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Ah Christmas Eve is upon us again.

Been a tough year in Soapland with losing so many icons and legends. Yet we were also blessed with show renewals, Knots Landing streaming, and Beyond the Gates.

Going to spend some time taking nostalgic trips to Genoa City, Oakdale, and Springfield tomorrow. Hoping to make new Christmas memories in Fairmont Estates this time next year.

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Wishing all of my fellow wonderful SONers an absolutely fabulous holiday season this year!!!

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Thanks @soapfan770

Happy Holidays to you too, and to everybody here on SON!

And you’re right. With all the losses, the messy transitions between writers, and the hastily written and poorly written rewrites, this was not a good year for the soaps at all. 

But with Beyond the Gates coming, Ron finally being fired and Days celebrating its 60th anniversary, I couldn’t be happier that we, as soap fans, have so much to look forward to in 2025. 

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Yeah 2024 has been a double edged sword for daytime. Y&R got a 4 year renewal and Ed Scott back, but Griffith and Kent are still in charge. GH fans had their hopes raised and then crushed with the Patrick Mulcahey debacle. Ron was fired months ago yet his material is still airing and now Fake Rafe is back from the dead…? B&B keeps going further down into a bottomless pit. But it is nice to know daytime is not dead and we do have some much to look forward to in 2025.

Thank you as always! 

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@soapfan770 Thank you for tagging me and for your beautiful statements. As someone who thought GH and DAYS would be gone by the mid/late '10s, I am glad they are still around (and even though I can't say I'm a fan of what they now are I still ended up being more involved in conversation about them than I have been in a while), and I'm glad four soaps somehow managed to survive to welcome a fifth. I genuinely never thought that was possible. I am not going to try to have hope about what the future holds but ideally Beyond the Gates will do well enough to bring more shows or at least get the perpetually terrified and out of date genre to take a few more risks.

The staggering amount of soap losses this year likely were the main thing we will remember, and I'm glad I had this place to help remember and honor them.

My soap highlight this year was the amount of new vintage soap content. A few more '50s soap episodes appeared, a soap channel that lived for a month or two provided some exceedingly rare content for AMC, Loving and ATWT, some Y&R glimmers, a few late '80s/early '90s ATWT episodes appeared, a few 1985 Search episodes that had been sought after and the most shocking find, Ariana Munker's clips of her AW run. I devoured every moment of those scenes as I never thought we'd get any more Lemay AW. 

Thanks to @slick jones and others, I also gained much more awareness and curiosity in cast lists this year, and tracing the often fascinating careers of actors who may have just played a nail tech in one episode 40 years ago.

There's no real lost media community for soaps - you won't get the type of discussion or investigation that you will get over a Spongebob screensaver from 1999. That makes it all the more remarkable when some fragment stumbles online. Soap fans are often treated as ungrateful, but we all treasure those small moments. May 2025 have many more of them. 

Thank you all again for giving me a place to look forward to every day. Merry Christmas.

And danfling, rest in peace. 

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