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Why should the soap press (or the soap fans, for that matter) stop being critical of the genre just b/c they're only four soaps left and the soaps are their proverbial bread and butter? If the criticism is "constant," maybe that's b/c the product TPTB keep handing us does not warrant praise. Just a thought.

Who said we were clamoring for those things? All we ever really clamored for, by my estimation, was good story. If TPTB think we wanted all that other [!@#$%^&*], then they must've received some bad information.

Probably. But that's presuming viewers sit down and watch the entire hour, including commercials, when we all know that isn't the case anymore. Thanks to DVR's and such, people can skip them, along with other things; and we know that the average episode of a soap runs no more than 40 minutes, if that. So, IOW, here's yet one more person from the industry who keeps saying "Soaps are dying, b/c the world is changing!," and yet is ignorant at the same time about how it's changing.

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McTavish's GH was nothing compared to Guza/Pratt or Guza alone - whoever did the interview probably just didn't want to badmouth a current headwriter.

Where is all this "constant criticism"? The soap press has become far more sycophantic in the last ten years. Where did it get soaps? Right down the craphole.

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McTavish was at GH from 2001-2002, give or take. Her run wasn't good but was ten times anything since.

I laughed at the "begged for movie stars" line. That's an example, yet another example, of how out of touch the industry is. THEY wanted movie stars, because THEY are ashamed of soaps. Viewers did not. That's why the supposed "movie star" Franco brought a ratings drop to GH.

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