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Agreed. Joey manipulated Donnell into liking him. However even in that context Donnell should be cautious. But he doesn't have the same instincts and/or street smarts that his sister or Kat do. Now I wanna see Deanna and Kat form another dynamic duo.

Guilty as charged. I'm new to daytime soap operas and been trying to research it for a while. All the talk about the supercouples and the action oriented storylines is what made me want to take a peak at Days of Our Lives. I was especially curious about Robert Kelker-Kelly's Bo and Lisa Rinna's Billie.

Notes: -If Tomas is killed then there won't be any hispanic characters around. I'm black so I don't care but I can tell that the show wants to check off the boxes of having at least one hispanic character. So in that sense we could be stuck with Tomas for a while. -I prefer Carlton with Nicole. I would like to see Kial drift towards the Impaler storyline. Him and Ashley's boyfriend could be desperate circumstances together I guess. I would also like to see him get into some s*** with Joey and Vanessa. Especially if the truth comes out about Joey killing Doug. Kial being there to scoop up Vanessa would be kind of crazy. -The easter wardrobe was tope tier. Even Hayley came in looking fly. -Anita being determined to have a moment of joy by hanging out at the country club for easter is great. -I'm still deciding whether or not I want to see Caroline try to social climb and get Bill for herself. -I hope Deanna continues giving Vanessa the business. Vanessa lying about starting her affair with Joey while Doug was alive was a terrible decision. And Donnell going along with it was weird.

This is the suggestion of yours I liked. On the surface it seems like traditional soap opera stuff like your other suggestions. However the fact that black people are involved is what subverts things. The uncomfortable and frustrating subtext of violence happening at a bougie black event. The fact that Smitty, a white gay liberal would be shot would make it even worse. The Duprees would worry about Smitty of course. But the way that the Duprees would have to try to clean up the publicity of that would be frustrating and very real. I agree. Between her and Darlene I'm all the way curious now. Sidenote: Someone in a youtube comment described Caroline as Bill's henchwoman. I would be interested in a social climbing Caroline deciding to go after Bill for herself. Caroline vs Hayley and Caroline vs Dani would be nasty ass feuds.

The only way I could the Duprees fighting each other is if Anita or Vernon have a cousin or sibling who are the matriarch or patriarch of their particular side. Whoever the cousin or sibling and their subsequent kids and grandkids are would have to be lower middle class and less bougie. Otherwise creating an entirely separate core family will be the way to go.

I wish Steve Webber, Sarah Webber, and Tom Hardy Sr could come back. No I don't care that Steven already returned 2 years ago. Do it again. The first time I was sifting through what I could find on youtube I liked them. I would love to see what would happen if Elizabeth and her sons could interact with all of them again. Even if her sons are written without personalities I would be curious about the family and hospital history coming to the forefront again.

Yeah the GH sets from the 90s and 2000s were awesome. I guess B&B can't slack due to the premise of the show, being located in Los Angeles and it's all about fashion. Yeah I'm serious. Rich people (or people married to rich people) have no excuse for living in blank spaces.

Unpopular Opinion: The only positive thing about Bill and Hayley is where they live. The interior design is actually cool, the furniture is just too close to the ground. There's nothing tacky about what the place looks like. And honestly real interior design is supposed to be tacky. This constant need for everything to be "tasteful" is exactly why white, beige, and gray became popular and it sucks.

Good comparison. I'm up for all the mess that Joey, Marcel, and Leslie are gonna bring. Leslie becoming a female gangsta in her own right would be a good way to get an individual rivalry between her and Vanessa to escalate. On another note: I want a episode or two of June, Regina, and Samantha spending time together.

I'm gonna say this and I don't care who's offended: just because the characters are black doesn't mean they should always be put into typical hero vs villain dynamics. Matter of fact the daytime soap operas have fallen behind because they still try to adhere to hero vs villain or anti hero vs villain stuff regardless of race. Stop being obsessed with characters being "likeable" or "easy to root for".

Spencers (and sometimes Webbers) vs Cassadines. Spencers infighting amongst themselves. Cassadines infighting amongst themselves. Quartermaines infighting amongst themselves. Erica Kane vs Kendall Hart. Sami Brady vs Kate Roberts. Vivian Alamain vs Carly Manning.

Considering how nasty Luke and Bobbie's childhoods and teen years were it's totally believable that she would be obsessed with power. I wouldn't want to see that explored through the sham marriage to Stefan though. Matter of fact now that I think about it an argument could be made the Spencers obsess over power just as much as the Cassadines but Spencers aren't as bougie about it. Thank you for giving Stefan and Katherine their just dues as a couple. The show should've kept that going. The show didn't write themselves into a corner like they thought when it comes to Katherine's amnesia and Helena being her overlord. There was a way to fix that instead of killing her.

How General Hospital has been around so long with all those nurses, doctors, and cops yet no firefighters is so strange to me. The PC Fire Department is one of the biggest missed opportunities for that entire soap opera I swear. Especially back when they were doing those large scale disaster storylines in the 2000s, at least 3 separate firefighter characters could've been a part of the show. And if they needed an already established character to be one Mac or Lucky could've been. Also the EMT aspect could work if they had one of the doctors decide to do it to switch their routine and take that position at the firehouse. I could see Emily pulling that mess and Nikolas stressing over precious Quartermaine princess being "out in the field".

Agree with the hospital and police station stuff. I enjoy it. But should the ChelseaKat rival be black or not black? And should the rival be someone who makes unique designs or should they be a rival that dupes/copies ChelseaKat? The subtext of that rivalry could change depending on those two things.

For some reason the Beyond the Gates cast insists on using TikTok and I don't get why. TikTok is largely responsible for young people having no attention span. Soap operas are a genre where people have to actually pay attention. As for the use of other platforms I agree with you though. Especially about Youtube. I have also noticed that soap opera photoshoots are terrible. All soap operas need to invest in better photo shoots honestly. Or hire a graphic designer to make moodboards for specific characters. I don't know. Something.