I think it's strictly a cost cutting measure. Days did a lot of that under Tomlin too.

Its annoying. I really dont see the time alloted to flashbacks saving a significant amount of money. Its a few seconds here and there throughout the show. Id rather Heather go off on one of her monologues if they need to occupy time.

So, I went into physical therapy yesterday, and GH was on the TV in the lobby. When I came out, they had changed it to the weather channel.

You know it's bad when the receptionists would rather see a forecast.

Besides possibly filling up time, I think they're still using that faulty logic that people who have never watched the show before need to know what's going on. It comes in the form of repetitious dialogue that explains the problem every time the applicable characters are in a scene together or flashbacks. By this logic, everyday there'd be new viewers who would be brought up to date but it does not account for the bulk of the viewers who've seen the same crap over and over and are tired of it and are driven to tuning it out.

I'd like to be invited to one of their meetings just to express how dumb their formulas and tired ways of thinking are. It's hard to imagine that the soap writing world is filled with so many people who are stuck somewhere in time where the writing, thought processes, and creativity has not progressed.

Why don't they just go back in time to when soaps were fashionable and just get stuck there instead?

It's hard to imagine that the soap writing world is filled with so many people who are stuck somewhere in time where the writing, thought processes, and creativity has not progressed.

Creativity is not rewarded in the soap world. For some time now, whenever a writer or executive producer is fired for incompetence or lack of creative thinking by one soap s/he is hired by another soap. Apparently, the “thinking” is that person has soap experience. Rather than hiring good writers and teaching them to write for the genre (not a difficult adjustment for a good writer), they’ve recycled the same incompetents and misfits until that’s all soaps are now: an endless cycle of terrible writers and producers who never should have been hired, vying for fewer jobs.

The networks have set up musical chairs and they’re only allowing proved incompetents to play.

Creativity is not rewarded in the soap world. For some time now, whenever a writer or executive producer is fired for incompetence or lack of creative thinking by one soap s/he is hired by another soap. Apparently, the “thinking” is that person has soap experience. Rather than hiring good writers and teaching them to write for the genre (not a difficult adjustment for a good writer), they’ve recycled the same incompetents and misfits until that’s all soaps are now: an endless cycle of terrible writers and producers who never should have been hired, vying for fewer jobs.

The networks have set up musical chairs and they’re only allowing proved incompetents to play.

Bottom line!

So I finally took the show off my DVR. Feels surreal but it's a long time coming. Guess I'll tune in if I read about anything particularly juicy.

Come on, now! GH is great!

We have a huge mystery! - Why is Kristina Mexican?

We have a timeless romance between old friends (that met in 2006)! - Luke and Anna

We have a new set of BFFs! - Alice and Tracy (We'll just pretend they haven't hated each other for years!)

We have writers that HONOR history! - The Floating Rib, anyone?

The show is VERY dedicated to veteran actors! - From One Life to Live

We have a tragic rape storyline! - Kate and Kate

And, in possibly the most exciting news..

GH has two perky new stars! - Nancy Lee Grahn's breasts.

Edited June 23, 201213 yr by SoapBoy94

So, I went into physical therapy yesterday, and GH was on the TV in the lobby. When I came out, they had changed it to the weather channel.

You know it's bad when the receptionists would rather see a forecast.

Hey leave the weather channel alone. You haven't seen riveting TV until you've seen an episode of Storm Stories.

Kristina is Mexican? I thought she was Cuban, like her father and grandmother.

Kristina is Mexican? I thought she was Cuban, like her father and grandmother.

Sonny is supposed to be Greek, at least last time they mentioned....

Hey leave the weather channel alone. You haven't seen riveting TV until you've seen an episode of Storm Stories.

LMAO, this was just...weather.

The weather is the only good thing on the Weather Channel. I don't want to hear about how Lurlene lost her home in 2004.

The weather is the only good thing on the Weather Channel. I don't want to hear about how Lurlene lost her home in 2004.

If Sonny is Greek, that's a history re-write. His mother Adela was full-blooded Cuban. His father Mike Corbin was not Greek. Alexis is Greek-Russian and I think her mother was a Swedish opera singer, but Sonny is Cuban/Irish (whatever Mike was/is).

Edited June 23, 201213 yr by SweetPea36

I miss the round the clock weather forecasts on the Weather Channel with my favorite meteorologists. Watching that show Lifeguard is painful.

I think Sonny is italian now. Remember all the pasta cooking he was doing for a while and suddenly decided he was italian.

If Sonny is Greek, that's a history re-write. His mother Adela was full-blooded Cuban. His father Mike Corbin was not Greek. Alexis is Greek-Russian and I think her mother was a Swedish opera singer, but Sonny is Cuban/Irish (whatever Mike was/is).

I specifically remember Todd calling Sonny Greek a month ago.