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I just finished the show's first season (250+ episodes) and I loved it. Ed and Nelle were killed within a few days. As though someone told TPTB to get rid of the older characters. Nick Szabo vanished as well. His young daughter Reenie briefly appeared and got some scenes with Buckie. It is crazy to think that this girl would turn out to be Brooke English. I like Roger and Dee. Love their scenes. Frank's acting is shockingly bad because of the actor's drinking. Not that crazy about Jack and Mary. KM shines as Mary, but I find the story rather boring. Pat is adorable and who knew, Justin Deas is likeable as Bucky. Jill is stunning and so sophisticated. I never miss her scenes. What I found weird is that Mary vanished from the show for several weeks/months. Delia/Frank/Jillian is the show's big story. I also liked dorky Faith. The Kenneth torture porn story seems as though it came from the network in order to boost the ratings. Nancy Barrett has just appeared and she is captivating. It looks as though the show tries to forget the Kenneth story and nu-Faith seems like Jill 2.0. The family scenes are amazing. HG is the perfect matriarch. It feels like watching a classic play. And the sets are great. Normal people drama is much more fascinating than the problems of the uber rich. PS: I expected Nelle to be revealed as Buckie's mother and her marriage to Seneca to be another version of Kay and Phillip Chancellor.

I thought that Jeremy was paired with Stacey on Loving.

Can I say that GH's hugest problem is Sonny? MB is no longer charming, sexy or charismatic and he can't be treated as the show's lead. I can't see him in a new romance and he is not soap patriarch material. Whenever a writer shows that Sonny is problematic in his writing, he is shown the door. PM and EK's GH was nothing to write home about. But we got some well written scenes. Someone seemed to care enough to try and make characters human. When was the last time Y&R, B&B and DAYS had that? Can well written scenes work with mediocre actors and random characters? That's another thing. Another weird thing I noticed watching GH promos. 80% of the characters featured are over 50/60. The show needs some new blood. And Liz Webber at the Nurses Station.

This I don't understand at all Contessa. Do you mean that they are the modern day Meg and Vanessa Dale? I haven't found Sonny interesting in the last ten years. The Pikeman saga doesn't interest me at all. Heather was gone with Robin Mattson.

Six weeks of random scenes. Some were good, others were just boring. But no real story. It is not as though we were watching early Ryan's Hope, which felt like a play. RH had structure and interesting dynamics. I have to say though, that any writer who doesn't "get" Sonny, will be out of the door, sooner or later. And that's insane.

What was so dramatic about the wedding? I watched the episodes after all the hype and expected to watch... something?

I feel so stupid for still not getting it. My money was on a couple from All My Children.

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?