Yep RC is a hack writer too. Let me add my to the OLTL praise. RC is incredibly overrated.

I think Days is a much better soap than OLTL, as is Young and the Restless. Young and the Restless is boring right now, however. You know maybe the new writer needs to adopt the RC excuse and say she is still cleaning the previous mess. Regardless, the show is dull. Like others I don't agree rolling out stars from 20 years will make that big a difference. I would like Dru back, however. The show needs more interesting stories right now.

In my opinion AMC is improving a lot faster than the over-hyped RC's show. I hate the mob violence on GH, but even that show has better chemistry between characters that they pair together (Lulu and Johnny example) than does OLTL. It also is more creative. I sounds like I need to DVR B&B some day. I had given up on it after seeing the same show for two decades.

As for the ratings, ouch.

I so agree. RC is doing The Best of The 80s. We're in 2008 RC is stuck in the 80s. But he suppose to be this good writer. I'm glad the ratings tell me the truth. RC is just a hack.

Edited May 21, 200817 yr by MoTheGreat

Oh, that is a GREAT one!

Do you think Westerns REALLY died? Or do you think action shows, like Alias or 24, became the inheritors of the "lone hero saves the day amongst a small community of compatriots" genre?

Because if you believe (as I do) that "24" is a modern Western, then I think that tells the tale of the soap of the future: Looks nothing like it used to, but the evolved genre continues.

i would consider those shows the new modern TV westerns, along with the cop type shows that follow the formula of the western.

i do think the daytime drama could die 100% then one day it would emerge and come back, it could not, but then again it could.