ALL: Worst year(s) for your soap

[DevotedToAMC]

What year or years have been the worst for your soap? I will start out with AMC

I find 1998 and 2006 to be a tie for the worst year of AMC....for 1998, the stories were too plot driven (Palmer stealing Nazi art, Mateo's visions, Camille as a ghost and involved with Adam's past, the poison tattoo, Kit's rape) and there were very few stories that actually worked (ones that did, to me, were Adam/Liza, Ryan/Gillian, Stuart/Marian, Bianca battling anorexia but that was from Lorraine Broderick, Brooke's trial, and Dixie's return). Overall it just did not feel like AMC for me in 1998....at least on the flip side to this was the veterans were shown

Now for 2006, again the stories did not do well (Dixie's return, St. Ryan in every story, Jonathan/Lily, Terry the molester, Unabortion, Tad being Greg's killer and the entire Greg Madden murder mystery) and that same year they pushed full steam ahead to rewrite a very pivotal historical storyline in AMC's history and we all know which story I am talking about. What did work (Zach/Kendall, Zoe/Bianca, Satin Slayer, The Mardi Gras Ball, Janet's reign of terror) just did not measure up over the bad so the bad outweighed the good....but 2007, AMC has thankfully picked up the pace and improved

And what I find interesting with both these years is guess who was the head writer for each one...Megan McTavish! How interesting

[RuAsRuAnAu]

Worst Years For...

DOOL: 2000 (Langan/Teen lust), 2001, 2002 (Cwikly/Brash=overrated), 2003 (Higley/JER/SSK), 2004, 2005

AMC: 2005 (Summer 2005-The Dragon) & 2006 (Unabortion/aborted fetus)

B&B: 2004 (Brooke lust, Round 20) & 2006

ATWT: 1995 (Stern/Black), 2006 (Teen slasher)

OLTL: 1999 (McTavish), 2000 (McTavish), 2002, 2003 (Malone/Griffith), 2004, 2005

GH: 1991 (Palumbo/Monty/Eckerts), 2001, 2005

GL: 1995 (Megan McTavish), 1998 (Clone Reva/Esensten/Brown), 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006

Y&R: 2001 (Summer of 2001 was BORING to the max/E.J.Scott/Neil's alcoholism)

Passions: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

The City 1995, 1996, 1997

Port Charles 2000 (Hamner), 2001, 2002, 2003

[NYC123]

AMC: 1998, 2006

DAYS: 2004,2005,2006,2007

OLTL: 1999, 2000

[tanyia2]

GUIDING LIGHT

The Wheeler/Kreizman years-2004-current

[d_wsb]

the year of jiz! does that count

[Ponz]

Lots of candidates for DAYS:

1999-2000: Evil Gina, Subsex, Carrie/Mike on the floating bed, rapid sorasing of Belle/Shawn/Philip/Brady, Virtual Eden.

2003: The dreaded Higley months followed by the firing of numerous vets.

2005: Iraq, Stan, John is a druggie, Marlena/Roman, Chloe's plastic surgery adventures, Chelsea is Georgia, Austin/Sami/Carrie/Lucas redux, Jack arranging for Frankie to take his place.

2007: Touch the Sky, Santeen, a non-existent "vendetta" based on ret-conned history, Sami "torn" between her husband and rapist, sidelining of the big 4.

I left out 2001 because of the Salem bombings/Bridge collapse, 2004 because of the Sami/Lucas romance & 2006 because August-December was decent. Overall, these were also crap years.

2002 was awesome.

[Harleyquinn]

OLTL 1999-present

[Harleyquinn]

OLTL 1999-present

[NYC123]

I actually think that OLTL has been good so far.

[Pine Charles]

1998 was pretty bad for AMC, but even that seems decent compared to what we got from 2005-2006 (save Janet From Another Planet). I would also say that 2001 was a bad year for AMC with Passanante.

[Cheap21]

AMC: 2002, 2006. Those are the years I actually dropped AMC bc it got so bad.

GH: 2003. The year of the Mob 4. Those 2 couples dominated and brought the show down

OLTL: 2004. I think this was the year of the Santis. Nuff Said

Y&R: 2007. This year has been a complete mess

[Faulkner]

Y&R - 2007: This show has always been my one last hope for daytime, but watching the show this year is almost like watching a death. I fear the show will never recover from this. LML has RUINED this show.

AMC - 2006: See my comment for Y&R, and plug in JHC/McT for LML.

[EricMontreal22]

I actually think that 2000-2001 of AMC was the worst for me even though we still had some of the last full Bianca coming out episodes which were great. This was basicallyw hen Agnes Nixon left her brief return and Jean Passanante was in charge of the whole show. We had... Libidizone, psycho Leslie COulson, "Dog Boy", Mindy, meathead and the other giggly e popping teens, PSYCHO LAURA character assassination (all for a man), Ghost Gillian and her merry adventures (which involced possessed Opal for a bit)

Am i forgetting something?

[EricMontreal22]

I didn't like any of Dena Higley's stuff on OLTL even the bright lights other fans saw--I actually prefered the Santis and the end of Malone's period... However I think the period right between Malone's first era and the Labines stuff (which wasn't great but at least the show was fun to watch) with I believe Leah Laiman and Jean Passanante (there she is again) as HWs was pretty awful, even worse than the show under JFP

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[RuAsRuAnAu]

If 2002 was that bad for you on AMC, why not 2001, which was a worse year? The same goes for 2005.

2003 for GH was a good year. If you didn't like 2003, then what about 2001 (McTavish) & 2005 which were clearly worse. The "Fab Four" got blamed for everything under the sun concerning GH.