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The eyes start looking more natural after a while. The problem is that these days everybody stays the same age. Thixty. The SORASed children and grandchildren end up being the same age as their parents, they share the same love interests etc. The shows miss the wise older characters because they all -men and women- look like Real Housewives.

I started liking GL again once Robert Calhoun took over in 1989. I don't think that the show needed such a drastic update in 1983. Another World was in much worse shape before Allen Potter, so was Search. GL didn't deserve the trashy Lewis and Shayne families, Jesse, Simon, Jackson, Suzette, Warren, Kurt and all the others. I will never understand how Pamela Long convinced people to let her turn a long running and successful soap into Texas 2.0.

I'd say Jill/Nina is more like Brooke/Amber and Nikki/Sharon. The former wrong side of the tracks girl having to deal with a younger version of herself. Was Trish Clayton created by Bill Bell? Was she a Nikki prototype?

They can always get a modern version of the iconic ambulance intro back.

The show should bring some kids for Tucker. It could really use a new family.

I don't think this is an unpopular opinion. At least they have history and their reunion would make sense. Not to mention that it might help "erase" Sharon's other six marriages. If you are not Erica Kane, after seven marriages you should either be written out, or serve as a talk to. I have seen enough of her love life. The only reason I wouldn't want her written out, is because I really like the actress.

Someone needs to explain to Josh Morrow that his days as the show's hunk are long over and that if he wants to keep his job, Nick must remarry Sharon, run CL with her and be a talk to.

I was shocked to realize that I like DePriest's show better than Marland's.

JFP: the Haircut and the older woman-younger man epic romance. Shows lose their identity and become flat and generic.

Kay has been gone for years and they still don't know what to do with the Chancellor set. Jill should be living there with her much younger husband, who would be see seduced by her paid companion. Now she would be all alone there, after his death and all. Abby and Chance's was so dramatic. Not. The show is losing Mishael Morgan and Imani and they are keeping Abby, Chelsea and Sally. Griffith must be replaced yesterday.

I will never understand how Josh Morrow got hired to play EB and MTS's son.

Eric Forrester legally adopted Donna Logan's grown son Marcus on B&B when they were married. The marriage lasted two years. Donna had known Marcus a few months. These adoption stories are beyond stupid.

First of all, B&B was stupid to name a random character Sally Spectra. Was B&B's Sally2 so important or iconic that Y&R felt the need to bring her to Genoa City? Why didn't the actress come as a new character with no B&B baggage? Griffith sees her as his new Chelsea. Now he gives her a Newman baby.

Don Diamont looks like a telenovela villain.

What I mean is that most DAYS actors change status all the time. By the time an exit is announced, they are back.

Do these things mean anything anymore? Especially on a show like Days.

I have never seen another soap despise its history and legacy the way 80s GL did. All these bigger than life changes might be needed in a problematic soap like AW or SFT, but GL was just fine the way it was.

The pregnancy story is beyond tired. The WTD is so uninspired. Courtney Hope should leave her face alone, she is morphing into a bad Instagram filter for no reason.

Was FMB really that bad? I know all about Susan Batten (and losing Lucinda after a stupid story with James?) but episodes from that era seem watchable to me. I hate the generic young couples, but all soaps are guilty of that. I even preferred her ABC aesthetics to Goutman's. Denise was a very intriguing character who was gone once the next regime tried to turn ATWT into Days.

What if Dark Shadows never switched to the supernatural stuff? I read the bible and found the original stories fascinating. The ratings were not good, but all shows had lousy ratings at first. The first episodes feel like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre meet Peyton Place. Can you see the show changing for the more modern 70s?

We watch them play Monopoly with real money. So dramatic!

Y&R Phyllis is so played out. Same goes for the Newman children. B&B Sheila is way too much of a cartoon character, even for a silly show like this. GH Cameron Mathison. He is not even Drew. He is playing a soapy version of himself. DAYS Casting director, HW and EP.

How does Rudolf Martin look these days? Sometimes Nicolas Chavez reminds me of him.

4. It has become obvious to the co-stars of one leading lady that she feels threatened by the rising storyline prominence of a more recent hire. I want to say Phyllis and Diane so much.

A Mason/Julia/Cruz (emotional) triangle might have carried Santa Barbara after Eden's exit. Carrington Garland's Kelly could have been part of the mix in some way.