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In your opinion, what is the most improved soap right now?

I personally have to go with OLTL. I can't believe how fast things have turned around for this show. The storylines make sense, the actors are all on their A game, and I'm left wanting more. I haven't felt this way about this show in ages. It's amazing how fast things have turned around. If this momentum continues, OLTL could very well usurp GH as ABC's #1 soap.

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Don't you roll your eyes at me Alvin. :P I dont watch them all but I have seen bits and pieces of it during the week. And no show has really improved. OLTL has the Todd's son stuff which is good....but I dont see anything else.

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Hmmmmm, each soaps has improved but none of them are good.

AMC: They have improved alot but there still alot of work to be done. The Annie story still has been glued, the Crash storyline was great but anything else? Nada.

OLTL: Has improved a ton! But still this Todd storyline is all thats going good for OLTL!

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OLTL and.....DAYS(hides) :P

OLTL is really the most improved soap out there right now. I'm enjoying seeing more characters get airtime and more to say and do. Plus I am in love with OLTL's production values somedays. They are really best lit ABC soap. AMC looks like it's stuck in the 80s and GH looks too dark for my taste.

I would have said GL, because of it's increased airtime for other actors, but the stories and characterizations still stink.

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I'd have to go with OLTL. I have been fast forwarding very little lately!

Anyone else notice how effectively the writers are having cvharacters refer to people and events in their pasts? As a long time viewer, I really appreciate that.

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I agree with OLTL. That Tommy story has caused the most interesting and most evenly divided debates I've on soap boards in recent memory. And like I said before, Kathy Brier and Nathaniel Marston are the most moving couple in daytime because they look like *real people.* They aren't slicked-back, touched-up models. Watching them is like seeing people you know getting their hearts torn out. And they're putting in some very emotionally wrenching performances.

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