Add Roger and Holly to the mix, perhaps the biggest and most anti-supercouple ever. I just loved them, because underneath all of the dark hatred and shame, you know they loved one another and couldn't function without interacting. They might have had a marriage and sexual realtionship at one point, but most of their time was spent apart, not together.

TOTALLY! Roger and Holly were the rarest of gems - a couple that was romantically linked, and that connection was always kept alive in numerous way, and yet always in a way that never made the audience want to see them back together again (in love as a couple, I mean). I'm hard-pressed to think of another couple on daytime like that.

Not that long ago, CBS Soaps In Depth published their list of the 100 Greatest Couples On CBS soaps. I don't remember the order, but the top four were Y&R's Victor and Nikki, ATWT's Lily and Holden, B&B's Brooke and Ridge, and GL's Josh and Reva. Do you agree with this list? I can think of some substitutions for at least two of these, but what are your thoughts?

SoapsWEB (my site) counted down the Top 300 Couples on Soaps of All Time last year. We had people from 5 or 6 different boards that participated. Our Top 10 were:

1) Bo & Hope (Days)

2) Doug & Julie (Days)

3) Mac & Rachel (AW)

4) Luke & Laura (GH)

5) Mason & Julia (SB)

6) Cruz & Eden (SB)

7) Steve & Alice (AW)

8) Holden & Lily (ATWT)

9) Adam & Nicole (EON)

10) Greg & Jenny (AMC)

You can check out the full lists at http://s15.zetaboards.com/SoapsWeb/forum/3003227/

There are separate posts for each section with photos of the couples if I could find them.

Be watching because at some point this year we are going to run a Top 100 Triangles Competition and see how that goes.

By the way I hate the term supercouples too. And I hate the supercouple writer phenomenon that took over soaps. Part of that was that people were fated to be together forever. Bullshit. If it happens - it happens. But sometimes people just grow apart.

YES! Mason & Julia before Cruz & Eden! There is a God!

TOTALLY! Roger and Holly were the rarest of gems - a couple that was romantically linked, and that connection was always kept alive in numerous way, and yet always in a way that never made the audience want to see them back together again (in love as a couple, I mean). I'm hard-pressed to think of another couple on daytime like that

What's even rarer is that these were two fascinating and complex characters, not simply a complex couple. Roger was arguably one of the most fascinating, complex, and unpredictable villians ever on daytime. Holly (post 1988) was a wonderfully strong, yet incredibly neurotic woman. I don't think we'll ever see another couple like them.