Not caring for Michael Malone & Josh Griffith's OLTL is, I think, the definition of an unpopular opinion. Most, if not all, soap fans who know the show praise them for the AIDS Quilt/Homophobia and "Spring Fling" rape storylines. Others (myself included) never think much about them.

3) I find Robin Strasser to be very one-note most of the time, at least in the last ten years or so.

I would blame that, however, on the writing for Dorian more than I would RS's performance.

Have I ever written a miles-long post about anything?

(Okay, maybe once or twice)

I love Malone as a novelist. I think he's a great writer (in terms of the written word). I think he's had some stellar stories (and many that lots of fans will put in their top ten favorite daytime stories of all time), although I do agree with a few on here that his first tenure was DANGEROUSLY close to being preachy, but I think Gottlieb saved him before he got that far. I think the travesty that happened the second time was MOSTLY his and JG's fault, but to be fair, I do think they were adapting to the Frons-ization of ABC, as opposed to what ABCD was the first time he wrote... and it just wasn't their thing.

This is much better. I'm strangely and all of a sudden interested in this man's work. Because, in theory, he should be an excellent HW, yet he gets so much hate around here. I have yet to determine the full reasons of this Malone paradox.

Conversely, JER gets much love, especially from DAYS and PASSIONS fans; yet I can never fathom why people are so mesmerized by his "work". It's a matter of opinion, I guess.

Conversely, JER gets much love, especially from DAYS and PASSIONS fans; yet I can never fathom why people are so mesmerized by his "work". It's a matter of opinion, I guess.

Yes, that is another very strange thing. Thanks for bringing that up.

-And even though Jason and his "lifestyle" are horribly pimped on GH, I cannot bring myself to hate Steve Burton.

I feel the same way, Cat. I LOVE Steve Burton. His facial expressions are priceless. Any time Jason and Carly are in a scene together, I know SB will provide the goods. And the Emmy for the best 'WTF' face in 2008 goes to...Steve Burton

And the Emmy for the best 'WTF' face in 2008 goes to...Steve Burton

No doubt, he'll thank Monavie in his acceptance speech.

^^ You know he will.

I feel the same way, Cat. I LOVE Steve Burton. His facial expressions are priceless. Any time Jason and Carly are in a scene together, I know SB will provide the goods. And the Emmy for the best 'WTF' face in 2008 goes to...Steve Burton

S&BFan, I didn't even recognize who was in your avatar with VM.

That's BAAAAAAAAAAAD.

:lol:

DAYS

I love Josh Taylor as Roman

Higley is a better writer when Sheffer ever was

I hate the whole "supercouple" thing

Conversely, JER gets much love, especially from DAYS and PASSIONS fans; yet I can never fathom why people are so mesmerized by his "work". It's a matter of opinion, I guess.

I found JER to be a master at balancing story, characters, and he was all about plot and story, not about fanbased oriented coupledom who do nothing but exist without a story (see any couple on GH but in particular Scrubs).

Yes, his stories had force fields and bizarre schemes to control the universe with religious chalices, but I liked that there was a always story and they took twists and turns. You could discuss his shows without talking in terms of pairings. I can't say the same for most soaps.

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Depends on which EP he was paired with LG? Liked. FV? Not.

I just thought the point of the thread was to post the things we think that we KNOW we're in the minority. Saying "I don't like GH since it became all about the mafia" isn't exactly a minority opinion. Although I do give the person who said "I don't think Jeanne Cooper can act" a HUGE thumbs up just for having the b@lls to say it. Seriously.

But okay. I'll throw a few of mine out there:

5) I don't like Spinelli on GH. At ALL. In fact, I find him not amusing or entertaining, but grating, played by a terrible actor, and completely worthless to Port Charles history.

Spinelli annoys the hell out of me. I'd rather watch the mob.

I have more:

B&B

*I like Kyle Lowder as Rick. It took a while to warm up to him because I loved Justin Torkildsen, but I couldn't imagine Torkildsen's Rick with Ashley or Taylor.

*I don't mind Eric & Donna and I hope they work out. As long as we don't have to see them in bed.

*I want Ridge & Brooke to get married again and head straight to the eternal backburner (although I wouldn't mind seeing Ridge in corporate storylines).

*I love Katie and would rather see her as the lead heroine than Brooke.

*Winsor Harmon is the best male actor on the show.

*The assassination of Bridget's character was the writers' fault - not Ashley Jones'.

*I wish the show would be less "campy" and more realistic.

Y&R

*Ashley was not a huge loss and is a better fit at B&B.

*Christian LeBlanc is the best male actor on daytime, period.

*Tracey Bregman and Peter Bergman are highly overrated.

*I didn't mind Ryan Brown as Billy. (Scott Seymour, on the other hand...)

*Christel Khalil is the best actress in her age range in daytime.

*Tammin Sursok should have won that Emmy.

*Michelle Stafford should win an Emmy every year.

