Unpopular Opinions

[detroitpiston]

Kimberly McCullough is highly overated and one of the most bland, stale and one note actresses in Daytime.

Ingo Radamacher is a terrible actor and is in the wrong profession

GL ain't that bad most of the time

Maura West is okay

Finola Hughes can be rather annoying at times

Rick Springfield just needs to go away

I like Genie Francis, and don't think rude for her to go to the media and tell it like it is

Rebecca Budig is a good actress, stuck in a old and tired role that needs to just go away

Jeanne Cooper could use a few acting lessons

Eric Braeden isn't as obnoxious and arrogant as he's made out to be

Laura Wright is the shiz, and people just need to except that

David Tom is a terrible actor

[Ms. Chandler Quartermaine]

For me...........

GH:

1. Vanessa Marcil and her character Brenda are MAJORLY OVERRATED - Vanessa Marcil is an over-hyped, one-note actress, who leans on GH as a life support when her Primetime dealings fall through. Im tired of the Brenda rumors, will someone just kill the character so we won't ever have to hear about her "return" ever again. If VM was so good and so great than her ass would be able to hold on to a primetime job and would never have to limp back to GH when it falls through. There was a GH before Brenduh and after Brenduh..so stay gone VM we don't need you or Brenda back. People act like this woman is the second coming of jesus

2. Laura Wright...please be a dear and take an early retirement...im tired of looking at her pissy face routine everyday.

3. Spinelli is a pointless character..his act has become tired.

4. JMB's Lulu has to be the one of the worst GH characters to ever grace our screen...she makes me miss Skipper the Stripper aka Courtney Matthews....ugh

5. Steve "Time has not been kind" Burton hasn't aged well..........boyfriend looks a hot mess!

OLTL

1. Tangeline was amazing...simply amazing!

2. I just dont buy JPL in any "hetero" romances lol!

ATWT

1. Either Van Hansis forgot how to act, or he is actually an amazing actor fooling us into believing he cannot act(does that make sense...)

2. ATWT messed up by not going with Kevin/Luke....now those two had angst and a good build up...but instead we get Nuke..ugh

[Laurie]

AMC

Don't see anything special about Rebecca Budig. To me, she is just an okay actress

Really like Annie

Megan McTavish was better than B&E. Yes some of her stories were bad but I never got to the point, where I was happier turning off my t.v then watching.(thanks B&E!)

GH

Over Tony Geary

ETA: Another GH unpopular opinion...love Jerry, love him with Alexis

ETA 2: AMC uo-Like Krystal. Like her with both Adam and Tad. Liked Alexa's Babe and like Amanda's take

[P.J.]

Well, y'all are taking the fun out of my NUKE SUCKS declaration. But I'll go a step further...Van's acting is just b-a-d...bad, bad, bad.

Martha Byrne's acting was overrated.

I respect Jon Hensley, but he isn't leading man material. And throwing this plum story at him won't revitalize his character.

The most interesting part of the Stewart/Hughes feud remains Kim/Susan. The rest of it is mostly bunk.

Katie needs to leave, and take her whipped puppy Brad with her. Katie sucks the brain out of every man she's paired with. She's a freakin' vampire.

I'm okay with Parker being such a disillusioned kid. He's more interesting than 99% of soap kids.

[NYC123]

AMC

Rebecca Buding can outact MCE and Alicia.

I love Greenlee more then Annie and Kendall

Zendall is sooooo boring.............

Alicia Minshew overacts ALOT.

ATWT

Nuke sucks now. Boring!

B&B

The show has gotten boring agian.....

GH

I like Claudia Zachara

[Greg's GL]

CVP is over-rated and over the top. She sucks.

Van Hansis - Ditto CVP.

Gloria isn't half bad.

GL isn't bad ALL the time.

B&E weren't that bad on GL.

I loved the Reva Clone/Dolly SL.

I like the Reva movie SL.

I can't stand Daniel Goddard.

Amelia is growing on me as Victoria.

Josh Morrow is only good to look at. Can't act for crap.

I like the addition of Tyra.

I like Jana.

I like Sabrina.

I liked John Conboy's GL.

Paul Rauch wasn't half bad on GL.

[lurknomore]

- I have tried many, many times to watch Y&R and have never made it through an entire episode. I think its possibly the most boring soap opera on the air.

- I know that Alicia Minshew isn't a great actress, but I don't care. I find her infinitely watchable anyway. She's a chemistry machine, she's beautiful, she's got tons of presence, and Kendall is a good fit for her. That's enough to carry her through a long, successful soap career. Ask Susan Lucci.

