10 hours ago, Liberty City said:

Honestly, I would have liked Chuck Pratt, Jr as head writer.

If nothing else, I agreed with him that the show needed to "pull back" and build on the small-but-loyal audience they had rather than spend time and money on splashy stunts that did nothing for the show in the end. In the end, I think what hurt SuBe was what hurt SaBa, THE CITY and even PASSIONS to some extent; it was TOO different. A soap that's trying not to be like every other soap to the point of ignoring or setting aside the basic building blocks, such as the show revolving a limited number of families who are connected through business and/or romance, will never appeal to the average soaps fan who comes looking for those very things that you say are old hat; and whether anyone cares to admit it or not, THOSE are the kinds of fans a soap needs to survive.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Khan

5 minutes ago, Khan said:

If nothing else, I agreed with him that the show needed to "pull back" and build on the small-but-loyal audience they had rather than spend time and money on splashy stunts that did nothing for the show in the end. Instead of settling down and becoming a more "traditional" soap, it just grew wackier and that was so not the solution, lol.

For me, its earlier look worked much better for the serial as a whole. Then it changed and looked more like a traditional soap, which just made it... fade. I also do not know if Gary Tomlin was the right person to be executive producer. I am so curious how H. Wesley Kenney would have fared had there not been creative differences.