I have more:

B&B

*I like Kyle Lowder as Rick. It took a while to warm up to him because I loved Justin Torkildsen, but I couldn't imagine Torkildsen's Rick with Ashley or Taylor.

*I don't mind Eric & Donna and I hope they work out. As long as we don't have to see them in bed.

*I want Ridge & Brooke to get married again and head straight to the eternal backburner (although I wouldn't mind seeing Ridge in corporate storylines).

*I love Katie and would rather see her as the lead heroine than Brooke.

*Winsor Harmon is the best male actor on the show.

*The assassination of Bridget's character was the writers' fault - not Ashley Jones'.

*I wish the show would be less "campy" and more realistic.

Y&R

*Ashley was not a huge loss and is a better fit at B&B.

*Christian LeBlanc is the best male actor on daytime, period.

*Tracey Bregman and Peter Bergman are highly overrated.

*I didn't mind Ryan Brown as Billy. (Scott Seymour, on the other hand...)

*Christel Khalil is the best actress in her age range in daytime.

*Tammin Sursok should have won that Emmy.

*Michelle Stafford should win an Emmy every year.

WORD

WORD

CK is alright. I don't know about best but I don't think she's absolutely horrible as some would like to have everyone believe.

Well, I guess my unpopular opinions are that:

-I could watch Jeanne Cooper read the phone book, even with her slight slur.

Jeanne Cooper is a great actress. I don't know what some expect of her still. She's getting up there in age, but damn is she energetic. Her earlier years on Y&R from what I've seen were brilliant. Love her!

I don't like Erika Slezak of late. She's been such a crybaby (see Asa's funeral: Kevin and Joey's departure; break-up with Charlie).

WORD. I love Slezak, but why do they have Viki wailing all the time. It's downright silly.

Guiding Light

If anything that's happened to this date has been a nail in GL's coffin, it was the loss of Jerry VerDorn and Ross Marler. Not the new format, bad lighting, or no sets. JVD brought an essential dignity to the role and to the show itself that has not been replaced and probably never will be. For all the show's weaknesses and all that the show has lost, that basic sense of dignity that VerDorn, and Charita Bauer before him, brought, has been the biggest loss of all.

While the way in which GL lost Ehlers and Goldin was humiliating, onscreen, the show is far better off without the characters that Gus & Harley had become. They were both overexposed, overwrought, and dramatically exhausted. The show is already less monotonous and annoying with them gone.

Ron Raines is a terrible Alan Spaulding. Every note he hits in his performances is wrong for the character. When the writing was better and Raines shared more scenes with other vets, the problem wasn't so obvious. But I guess it was the beginning of Conboy/Weston and the drugged tea stuff when I started to notice that, absent good writing, Raines' performances were rudderless. He seems clueless as to the actual foundation of the character and seems to play every scene, as written, to the hilt. If Alan is supposed to be doing something dastardly, he's Lex Luthor. If he's supposed to be acting a little nuts, he's Nicholson from Cuckoo's Nest. If he's supposed to be reformed, he comes off like an overgrown hippy who paid way too much attention in Philosophy 101. Alan Spaulding has become a pitiful joke of a character and Raines performances have added to that perception not mitigated it.

Nicole Forrester is far less annoying than Laura Wright. I still hate the character of Cassie but NF is a better actress who is actually capable of subtlety and she doesn't go insanely over-the-top in the simplest of scenes by gnashing her teeth, jutting her jaw, and screaming at the top of her lungs.

Tom Pelphrey, Jonathan Randall, and "Jammy" were all ridiculously overrated and the show is better without them.

Jeffrey and Reva are hideous. This "relationship" has demeaned, debased, and dumbed-down the character of Reva more than anything else ever has. More than AmishReva. More than CloneReva. More than QueenRevita. More than PsychicReva. More than "You're not enough for me" MenopauseReva. Even more than "I'm such a martyr dying of cancer all on my own because I'm too proud and vain to share my pain with my own husband" Reva. He's a vile, unrepentent serial rapist who should've been in prison years ago and off my screen not sucking up airtime in a frontburner pairing. I know alot of KZ's fans go on and on about how popular this pairing is now, but seriously, the show's HH is in the mid 1's, how popular could anything going on right now possibly be?

General Hospital

Luke & Laura were not only overrated and offensive, they were the beginning of the end of soaps. With the success of this couple, the rape=seduction or foreplay concept started burrowing into soap writers heads as a viable story angle and so did many other previous verboten misogynistic acts and behaviors, most of which have been portrayed on GH first but eventually spread elsewhere. Portraying women as becoming romantically entangled with their own rapists was sickening and insulting in 1980 and it's even worse now. Watch ten minutes of GH today and you'll probably hear at least two women called "bitch", "whore", or "slut". After L&L, the entire genre also shifted away from family and community to supercoupledom. Twenty and thirty-something supercouples were all that mattered and characters who weren't in someway attached to them were jettisoned or ignored. Even core families were gutted if they didn't have a member in a supercouple.

Excellence.

BTW I F.ucking LOVE this thread!!!!!!!!!!!