Sapounopera

I can only see Nick married to Sharon, running the coffee shop and playing the normal dad to their grown up kids. I love the femme fatale idea, but for another character. How about Noah? He could use a real story for once.

Before we start working on the intro... I want a black Jill Foster type.

Also I don't we need to watch a soap religiously to form an opinion. I watch clips, read opinions, and try to watch full episodes when I can. Or when I am not bored to death.

The wacky villain/psycho, another problem with modern soaps. If "The Writer" is meant to be Ron, he has been gone for years. What have the other writers done with the character? Has Heather's mom Alice Grant been mentioned? She was the Webber housekeeper and another reason the two women should share a connection.

They can always bring back Steven Lars (not Roger Howarth or Michael Easton) and pair him with someone interesting/important in order for Heather's story to make some sense. With Robin Mattson gone, it is very difficult to care for Heather. Or even recognise the woman on screen as Heather. Nothing to do with the actress.

From what I have watched the Allen Potter and Robert Calhoun years were the best eras of the show. I mostly remember parks and (studio) stairs as location.

Blaine was another character who could have stayed around for years. Making her Sandy's boring wife was not the smartest idea, considering that Rich and Frangione had other plans.

Nobody can deny that. It was her GL that lasted until the bitter end. Kissing cousins, SORAS going crazy with Susan Lemay being the same age as Leah Bauer, depressing stories, claustrophobic sets, Reva having another baby, creepy opening, Cooper-mania, yet the show could have been saved... until the new model premiered. I found Otalia boring and overhyped. And after the show got cancelled Crystal Chappell did everything she could to keep the Otalia myth alive. Please... Why should CW be punished for her fillers? She probably likes them, otherwise she would have them dissolved. I am sure she is happy with them. So GL's last season was shot in Ellen's apartment? The walls are so Cedars. Wasn't part of her couch in Alan's office?

The Sheila Show is bad even for B&B standards. The character and the story make no sense at all, even for B&B standards. It is not B&B bad, not fun bad, just bad. Brad Bell needs someone to help him breathe new life into the show. They don't even try out with new characters, it is the same all the time. Some random c-player might show up for a random story and that is it.

I am bored to death with super rich characters, Dynasty was cancelled in 1989. I love having middle class people on soaps, someone very ambitious who wants to enter a (not crazy) rich person's world, people who careers, goals and dreams. I don't get why daytime is still obsessed with tycoons and billionaires. Primetime has more or less given up on them in decades.

Way too many characters. No real umbrella storyline, everyone is just doing their random thing. Joss has no personality. She is just a young blonde, like all these girls on Days of Our Lives. I love the Davis girls dynamics.Thanks to the recasts. I love Laura, Tracy, Alexis, Maxie, I adore Liz. I am ok with Jason. Having Willow work at the hospital was the best thing for the character. She was part of an interesting group/set for once. She looked good in blue. I am bored with Sonny, Dante, Lucy, Lois, Sascha, Cody, Drew, Nina, Curtis, the Chase/Gregory/Finn/whatever his name is/father. Carly slowly turning into Ruby at Bobbie's. The show could use some interesting younger characters. And some structure. The hospital, the mob, Deception, the hotel, the Qs, way too many tiny, different shows.

I just hope that not everybody is crazy rich, people don't have 80s mini series names and nobody dreams of turning the show into a campy farse.

1979 TEON is such a modern soap. I love these episodes. No teens, no big families, just cops, lawyers, reporters.

Thank you so much for your answers. Obviously I had things mixed up. So Tylo's first exit and return was a shock only to soap beginners. I think the show removed her from the opening credits in order to make it more believable. I don't even remember her 1996 exit, I guess it must have seemed final at the time, since she had booked Melrose. Was she gone for months? Did it seem final while watching? Was it around the time the show was teasing Ridge and Lauren?

Can someone please remind me? Hunter Tylo left B&B in order to star on Melrose. Taylor was killed off. After all the drama with Spelling, Tylo returned to the show and Taylor showed up as an amnesiac princess. What was B&B's original plan? Were they planning to recast and bring a new actress after a few months? Bring a new rival for Brooke? I don't think that Ridge and Brooke were meant to be happily married forever.

You must agree that this type of heroine ("The Outsider" Reva, GH Carly, ATWT Carly) has changed soaps and turned them into flashy one-woman-shows. Not everybody loved this change Contessa. Even All My Children was never the Erica show.

Oh God. This is horrible. Days of Our Lives horrible.

However the actor was involved with a Stacey on another show, right?

What a stunning woman. I adored her and always wished that Y&R would keep her around for longer periods of time. RIP.

I think I have asked you before. Do you think that Kim Zimmer could have worked as a recast Hope in 1983? Josh was still a bad boy in 1983, right? Alan/Hope/Josh/Alex could be a little like Jason/Nola/Billy/Mona from THE DOCTORS.

I live in Greece and I got to watch 1980-82 episodes via satelite tv and German network RTL. I was obsessed. After a while a Greek network bought 1985-1987 and I was horrified. The show was unrecognizable. Bad recasts, tacky, trashy characters and a completely different vibe. I still believe that GL lost something valuable when TPTB decided to erase the Allen Potter years and tranform it into something different. After that I only enjoyed the Robert Calhoun era but I never stop keeping up with GL until Wheeler went insane with the new production model.

Like most of todays's shows and films it felt... plastic to me. Nobody cares for atmosphere and artistic view, they just want to appeal to the Netflix crowd. Even Almodovar's three last films have a different vibe, because... platforms.

Don't forget that the show takes place in 2025. Last year nobody could even dream of getting a new soap opera.

In my mind choosing not to recast a part means that they think that the original actor can't be replaced or that they want him back when he chooses to return. Can it be Sean Ward? Can't we keep the Steven name for a Hardy or a Webber?

Exactly. I don't find rich people drama that fascinating in 2024. I hope the show centers on some regular folks as well.