Members Vizion Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 MOST ENTERTAINING COUPLE - BO & BILLIE, DOOL (Rinna and RKK) MOST BORING COUPLE - NICK AND MINDY, GL (Irizarry and Crampton) BEST PLOT DEVICE - BROOKE OWNS BELIEF, B&B BEST COURTROOM DRAMA - MARTY'S RAPE, OLTL BEST CONTEMPORARY STORY - DAVID'S PLIGHT, GL MOST PREPOSTEROUS PLOT - THE THREE KEYS MYSTERY, AW MOST REALISTIC TEEN STORYLINE - OFF TO COLLEGE, 90210 MOST UNREALISTIC TEEN STORYLINE - KAREN THE STRIPPER, GH BEST TEARJERKER - JACK'S HEARTBREAK, Y&R (this is about Nikki losing his baby when she fell down the stairs and went into premature labor) BEST WEDDING - FRANK & ELENI, GL WORST WEDDING - JACK & LAUREL, AMC BEST FEMALE COMEBACK - MARTHA BYRNE, ATWT BEST MALE COMEBACK - RANDOLPH MANTOOTH, LOVING BEST TREND - ADOLESCENT ANGST - GL (Michelle dealing with her mom's death), AMC (Timmy dealing with his mom's death), DOOL (Sami's bulimia), GH (Sly and Bill's relationship) WORST TREND - GHOSTS - OLTL (Luna coming face-to-face with her dead ex), AMC (Tad got a visit from his dead adoptive mom Nola) BEST FATHER - JOHN BLACK, DOOL WORST MOTHER - DORIAN LORD, OLTL BEST DAUGHTER - EMILY, ATWT WORST DAUGHTER - KENDALL, AMC (Sarah Michelle Gellar) BEST WIFE - CINDY, 90210 WORST WIFE - LAUREN, Y&R BEST BROTHERS - DIMITRI AND EDMUND, AMC WORST BROTHERS - RIDGE AND THORNE, B&B (Ronn Moss and Jeff Trachta) BEST LOCATION - BANFF, AW (Grant and Vicky's honeymoon) WORST LOCATION - ORLANDO, LOVING (Ava and Jeremy) BEST BICKERING - LUCINDA AND KIRK, ATWT BEST TRIANGLE - SALLY/JACK/STEPHANIE, B&B WORST TRIANGLE - CORD/TINA/CAIN, OLTL BEST WOMAN ON THE EDGE - VIVIAN, DOOL BEST WACKO - RYAN, GH BEST BREAKUP - DYLAN AND JULIE, GL WORST BREAKUP - JACK AND JENNIFER, DOOL BEST CONFESSION - POWELL, OLTL MOST SHOCKING TWIST - SHEILA VISITS SCOTT, Y&R FUNNIEST STORY - WILLOW LAKE ACRES, AMC MOST CONVOLUTED STORY - KINGSLEY/MALTA, ATWT MOST IMPROVED SHOW - OLTL and B&B (TIE) MOST CONTRIVED CONFLICT - DANNY AND CRICKET, Y&R (Danny leaving to be in a Broadway production) MOST RUINED CHARACTER - JULIA, GH MOST INTRIGUING CHARACTER - CARL, AW BEST QUADRANGLE - ROGER/JENNA/BUZZ/NADINE, GL WORST QUADRANGLE - HUTCH/ROSANNA/EVAN/DEBBIE, ATWT BEST STORY - VICTOR'S DEATH, Y&R BEST LIMITED RUN - MARY KAY ADAMS, ATWT WORST LIMITED RUN - JOE LANDO, GL BEST RECONCILIATION - VICKY AND RYAN, AW MOST REALISTIC COUPLE - BO AND NORA, OLTL BEST NEW MALE CHARACTER - BUZZ, GL BEST NEW FEMALE CHARACTER - HOPE, Y&R MOST LONG-AWAITED LOVE SCENES - FELICIA AND MAC, GH HOTTEST LOVE SCENES - RIDGE AND TAYLOR, B&B BEST SHOW - GL and Y&R (TIE) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 Thanks! 1993 always Seems to be considered the last "golden" age of soaps before it went downhill. Do you have the write up's for B&B's Ridge & Thorne as Worst Brothers and them being most improved show? I'd love to read them if you don't mind! Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vizion Posted July 7, 2020 Author Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 I can type them up real quick! RIDGE & THORNE Do you really believe that these two are brothers? Ridge and Thorne come from a close knit family and they both work at Forrester Creations but they never seem to connect. Do they squabble? No. Do they goad each other about who Dad likes best? Nope. Do they ever even talk? Rarely. You'd think that with the kind of year they've both had - Thorne supporting Macy in her battle with the bottle, and Ridge spending his nights and days trying to make a baby with Taylor - these brothers would have bonded. Yet we never see them tossing back a beer at the Bikini Bar or catching rays by the pool while plotting to oust Brooke from Forrester Creations. When one of them has a crisis, the other expresses only passing interest. And neither has close male friends. Two ambitious guys with thorny love lives and everything in common from genes to wives...seems like a missed opportunity to us. MOST IMPROVED SHOW There was a time when Bold and Beautiful was really The Caroline Forrester Show. (In Italy, the show was actually dubbed CAROLINE.) Nothing against actress Joanna Johnson, who played Ridge's doomed first wife, but B&B was long on tumors and short on humor. Even worse, it was suffering from ETA (Eternal Triangle Syndrome). Ridge couldn't choose between Brooke and Caroline; Brooke was caught between Ridge and his father, Eric and Eric couldn't choose between Brooke and Stephanie. Every time someone new showed up, you couldn't wait to see which two people they'd sleep with. But this year, B&B veered in a new direction. The scripts got funny and feisty and more real action was woven into the fabric of the show. Take Eric's bizarre marriage to psycho nurse Sheila. Is she after his money, his body, just looking for a place to park her Doberman? With Sheila, you never know, and that's make this relationship so riveting. Every time they sink into the hot tub together, there's magnetism. (Of course Eric usually winds up with chest pains, Sheila gets that Norman Bates