- I still love Zendall. Their chemistry is insane, they look gorgeous together, and the characters' have a great soap backstory. Their story (or rather. LACK of story) is proof positive to me that AMC is doomed.

- I love Carly and Holden on ATWT. I know it will never last, but I'm going to enjoy every last minute of what I get.

- I finally get what everyone says about RC's writing on OLTL - he's making me think a Todd/Marty/John/Blair quad could work, and that's just ALL kinds of wrong, on ALL kinds of levels.

- Scrubs on GH bored me from day one. I thought Jason Thompson had better chemistry with Becky Herbst, and I mourn the Jason/Robin/Patrick/Liz quad that will never be almost as much as I mourn the Lucky/Liz/Nik triangle that will never happen.

- Carly should have been written out with Sarah Brown, because NO other actress playing the role has hit the underlying insecurity that was they only thing that made the character bearable to watch.

[Queen]

With Adrian Bellani playing Miguel and Mark Cameron Wystrach as Fox, they were the hottest couple on any soap. Hotter than NUKE will ever be.

[Graciecat]

I would rather watch GL than Y&R. I can only think of one vaguely likable character on Y&R (Jack), and the show is painfully dull.

Say what you will about Guiding Light, but at least they're innovating, and the cast is so brilliant that I think it works.

I don't really get Scrubs. I mean, they're okay, and I would rather watch them than Carly, Sonny, or Jason, but they're generally dull and repetitive, and I don't see any of the chemistry others see. They're like blank space.

I wasn't bothered at all when GH took Jackie Zeman off contract. She was never a talented actress, her face is hard to look at, and she'd been relegated to propping Carly.

I also wasn't bothered when AMC sent Brooke English off into the Martin attic. Talented actress, but was there any point to Brooke anymore?

I don't think Steve and Kayla are needed on the DAYS canvas. I like the actors, but they have nothing to do. I would much rather see Stephen Nichols bring Stefan back to GH.

I wish DAYS would just drop Dee Hall. John is WAY more fun without Marlena, and DH just always seems so smug to me.

[All My Shadows]

AMC

~ I loathe Zendall, I'll never ever ever take a sip of that Kool-Aid.

~ Alicia Minshew can't cry to save her life, and she's a mediocre actress at best.

~ Thorsten Kaye showed more emotion when Zach was involved with Maria/Maureen, and I didn't like that pairing either.

~ I love Aidan, but the writers have wasted the character in epic ways. I haven't liked any of his pairings much at all since he was with Kendall.

~ Cameron Mathison is a great guy, and I won't transfer my feelings for his character on to him.

~ Ryan isn't that bad. Granted, he was a better character the first time around, but he's not horrible now.

~ Kendall deserved to be a blubbering idiot when Ryan and Greenlee got married in 2004. You scheme and lie, the [!@#$%^&*] catches up to you (and I don't care if this character or that character schemes and lies too).

~ I don't understand how if Greenlee or Ryan do something stupid, the characters are bashed, but if Kendall or Zach do something stupid, the writers are bashed.

~ Susan Lucci is the only reason why Erica is still on the show. I love Erica and always will, but TPTB would have dumped her ages ago if played by a lesser-known actress.

~ I loved Babe before the baby switch (some people couldn't stand her because she cheated on her husband with his brother....you know, because that is SUCH an unheard of thing in daytime...GMAB).

~ If introduced during a better period of the show under better writers, Krystal could have become a long-running, beloved character.

~ Ritchie is/was insignificant and never important to anything.

~ I loved the Kendall/Ryan/Greenlee triangle in 2003/early 2004. It took a nosedive after the wedding.

~ I hated all of Bianca's pairings.

~ Loved a lot of the smaller, brief, random pairings like Maggie/Jamie, Reggie/Joni, Tad/Lysistrata, and Adam/Mary.

~ Laura Allen wasn't horrible.

~ I hate the Santos family, except for Julia. I hated Edmund and Maria, and I couldn't stand their kids (though I liked Sam after SORASing).

~ Ava wasn't terrible at first.

~ The FilmLook is still there, I can see the difference, and two years later, it still sucks.

~ Fusion is pointless and needs to go.

~ I like "New Beginnings."

~ Agnes Nixon isn't senile.

