Unpopular opinions: cancelled soaps edition

[amybrickwallace]

Latter day RH - Lizzie should have been with Ben at the end and not John Reid, but of course Ben wasn't a Ryan.

Edited October 18, 2021 by amybrickwallace

[vetsoapfan]

I forget: did we ever find out if she was Bruce Sterling's biological daughter?

I thought Mary Carny was attractive, a competent actress, and showed potential. Too bad TPTB axed her so quickly in favor of the painfully bad Kathleen Tolan.

Speaking of Ryan's Hope, my unpopular opinion is that Johnny Ryan was a pompous, unlikeable and boorish windbag, and Maeve could be a cold fish. 

[amybrickwallace]

Same here. They never even gave her a chance.

[vetsoapfan]

I truly think she would have worked in the long run, had viewers been given the chance to warm up to her. Of the three replacement Marys, Carney was by far the best.

[amybrickwallace]

She also looked a lot like Helen Gallagher, which didn't hurt.

[AMCOLTLLover]

Its not a cancelled show but it's about an unpopular opinion about Y&R:

I always thought Jack and Nikki should've been a proper couple. They would've been more dynamite and a power couple than Victor and Nikki tbh.

[Nicholas Blair]

I'm another who thought Mary Carney was improving and might have turned out well. She also had exactly the right look.

[amybrickwallace]

Definitely. I wonder if Labine/Mayer/ABC regretted not giving her a chance after Tolan and Goulet didn't work out.

[vetsoapfan]

At least if Mary Ryan had to die under any actress, Goulet was less atrocious than Tolan. (Damning her with faint praise, I know.)

[Chris 2]

Labine and Mayer didn’t want to get rid of Mary Carney. That was ABC’s decision.

Edited October 20, 2021 by Chris 2

[amybrickwallace]

Hmmmm...

[DemetriKane]

!!!!

Terry Lester version yes.

[AMCOLTLLover]

I have loved Terry Lester's Jack so much.. It was a shame that in 1986 when Nikki/Jack were a thing it got ruined with Victor/Ashley's affair and her cancer (was it cancer? I don't remember but she was ill and Victor stayed with her) and the 'WHO SHOT JILL'-Story where Jack was accused of attempted murder.

 

[FrenchBug82]

• I am not sure to which extent this is an unpopular opinion since I wasn't online much then. I gather people clung to their understandable emotional attachment to Erin Torpey but I actually liked Bree Williamson and while we can argue with the retcons necessary for that story and some of the writing along the way, I think she was doing mostly good work with the DID. 
   
• I had then and still have zero interest in OLTL's Marcie and Michael and I cannot understand why the show played them for so long.
   
• A ATWT one would be: I did prefer Scott Holroyd in the role (as many others, I think) but I actually ... didn't mind RH as Paul? I mean, yes, he was playing Roger Howarth as Todd Manning as Paul Ryan but it made sense enough considering the Ryan history.
  I am a bit more sour on RH now after the GH messes, but at the time I confess I was enjoying watching him do his thing as Paul, even admitting that it changed the character towards the kind of material he is more comfortable doing.
   

I actually liked PB's Jack with Nikki. Their first marriage was and still is my favorite PB pairing.

Edited October 23, 2021 by FrenchBug82

[spike99]

At that time cancer was a forbidden word...but it was cancer for sure...