I was using dial access until just last WEEK, and I thought I was literally the last person in the world.

Go you!

Oh, okay, well then now I'm the last one. I think I'll come back to SON later. I want to spend the next three hours downloading a five minute clip of old school AMC

1. OLTL- Just to put a smile on Shane's face.

2. B&B- Heard great things about it. Now that I am watching not too great. But still #2.

3. AMC- Has been good as of late. I dont see that lasting though.

4. DAYS- Seen bits and pieces. Seems the same show to me.

5. ATWT- My show...poor ATWT..

6. Y&R- The soap totally sucks. It was close to being #7 on my list.

7. GH- Too much violence...bad pairings.

8. GL- Sucks dog do do....worst writing ever....bad production values...just horrible....bad...bad...bad....

Although Y&R is the soap I grew up watching, OLTL is blowing all other soaps out of the water!

Ditto !!

The best shows:

1. OLTL

2. Y&R

The rest of the soaps I'm not that into currently. B&B is better than most. But I've always disliked this show. It's just too one-note and repetitive.

The worst

1. GL

2. GH

I'm not sure anybody could possibly NOT pick OLTL as their #1, even if they DON'T watch the show and never have. This isn't about our "favorite" soap, but the "best" soap - and even if you don't watch OLTL, you can clearly see they have the most satisfied fans overall right now.

For years in the 90's I never watched Y&R. But I could acknowledge it was the "best" soap on the air because the majority of fans never had many complaints about it. Maybe it wasn't my favorite soap, but it was "the best".

Finally, some objectivity! Y&R has always been and, still is, my all time favorite soap. That doesn't mean I don't think OLTL is 10 times better than Y&R right now. Hell, even B&B is too.

Finally, some objectivity! Y&R has always been and, still is, my all time favorite soap. That doesn't mean I don't think OLTL is 10 times better than Y&R right now. Hell, even B&B is too.

Well, you can't really argue with "Because I love it" as a reason why something's the best. Then we'd all just be going around in circles and this would be a very frustrating bulletin board. The best thing to do in the world of soaps is remain objective. At least that's my opinion. I think otherwise, these threads end up degrading into "I like THIS better", "Well, I like THAT better" and we all end up sounding like a couple twelve year olds. (Apologies to those out there who really ARE twelve years old. )

Well, you can't really argue with "Because I love it" as a reason why something's the best. Then we'd all just be going around in circles and this would be a very frustrating bulletin board. The best thing to do in the world of soaps is remain objective. At least that's my opinion. I think otherwise, these threads end up degrading into "I like THIS better", "Well, I like THAT better" and we all end up sounding like a couple twelve year olds. (Apologies to those out there who really ARE twelve years old. )

thats true but if you love oltl can one really pull themselves back and be objective? and even if they can its still only a matter of opinion. thats the great thing tho about this world. everyone is able to form and share there own personal opinion about things, and very few things are fact in terms of best vs worse or anything like that.

people can honestly feel OLTL is an awful show right now and GL is amazing. doesn't make them wrong... just means they have a diff view and opinion.

Upthread I sort of snarkily suggested I couldn't be objective. OLTL is my current favourite even if I know it hasn't been at the top of its game for a long time. Had this question been asked of me a few years ago I would have said Y&R, but OLTL would still have been my soap "home". Other times I might have said ATWT, or B&B, and back in the 80's I would have said AMC - but still come home to OLTL.

Upthread I sort of snarkily suggested I couldn't be objective. OLTL is my current favourite even if I know it hasn't been at the top of its game for a long time. Had this question been asked of me a few years ago I would have said Y&R, but OLTL would still have been my soap "home". Other times I might have said ATWT, or B&B, and back in the 80's I would have said AMC - but still come home to OLTL.

I thought I was the only one in the world who considers one soap, and only one, to be a "home" soap. AMC, without a doubt, is my home soap. It's the soap that I've spent hours on top of hours on top of hours doing research on, reading yearly summaries over and over again, watching clips over and over again, etc. It's not that I don't love any of the other soaps a whole lot, but no other soap at all can give me that particular feeling that AMC can. When I think about my show and all of its history, most of which I wasn't even a viewer for, I tend to get just a little bit teary-eyed.

thats true but if you love oltl can one really pull themselves back and be objective? and even if they can its still only a matter of opinion. thats the great thing tho about this world. everyone is able to form and share there own personal opinion about things, and very few things are fact in terms of best vs worse or anything like that.

people can honestly feel OLTL is an awful show right now and GL is amazing. doesn't make them wrong... just means they have a diff view and opinion.

Very true, JP. I was trying to take a step back and look at it objectively though (hence why I put Days in my top 4. If it were my own personal list, it wouldn't be). But you're so right - there are people out there right now who can't get enough of GL right now and that it's the greatest soap on the air. And I'd hope they'd also be able to see that even though they feel that way - the majority of the fans do not.

I guess I was just trying to keep opinion out of it, and rate the "best soaps of 2008" by general fan outlook and how they're perceived on a whole by the vast majority of threads I read on this and other boards. Which is this list I posted earlier:

1) OLTL

2) B&B

3) AMC

4) Days

5) Y&R

6) GH

7) ATWT

8) GL

But if I do it based off of my opinion of what "best" is, I'd have to say:

1) OLTL

2) Y&R

3) B&B

4) GH

5) AMC

6) ATWT

7) Days

8) GL

First and last would be the same, but the rest are different. Oh, how fun making lists is!!

I thought I was the only one in the world who considers one soap, and only one, to be a "home" soap. AMC, without a doubt, is my home soap. It's the soap that I've spent hours on top of hours on top of hours doing research on, reading yearly summaries over and over again, watching clips over and over again, etc. It's not that I don't love any of the other soaps a whole lot, but no other soap at all can give me that particular feeling that AMC can. When I think about my show and all of its history, most of which I wasn't even a viewer for, I tend to get just a little bit teary-eyed.

It's almost like family, in that we can't really choose after a while. Love them or hate them, it's where we belong, who we know best, who we feel most comfortable with. Not necessarily the best show. Lord knows I could think of better families than mine, and other people's friends often seemed to have fewer faults.

Days is the only soap I keep up with all the time.