look in her eye, and that's just when Eric's "never can say goodbye" ex-wife, Stephanie, storms in stomping all over their monogrammed bath towels and their privacy. This is soap opera.) With Head Writer/Supervising Producer Bradley Bell at the helm, Bold and Beautiful has made a number of other significant strides. Brooke has she her Barbie doll BeLiefs and turned into a corporate bionic woman, Mary's not just struggling with her feelings for Thorne; she's also struggling to stay off the bottle - and out of Anthony's bed. And of course, there's never a dull day in Sally Spectra's life - heck, she even got Moses to come down from the mountain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lucaslesann23 Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 Even worse, it was suffering from ETA (Eternal Triangle Syndrome) i see nothing has changed than Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 Thanks! Please register in order to view this content I never really got the impression Ridge gave a damn about Thorne and vice versa so really there's nothing wrong with this write up, although B&B was always bad with friendships. I agree about a lot of what was said, but IMO the show never got away from ETA! and we know that's all Bradley knows how to tell...it was just better back them with his father still looking over his shoulder. Also the first two years of B&B were definitely more humorless, but I'd say from Sally and the Spectra gangs arrival 4 years earlier the show found it's sense of humor....I don't know why they are acting like it took them 6 years to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carolineg Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 Why was Julia on GH the most ruined character? I remember her hooking up with both Ned and AJ and then just leaving town. I don't remember her being ruined lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vizion Posted July 7, 2020 Author Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 MOST RUINED CHARACTER - JULIA BARRETT When she hit Port Charles, Julia Barrett was a sharp, feisty, don't-get-in-her-way business tycoon. She immediately tangled with Bill ("William" to her) Eckert. To say sparks flew would not do actors Crystal Carson and Anthony Geary justice. But they broke up and Julia's dignity went with him. Julia was soon mixing business with pleasure with her partner, Ned. He dreamed of Jenny while sleeping with Julia. She deserved better, but things got worse - her next lover was Ned's teen cousin, AJ. Before Julia could take up with Sly, she mercifully left town. GH's original Julia was one of daytime's few positive role models for working single women. She did not depend on a man for her financial or emotional survival. She worked hard. She did not sleep her way to the top. She had best girlfriends (Lucy and Dominique). She even had a best guy friend (Scotty). In the end, Julia bailed out, leaving sister Brenda truly orphaned. R.I.P., Ms. Barrett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carolineg Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 Thanks! I remember thinking it was odd she started having an affair with AJ, but I didn't think he was a teenager lol. I thought he was like 21 at least. And it was kinda crappy she left her barely legal sister alone in Port Charles, but I never considered her ruined. They definitely should have brought her back more often after she left. Her sister dominated the late 90's, it was always weird Julia rarely appeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AbcNbc247 Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 (edited) Agreed. I loved the cave storyline and their reunion at the train station in Switzerland Lmaooo if only they knew what was to come. Don't get me wrong, I love a good long running triangle, but B&B is in a league of its own lol Edited July 7, 2020 by AbcNbc247 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 GL best show? Nope! Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 What was AW's three keys mystery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AbcNbc247 Posted July 7, 2020 Members Share Posted July 7, 2020 A long time ago, Mac, Carl's father and Ian Rain's father, Leon, went in together on a deal of some kind to market an experimental drug to cure a jungle disease. They each had a key to a safety deposit box which contained Leon's notes and formulas about the drug. But at some point, Carl's father double crossed Mac and Leon but for some reason, people started to think that Mac had been the doublecrosser and Ian came to town to get revenge and he thought he would if he found the three keys. I think that's correct, the storyline was a little convoluted and all over the place. Plus, the idea that Mac and Carl's father worked together was a complete rewrite since when Carl first came on the show in the 80's, Mac said flat out that he had never even met Carl's father. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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