins. I think it’s interesting that GH leads every category except that one where they’re near the bottom.

Lead Actor Wins General Hospital (12) The Young and the Restless (10) All My Children (6) As the World Turns (4) The Bold and the Beautiful (3) Another World (3) Days of our Lives (3) Guiding Light (3) One Life to Live (2) Search for Tomorrow (2) The Doctors (1) Santa Barbara (1) Lead Actress Wins One Life to Live (11) The Bold and the Beautiful (9) The Young and the Restless (6) Guiding Light (5) Another World (3) As the World Turns (3) Days of our Lives (3) General Hospital (3) Ryan’s Hope (3) All My Children (2) The Doctors (1) Santa Barbara (1) Supporting Actor wins General Hospital (15) The Young and the Restless (7) Guiding Light (6) All My Children (5) As the World Turns (4) Santa Barbara (3) The Bold and the Beautiful (2) Days of our Lives (2) Loving (1) One Life to Live (1) Search for Tomorrow (1) Supporting Actress Wins General Hospital (12) The Young and the Restless (8) All My Children (7) Guiding Light (6) Days of our Lives (4) As the World Turns (3) Another World (1) The Bold and the Beautiful (1) One Life to Live (1) Ryan’s Hope (1) Santa Barbara (1) Younger Actor Wins General Hospital (8) Days of our Lives (7) Guiding Light (7) The Bold and the Beautiful (4) The Young and the Restless (4) All My Children (2) As the World Turns (2) One Life to Live (1) Santa Barbara (1) Younger Actress Wins General Hospital (11) The Young and the Restless (9) As the World Turns (5) All My Children (4) The Bold and the Beautiful (4) Days of our Lives (3) Another World (2) Guiding Light (1) I counted the first few Emmys where there was only one category for men and women each as leads. I also grouped the younger performer wins in with actress or actor.

Watching early 2000s All My Children, I think Jamie got the short end of the stick in favor of JR, and Jamie was just as much of a legacy character as him.

Does anyone know what scenes Tony Geary won lead actor for in 2000?

I feel that way watching 90s Todd knowing they’re going to turn him into a leading man after he was the ring leader of Marty’s gang rape, was revealed to have raped a woman prior to Marty, and would terrorize and try to rape multiple women after Marty. It was too much.

He could tell them apart. He killed Georgie because she would’ve seen him and known he was alive when she came in Maxie’s place. I agree that writers had no clue who the killer was from the start.

Watching episodes of soaps from the 80s and 90s, I’m struck by how common it was to have male characters slap female characters, and these usually weren’t characters who were supposed to be villains. Like Roger on GL slapped Alex back after she slapped him, but he was a rapist so that’s not shocking, but that same show had Billy Lewis returning Reva’s slap and slapping his daughter. A character like Lucas on Days was I think supposed to be more rootable and he had to be held back by Austin from hitting Sami after she slapped him and straight up slapped his mother without any provocation from her. I was watching a 90s episode of OLTL and Jason, who seemed like a good guy, slapped Dorian back after she slapped him. I guess this did still occur occasionally in the 2000s like when Alan slapped Sonny’s girlfriend Reese, but it seemed really prominent before then.