Sapounopera

Donnatella knows best.

What I understand from all this is that Rauch and Lemay sabotaged their own show by overestimating Wyndham's (or Mac and Rachel's?) star power and getting rid of major parts of AW's fabric. I can't know why they did this, but they messed things up.

How about TodaysMolly?

I know. Neither would I.

Advocating is NLG's life Donnatella.

Please, NO. So Ginge is B&B's Cricket?

What about psycho Andrea?

Sorry, but I can't buy this Nicolas as a sad prince.

You mean Audra.

This is clearly modeled after the UK soaps and this is what poor Ellen Wheeler was going for on GL. I guess they should have hired someone like Mal Young if they were going for this.

This post is disturbing. @GymnastGuy thanks for sharing the Dennis Parker story. It was fascinating and heartbreaking.

I think you are right about that and this is probably the truth about most of the people we are talking about. They opened the way for younger generations by being themselves and we should all be thankful.

Noah's problem is that his parents are written as young people dealing with young people problems. The character had no room to breathe with Nick and Sharon getting the kind of stories he should be getting.

I am not sure most of these people were really in the closet. They just didn't care to expose their personal lives to a very specific audience. GL's Don Stewart did the same thing and didn't mention his wife in interviews.

One should expect not to care for every single post on a message board. I guess some people got upset because they didn't get to kick out a person who didn't fit with their "posting style" or officially moved from highschool to kindegarten drama. BTW I liked the latest posts column, because I got a glimpse from threads I usually don't check and visited them from time to time.

Exactly. Valuable posters have left the board because of these people over the years and now they act all upset about this harmless, (always polite even when attacked) lady? SON is not their private club. I could not agree more with Errol.

Y&R is in desperate need of something like that.

Since we are trying to talk about star billing on soaps... Wasn't Mary Page Keller supposed to get star billing on Another World if she chose to stay with the show? I wonder what Victoria Wyndham thought of that.

Y&R is lucky enough to end up with women like Hilary, Imani and Audra, but they have no idea what to do with them because they are obsessed with a small group of characters. They end wasting them because Victoria, Phyllis, Abby and the rest of the gang. I want to know more about Audra's past. Is that even her real name? Or did she make up a brand new persona to erase her blue-collar past? She could be a new Jill (going after Ashley's Tucker?) and bring some relatives to Genoa City. The show could use some not-80s filthy rich characters.

I can understand someone like Erica Kane getting married as often as Elizabeth Taylor and Zsa Zsa Gabor. But this doesn't work for all soap characters and it shouldn't be the norm When many people have been married more than 5-6 times on a show, it is time for several of them to go (or move to the backburner) and be replaced by new people.

Victor and Nikki on Y&R have been married like fifteen times each.

In my eyes the Lewis family and the Reva obsession ruined GL for me. Prior to them it was a very classy show and all of the sudden beloved characters were leaving and tacky, loud, immoral people were taking their place. They even turned the notorious Vanessa Chamberlain into a Sue Ellen mess. The Coopers were ok at first. Nadine was fun, Harley was a charismatic young girl (the first successful one since Beth), Frank was the typical 80s soap hunk, Buzz was Buzz. They overstayed their welcome and they morphed into something else, but the Lewis clan's impact was far more obvious.

What do we see here?

Carly started out as a fascinated character and ended up a Real Housewife of New Jersey.

Angela was all about the land. I have read somewhere that she was Scarlet O'Hara grown old and I really liked that comparison.