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Anyone have any insight into why GL was "Most Disappointing Show" that year? I was still watching on and off (I was in the military then) so I don't have the recollection to understand what stories were airing, and why SOD thought it was so bad....

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Oh there were some bad storylines that year...Bert's funeral, Reva/Cain, Simon/Jesse(ick!), actually anything related to Simon really, and towards the end of the year we got Paul and Christine Valere...zzzz. I don't know if any of those stories were the reason however, and there were some good moments too like Alan showing up alive at Alex's ball and Josh's return after Reva was hit by a car on her wedding day to Kyle. The first half of 1987 sorta sucked, but by summer and fall of '87 the show started rocking again.

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They were copying GH's Luke & Laura mega-successful formula. And because of Luke Spencer's appeal, the soaps started having a lot of "anti-heroes", the bad boy who isn't altogether bad, falls in love with a "good girl" who sees through his crap...DOOL had a lot of success with Bo Brady and Steve Johnson in the 80s, as well as the creation of supercouples.

Seriously, for anybody that wasn't around during those years, the whole Luke and Laura publicity went way beyond the soap media. I mean, people can debate about whether it all was ultimately good or bad for soaps but it definitely garnered attention for the genre. And GH gained a sort of "hipness" with the younger crowd that somehow, decades later, it still retains some measure of, I think.

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I believe so, but I do know that at this time he was legally married to his first wife Olympia, who was Bo and Clint's mother (Ben's mother was Renee, while David's was Emma Bradley). Anyway, Olympia was pretty crazy at the time and had been locked up.

Asa pretended to be an old sea captian named Jeb Stuart, and wooed Pamela into marrying him. I believe she was sick at the time though. But yeah, they lived on the island and Pamela knew nothing of her husband's true identity.

Later on, after she did learn the truth, she did persuade him to legally marry her (Olympia had died a couple of years earlier in 1981), but not long after she divorced him.

I think I have that all straight.....but if not, don't blame me. This all happened in the early and mid 1980s, and I was born in Dec. 1979, so my memories from this time are a bit fuzzy. :P

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AMC sorta got away from the supercouple action/adventure storyline int he 80s IMHO. Yeah they always had a thwarte dyoung love couple btu that had been their hallmark since Phil/Tara/Chuck/Erica. When one was gone they'd try to have a new one (Nina and Cliff, Greg and Jenny, Jessie and Angie, Tad and Hillary, Nico and Cecily, Tad and Dixie, etc)

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Days was the most popular soap among my elementary and high school classmates, but my favorite daytime shows were the CBS game shows and soaps. I was probably the only person in my school that loved Victor/Nikki over Bo/Hope in the mid-1980s, and Ridge/Caroline over Steve/Kayla in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Re GL's Most Disappointing Show

-meandering plots,failed relationships,fizzled romances.dead ends,and too many false starts.

-behind the scenes chaos-writers and producer changes

-favorite characters left w/o storytlines

-trumped upcomplications to disrupt Kyle/Reva

-loss of Vincent Irizarry(Lujack)

-Philip's novel became a soap within a soap(parody of campy 30's gangster flick)

-Sampson Girl contest(national contest with all finalists fromSpringfield!)

-Jealousy driving factor to create conflict b/w Kurt & Mindy,Rick & Roxie,Maeve & Kyle,Calla & Ross,Vanessa & Billy.Ed & Mo

-Claire's personality so changed that she had to be put in a coma to bring her back to old self when she awoke

-Brawls b/w Hawk and HB for Lillian were too common

-Jackson's mysterious(unexplained) past

-overall characters behaved in unimaginative,recycled manner

-everyone miserable all the time

etc,etc

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