What words are overused/misused in the soap fanbase?

[DramatistDreamer]

LOL. I literally went over there for 10 seconds and grabbed the first thread I saw and scrolled. Doesn't take too long to find an overused/misused term.

[AlexElizabeth]

LOL! Everything is a chem test these days. "[boy] and [girl] just breathed the same air! CHEM TEST!!!"

[All My Shadows]

YES! Core characters, legacy characters, vets. All in the same category.

They're gonna be endgame!

[frequentsoapfan]

Well speaking of RC and nods to history. I really don't see how renaming Jake's "The Floating Rib" was a nod to history. The Floating Rib wasn't a divebar.

[DRW50]

Sure, although I've probably overused that one myself.

I should add "Cartini." (I use that ironically...I hope)

and I think Nellie used to use "sexational" a lot, unless my therapist is lying to me.

[rhinohide]

"off the Charts chemistry"

Eye sex. (when characters just look at each other)

"contrived"

[All My Shadows]

"Social issues." Any time a soap tells a story that isn't about people screwing around, it gets the social issues label, and that's not right.

[frequentsoapfan]

I think soap hunk is overused as well. Some of the gusy I've seen called soap hunks in recent years. Well their a far cry from the men that would be in those magazines spreads when I was a teen to entice us to watch soaps in the summer.

[Winchester91]

"Plot-driven." I understand many frustrations toward stories, but this word is thrown around way too often when a story (especially a couple) isn't going a person's way.

[frequentsoapfan]

I think part of it is because then many times a bad PSA will be thrown onto certain epis of that story.

[frequentsoapfan]

Dead eyed

Wooden

Charisma

Great actor

[DramatistDreamer]

Okay, I'm guilty of overusing the following:

regime

genre

[DRW50]

That's one of my favorites

[frequentsoapfan]

But lately it's been used for everyone except the actual dead eyed people.

[DRW50]

True. I just have fond memories of using it constantly during OLTL 2009-2010. I'll always have that.