I am a bit tired of the constant bickering, and repetitive topics, of how the soaps suck so I am wondering on how daytime should look to stop the bickering.

Ok, I honestly didn't mean for that opening line to read that way. I meant it along the lines of:

What would Daytime look life it it where perfect? Such as, who would be writing, acting, directing, etc?

Edited August 29, 201411 yr by allmc2008

SMH.

Cancel them all. Nothing to watch, nothing to bicker about, nothing to be tired of

No one really cares what you want.

We can always build a time machine and go back to 1984 and find out!

12:00pm-1:00pm: All My Children

1:00pm-2:00pm: As the World Turns

2:00pm-3:00pm: Days of Our Lives

1. You're on the wrong forum then. SON (IMO) is the most blunt, honest soap forum online. We're not going to sugarcoat anything and that's why I love this forum.

2. I don't think there's bickering. Differences of opinion, yes.

3. You need to send these concerns to TPTB. If they'd stop hiring the same writers, who deliver the same bullish*t then we wouldn't complain. Yes, in writing there are about 5 types of stories you can tell but most of these writers don't even try and be original. Most of us just want simple stories that respects the show's canon and characters and provide us with a logical exposition, climax, and denouement. 99% of current soap writers can't even give us that. They are too busy wrapped up in sensationalizing stories for cheap thrills instead of giving a well thought out story that impacts the characters and the audience.

Alicia Minshew on every show, duh

The way it looks to me the SON forums would only be happy if every soap was written exactly alike, in a style reminiscent of Claire Labine. Anything that deviates from that is sub-optimal soap writing.

After the disaster that was Labine's tenure with OLTL? No thanks.

Probably allow Daniel Jonas, Adam Newman, Hope Logan, and Sabrina santiago to visit, Salem, LA, Geneo City and port charles and keep every soap float like TIIC let them do to their own shows.

The way it looks to me the SON forums would only be happy if every soap was written exactly alike, in a style reminiscent of Claire Labine. Anything that deviates from that is sub-optimal soap writing.

LOL, nah.

The way it looks to me the SON forums would only be happy if every soap was written exactly alike, in a style reminiscent of Claire Labine. Anything that deviates from that is sub-optimal soap writing.

Not really. I like Claire [because she's a competent writer], but I'm more of a Curlee/Bell/Marland/Lemay boy.

They all had different styles but they knew the show they were writing for. Curlee acknowledged that GL was a family oriented show. Marland did the same with ATWT as well. Y&R was Bell's show and he wanted the show to be old Hollywood with psychological and dark aspects to it. Lemay wrote AW as the strong community-type show it was known for.

None of the current writers respect the themes or strong suits of the show IMO. They'd prefer to project their own ideas of what their respective shows should be instead, hence why people aren't connecting to them.

What about Nixon, Malone and Broderick?

Edited August 29, 201411 yr by cassadine1991

What about Nixon, Malone and Broderick?

I like them as well and think they are some of the better head writers. And I'll always have love for Malone because if I'm not mistaken, he created my beloved Lila (AW). One of AW's last good characters.