ATWT

~ Nuke sucks. Horrible. Ridiculous. Much (NOT ALL) of their popularity stems from some (NOT ALL) of their fans' desire to relive their youth vicariously through the characters (that hurts, I know, but it's what I think). No matter how horribly written the storyline is (and it's been written horribly), as long as Noah and Luke end up together, the fans are going to eat it up.

~ Maddie had every right to open an epic can of whoop-ass on Noah (not because he's gay; because he cheated on her).

~ Van Hansis isn't a horrible actor. He was amazing in 2006, but as long as Luke is stuck in this dumb storyline, he can kiss any hope for an Emmy good-bye.

~ Luke, as a character, was much better in 2006, even when he was on the backburner. They gayed him up for Noah big time.

~ Marnie Schulenburg is great as Alison and fits the show well. I can't buy her as a porn star/meth addict though; she's too adorable.

~ Aaron and Alison are a great pairing and always interest me.

~ If Rosanna comes back, I'll gladly take her place in her coma.

~ Paul and Meg have been a force of boredom for two and a half years.

~ I love Kelley Menighan Hensley and the character of Emily Stewart.

~ Jade was orgasmic, but horribly written.

~ I loved Gwen for a very long time. When Jennifer Landon stopped caring, so did I.

~ Roger Howarth is a cringe-worthy actor and feeds the soap actor stereotype.

~ Jack and Carly aren't destined to be a couple.

~ I don't understand how if most of the other characters do something stupid, the characters themselves are bashed, but if Carly does something stupid, the writers are bashed.

~ Vienna has outstayed her welcome tremendously.

~ The teens' trip to Branson was fun and interesting for what it was.

~ Dylan Bruce isn't terrible, and no, I'm not just saying that because he seduces me every time he appears on screen.

~ Hogan Sheffer was such a bad fit for ATWT. He fit DAYS more than he fit ATWT.

~ I don't think Jean Passanante is as much to blame for the show's current state as people think she is.

~ The Hughes family isn't as ignored or dead as people think...the writing just needs to be better and one or two family members should return.

~ The Stewarts are an extremely important part of the show's history and if any family is being ignored, it would be them.

~ Even as a child, I never liked the show's business storylines...back then, it was because I was too young to understand them, but now, it's because I see ATWT as a very domestic soap.

[baller]

Shows cater too much to fanbases. For example, Nuke from the START.

The internet is actually not an accurate representation of fans.

AMC

I too think that McT got a bad wrap, and he work wasn't as bad as people said.

I'm glad they recasted Colby.

B&B

I actually want Eric and Donna to work out.

[sudz4u]

On AMC, Michael Lowry was a much, much better Jake than Ricky Paull Goldin. RPG is 100% wrong for the part and I predict that Beth Ehlers is only going to make it worse.

[MTSRocks]

You gave me another one, I think the cast of GL "today" is highly overrated.

[MarkH]

Nuke should have been the best, freshest thing on daytime. It should have grown viewership. Instead, corporate timidity and writers with no sense of narrative killed it.

Some soap should start over and DO THIS STORY RIGHT.

The baby-stealing two-soap story was one of the most exciting of this decade. I found it well written, and the umbrella story was remarkably intergenerational and used many vets. It also made me feel. McT gets full credit for that.

ETA: You know what I love about this thread? It empowers us to use SON as it was MEANT to be used...to freely express our opinions without threat of negative judgment, incivility. This is a thread asking for opinions--especially the contrarian ones we mostly bury in favor of safer group think--and boy are they coming! The thread is doing a remarkable job of inspiring passion and analysis. Thank you so much Graciecat for this inspired exercise!

[S&BFanForLife]

I love this thread

GH:

I HATED Courtney

I loved Robin and Stone

I loved Robin and Jason Part 1

Loved SB and TB's Carly. LW is ok but she yells her lines too much.

I liked Sonny and Emily

I liked Nik and Emily

I don't like Sam

I loved the first AJ

I liked Sonny with TB's Carly

I hate Sonny and Kate (Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz)

I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED Ric&Liz

I don't care too much for Liason

I didn't like JaSam

I was not a Ric and Alexis fan

I can do without CarJax

The Jason and Sonny pairing has ran it's course.

I use to love Lulu now I can't stand her

Maxie ROCKS!!!

I love Diane and Max

Nadine puts me to sleep

I love Johnny but I hate JoLu

I loved Georgie and Dillon

I miss Lorenzo and Skye

Jagger was fine as hell

I don't really like LuSam but they are HOT

Spin's hair drives me crazy!!

I loved Lorenzo and Carly (Tamara Braun). They were so HOT!!!!!

I liked Skye and Luke