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You know in the past... 9 years? I NEVER could watch a full episode of DAYS. It was just too--"stand here and talk" for me--and maybe that's parlty a biase after doign the acting workshop with Roark C when he said that's what they did. But the past week I've seen and enjoyed three whole episodes--mind you I've been home sick with little to do but...

I still think OLTL and maybe even AMC are a bit better--but both shows (particularly AMC) are like a second skin, or comfort food to me so

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I think I know what you mean about DAYS, without your Roark Critchlow experience. For some reason, I just don't enjoy watching it. Never have except for a short time during childhood in the 70's. Back then it was a lot more like Y&R (for reasons we all know)

My best friend keeps telling me how much better AMC has become. I tried it a few days ago and I still can't get into it again. This is a show I adored in the late 70's and through the 80's, even somewhat into the 90's... but it seems lost for me.

Today I saw some GL. Dinah was brain-damaged? Loved seeing Vanessa. Is GL worth recording?

I can only really comment on 3 shows.

B&B has always been a bit of a joke to me, but I record it and watch. I can't say it's any better or worse than it's always been... miss my acqaintance Jen Finnigan (the AMC fan I mentioned was her babysitter. She was a remarkably beautiful child and a really good kid) I watch out of habit.

Y&R was my Mom's favourite show after Another World, and Y&R is floundering.

I've been a secret watcher of OLTL since childhood, mostly because it was the "show that came on before Dark Shadows repeats" and when "AW was boring". In my opinion, OLTL is trying hard to improve itself. I doubt it will ever reach the heights it hit in the late 70's and early to mid 90's, but for me it is the most improved.

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I don't get how or why you're comparing it to those years Ru--should I even ask? lol

TC I know what you mean--keep in midn that, while I've seen many hours and studied as much as I could of AMC (and OLTL) fromt he 80s and 70s I became a soap watcher and an AMC fan when Iw as 10 in 1991, so it was AMC from then till at least 1997 (when Broderick left) that for me was kinda the ultimate soap. So it's probably not quite as unrecognizable for me as it would be if I watched priamrily in the late 70s early 80s.

Oltl's two glory years do seem to be Gordon Russell's late 70s, and Malone/Griffith's first era (until Griffith left around 95).

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